american organic energy

What american organic energy does

American Organic Energy (AOE) is a privately held anaerobic digestion developer founded in 2015 by brothers Charles and Arnold Vigliotti, who also control Long Island Compost, a 1976-established organic waste processing business serving the Northeast. AOE operates from a corporate headquarters in Westbury, New York, with its primary processing facility in Yaphank, New York, designed to process up to 180,000 tons of food waste annually and described as the most sophisticated and largest food waste processing facility west of the Mississippi River. The facility uses microbial anaerobic digestion to convert food scraps, fats, greases, and grass clippings into renewable natural gas (RNG), electricity, clean water, and organic fertilizer, with stated outputs including 40,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions reduction, 5 million bags of organic fertilizer, and 2,000 gallons of diesel fuel displacement per year.

The company's revenue model is multi-stream: (1) waste processing tip fees charged to large food waste generators including supermarkets, restaurants, hospitals, and schools, driven by New York State and NYC food waste diversion mandates; (2) energy sales to the regional grid under an $84 million power purchase agreement with the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA); and (3) sales of organic soil amendments and engineered green roof soil mixes to landscaping firms, municipalities, and urban developers. Distribution is primarily enterprise direct sales with an AOE Partner Badge program for smaller businesses, and brand building is supported by PR coverage including the documentary "Wasted: The Story of Food Waste" and CEO podcast appearances.

The business is positioned at the intersection of regulatory tailwinds (state and municipal food waste mandates), renewable energy offtake (the LIPA PPA), and a captive NYC metro market (Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island). The Viridi Energy partnership announced in June 2023 indicates intent to scale the waste-to-RNG model beyond the Yaphank facility. Family ownership and the absence of disclosed external institutional capital mean the company remains tightly held by the Vigliotti family, with Charles Vigliotti serving as CEO across both AOE and Long Island Compost.

Name

american organic energy

Legal name

American Organic Energy

Website

https://usbiopower.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Short description

American Organic Energy operates a 180,000-ton-per-year anaerobic digestion facility in Yaphank, New York, converting food waste from supermarkets, restaurants, hospitals, and schools into renewable natural gas, electricity, and organic fertilizer under an $84 million LIPA power purchase agreement.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Anaerobic Digestion and Organic Waste Processing Services

NAICS

Biomass Electric Power Generation (221117), Fertilizer and Compost Manufacturing (32531)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Cogeneration Services & Small Power Producers (4991)

akta.pro primary industry

Anaerobic Digestion (AD) & Biogas/RNG Production (Organics Feedstocks) (BPALAEAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Anaerobic Digestion Biogas Power (Agricultural & Industrial AD) (EUACAIAD), Digestate Processing, Nutrient Recovery & Fertilizer Products (Struvite, Ammonia, Compost) (EUAAAEAL), Organics-to-Energy & CHP from Biogas (On-site Power/Heat) (EUAIAEAG)

Keywords

• Anaerobic digestion services
• Organic waste processing
• Renewable natural gas production
• Commercial composting services
• Green roof installation

Headquarters

HQ city

Westbury

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Waste Processing Fees: The company charges waste generators (supermarkets, restaurants, hospitals, schools) fees to accept and process their organic food waste through the anaerobic digester facility. This is the primary revenue stream, driven by regulatory mandates requiring food waste diversion.
2. Renewable Energy Sales: The anaerobic digester produces renewable natural gas (RNG) and electricity from biogas, which is sold to the regional grid under a $84 million LIPA power purchase agreement. This provides recurring revenue from energy sales.
3. Organic Soil and Fertilizer Products: The digestate from anaerobic digestion is processed into nutrient-rich organic soil amendments and fertilizer products, sold to landscaping companies, municipalities, and green roof projects. This creates a byproduct revenue stream from the waste processing operation.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

American Organic Energy operates a large-scale anaerobic digestion facility that processes up to 180,000 tons of organic food waste annually from commercial and municipal sources, converting it into renewable natural gas (RNG), electricity, clean water, and organic soil amendments. The company also sells engineered organic soil products and provides custom green roof installation services using soil mixes derived from the anaerobic digestion process. Revenue comes primarily from waste processing tipping fees paid by supermarkets, restaurants, hospitals, schools, and municipal customers, plus energy sales under a long-term LIPA power purchase agreement.

Product overview

American Organic Energy operates a family of companies uniquely equipped to process organic waste streams and produce renewable products. The core offering is a large-scale anaerobic digester facility designed to be the most sophisticated food waste processing facility in the world, processing 180,000 tons of food waste annually to produce renewable natural gas, electricity, clean water, and organic fertilizer. The company also offers Organic Soil products derived from the anaerobic digestion process and Green Roof solutions using custom-engineered soil mixes for urban sustainability projects. Long Island Compost, a sister company, supports the product portfolio by providing compost, soil, and mulch products to customers throughout the Northeast.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Anaerobic Digester (Organic Waste Processing Service) Large-scale anaerobic digestion facility that processes food waste from supermarkets, restaurants, hospitals, schools, and municipal sources into renewable natural gas (RNG), electricity, clean water, and organic fertilizer. Designed to process 180,000 tons of food waste annually, the facility converts food scraps, fats, greases, and grass clippings into biogas and digestate. The service provides a compliant disposal pathway for businesses subject to NY State and NYC food waste mandates.
• Organic Soil Engineered organic soil products produced from recycled food waste through anaerobic digestion. These nutrient-rich soil amendments improve soil quality, increase water retention, and support plant growth for gardens, green roofs, and urban farms.
• Green Roofs

Quantifiable outcome

• 180,000 tons of local food waste processed annually
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Viridi EnergycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 June 2023Viridi Energy is partnering with American Organic Energy and additional funding partners to develop one of the largest food waste-to-renewable natural gas projects in the United States. This is a strategic partnership focused on developing the waste-to-RNG project at scale.
• Long Island CompostcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong Island Compost is the sister company and founding entity of American Organic Energy. Founded in 1976 by the Vigliotti family in Queens, Long Island Compost processes organic waste into compost, soil and mulch for distribution across the northeast. The two companies operate as a family of companies under shared ownership.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Bioenergy Devco: Bioenergy Devco develops and operates anaerobic digestion facilities that convert organic waste into renewable natural gas and other products, directly comparable to AOE's core AD-to-RNG business model and large-scale facility approach.
• Vanguard Renewables: Vanguard Renewables operates farm-based and food-waste anaerobic digestion projects producing renewable natural gas, sharing AOE's organics-to-RNG conversion model and contracted offtake approach with utilities and corporate buyers.
• Brightmark Energy: Brightmark develops and operates RNG and biogas projects from organic waste and dairy manure, operating large-scale AD facilities with similar feedstock profiles and renewable energy offtake structures as AOE.
• Quantum Biopower: Quantum Biopower builds and operates food-waste anaerobic digestion facilities producing biogas and renewable energy in the U.S. Northeast, overlapping directly with AOE's geography and AD technology stack.
• Anaergia: Anaergia supplies anaerobic digestion and organics-recovery technology and operates AD facilities globally, comparable to AOE as an AD technology provider and operator of large-scale organic-waste-to-energy infrastructure.
• Viridi Energy: Viridi Energy is AOE's strategic partner developing one of the largest U.S. food-waste-to-RNG projects; it is a direct peer with overlapping AD/RNG development capabilities and a shared focus on large-scale Northeast organics projects.
• Cambrian Energy: Cambrian Energy develops, owns and operates biogas and renewable natural gas projects in North America from organic feedstocks, sharing AOE's project-development model, offtake structures, and AD-based value chain.

Broad incumbents

• Casella Waste Systems: Casella is a regional solid waste and recycling incumbent with growing organics processing capabilities in the Northeast; it overlaps with AOE in serving commercial food-waste generators in New York but competes across a much broader waste-services portfolio.
• Waste Management, Inc. Waste Management is the largest U.S. waste services incumbent and operates organic-processing/AD infrastructure; it competes with AOE for commercial organics volumes but at much larger scale and across a national footprint.

Emerging players

• Organic Waste Systems: Organic Waste Systems designs and builds anaerobic digestion and composting plants, with comparable technology offerings to AOE's AD platform and a similar focus on turning organic waste streams into energy and soil products.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/americanorganicenergy
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/27017533

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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