Vermont Gas sees growing demand and potential for renewable natural gas
Vermont’s only gas utility wants to offer more RNG to customers in response to demand for decarbonization. In early 2018, Vermont Gas became the first local gas distribution company in the country to give customers the option to purchase renewable natural gas. About...
Collaborating with US farmers to help the environment
Across the US, dairy farmers are working with renewable energy companies to make use of what would otherwise go to waste. Dairy, food, animal and other organic waste is being converted into biogas with the help of companies like ABC member Brightmark Energy, to...
Bioenergy DevCo to Purchase Perdue AgriRecycle Organic Soil Composting Facility in Delaware
Bioenergy DevCo (BDC), an ABC member and leading global developer of anaerobic digestion facilities that create renewable energy and healthy soil products from organic material, announced today that it has entered a 20-year partnership with Perdue Farms for the supply...
Plastic Fusion Fabricators is Hiring
Plastic Fusion is a leader in the installation of containment systems for landfills, waste water treatment plants, industrial facilities, and anaerobic digesters and biogas collection systems. Positions open include: Construction Technician, Construction...
How Cities Are Turning Food Into Fuel
This feature piece on how anaerobic digestion can create added value from food waste features ABC members NYC Department of Environmental Protection, Hitachi Zosen Inova U.S.A., and RNG Energy Solutions. Every year, America throws away more than 80 million pounds of...
World’s first combined biofertilizer-biogas facility using poultry waste opens
Ductor, a Finnish-Swiss biotechnology company and ABC member committed to finding solutions for global food challenges, opened its first commercial-scale organic fertilizer- and biogas-producing facility in October in Jalisco, Mexico. The facility is the world’s first...
PlanET Biogas USA Brings Latest Digester Technology to Wisconsin with DTE
ABC members PlanET Biogas USA and DTE Biomass Energy (DTEBE) have teamed together to construct new world-class anaerobic digesters at three dairy farms in Wisconsin. These projects will take manure supplied by the host farm, process and upgrade it into renewable...
Congress Applies Pressure to EPA on eRINs
EPA's juggling act over renewable fuels may soon become a little more complicated. Senators who support renewable electricity in the fuels law — a sideshow to the battle over liquid biofuel that goes in cars and trucks — want the agency to take action on applications...
Chairman Thompson, Ways and Means Democrats Unveil Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now Act
This draft legislation is a comprehensive approach to tackling climate change by using the tax code to extend and expand renewable energy use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “Estimates say that climate change will cost Americans more than $500 billion each year...