Barack Obama has been elected to a second term as president of the U.S., prompting optimistic reactions from biomass and biofuels industries, even with the divided status of Congress remaining unchanged.
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GBE Gocher Bioenergie GmbH, a joint venture of RWE Innogy, Goch-based food producer Nahr-Engel and Goch municipal utility, is inaugurating the new biomass-fuel cogeneration plant on Klever Strase in Germany.
Charles Conner's extensive background in agriculture includes several years in the USDA as deputy secretary of agriculture as well as serving as acting secretary of agriculture from August 2007 to January 2008, when Ed Schafer took on the job.
The North East Biosolids and Residuals Association has launched a new website that provides current data on anaerobic digestion and biogas at U.S. wastewater treatment facilities. Several organizations participated in the project.
If Republican candidate Mitt Romney wins the election, there's a good chance Nebraska will once again send a native son to Washington to serve in the president's cabinet. Gov. Dave Heineman is on the shortlist for potential cabinet appointees.
The biogas company BD Agro Renewables, based in Calveslage, Germany, has initiated operation of one of the first biogas plants in Russia. The plant generates 2.4 MW of electricity from agricultural and livestock waste.
A milk powder producer from Uruguay has engaged Weltc Biopower for the construction of a 3 MW biogas plant. In the first development stage, Weltec will set up an 800 kW plant. The full output of 3 MW is to be installed by 2015.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's short list of possible energy secretaries includes Tea Party-backed U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, former House energy committee chairman.
Harold Hamm, a.k.a. "America's Oil Man," is chairman of Romney's energy policy advisory team and likely his first runner-up choice for energy secretary after American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard.
A total of $16 million in investment for 244 projects received funding from the USDA's Rural Energy for America Program, including several blender pumps and a few biomass-related projects.
Believed by its developers to be the largest of its kind in California and the world, a 2.8 MW, biogas-powered fuel cell recently came on line at a California wastewater treatment plant.
The German Federal Environmental Ministry has released an environmental technology atlas produced by Roland Gerger Strategy Consultants. The report, titled "GreenTech made in Germany 3.0," is the third such atlas produced for the German government.
Jack Gerard is the current president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, but if presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins the 2012 election, he could become Romney's chief of staff or secretary of energy at the U.S. DOE.
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam is the national chairman of the Farmers and Ranchers for Romney coalition and co-chair of the Romney/Ryan agricultural advisory committee. He has also served in the Florida House and U.S. House.
Energy infrastructure development and project consulting company Novi Energy has opened a large-scale community digester project in Michigan. Construction on the project began in 2010 and is slated for completion in the fourth quarter of 2012.
The Union of Concerned Scientists has published a report that shows that biomass feedstock has the potential to dramatically increase our nation's renewable energy supply. The report is titled "The Promise of Biomass."
On Nov. 6 residents of Michigan will vote on a proposal to amend the state constitution to establish a new renewable portfolio standard (RPS), requiring 25 percent renewable energy by 2025. The state already requires 10 percent renewables by 2015.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released a white paper on his agriculture policy this week. Within the document, Romney announced his support for the renewable fuel standard (RFS), but didn't mention the Farm Bill Energy Title.
Representatives from both President Barack Obama and candidate Gov. Mitt Romney took the stage at the MIT Energy Initiative's Presidential Energy Debate to address each candidate's position on energy and climate change.
Portland General Electric Co. is seeking power generating resources to help it comply with Oregon's renewable energy standard. The company recently issued a request for proposals (RFP) seeking approximately 100 MW of renewable power.
Planning permission was granted on Oct. 8 for a new, industrial-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Widnes, U.K. PDM Group, the UK's largest food waste recycler, has been granted permission to build a 4 MW AD plant.
Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP and the Wisconsin State Energy Office have partnered to develop an action plan to assist dairy farms and cheese manufacturers in converting waste into energy via anaerobic digestion facilities.
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