Biomass
Canon Products To Feature Bio-Based Plastic
Canon U.S.A. Inc. and Toray Industries Inc., announced they have developed a bio-based plastic, dubbed “Ecodear,” that achieves a high level of flame retardance. The new bio-based plastic, which includes ...
Xcel Energy Plans Biomass Plant in Midwest
Xcel Energy announced it will submit an application to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to install technology that will enable all three operating units at its Bay Front Power Plant ...
Sustainable Power Corp. Turns Trash Into Biofuel
Sustainable Power Corp. announced that it has successfully tested turning Municipal Solid Waste into biofuel using the company's reactors. "By utilizing Municipal Solid Waste in our reactors, we have substantially increased potential revenue because municipalities ...
Google, GHGS Co-developing GHG Reduction Projects
On the heels of the announcement that GE and Google have teamed up to lobby in Washington D.C. for renewable energy and to work on energy technologies comes the news ...
Kraft Cuts Natural Gas Purchases With Waste-To-Energy Projects
Kraft waste-to-energy projects have resulted in cutting natural gas purchases at manufacturing facilities in Lowville and Campbell, New York. "This is a time of opportunity for us," said Steve Yucknut, Kraft's Vice President, ...
UK Farmers Try Special Diet To Reduce GHG Emissions From Cows
In a move to be more environmentally friendly, some UK farmers have put their cows on a special diet in order to reduce GHG emissions. According to “Green and White,” released by ...
Biomass Power Rises: Texas Approves Biomass Plant Deal
The Austin City Council has approved a $2.3 billion, 20-year power purchase agreement between Austin Energy and Nacogdoche Power LLC, New York Times reports. When completed in 2012, the plant will generate ...
Neenah Paper To Use Biomass At Whiting Mill
Construction is underway at Neenah Paper's largest mill to build a biomass fuel system that will convert wood and fiber waste into steam energy, CSR Wire reports. As part of “The Neenah ...
Diageo To Run Distillery On Bioenergy
Diageo - which makes leading global brands including Johnnie Walker, Tanqueray and Smirnoff - plans to build a bioenergy facility at Scotland's largest distillery, Cameronbridge in Fife.Diageo has signed a formal partnership ...
Plant Powered by Chicken Manure
At Beijing Deqingyuan Chicken Farm Waste Utilization plant, three million chickens are doing their part to help their farm be sustainable-- they are powering and heating the farm via the 220 ...
Anheuser-Busch To Pour 5 Billion Green Beers In 2009
Anheuser-Busch announced it will brew about one in seven beers, or over 5 billion 12.oz servings, with alternative energy by 2009 as part of its goal to run its U.S. operations on ...
Green Bay Packers Launch Environmental Program
The Green Bay Packers recently announced "Packers Green Team," a new program focusing on the use of renewable resources and other sustainable practices at Lambeau Field. On game days, the field will be ...
Tesco Powers Distribution Center On Straw
Tesco will meet the electricity and heating needs of its Goole Distribution Center with a straw-powered Combined Heat and Power plant, which will generate 5 megawatts of electricity, or enough to run eight Tesco stores. Construction ...
Celestial Seasonings, Others Partner With Boulder On Biomass Study
Celestial Seasonings, ConocoPhillips, Alexander Dawson School, Cal-Wood Education Center, and Saint Malo Catholic Retreat Center are teaming up with Boulder County to research using wood material as a sustainable fuel source for ...
Kirkwood Invests In Renewable Energy Sources
Kirkwood Mountain Resort is partnering up with Mountain Utilities, its utility provider, to invest in renewable energy, Tahoe.com reports. The resort plans to install 20 wind turbines capable of generating and ...
Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery
An anaerobic digestion facility installed by Ecovation will process stillage from the Maker's Mark bourbon whiskey brewing facility to produce a methane and carbon dioxide biofuel to power the distillery's ...
Citi: Investors Tapping Alternative Energy, Infrastructure Firms
A growing international consensus to tackle climate change is going to mean a new emphasis from investors on alternative energy sources from traditional fossil fuels and the expansion and renewal of infrastructure, ...
WP&L Says It Will Offset Emissions From Proposed Coal Plant
Wisconsin Power & Light says it will offset the greenhouse gas emissions from a proposed c$777 million coal power plant in southwestern Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Environmentalists and state ...
FirmGreen BioFuel To Fuel Ohio Waste Fleet On The Cheap
A project of FirmGreen will clean raw landfill gas and produce compressed natural gas for use in fleet vehicles owned by the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO) and other ...
UNH To Get 85% Of Energy From Landfill Methane
Tom Kelly, Chief Sustainability Officer at the University of New Hampshire, says that a landfill methane project will provide 85 percent of the UNH's energy needs and cut its greenhouse gas emissions 57 percent below ...
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