Biomass

Dean Foods Methane Project To Generate Power

Dean Foods says that by early 2009 it will operate an anaerobic digester to capture waste from the farm's 4,700 dairy cows at its Big Sky Dairy in Idaho and convert ...

May 28, 2008

Rackspace Uses Biomass To Run Data Center

IT hosting company Rackspace has announced it has completed the conversion of a former warehouse into its new data center that will receive its power from renewable energy sources from the ...

May 21, 2008

BMW Greens Data Centers

BMW is almost done with a three-year effort to green its data centers and desktop systems, ComputerWeekly reports. The company is considering renewable energy sources for use in their data centers, and, in its data ...

May 19, 2008

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Members of Waco-based Mars Snackfood and representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unwrapped the candy company's first landfill gas project that will cut the company's energy costs and reduce the ...

May 15, 2008

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

When the construction of Hamilton, Ohio-based SMART Papers' $30 million high-efficiency co-generation power plant is complete in the spring of 2009, the company will produce all of its own power and begin ...

May 14, 2008

Waste Management To Run California Fleet On Landfill Gas

As part of a joint venture, The Linde Group and Houston-based Waste Management have announced they will build the world's largest plant for the conversion of landfill gas into biogas, located at ...

May 1, 2008

Sustainability Is Watchword for Biomass Industry

Sustainability was on the minds of many of today's speakers at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, an annual conference attracting more than 1,200 scientists, business leaders, and government officials that began in ...

April 28, 2008

Intel Tops EPA’s List of Green Power Purchasers

Intel announced it will purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates, making it the single-largest corporate purchaser of green power in the U.S., according to ...

January 28, 2008

EU Sets Emissions Targets

The European Commission set new emissions targets and called on EU members to increase their use of renewable energy while also unveiling plans to make industry pay for the right ...

January 24, 2008

Panda Turns Manure Into Energy

In Texas, Panda Ethanol is nearing completion of the first-ever manure fired ethanol plant in the world, Reuters reports. The world's first manure fired ethanol plant is expected to go online in the next two ...

January 22, 2008

Georgia Power Gets Greener

Georgia Power has signed its fifth deal with a renewable power producer, reports the Atlanta Business Chronicle. The 20 year deal is with Yellow Pine Energy Company which has a wood biomass-fired facility near ...

January 16, 2008

Oregon Turns Dairy Waste Into Renewable Energy

A new initiative from Energy Trust of Oregon could enable the state's 320 dairy farms to become generators of renewable power for local utilities, according to this press release. Dairy farms that install anaerobic ...

January 14, 2008

67% Of Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Power

Sixty-seven percent of consumers polled across six countries - Australia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States - would be more willing to pay for eco-friendly energy, according to ...

December 13, 2007

Wal-Mart Looks At Investing In Power Plants To Get Cheap Green Energy

Wal-Mart has faced criticism at the Bali conference for only installing solar panels on 22 of its supercenters, representing only one percent of its total supercenters in the U.S., according to Climate Climate Change's ...

December 12, 2007

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and without requiring big changes ...

November 30, 2007

Juan Enriquez: Why Can’t We Grow New Energy?

Juan Enriquez offers a glimpse of some ground-breaking research to explore the potential of bioenergy. Our current energy sources -- coal, oil, gas -- are ultimately derived from ancient plants -- they're "concentrated sunlight." ...

November 20, 2007

Direct Marketer’s Recycle Bins Save $500,000 Per Year

Direct mail and marketing firm PEP-Direct says it will save approximately $500,000 a year working with International Paper Products Corp. to reduce the amount of waste it sends to landfills and reduce the ...

November 20, 2007

Frito-Lay Plans Net-Zero Plant

Frito-Lay wants its Casa Grande plant to become a net zero facility, The New York Times reports. The plan has the backing of top-level executives at PepsiCo, the parent company of Frito-Lay. Over the ...

November 18, 2007

Dow Powers Manufacturing Facility With Landfill Gas

The Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority located in Dalton, Georgia and Dow Chemical are constructing a landfill gas collection system to power a Dow facility, Solid Waste Magazine reports. “We realized we could derive a benefit ...

November 9, 2007

Kimberly-Clark Pumps Landfill Methane To Manufacturing Facility

Kimberly-Clark will use methane gas from a landfill to generate steam for a Jackson, South Carolina manufacturing facility, AP reports. The methane gas will be released by waste decomposition at the Three Rivers Solid Waste ...

October 25, 2007

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