Growing Power Hairy Hill – we’re not just green, we’re Growing Power™!

Growing Power Hairy Hill is developing the first Integrated bioRefinery™ in Canada. Our unique process (outlined below) takes grain such as high-starch wheat, and processes it into fuel ethanol. The residual material from this process, known as "Distillers Grains" is fed to cattle at the nearby feedlot, and their manure is used to produce energy in the form of biogas in our IMUS™ facility, which in turn is converted to green electricity and steam in our bioUtility™. The whole process is highly integrated and is targeted to be the most cost and energy efficient method of producing fuel ethanol.

The Integrated bioRefinery™ will generate an annual 40 million litres of fuel ethanol, 10 thousand tonnes of premium bioFertilizer, and more than 100 thousand tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions credits.

To do this, the Integrated bioRefinery™ will purchase 110 thousand tonnes of high-starch wheat and treat over 120 thousand tonnes of feedlot manure.

Traditional ethanol plants have been rightly criticized for their lack of energy efficiency, their biggest loss in energy efficiency comes from use of fossil fuels for distillation and drying of distillers grains. The Integrated bioRefinery™ gets much of its energy for distillation from the digestion of cattle manure, and due to the proximity of the feedlot, has no need to dry the distillers grain, this makes for a highly energy-efficient, and cost-efficient production of ethanol.