DTE Energy accelerates carbon reduction goal a full decade, will reduce emissions 80 percent by 2040
DTE Energy, an ABC member, announced a bold new goal to reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2040 – accelerating by a full decade the carbon reduction commitment it made to Michigan residents and businesses just two years ago. In the company's Integrated Resource...
A Global Biogas Revolution Is Taking Place
While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. From New York to Nairobi, from rural communities in China to the heart of the European Union, biogas and anaerobic digestion (AD) solutions are becoming...
ABC member, Roeslein Alternative Energy Acquires AERG
April 2, 2019 As of April 1, 2019, Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) has acquired Alternate Energy Resources Group (AERG), an environmental engineering and construction firm, located in Texas. The two companies have been collaborating for several years on multiple...
Green project bond of the year: Equilibrium
The Industrial Development Authority of the County of Pinal's $61.4 million green bond was hailed as the first renewable natural gas project financing in the US capital markets.It allowed the project developer to take advantage of the ability to borrow with bonds...
Manure is big business at Oregon’s largest dairy with conversion to natural gas; Partners with ABC member, Equilibrium Capitol Group
Boardman’s Threemile Canyon Farms is partnering with a Portland investment fund in a $55 million project to convert methane from the waste produced by its 70,000 cows into natural gas, which will be sold to power buses and garbage trucks in Southern California....
Los Angeles to Combine Food Waste, Biosolids for Massive Energy Project
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD) is tapping into existing infrastructure at its wastewater treatment plant to be able to process food waste and convert it to renewable power or transportation fuel. Organics will be processed at its Puente Hills...
New Policy Brief on West Coast Low Carbon Transportation Fuel Programs
The transportation system on the Pacific Coast accounts for at least 40% of regional greenhouse gas emissions. Using cleaner fuels in transportation is an important strategy to meet the region’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80% over the next 30 years....
Turning table scraps into energy
The recent approval by the trustees of Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) for a food scraps-to-energy plant, to be built in Yaphank, links to an original purpose of LIPA — to develop safe, alternative means of power. The LIPA trustees voted unanimously on March 20 for...
After mega-dairy was shut down, Oregon lawmakers consider a moratorium on new operations
Lost Valley was shut down by the state earlier this year after repeated violations of environmental rules, and in the aftermath of its sale, farm and environmental advocates are urging passage of a bill that would issue a temporary moratorium on similar operations....