EBJ Business Achiever of the Week: Harvest Power

A rousing three cheers this week for Harvest Power (Waltham, MA), winner of a 2012 Business Achievement Award in the waste processing technology category for three projects that will altogether generate over 7 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy from organic materials. First, Harvest’s Energy Garden in British Columbia began commissioning in mid-November, a facility that the company describes as the first commercial-scale, high-solids anaerobic digestion system in North America. Second, Harvest’s Energy Garden in London, Ontario, also began commissioning and is processing organic waste from food processors at an annual rate of 70,000 tons. Third, Harvest started construction on an Energy Garden in central Florida that will treat municipal biosolids and regional food waste while generating renewable electricity. As of the end of 2012, Harvest was operating 26 sites in North America and employed 435 people (an increase of more than 200 over 2011). Harvest was named to the Global CleanTech 100 list for the third year in a row and won the KPMG 2012 Infrastructure 100 World Cities Edition award. Another notable highlight from 2012 was a successful Series C fundraising round of $125 million total, one of the largest capital raises in recent cleantech industry history.For a full list of EBJ’s 2012 Business Achievement Award winners, please visit https://ebionline.org/2012-ebj-business-achievement-awards. EBJ will begin accepting nominations for 2013 Business Achievement Awards in October.