Industry News
Report: Digestate as Fertilizer
The report Digestate as Fertilizer published by the German Biogas Association, an ABC member, presents concepts, products and solutions that are already being applied in practice in order to ensure sustainable biogas production in the long term. The report was...
Canadian Anaerobic Digestion Guideline
The Canadian Biogas Association (CBA), an ABC member, is developing an industry-led, national Anaerobic Digestion (AD) Guideline document. The AD Guideline provides recommended planning, design, and operational practices for AD facilities that process food and organic...
Brightmark Energy Acquires Wisconsin Dairy Biogas Project from Clean Fuel Partners; Clean Fuel Partners to Operate
ABC Members Brightmark Energy and Clean Fuel Partners announced a deal that would transfer ownership of the Dane County, WI manure and food waste digester to Brightmark Energy but retain the services of Clean Fuel Partners as operator of the facility. Clean Fuel...
Opposition To Defunding Low NOx Vehicles
The 42 undersigned organizations, including over a dozen ABC members, are working to clean California’s air and meet greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and want to work collaboratively with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to preserve funding for low NOx...
Two RFS Power Coalition Members Testify at EPA Hearing: It’s Time for the Federal Government to Do Its Job and Process eRIN Applications and Pathways
Today, the Biomass Power Association and American Biogas Council delivered testimony at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearing in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Both witnesses called on the EPA to process applications that will allow biogas, biomass and...
Don’t let state regulators limit energy choice in California
As mayors of Diamond Bar, Rosemead and West Covina, we collectively represent more than 200,000 constituents in the San Gabriel Valley — constituents who work hard to provide for their families, and in some cases, their businesses. Like most Californians, one of the...
Natural Gas Truck Sales Are on the Rise
Retail sales of U.S. and Canadian Class 8 Natural Gas trucks have increased in 2019, reversing the declining trend from the year before, according to ACT Research’s Alternative Fuels Quarterly. As of May, year-to-date sales were up 43% and were also up 10% from...
Can Renewable Natural Gas Actually Compete With Diesel?
For truck fleets looking to cut fuel expenses and reliance on diesel — and to meet increasingly stringent emissions standards — renewable natural gas is becoming a hot commodity. There’s also the perk that comes from California’s low carbon fuel standard and the...
Capstone Announces the 4-Year Results of its Extensive Parts Remanufacturing Program, Resulting in a Cumulative $15 Million Savings in Aftermarket Costs
ABC member Capstone Turbine Corporation, the world’s leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced today the results from four years of its Extensive Parts Remanufacturing (EPR) program, implemented back in 2015, to reduce material...
Impressive Eighth Place Finish for Colton Herta at Mid-Ohio
The #88 Capstone Turbine Honda team had its fifth top-ten finish this weekend in the Honda 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Colton Herta qualified for the 203.22-mile race in seventh position and ran in the top-ten for the majority of the 90-lap competition. The...