BBI International announced this week the agenda for the technical sessions of the 7th annual International Biomass Conference & Expo, North America's largest and fastest growing biomass conference, taking place March 24-26 in Orlando, Fla.
In Canada, the Biogas Association recently published a report that highlights the potential of its domestic biogas sector and estimates that the country's biogas sources have the potential to contribute 810 megawatts of power to its energy supply.
Metso announces Valmet's offerings will include boiler islands, small power plants based on bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) and BioGrate combustion technologies, and large heating plants based on BFB and pellet technologies.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has published the early release of its Annual Energy Outlook 2014 (AEO2014), increasing its projections for biomass energy and other renewables. The analysis also predicts increased consumption of biofuels.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., has released a discussion draft of legislation that aims to overhaul U.S. energy tax incentives by creating technology-neutral incentives for clean electricity and clean transportation fuels.
Congress has adjourned for the year, leaving the Farm Bill unfinished. Lawmakers are expected to take up the legislation in January, and Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, said progress is being made.
CR&R Environmental Services is building what it believes is the largest organics conversion facility in North America at its Perris, Calif., location, having recently completed navigation of a comprehensive permitting process.
An anaerobic digestion facility at Growing Power Hairy Hill L.P. in Canada is utilizing Himark BioGas International's patented IMUS technology to digest 200 tons per day or 73,000 tons per year of municipal solid waste and organics.
Tax provisions critical to the biofuel and biopower industries are set to expire at the end of the month, and industry stakeholders are urging Congress for extensions.
The Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp. recently joined Lethbridge Biogas LP at the opening of the largest anaerobic digester cogeneration facility in Canada. The $30 million facility currently has a generating capacity of 2.8 megawatts.
The Cleveland Browns has teamed with Quasar Energy Group, Dairy Management Inc., Ohio State University and Insinkerator to turn food waste from Cleveland's First Energy Stadium into renewable energy and organic fertilizer.
U.K. gas network company National Grid and Future Biogas have announced the commissioning of a $13.11 million anaerobic digestion project at Lindholmem near Doncaster, England.
The U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change will consult on measures, including a tariff review, in January to ensure that the small-scale anaerobic digestion sector is not unfairly disadvantaged by the anticipated degression of feed in tariff.
Dallas-based Friedman, Luzzatto & Co. and Memphis, Tenn.-based Duncan-Williams Inc. announced the completion of a $9 million taxable revenue bond issue to finance the construction of a waste-to-energy project in San Antonio.
A new government report highlights the economic importance of passing a comprehensive Farm Bill. It discusses many benefits of a strong Farm Bill, including those related to the bioeconomy and clean energy.
For electricity generators, pipeline quality or compressed natural gas producers, biogas equipment manufacturers are readying themselves to demands of the fast-growing, multi-faceted industry.
Great Plains Institute Energy Policy Specialist Amanda Bilek discusses the role biogas can play in combined-heat-and-power applications in the U.S., current barriers and how they may be overcome.
General Electric's power and water division and energy and chemical company Sasol announced they have jointly developed a new technology that cleans waste water while generating biogas for power production.
Biomass Magazine Executive Editor Tim Portz discusses the significance of the individual components and equipment used all along the biomass supply chain.
The U.S. EPA has appointed Francesca Grifo as its new scientific integrity official. In her new role, Grifo will coordinate and carry out the agency's scientific integrity policy. She will also chair a standing EPA scientific integrity committee.
Emerald Biogas opened a new waste-to-energy plant at the Newton Industrial Estate in Northeast England.
California Ethanol & Power LLC recently announced it has received its Authority to Construct permit from California's Imperial County Air Pollution Control District. Construction on the project is expected to begin in early 2014.
An idled 15-MW landfill gas-to-energy plant north of Pontiac, Ill., is back on line after being purchased and refurbished by new owner Hoosier Energy. The facility is located at the 460-acre Livingston Landfill about 100 miles southwest of Chicago.
The Huckabay Ridge anaerobic digestion facility in Stephenville, Texas, is scheduled to be offered for sale at auction on Nov. 21. EM Biogas LLC has engaged Maas Companies Inc. to manage the sale.
Akron, Ohio-based KB Bioenergy has started up a new $32 million state of the art high solids anaerobic digestion system. The project includes three 600-kilowatt combined-heat-and-power units, which produce a combined 10,000 megawatt hours of energy.
Green Gas has acquired Lime Energy's 2.8 megawatt (MW) landfill-gas-to-energy project located in Charlotte County, Fla., through the acquisition of Lime Energy's subsidiary, GES-Port Charlotte LLC, which owns the project.
Ener-G has launched an outsourced anaerobic digestion (AD) service that includes the design, installation and operation of the renewable energy facilities for a variety of industrial processors. The service is financed by Ener-G.
In the last week, three letters have been sent to the ag committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, urging support for the Farm Bill's energy title programs. The letters have been issued by both federal lawmakers and trade groups.
After a year of development, the Forest Country Potawatomi Community's combined-heat-and-power biogas plant in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley has come on line, with an official grand opening held on Oct. 28.
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