The 2011 U.S. Billion-Ton Update enhances its 2005 predecessor and finds potential for dedicated energy crops through direct inventory analysis and rigorous sustainability modeling.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has announced $44.6 million in funding to 156 producers of biomass-to-energy products, including pellets, power from anaerobic digestion, biodiesel and ethanol.
The House and Senate agriculture committees are scheduled to deliver a legislative package to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction on Nov. 1, outlining suggestions to cut $23 billion from agriculture programs as part of the 2012 Farm Bill.
The American Biogas Council is asking its members to urge their representatives in the U.S. Senate to support a bill allowing states to make their own decisions about incentivizing small renewable energy generation.
USDA's Rural Energy for American Program will help fund 19 anaerobic digester projects in eight states, the USDA announced Oct. 26. Digesters will be constructed in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Iowa, Florida, Oregon, Ohio and Vermont.
In an effort to promote renewable energy, create jobs and reduce Maryland's contribution to agricultural runoff polluting the Chesapeake Bay, the state released a request for proposals for the purchase of power produced from animal waste.
The digester at a vegetable company in Lavigny, Switzerland, has shown an increase in biogas production of about 30 percent in the past six months, with the use of a bioactive solution. It also increased the annual load potential by 50 percent.
The Plant, a Chicago-based vertical farm and food business incubator, received $1.5 million in state funding for an anaerobic digester that will consume brewery waste.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Senate Bill 489, a law that allows small-scale biomass and biogas projects (1 megawatt or less) to qualify for the state's Net Energy Metering program.
As part of the panel “Leveraging Wastewater and Manure Streams for Energy Production� at the Northeast Biomass Conference & Trade Show Oct. 11-13 in Pittsburgh, presenters discussed how anaerobic digestion is catching on in the Northeast.
Raising his voice over the loud noises of the anaerobic digestion system at Fairview Swiss Cheese in Fredonia, Pa., Rick Koller explained the ins and outs of the process to tour participants of the Northeast Biomass Conference & Trade Show.
With the construction start deadline of the end of this year looming for the Treasury Section 1603 Grants for Specified Energy Property in Lieu of Tax Credits program, the criteria for that specification is still not clear to many applicants.
An 8-megawatt anaerobic digester that would run on a mix of food processing waste including sweet corn silage and potato and bean waste is proposed for the southeast Minnesota town of Le Sueur.
A number of pellet manufacturers are included in a list of companies that will receive payments from the USDA to expand production and availability of both solid and liquid biofuels.
A Sept. 29 webinar by the American Biogas Council will delve into the 1603 Treasury Program, explaining its terminology, standards and qualifications. The deadline for the grant in lieu of tax credit program is Dec. 31.
A UCS report displays the tremendous potential for bioenergy development in the Midwest.
The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County, Fla., plans to build a $670 million waste-to-energy facility.
New EPA document does little to clear up concerns about MACT”s “solid waste” definition.
Taylor Biomass Energy satisfies Greenopia's rigorous review to distinguish it as a sustainable business.
A forester and biomass supplier attempts to quash misinformation about Florida's biomass availability.
PurposeEnergy is eyeing the brewery industry for its novel AD cogen system.
CMRA and NSWMA have crafted standards for grading C&D wood so it can be utilized in combustion systems.
Utilization of municipal solid waste sorting technologies could speed up the development of anaerobic digestion in the U.S.
New Jersey is already a top-ranked state in on-site utilization of biogas produced by wastewater treatment plants, but ongoing research could help craft incentives to push it even higher.
By adding high-rate anaerobic reactors to the wastewater pretreatment system at its Merrimack, N.H., brewery, the plant has reduced air emissions and fossil fuel purchases, and shut down labor-intensive, energy-inefficient equipment.
The American Biogas Council held a webinar Sept. 14 titled Biogas Financing: Options, Steps and Resources for Biogas Project Development, where three presenters outlined the path to successfully orchestrating biogas projects.
In 2007, Google made a commitment to be carbon neutral and began to invest in renewable energy and purchase carbon offsets. The company recently expanded its renewable scope by endorsing a pilot hog waste-to-energy (WtE) facility.
W2E Organic Power is launching an anaerobic digestion project in Columbia, S.C., that it hopes will be a template for future waste-to-energy facilities. Construction will begin in the coming months with operations expected to start in 2012.
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