Toyota has announced its Georgetown, Kentucky, manufacturing plant will begin generating electricity from methane, a byproduct of trash decomposition at the nearby Central Kentucky Landfill, on Nov. 23.
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced an open meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee is scheduled for Nov. 18-19. The event will be held in Emeryville, California.
Green Cow Power is now converting off-farm organic wastes and dairy manure into energy with two DVO Inc. Two-Stage Mixed Plug Flow digesters. Located in Goshen, Indiana, it is the largest waste-to-energy facility in Elkhart County.
Five bioenergy projects in two states were among the 258 businesses nationwide receiving a total of nearly $34 million from the USDA Rural Development Value-Added Producer Grant program. The grants were announced last week.
A consortium led by biogas expert Ener-G Systems is investing GBP 11 million ($16.72 million) in five landfill gas generation plants in Johannesburg, South Africa. This is the largest landfill gas-to-power project to be developed in the country.
Weltec Biopower has broken ground on a 1-MW plant in a Melbourne, Australia, suburb. The facility will use 100 tons of organic waste per day.
Construction of phase one of Roeslein Alternative Energy's $80 million anaerobic digestion project is about halfway complete and on schedule to be operational by the middle of next year, the company reported.
The second-generation T6 Methane Power tractor can bring fuel cost savings of 20 percent to 40 percent. In terms of environmental performance, it has 80 percent lower polluting emissions than a standard diesel tractor.
Blue Sphere Corp., a clean energy company that develops, manages and owns waste-to-energy projects, announced today that two waste-to-energy plants under construction in the U.S. with its joint venture partner are nearing completion.
Renewable fuel makers of all kinds need to band together, instead of bash each other, to get where we need to go.
On Oct. 29, Republic Services Inc. released financial results for the third quarter of 2015, reporting a net income of $215 million, or 61 cents per share, compared to $185.8 million, or 52 cents per share, for the comparable period in 2014.
BDI-BioEnergy Int'l and Brau Union Österreich, part of the Heineken family, celebrated the opening of a new spent-grain fermentation plant at the Göss Brewery in Austria, the last milestone in a series of efforts to make the plant carbon-neutral.
The American Biogas Council is in its fifth year of existence. The council has grown and expanded over the these years, making inroads in supportive public policies and biogas and digestate market development.
The European Biomass Association (AEBIOM) recently released its annual statistical report, providing an outlook on European bioenergy for 2015, with a comprehensive overview of the latest market trends in bioheat, bioelectricty and biofuel sectors.
Tropical Power has chosen Kenya to house Africa's first-ever anaerobic digester, and is focusing on the country for additional projects.
U.S. EPA data on RINs generation through September shows D3 cellulosic biofuels RINs generation tapered off slightly for the month of September, after a steady climb seen each month throughout the year.
All three winners in the U.S. EPA's Green Power Leadership Awards' onsite generation category were users of landfill gas or biogas.
Greenlane Biogas has signed a distribution agreement with Sysadvance, a Portuguese company specializing in advanced gas separation systems that utilize pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology.
A recent report released by the Energy Technologies Institute states that biomass combined with carbon capture and storage (CCS) remains the only credible route to deliver negative emissions to help meet the U.K.'s 2050 climate change targets.
USDA under secretary Lisa Mensah recently encouraged rural small businesses to apply for loans and grants to support renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
U.S. EPA data on RINs generation through August reveals cellulosic D3 biofuels continue to climb, advanced biofuel D5 RINs generation is up sharply and the mainstay, D6 renewable fuels (primarily ethanol) continues on pace.
Oct. 21 is National Bioenergy Day, an annual event orchestrated by the Biomass Power Association. Now in its third year, NBD is growing.
Fortistar recently announced that it acquired two landfill-gas-to-energy projects, expanding its landfill gas portfolio by 11 MW. The acquisitions from Green Gas Americas follow the closing last week of $150 million in financing for its LFGTE work.
The African continent could generate nearly a quarter of its energy needs through the use of indigenous, clean, renewable energy by 2030, according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency.
Greenlane Biogas has signed a contract with Promus Energy, a project development company focusing on renewable and sustainable technologies, to provide an integrated biogas upgrading solution for a dairy farm located in Yakima County, Washington.
The ethanol industry has a new advocate in the form of a nonprofit organization called Americans for Energy Security and Innovation.
The U.S. DOE is proposing a new initiative to significantly accelerate adoption of sustainable clean and energy efficiency strategies in remote rural Alaskan communities.
This month, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced a roadmap in support of President Obama's goal to double U.S. energy productivity by 2030. The report lays out a path businesses, state and local governments, consumers and others can use.
A recent Rutgers University assessment on bioenergy potential in New Jersey found that the state producers over 7 million dry tons of biomass annually, over 4 million of which could be recovered and used to generate power, heat or vehicle fuel.
Each year, during the production of the on-site and small-scale issue of Biomass Magazine, a theme we hadn't anticipated emerges.
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