101 For Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Biogas project developers and financiers are finding strong offtake opportunities selling their gas into the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) market. This trend is driving a wave of new facility construction to make renewable natural gas (RNG). Biogas...
South Side Landfill planning $25 million methane-conversion project
A landfill on the southwest side of Indianapolis could soon get a $25 million upgrade to capture methane gas and turn it into renewable natural gas for transportation fleets, as a substitute for diesel fuel. South Side Landfill Inc. is teaming up with Kinetrex Energy...
Welcome New Member: Siemens (Analytical Products & Solutions)
Siemens is a leading provider of process analyzers and process analysis systems. We offer customers the best possible solutions for their applications based on innovative analysis, technologies, customized system engineering, sound knowledge of their applications and...
LIPA to weigh contract with facility to convert food waste to energy
LIPA trustees will vote Wednesday on a power contract for a planned facility that’s expected to be the region’s first to convert commercial food scraps into biogas to fuel a small power plant and vehicles. The $90 million plant by ABC member American Organic Energy...
Clean Energy Fuels Goes All In on Renewable Natural Gas
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. announced it would convert all its natural gas fuel to its renewable product, Redeem, by 2025 as it positions itself to offer the cleanest available fuel alternative to diesel through a broad distribution network. The plan comes as regulatory...
Oregon ‘Mega-Dairy’ Sold for $66.7 Million, Auctions off 8,000 Cows
What was once the second largest dairy in the state of Oregon has officially been sold. Lost Valley Farm, originally owned by Greg te Velde, has been purchased by the lone bidder, Canyon Farm LLC, for a hefty price tag of $66.7 million. Previously a 13,000-cow...
EPA grants more RFS waivers, undercuts add’l demand for biofuels
U.S. EPA retroactively granted five new small refinery exemptions for 2017, releasing them from their obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard. The five new small refinery exemptions reduced the 2017 renewable volume obligation (RVO) for biomass-based diesel by...
Public can weigh in on bills to tighten dairy regulation in Oregon
Oregon lawmakers are considering tightening regulations for large dairies and other confined animal feeding operations, following the regulatory disaster at Lost Valley Farm. The eastern Oregon dairy, at one time the state’s second-largest, was shut down and sold last...
Rethinking power: pipes versus wires
Underlying the policy debate on energy is a fault line – a chasm between two basically different approaches. Not the usual one between big centralized and small decentralized energy, although that is part of it. This goes deeper. It concerns the basic, often unspoken,...