Dive Brief:

• Fremont Community Digester, a Fremont, MI plant recently idled that once transfromed food waste into energy, is being sued by a contractor for about $5 million it says the plant still owes it for building the facility.
• The $22 million plant opened in late 2012. DeMaria Building Company, Inc. recently sued Fremont Community Digester and others in Newaygo County Circuit Court, stating the plant paid just $14.4 million of the $19.4 million to construct the facility.
• A lawyer representing the plant said the severe winter conditions in West Michign this past winter resulted in the plant being temporarily closed. "We are working diligently to bring the plant back up again," attorney Eric Scheible said.

Dive Insight:

Novi Energy began operations in the plant in late 2012, but Fremont officials recently learned that the plant shut down in January. The facility was built to process up to 100,000 tons of food waste each year into compost. It had been getting the food waste from Michigan food processors.