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.
PurposeEnergy Inc.'s Biphase Orbicular Biodigester is ideally suited to process higher-solid waste than traditional anaerobic digesters. With that capability in mind, the company is focusing on the brewery market, and its waste streams.
The American Biogas Council is looking for support for the Waste-to-Energy Technology Act of 2011 (H.R. 66), which would provide a 30 percent tax credit to eligible waste-to-energy facilities using municipal solid waste or sewage sludge.
Strong tax incentives, a highly trained workforce, ample forestry materials and government investment in research and development make Ontario a great location for biomass power development.
A technique based on carbon dating will soon be used in the U.K. to determine the proportion of energy from waste that is renewable.
The first application of Pyrogenesis's plasma gasifier is operating for the U.S. Air Force in Florida.
Millar Western Forest Products Ltd., a market pulp mill in Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada, hopes to build a 5.2-megawatt biomass power plant that would use its mill wastewater. The mill produces pulp that is sold to paper mills.
An Alberta, Canada, power plant slated for operation in 2013 will use AD to create 3 megawatts of power for sale to the grid, but will also use a unique technology to denature infectious proteins in its raw meat processing byproduct feedstock.
Cargill Inc. is planning a 1.4-megawatt waste-to-energy plant at its High River, Alberta, beef processing facility. The plant will run on organic waste from the facility and will complement its methane gas capture and power generation system.
Hankinson Renewable Energy LLC, a 120 MMgy ethanol plant in Hankinson, N.D., is in the process of starting up an anaerobic digester to produce 54 million Btu (MMBtu) of biogas a year, according to David Rein of Rein & Associates.
The British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines and Minister for Renewable Housing's Innovative Clean Energy fund has selected 12 renewable energy projects that will receive a total of $8 million in funding.
Multifarm digester projects are benefitting Pacific Northwest dairy farmers.
While organic waste-to-biogas power technologies are common in Europe, they are first-of-a-kind in most U.S. states and need to prove themselves before they can become a trend.
Besides edging toward sustainability goals, a unique biodigester on the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh campus will also provide learning opportunities, and eventually financial assistance, for students.
A five-farm digester venture in Massachusetts could be a game-changer for struggling dairy farmers.
Missouri has ample resources for a booming anaerobic digestion sector, but surprisingly few parties have taken advantage of the enormous opportunity.
Though there are programs and policies in place to help support the developing U.S. biogas industry, the playing field for biogas and other renewables is not level, according to the ABC, which held a webinar to address this issue and others.
The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development has awarded $4.2 million in grants and loans to 10 alternative energy projects in six counties, four of which are biomass and biogas projects.
The American Biogas Council will host a webinar on July 12 at 1 p.m. ET, where industry experts will address state and federal policies that impact anaerobic digestion facilities.
The NEBTWG is encouraging members of the biomass industry to submit their thoughts on the economic and environmental benefits of biomass energy in Vermont, so that biomass will be included in the state's Comprehensive Energy Plan.
An Indiana dairy will launch a new fleet of compressed natural gas-fueled milk trucks, once it completes construction on its new fueling station with a biogas conditioning element.
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