Wisconsin’s dairy crisis in 6 charts
Wisconsin lost nearly 700 dairy farms last year, a rate of almost two a day. What is behind this rapid loss of farms in America's Dairyland? More >>
This Sustainable Technology Could Save America’s Dairy Farms
Dairy farms today face sharp criticism for their contribution to air and water pollution—criticism that’s punctuated by hits to the dairy industry like the rising popularity of plant-based milk alternativesand a decreasing dairy export market. Sustainable technologies...
Generate Capital: Hiring Now
Founded by some of the renewable energy industry’s leading visionaries, Generate Capital, Inc. is a specialty finance company that builds, owns, operates, and finances infrastructure assets involving the world’s critical resources: energy, water, agriculture and basic...
NEW FACILITY IN UTICA HELPING TO TURN FOOD SCRAPS INTO ENERGY
The Oneida-Her Mkimer Solid Waste Authority has cut the ribbon on a new anaerobic digester. The new Food2Energy facility will provide for the recovery of food scraps in order to divert waste from the regional landfill and turn it into energy. The $3.4 million facility...
Pathways to Sustainability 2019
In December 2018 the City and County of Honolulu in partnership with Hawaii Gas commenced operations at an innovative renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the City’s Honouliuli Wastewater Treatment Plant. The RNG Facility converts sewage waste-derived biogas into...
NMPF Celebrate Lifting of Tariffs Against U.S. Dairy; Hard Work Remains on Trade
The National Milk Producers Federation today celebrated Mexico’s lifting of retaliatory tariffs against U.S. cheese exports. Still, hard work remains for lawmakers and officials to further improve the trade outlook for dairy farmers, with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada...
Capstone Turbine wins two US patents for multi-fuel applications
Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ:CPST) announced Monday that the US Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the maker of microturbine-energy systems two new patents. Green Energy’s initial biogas projects will be developed in six US locations in Idaho,...
Capstone Signs National Account Agreement with GESS Inc. and Receives a 9.6 MW Initial Order for Multiple U.S. Renewable Natural Gas Projects
ABC member, Capstone Turbine Corporation, the world’s leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, today announced that it signed a long-term national account agreement with Green Energy Sustainable Solutions, Inc. (GESS). As part of this...
California funds biofuel, renewable gas demonstration projects
What if your biogas could contain more methane and less CO2? It would be even greener and have more energy in it. In ABC Operator Training students learn that in the middle of the 4 steps of anaerobic digestion hydrogen is created and then consumed to make the methane...