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March 2014

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The pellet industry will grow by nearly 33 percent during the next two years, as foreign demand drives investment in new capacity and distribution infrastructure.

Vermont's capitol city is readying to fire up its modernized and expanded district heating system, which includes two new biomass boilers and a new hot water distribution loop.

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Abengoa Biomass Energy's 25 MMgy cellulosic ethanol plant in Hugoton, Kan., also produces up to 22 MW of biomass power.

PIT TO POWER: Repurposing a spent gravel pit, Hometown BioEnergy’s anaerobic digester powers four 2 MW Cummins gensets that provide electricity to LeSueur, Minn.

Biogas Power in the Valley

By Susanne Retka Schill

The Hometown BioEnergy anaerobic digester on the south edge of LeSueur, Minn., is the largest system of its type in the U.S., rated at 8 MW of electrical power from food processing and agricultural waste.

2014 will bear witness to the commissioning of some of the first U.S. commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants.

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