Optima TH

Cavanaugh served as the lead designer, engineer, and deliverer of OptimaBio's Optima TH project which collects biogas from the wastewater treatment infrastructure at the worlds largest swine packing plant owned by Smithfield Foods; commissioned in Jan 2020. The renewable natural gas (RNG) from both projects are injected into the Piedmont Natural Gas system for transportation to Duke Energy owned and operated power plant in North Carolina for the generation of renewable electricity.