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News2/21/2012 Farm Digester Industry In America Growth in facility installations is steady, but lack of capital and antiquated energy policies remain obstacles to realizing the broad suite of benefits that manure-based digester systems could achieve. More>> 2/20/2012 Apple's North Carolina solar, fuel cell plants will be largest of their kind Apple's solar farm in North Carolina will be a 20-megawatt, 100-acre facility that is the largest end-user-owned onsite solar array in the country. It and a previously undisclosed fuel cell installation will power a data center that is the only in its class to achieve LEED Platinum certification.The fuel cell installation will be powered by 100 percent biogas, Apple revealed, and it will provide more than 40 million kWh of 24x7 baseload renewable energy annually. More>> 2/20/2012 Sen. Debbie Stabenow Promotes Bio-based Manufacturing Initiatives FLINT, Michigan -- U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow is scheduled to appear at Flint's Kettering University Tuesday to promote new initiatives for Michigan's bio-based manufacturing industry. Kettering is a partner with Swedish Biogas International (ABC Member), the company which built a waste-to-energy biogas plant at Flint's wastewater treatment facility. More>> 2/16/2012 Changes to Ohio's definition of "agriculture" could benefit bio-energy WOOSTER, Ohio -- A bill that would broaden the definition of agriculture in Ohio to include algal production and anaerobic digesters is making its way through the House and Senate.The bill defines the production of bio-energy from anaerobic digesters as "agriculture in nature" if at least 50 percent of the feedstock that was used to produce the fuel came from the same property. The new rule, if made law, would allow farmers to use anaerobic digesters as a part of a nutrient management plan, or to consume other agriculture organic byproducts. More>> 2/16/2012 Caterpillar's MWM Sees Rise in Clean Engines Amid Nuclear Woes (Bloomberg) -- MWM GmbH (ABC Member), the German engine maker bought last year by Caterpillar Inc. (ABC Member), said more customers are looking for alternative-fuel engines as Germany winds down its nuclear power. More>> 2/15/2012 Comments sought on proposed Minn. AD power plant The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is requesting public comment on plans for an 8 MW anaerobic digestion power plant in Le Sueur County, Minn. Proposed by the Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (MMPA), the Hometown Bioenergy facility would use a wet anaerobic digestion process provided by Danish company Xergi A/S to convert up to 45,000 tons per year of agricultural and food processing wastes into biogas, a liquid soil amendment and a solid pellet fuel. More>> 2/9/2012 Food waste: a new fuel for CHP in the US Project examples and stats about the growing market that's turning food waste into energy. Featuring ABC Members: 2G-Cenergy, Univ. Wisconsin, BIOFerm, Harvest Power and Waste Management... More>> 2/8/2012 ABC Member News: Bio-Methatech breakthrough in Vermont - A first turnkey Biogas Project will be built in Spring 2012 Bio-Methatech signed a contract to build, in spring 2012, a biogas system on Riverview Farm, located in Franklin, Vermont. The owners have a herd of 450 dairy cows and intend to produce electricity... More>> 2/7/2012 Liberty Paper in Becker to add pretreatment facility, biogas generator Liberty Paper Inc. on Monday announced plans to build a water pretreatment facility with a biogas generator at its mill in Becker. Groundbreaking on the $15 million operation is scheduled for April, and the facility is expected to be fully operational by mid-December. More>> 2/6/2012 Harvest Power Receives $1.5 Million Funding for Green Waste to Energy Demonstration Project Fraser Richmond Soil and Fibre, a division of Harvest Power, has received a $1.5 million grant from the BC Bioenergy Network (BCBN), an industry-led association that supports bioenergy development and demonstration in British Columbia (BC). The funding is offered to set up an innovative organic waste to clean renewable energy demonstration plant, Energy Garden, in the Lower Mainland of BC. The establishment will remove 27,000 tonnes of municipal green waste such as yard debris and food scraps from BC landfills. More>> 2/6/2012 Himark bioGas moves into final phase for Canadian manure plant In Canada, Himark bioGas is in the final phase of building for its 40MMly feed wheat ethanol plant that will convert manure into power using anaerobic digesters. The plant is expected to be producing ethanol by September. The technology brings the grams CO2 equivalent per megajoule of energy output count to near-zero; Western Plains Energy will also use this technology for their Kansas plant. More>> 2/1/2012 Integrating Anaerobic Digestion Into Our Culture Part 2: Stats, Reality and the Future This two-part article explores the ways the waste, energy and agricultural industries are integrating this technology into our culture. In Part One I talked about the people and organizations who are changing the way North Americans think about organics. Here in Part Two, I explore the facts that back up North America's impending adoption of anaerobic digestion, how the transition will happen and what the future might look like. More>> 1/30/2012 Cargill going green at Schuyler plant Biogas from the recapture operation now provides about 30 percent of the plant's own fuel needs. More>> 1/27/2012 Integrating Anaerobic Digestion Into Our Culture Part 1: Language, Visuals and Values Industry leaders are cultivating North America's awareness and understanding of anaerobic digestion's features, benefits and potential role in society. This two-part article explores the ways the waste, energy and agricultural industries are integrating this technology into our culture. More>> 1/26/2012 Santee Cooper signs renewable energy contract with Green Energy Solutions Santee Cooper's board of directors approved a contract Monday with Green Energy Solutions for up to 25 megawatts of electricity generated from renewable resources in South Carolina. Alabama-based GES will in turn obtain agreements with individual farms to make up the 25 megawatts of electricity. It is expected to be online in January 2013, with similar anaerobic digester projects coming online at farms across the state over the next six years. The fuel source will be biogas produced through anaerobic digestion of poultry, swine, cow and other organic agricultural waste. More>> 1/24/2012 Unique business model helps Harvest Power bloom in North American market While wind and solar power dominate the headlines when American television and newspapers turn their attention to renewable energy, the biggest trend in the sector actually involves materials that are far less high tech and quite a bit more mundane – municipal waste, and discarded food and yard refuse. Among the fastest growing companies in the space is Waltham, Massachusetts-based Harvest Power, which now operates organics-to-waste facilities in the US Northeast, Midwest and along the west coast, as well as in Ontario and Vancouver, Canada. More>> 1/20/2012 Element Markets Announces Construction of a Landfill Gas to Pipeline Project at the APEX Sanitary Landfill in Amsterdam, Ohio Element Markets, LLC, a Houston-based biomethane developer and leading supplier of environmental credits, is constructing a large biomethane project at the APEX Sanitary Landfill in Amsterdam, Ohio. The APEX landfill gas utilization project is expected to produce over 32,000,000 MMBtu of biomethane throughout its operational life, which is sufficient to power over 19,000 homes. More>> 1/18/2012 Down on the Farm, a Sculpture Finds a Second Life At Pennsylvania's Farm Show, a boy of around 10 proudly presents his prize dairy calf to onlookers. Chin held high, he accepts the golden ribbon for best of show. Today, he's the talk of the town, but tomorrow he'll be converted into a pile of melted grease to be mixed in with liquid manure. He's part of the show's famous 1,000-pound butter sculpture, and he's going to be recycled. More>> 1/12/2012 Exploring Biogas, An Untapped Source of Clean Renewable Energy This article focuses on the untapped power of biogas. First, we'll discusses why biogas is a real solution to our energy challenges today and why it's on the verge of transitioning from proven, popular biowaste conversion technology in Europe to a star role in the North American renewable energy economy. The second part presents how companies like Harvest are poised to transform the national clean tech landscape. More>> 1/4/2012 Stimulus money to power anaerobic digesters at Monterey Regional Waste Management Leftovers are slated to become ingredients in a $1.6 million anaerobic digestion pilot planned to begin at Monterey Regional Waste Management District in Marina this summer. The district already generates 5 megawatts of methane power from its landfill, where organic matter takes up to 20 years to break down. Using technology from San Jose-based Zero Waste, that process will be slashed to three weeks. More>> 12/25/2011 A farm lives high -- and clean -- off the hog Loyd Bryant used to pump manure from his 8,640 hogs into a fetid lagoon, where it raised an unholy stink and released methane and ammonia into the air. The tons of manure excreted daily couldn't be used as fertilizer because of high nitrogen content. More>> |
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