Brightmark Energy

Brightmark Energy (BME) is a waste and clean energy development company that processes plastic and other waste to produce renewable energy sources for commercial and industrial use. 

Global waste generation amounts to 2.01 billion tonnes annually. This generation of waste accounted for 5% of global emissions in 2016, with an output of 1.6 billion metric tons of CO₂ emissions. Moreover, only 13.5% of this waste is recycled and 5.5% is composted. Without any action being taken, the generation is expected to rise to 3.4 billion tonnes over the next 30 years. 

Brightmark Energy (BME) deploys solutions to effectively process the waste generated from various sources, and produce clean and usable energy sources for commercial and industrial purposes. BME currently has projects in a variety of verticals of power and waste including, anaerobic digestion, waste to natural gas and waste to electricity, plastic-to-fuel, organic waste-to-energy among others.

Anaerobic digestion is used to produce energy output in different forms like Electricity, Biogas, Renewable fuel and biofertilizer. The input to this process can be manure, food waste, industrial waste, landfill gas and waste from various other sources.

They also provide on-site power and thermal solutions like Combined Cooling Heat and Power (CHP) and Turboexpanders Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC), depending on the energy requirements by the customer. 

The technology used by Brightmark to generate clean energy provides several benefits:

• Helps recycle the waste generated and creates a circular economy
• Recycles plastic waste that can also be used to manufacture plastic again
• Anaerobic digestion utilizes various renewable sources including food and poultry waste to generate energy
• CHP is one of the most efficient and cost-effective processes
• Reduces operational cost, providing long term value
• Minimizes harmful greenhouse emissions 

Brightmark has announced three biogas projects in 2019, one of them being the upgrade of Buffalo-area anaerobic digesters from electric to renewable natural gas, diverting 225,000 gallons of cow manure per day. Another is the acquisition of Wisconsin Dairy Biogas Project that will convert 90,000 gallons of dairy manure per day into transportation fuel and other products, which will at full capacity replace 50,000 MMBtu of conventional natural gas.