Reps. Ron Kind, D-Wis., and John Lewis, D-Ga., have introduced a bill that would provide qualifying biogas technologies with a 30 percent investment tax credit.
Ballard Power Systems has announced the sale of a 175 kW ClearGen distributed generation fuel cell system to the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe of Humboldt County, Calif. The fuel cell system will be integrated with a biomass gasifier.
Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has signed legislation into law that could make biomass power a more attractive option for utilities within the state by them to, under certain conditions, recover some costs associated with the purchase of biomass power.
President Obama has nominated Ernie Moniz as Secretary of Energy. Moniz is a physics professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A nuclear physicist, Moniz has served as director of MIT's Energy Initiative.
President Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy as U.S. EPA administrator. McCarthy currently serves as assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation. If confirmed, she would replace former Administrator Lisa Jackson.
With the recent promulgation of the Boiler MACT regulations, biomass power generators will be obliged to meet additional emission limitations.
Longwood University received a $50,000 Dominion renewable energy grant to commission a pre-planning study for a biomass fuel processing center. The focus of the study is to find efficient ways to dry sawdust used to fuel the biomass boilers.
Glenn Farris, marketing manager, biomass, at AGCO Corp. is a featured speaker in the "Walking the Sleeping Giant: Equipment and Approaches for Harvesting and Collecting Agricultural Biomass," panel at the 2103 International Biomass Conference & Expo.
Germany-based RWE Innogy GmbH, a subsidiary of RWE Aktiengesellschaft, Essen, has sold its share of two small-scale biomass power plants to Koehler Renewable Energy GmbH. However, the company is remaining active in the large-scale biomass sector.
Beaver Wood Energy and Vermont Hydroponic Produce announced on Feb. 26 plans to build a new biomass hub in Fair Haven, Vt. The hub will consist of a biomass power plant, pellet manufacturing facility, and a 10-acre greenhouse complex.
U.K.-based Helius Energy has published its annual report for 2012, highlighting progress made on the company's three biomass power projects. The company's 7.2 MW facility is substantially complete and undergoing commissioning.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has issued the February issue of its Electric Power Monthly report. In 2012, the U.S. produced 37.54 TWh of power from woody biomass, a 0.2 percent increase compared to production in 2011.
A $28 million, 3.2 MW biogas energy project under development by GreenWhey Energy Inc. in Turtle Lake, Wis., has secured funding and is on schedule to be complete this summer.
Solutions4CO2 has announced a product development agreement with Complete Senergy Systems and College Communitaire de Nouveau Brunswick to produce a commercial-scale, integrated biogas refinery in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada.
Pending legislation in New Mexico would enable renewable energy certificates to be issued for the generation and use of thermal energy produced from renewable resources, with extra credits assigned to thermal energy generated from forest biomass.
Drax Group plc has released preliminary financial results for 2012, noting that its biomass transformation is well underway. According to company's report, its first unit will be converted to biomass in April, with a second unit converted in 2014.
ElectraTherm distributor GB Consulting and biogas plant constructor EnviTec commissioned an ElectraTherm Green Machine to generate additional power and increase energy efficiency on site, and the machine has accrued more than 2,800 hours.
The Australian Greens has published a new energy proposal calling for investment in clean energy infrastructure. The report describes scenarios for meeting Western Australia's electricity demand through efficiency,fuel switching and renewable energy.
The U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs recently published experimental statistics on the quantity of land used to grow bioenergy feedstocks in the U.K..
Agricultural biogas plant project developer Bio Alians recently published a paper on the Polish ag biogas market, which indicates there is significant room for growth in the sector, compared to other biogas substrates.
Sustainable Development Technology Canada has awarded $61.8 million in funding to 23 clean energy projects through its SD Tech Fund. Two of the projects focus on the production of bio-coal.
Nominations are now open for 2013 International Biomass Conference & Expo Bioenergy Awards. The awards will be presented during the opening general session at the sixth annual International Biomass Conference & Expo in April.
Stanford University's Global Climate and Energy Project has released a report highlighting the potential to combine bioenergy production with carbon capture and storage techniques to enable carbon-negative energy production.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects has released its Energy Infrastructure Update for January 2013, showing that six new biomass power units were brought online in January with a combined capacity of 6 MW.
After the successful start-up phase of the biogas plant in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India, in mid-December 2012, a grand openingtook place on Jan. 26, 2013. The facility is now also officially connected to the national power grid.
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