PURPA Plus bill allows states to make their own decisions about renewable energy.
Despite regulatory uncertainty, renewable energy businesses did well in 2011 and expect continued success in the new year.
A 6.4-megawatt (MW) landfill gas-to-energy plant built by Republic Services Inc., Old Dominion Electric Cooperative and Fortistar LLC has come on line in Richmond, Va.
The Agriculture Energy Coalition today expressed great disappointment Nov. 18 that a deficit reduction proposal unveiled by the House and Senate Agriculture Committees reauthorizes energy programs only at modest levels and without mandatory funding.
Deputy Agriculture Undersecretary for Rural Development Doug O'Brien announced Nov. 17 that USDA is funding a series of projects to convert biomass to energy through USDA's Rural Energy for America program.
The Chrin Brothers Inc. is looking for four new tenants to occupy a 23-acre site and use heat produced at the company's existing 3.2-megawatt landfill-gas-to-power plant.
USDA has selected 67 projects for funding that focus on helping rural agricultural producers reduce energy consumption and costs; use renewable energy technologies in their operation; and/or conduct feasibility studies for renewable energy projects.
The American Biogas Council is encouraging its members to help support one of its highest legislative priorities, a bill that would create an investment tax credit for biogas.
As part of the RE-Powering America Initiative, the U.S. EPA is investing about $1 million to determine the capability of 26 different contaminated sites to host renewable energy projects.
Great Lakes ports to prepare for biomass exports.
Industry experts discuss wood's role in U.S. energy policy
State provides funding for AD systems, feedstock growth, pellet and torrefaction projects.
INL explores challenges of transforming biomass into a feedstock commodity.
W2E launches model anaerobic digestion facility in Columbia, S.C.
Aloterra's BCAP project areas are promoting job growth and helping set the stage for a major miscanthus presence in the biopellet industry.
With the availability of agricultural biomass, North American companies are promoting the benefits of converting grass into energy in an effort to spur the industry.
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.
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