New ABC Webinar: Digesting Dumped Dairy, 4/15
Might your digester or a biogas system be asked to accept a large amount of milk? What are the implications? Recently, struggling dairy farmers have been told to dump their milk, amid the coronavirus outbreak. For many farms, market for their milk has disappeared...
Food waste impacts emerging as coronavirus shifts life from commercial to residential
Food waste experts are slowly assessing the short and long-term impacts of the new coronavirus, which remain murky. Initial volume shifts are unclear at the moment, but a major surge in grocery purchases appears to be driving a decline in food waste associated with...
Transportation Fuels New Opportunities for Farmers
Over the past several years, farmers have deployed a variety of diversification strategies to enable their long-term stability. While some farms are investing in robotic technology to combat labor shortages, others are entering the organics market to satisfy consumer...
EPA: 36.77 cellulosic RINs generated in February
The U.S. EPA recently released renewable identification number (RIN) generation data for February, reporting that nearly 1.54 billion RINs were generated under the Renewable Fuel Standard during the month, including more than 36.77 million cellulosic RINs. (The 2020...
Drylet Webinar, 4/13: Optiminzing RNG and Biofuel Production with Drylet’s BioCatalyst
On April 13, at 1pm ET, learn from ABC member Drylet how their award-winning solution boosts the biological process at work in biodigesters to overcome the hydrolysis limitations and enhance biogas production, with no change to operations and no upfront costs. Case...
Capstone Turbine Secures Order to Upgrade Wastewater Treatment Plant in Roseville, California for Renewable Energy Project
Capstone Turbine Corporation the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced today that it received an order for an 800 kilowatt (kW) Signature Series microturbine to upgrade the City of Roseville, California, wastewater...
Dominion Energy launches GreenTherm program to support renewable energy
The GreenTherm program from ABC member Dominion Energy gives Utah and Idaho customers an easy and convenient way to support the development of renewable natural gas (RNG). The use of RNG results in a net reduction of greenhouse gases, which helps customers lower their...
New Photos of Brightmark’s Sumpter, SC Poultry-RNG Project
The 1.5 Megawatt Sumter, SC RNG project by ABC member Brightmark Energy uses biogas generated from poultry litter. to produce enough electricity and hot water for 500-700 households. Pilgrim's is one of the world's leading poultry producers. Nearly 1 in every 5...
Oregon Law Intensifies Carbon Reduction Efforts
Governor Kate Brown signed an executive order on Tuesday, March 10 that will expand and intensify Oregon’s Clean Fuels Program, also known as the low carbon fuel standard. This program is designed to reduce Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions; more specifically, it...