Homeland Renewable Energy (HRE), the first animal waste utility, is a global developer, builder, owner and operator of power plants producing renewable electricity and renewable natural gas using animal and food waste as fuel.

HRE provides environmental remediation and waste management services to agriculture:

  • Using its innovative and well-proven technologies in biomass combustion and anaerobic digestion,
  • To generate renewable electricity and biogas from biomass,
  • While selling high-nutrient fertilizer by-products.

Subsidiaries include Fibrowatt LLC and HB Energy LLC.

HRE Licensing Agreement with Achor Anaerobic for revolutionary anaerobic digestion technology

PRESS RELEASE (Excerpt) – June 15, 2011

Homeland Renewable Energy (“HRE”), the agricultural‐waste‐to‐energy specialist, announces that its anaerobic digestion (“AD”) division, Homeland Biogas Energy (“HB Energy”) has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Achor Anaerobic LLC (“Achor”), a provider of innovative AD technology.

Under the agreement, HB Energy will use Achor’s unique “achorlytic” enzyme and digestion‐inoculating technology to significantly enhance the productivity of anaerobic digestion in its projects in the US and elsewhere. HB Energy will also work with Achor to license the technology to third parties.

Achor’s technology uses enzymes to significantly increase the biogas production from digestible materials, including animal and food wastes as used by HB Energy at its facilities. Achor and HB Energy are together carrying out large scale tests of the Achor technology at AD facilities operated by HB Energy in Wisconsin. The results of the tests are expected to be available during the summer, and preliminary indications show very favorable improvements in productivity.

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HRE Announces New Emissions Control and Water Recycling System

PRESS RELEASE (Excerpt) – May 9, 2011

Homeland Renewable Energy Inc (“HRE”), the world’s leading agricultural‐waste‐to‐energy company, announced today the launch of a new emissions control and water recycling system (“the System”). The System will enable new biomass power plants built by HRE’s Fibrowatt subsidiary to achieve unprecedentedly low levels of emissions to air, in combination with a pioneering zero water consumption and zero wastewater discharge design.

HRE has developed the System with its partner, Emvertec Ltd, of Hull, UK, who has pioneered the Ceecon Condensing Economizer, which is a key part of the System. HRE and Emvertec will jointly own the new System and will license it to third parties.

The new System will enable Fibrowatt to build the world’s cleanest biomass power plants.


Rupert Fraser, Chief Executive Officer of HRE said; “With the launch of the new emissions control system, we can claim that our Fibrowatt plants will be the world’s cleanest biomass power plants. The System will enable new Fibrowatt plants to meet both current and projected air emissions requirements, reducing emissions of particulates and certain acid gases to virtually zero. We are equally delighted that we can offer this clean biomass technology to local communities without placing any burden at all upon their water resources. This new emissions control system demonstrates our commitment to the continual improvement of our green energy technology.”

Fibrowatt plants will be the world’s first zero‐water‐impact biomass power plants.

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