Somerset County

Bithenergy developed a commercial merchant power plant in Somerset County, Maryland. The project integrates several technologies into one solution, Bithenergy's Hybrid Renewable Energy System (HRES). It is a PPA-structured project between several hosts and a local utility company as financier.

The project helped create jobs in Somerset County, which has had some of the highest unemployment rates in Maryland, at 14%.

Phase 2 is a 20 MW biomass plant that uses chicken waste and wood chips to produce electricity, helping Maryland reach its goal of 15% renewable energy by 2015 and reducing chicken-waste pollution.