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Small-scale biogas facility. (Richard Mayer, CC-BY-SA 3.0, tinyurl.com/RMBiogas)
George Harvey
The Times Union, a newspaper published in Albany, NY recently ran an opinion piece, “Other states consider biogas power to be renewable energy. Why doesn’t New York?” (tinyurl.com/BiogasInNY) The heading lays out the overall point of the article clearly. There is one important […]
October 19, 2016 is designated as National Bioenergy Day. This day is a celebration of bioenergy that highlights its environmental and economic benefits on the local, state and national levels. It’s sponsored by the Biomass Power Association, Biomass Magazine, the U.S. Industrial Pellet Association, the Biomass Thermal Energy Council, the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association, […]
WELTEC Builds another Plant with Heat Concept in France
Alliances generate benefits for all involved as in the case of the French heat alliance between an agricultural biogas plant and a psychiatric hospital. The “Méthavigne” project merits a second glance, especially because society and the environment also benefit from this union of a public […]
Award-winning ProMOS Bio Ensures Profitable Biogas Operation
On 3 June 2015, the biogas plant manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER received the “Biogas Innovation Award of the German Agriculture” in recognition of its ProMOS Bio management system. Using this software, operators of all biogas plants can easily collect, check and analyse their operating data. The award in the […]
Bioenergy: Biomass to Biofuels — the New Introductory Textbook
By Austin Robert Davis
Bioenergy: Biomass to Biofuelsis an innovative new textbook that provides insight into the potential and current advances and benefits of biofuel. Contributions include an extensive list of well-respected university extension programs, such as The University of Vermont Research Extension1, as well […]
October 22
The second annual National Bioenergy Day is scheduled for October 22, 2014. In recognition of National Bioenergy Day, the New Hampshire Wood Energy Council is sponsoring six tours of modern wood heating sites across New Hampshire throughout the week of October 20. Tours are located within one hour’s drive to anyone in the […]
The New RFS Pathway: Revenue Opportunities for EVs & Utilities September 16, 2014 – September 16, 2014 Webinar, Remote Location, https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/214803072
VEIC is teaming up with the Union of Concerned Scientists, theInternational Council on Clean Transportation, and Sutherland to discuss the new Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) pathway for biogas generated electricity used in transportation on […]
Homegrown American Fuels Support 598 Jobs, $25.0 Million in Wages
WASHINGTON, DC — The Fuels America coalition today released an economic impact study by John Dunham & Associates showing the far-reaching benefits of renewable fuels for Vermont workers and businesses.
Renewable fuels now represent nearly 10% of America’s fuel […]
The Vermont Bioenergy Initiative offers local perspective in response to recent ethanol news and shares new statewide bioenergy website resource
Montpelier, VT — A report published this week in Nature Climate Change indicated that ethanol made from corn residue can reduce soil carbon and increase CO2 emissions, indicating the harvested leftovers from corn are “worse […]
VTC’s Anaerobic Digester. Photo courtesy of VTC.
By George Harvey
Can you imagine anything more exciting than an anaerobic digester, filled with waste food scraps from a school cafeteria, agricultural spoilage, chopped hay, and lots and lots of manure, pumping out methane (aka swamp gas)? If you can answer “yes” to this question, […]
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