Kings County, CA: Public Meeting About Dairy Biogas Project, March 19
*Members of the public who reside in the northeast area of Kings County, and anyone with an interest in agriculture and sustainable energy are invited to attend. Dairy technology is advancing in the 21st century with the development of innovative wastewater treatment...
SDG&E and SoCalGas want to offer renewable natural gas to customers
Would you be willing to pay a few bucks more each month on your utility bill for natural gas that came from dairies, landfills and treatment facilities instead of conventional fossil fuel extraction methods? That’s what San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern...
‘We View Manure as an Opportunity’: Companies Partner to Turn Hog Waste into Energy
While it may sound like a "stinky" proposition, some of the world's biggest names in hogs and energy, say it's far from that. In fact, to Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy, converting hog manure to natural gas for powering homes and businesses has a sweet smell of...
Envisioning A Future Where Garbage Trucks Run On Garbage
Almost 1.5 trillion pounds of trash enter our nation’s landfills. Every. Day. When that garbage decomposes there is a build-up of methane, essentially potent greenhouse gases. Operators usually burn or ‘flare’ this gas before it enters the atmosphere. But now there is...
Moving Manure- Generating clean water from cow waste using nanofiltration & reverse osmosis
Ask dairy farmers what one of their most costly issues is and they will say managing their manure. Ask them what one of their greatest worries is—other than milk prices—and they will say cost-effectively managing manure in a sustainable and agronomic manner. These...
Studies indicate biochar in feed diets reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses from cattle
The University of Nebraska has conducted studies to evaluate the effects of biochar on digestibility and methane production in growing and finishing diets for cattle, Beef Feedlot Nutrition Specialist Galen Erickson told attendees at the 2019 Beef Feedlot Roundtable...
NEW ABC Digester Operator Training: Hog Country, NC, April 23-25
On April 23-25, join us in North Carolina's hog country for ABC's Digester Operator Training. This limited seating intensive class is designed for digester operators, operations managers and owners although all are welcome. Each day includes both classroom training...
A Walk-through of Connecticut’s Only Anaerobic Digestion Facility
Every year, more than 36 million tons of food goes to waste in the U.S., yet only a fraction of it is recycled. Southington, Conn.-based Quantum Biopower takes in organic waste produced by area and surrounding state municipalities, hotels, restaurants, arenas,...
Introducing the RFS Power Coalition
Biomass Power Association has teamed up with the Energy Recovery Council and the American Biogas Council to create the visibility needed to convince the EPA to activate the eRIN program this year. A quick lesson for those who are new to the eRIN program—when Congress...