Bioenergy Devco

Bioenergy Devco (BDC) is a Maryland-based leading global developer of anaerobic digestion facilities primarily targeting cities with waste issues, companies with sustainability goals, and energy companies. In terms of food waste, the company also collects and recovers a variety of feedstock, such as packaged food and post-consumer organics, fats, oils and grease, sludge from industrial food facilities, like dairy and poultry processors, and litter (chickens, cows, pigs, humans, and any other litter). The company uses its proven anaerobic digestion technology to convert the waste into renewable energy and creates two outputs; 1) natural gas and 2) digestate, an organic waste amendment that can be used for both commercial and personal (home) purposes. 

As of October 2024, BDC has constructed over 250 anaerobic digesters globally and manages over 250 facilities worldwide. It also has over 20 anaerobic digesters under construction in the US, including two in Delaware and Maryland. The Maryland Bioenergy Center was operating at full annual capacity (120,000 tons per year) of converting food waste into renewable natural gas and nutrients for soil and the output was claimed to power more than 7,000 homes annually.

In August 2019, BDC acquired BTS Biogas (a European leading anaerobic digestion facility operator) to expand its technology offering across North America. 

Key customers and partnerships

In December 2019, Bioenergy Devco signed a 20-year agreement with the livestock business Perdue to compost about 30,000 tons of chicken litter per year in the town of Blade. BDC’s partnership with Cheepstake Utilities Corporation, a US-based diversified energy company,  in June 2020, allowed them to expand its operations into the Delmarva Peninsula and collaborated on a project to generate renewable natural gas by utilizing excess organics in the poultry industry.