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Renewables Briefing: SunPower, CEI, Sound Solar, Matinee, CHP in Cambridge, Perdue and Fibrowatt

January 4, 2012 by Leon Walker

Matinee Energy Inc. has broken ground on a 120MW solar power plant planned for Benson, Ariz. WEIS GmbH Consortium from Germany supplied project partners for elements of construction, solar components and financing. Agriculture firm Perdue AgriBusiness and animal waste utility developer Fibrowatt LLC have proposed building a 10 MW biomass ... Read more »

Chicken-Manure Biodigester to Power Md. Prison, Wisconsin at Work on $255m Biomass Plant

December 23, 2011December 22, 2011 by Leon Walker

Maryland’s state Board of Public Works has approved a biomass project at an Eastern Shore prison. The project gives Virginia company EcoCorp a 30-year lease of a 4.2-acre site at the Eastern Correctional Institute at an annual rent of $100, writes the Baltimore Sun. EcoCorp will build anaerobic digester that ... Read more »

Md. Seeks to Buy Power from Chicken Manure

October 18, 2011October 18, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Maryland is seeking proposals for power systems that generate electricity from animal waste, such as poultry litter or livestock manure. To be eligible, plants must have a capacity of up 10 MW, connect directly to the regional electricity grid, and be able to start supplying electricity to the state by ... Read more »

Bush Brothers, Dairyland Partner on Wastewater Energy Plant

September 26, 2011September 26, 2011 by Leon Walker

Dairyland Power Partners plans to to buy electricity created by an anaerobic wastewater system at a Bush Brothers & Co. plant in Augusta, Wis. The digester plant processes biogas produced in a covered lagoon to power a 635 kW generator. It should produce enough renewable energy to power nearly 500 ... Read more »

GE Energy Signs $3bn in Contracts

September 21, 2011September 21, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

GE Energy has announced more than $3 billion in new customer agreements across its business, including waste-heat recovery, wind turbines, water treatment and a manufacturing efficiency contract with Anheuser-Busch InBev. GE signed a new partnership with global brewer AB InBev, the first such agreement for GE Energy in the food ... Read more »

Biomass-Powered Data Centers: Next Step for Green IT?

July 28, 2011 by Jack Pouchet

Over the past several years, those of us in the data center industry have seen dramatic strides in Green IT, primarily focused on improving energy efficiency. It is now much more common to see data centers designed to meet the LEED standards of the U.S. Green Building Association (USGC). In ... Read more »

Framing the Food Sustainability Challenge

June 14, 2011August 29, 2011 by Kumar Venkat

Here is a mind-boggling estimate from Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund: We will need to produce 2.5 times as much food in the next 90 years as we have in all of the last 8,000 years combined. Or, more than a factor of three increase in annual production ... Read more »

Environmental Enforcement: Texas Egg Company to Pay Largest Ever EPA Factory Farm Penalty

May 20, 2011 by Leon Walker

Texas agricultural corporation Mahard Egg Farm Inc. is to pay a $1.9 million civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Water Act at its egg production facilities in Texas and Oklahoma, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Justice Department have announced. Along with the penalty, which ... Read more »

Beef Ranchers ‘Can Significantly Reduce Climate Impacts’

February 3, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Carbon sequestration offers the best hope for mitigating the climate impacts of raising beef cattle, according to a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The report (pdf) said that U.S. crop and grazing land could sequester about 15 percent of global warming emissions from the nation’s agriculture each year. ... Read more »

Kaiser Permanente to Install 4 MW of Bloom Boxes

January 20, 2011January 20, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Health insurance company Kaiser Permanente plans to install “Bloom boxes” in seven of its California facilities this year. Kaiser Permanente will receive 20 of Bloom Energy 200 kW solid oxide fuel-cell servers, for a total of 4 MW. The fuel cells run on natural gas, and can also run on ... Read more »

University’s $3.5M Dry Bio-digester is First in Nation

January 5, 2011 by Paul Nastu

The University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, which ranked 35th on Sierra Magazine’s “Cool Schools” for its green energy initiative, is just months from completing the first US installation of a dry anaerobic bio-digester, scheduled to begin operations in April 2011, according to the university’s website. The $3.5 million bio-digester will use food ... Read more »

How the Food Safety Bill May Affect the Nature of Organic Farming

January 3, 2011October 18, 2016 by Emily McClendon

America has never been known for our highly refined culinary tastes. The food powerhouses of the world tend to sneer slightly when considering the average American’s appreciation of fine food, influenced as it is by a culture that rejects savoring in favor of speed. However, hope has dawned on the ... Read more »

Renewables Briefing: SunPower, CEI, Sound Solar, Matinee, CHP in Cambridge, Perdue and Fibrowatt

Chicken-Manure Biodigester to Power Md. Prison, Wisconsin at Work on $255m Biomass Plant

Md. Seeks to Buy Power from Chicken Manure

Bush Brothers, Dairyland Partner on Wastewater Energy Plant

GE Energy Signs $3bn in Contracts

Biomass-Powered Data Centers: Next Step for Green IT?

Framing the Food Sustainability Challenge

Environmental Enforcement: Texas Egg Company to Pay Largest Ever EPA Factory Farm Penalty

Beef Ranchers ‘Can Significantly Reduce Climate Impacts’

Kaiser Permanente to Install 4 MW of Bloom Boxes

University’s $3.5M Dry Bio-digester is First in Nation

How the Food Safety Bill May Affect the Nature of Organic Farming

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