Sanitation Districts Gear Up For Food Waste Codigestion
After a decade of evolving economics and logistics to generate more renewable energy production using increased volumes of source separated organics (SSO), Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (the Districts) have pivoted to a full-fledged commercial operation,...
Live And In Person … Telling Our Organics Recycling Stories
ABC Members Rubicon and BioCycle got together in Emmaus, Pennsylvania (PA), to learn more about all things organics recycling — source reduction, zero waste, the circular economy, and more--with a focus on food. More >>
Sevana enables Meridiam to enter US biogas sector
Infrastructure asset manager Meridiam is moving into the US biogas sector via a partnership with ABC member Sevana Bioenergy. Meridiam is investing $35m to develop a biodigester project in Idaho with development partner Sevana acting as a service provider and...
Federal Incentives for Dairy Can Enhance Carbon-Reduction Efforts, NMPF’s McCloskey Says
Sharing how his own farm is evolving to carbon neutrality and how the dairy sector is aggressively moving to become carbon-neutral by 2050, Indiana dairy farmer Mike McCloskey highlighted ways federal incentives can further help dairy toward its net-zero emissions...
DOE Demonstration of RNG Locomotive Nearing Completion
OptiFuel Systems, a system integrator of Cummins and BAE Systems hybrid power products for decarbonizing the rail, marine, and microgrid power market, is in the process of finalizing a $2.6 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant to demonstrate a pre-production...
Is renewable natural gas a serious alternative to ‘electrify everything’?
While wind and solar power and electric vehicles tend to dominate the conversation around preventing catastrophic climate change, electricity and transportation aren’t the whole picture. The world also needs to act quickly to reduce emissions from other sources, like...
Roeslein Alternative Energy and Partners Win Grant to create new value chains on U.S. farms
A new federal grant will allow a research team led by ABC Member Roeslein Alternative Energy, Iowa State University, and Penn State to develop new methods of turning biomass and manure into fuel. The five-year, $10 million grant from the USDA’s National Institute for...
Shell secures biogas supply as part low-carbon shift
Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy renewable gas, known as biomethane, from Denmark's Nature Energy, in what the smaller company termed the largest deal of its kind. More >>
Cost, Environmental Impacts Of Food Waste Recycling Options (Part II of II from BioCycle)
An in-depth environmental and economic assessment was conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with Eastern Research Group, on food waste recycling options. This two-part article provides a summary of the study’s findings. A detailed...