How Kroger fights hunger and waste with innovative energy solutions. : 2G Energy Ltd.

How Kroger fights hunger and waste with innovative energy solutions.

We are excited to share that Kroger, one of the largest supermarket chains in the US, has launched a 2G avus 600 kW CHP project at their K.B. Specialty Foods site in Greensburg, Indiana.

Kroger's K.B. Specialty Foods in Indiana uses a CHP system and a digester to turn food waste into energy, as part of their Zero Hunger | Zero Waste plan.

Facts & figures

Application:

Landfills and wastewater treatment

Country:

United States

CHP:

avus 500c

Output el/th (kW):

600 kWel / 626 kWth

Operator:

KB Specialty Foods

Kroger has commissioned a 2G avus 600 kW Combined Heat & Power (CHP) project in Greensburg Indiana, located at Kroger company's K.B. Specialty Foods. Recently, Kroger announced a Zero Hunger | Zero Waste social impact plan that this project supports. The goal is to end hunger in communities Kroger serves and eliminate waste in their company by 2025.

The K.B. Specialty Foods employs over 270 associates and has been a Zero Waste Facility since 2014. In that time, they have diverted more than 90% of the waste produced from going to landfill each year.

Along with a 2G avus 600 kW, an addition of an anaerobic digester was also installed. This new system replaced a conventional wastewater treatment system and features a dome that captures biogas. The CHP system takes the food by-product and works together with the digester to convert it into energy.