Business View Magazine l November 2022

66 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 11 PEI is a design andmanufacturing company specializing in biogas processing systems and equipment. If your project requires utility are systems, thermal oxidizers, enclosed are systems, gas handling systems, blower systems, or compressed gas systems PEI has the engineered, guaranteed system for your application! For over 30 years, we have "set the pace" for quality systems engineered to meet your project requirements. To learn more, please visit our website: www.perennialenergy.com Contact: sales@perennialenergy.com ✦ Office: 417-256-2002 getting bigger because we’re able to go into areas where there are larger farms with more feedstock plus the climate is more welcoming to these larger types of designs,” says Lapointe The company has completed several larger projects in New Mexico, Georgia, and California. The COVID-19 pandemic put some brakes on CH Four Biogas’s business, occasioning the adoption of smart working methods, including smart devices. “At the height of the pandemic, we could not travel, yet we needed to make site visits and, in some cases, commission projects as part of our contractual obligations,” says Lapointe. “We circumvented this challenge by working with a company called Vuzix, which sells AR glasses that you can mount as glasses or on your hard hat and give someone else full access improve our product and tap into new energy sources that nobody else has so far. All this happens on a project-by-project basis.” CH Four Biogas can undertake projects of all sizes, from those handling less than ten tons a day of feedstock to those processing over a thousand. “Some of the farms in eastern Ontario have a few hundred cows and maybe a thousand-meter digester,” Lapointe says. “In contrast, a project in Salisbury, Vermont commissioned last year is the largest digester east of the Mississippi with seven thousand cubic meters. It processes thirty thousand tons of farm manure and sixty-five thousand tons of food waste annually to generate 1200 cubic meters an hour of biogas.” “As the industry progresses, the projects are