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Energy Switch, which airs on more than 90 percent of PBS stations, released an episode on Waste to Energy that features BAC Executive Director, Julia Levin. The nearly 30-minute episode highlights the many benefits of bioenergy and the ways to accelerate its deployment. WATCH: Energy Switch, Waste to Energy episode.
Read MoreMainspring Energy has signed an agreement with American Electric Power (AEP), one of the nation’s largest investor-owned utilities, to provide 1.6 gigawatts of linear generators to meet growing electricity demand from data centers. Under the agreement, Mainspring will deliver an initial 190 MW of linear generators in Indiana in 2027, with the broader agreement contracted…
Read MoreOPAL Fuels has announced both a major upgrade to its existing RNG (renewable natural gas) fueling station and plans for a second RNG fueling station in Tulare County, in the heart of California’s Central Valley. OPAL has completed the renovation and upgrade of its fueling station in Goshen, California, where it will dispense approximately 14 million…
Read MoreRedtail Renewables and Yolo County have executed an agreement to develope and operate a landfill gas to energy project at the Yolo County Central Landfill. The landmark public-private partnership will transform landfill gas – a potent greenhouse gas – into biomethane (also known as RNG). “By converting landfill gas — a significant source of greenhouse…
Read MoreCanadian Biomass Magazine has named Jordan Solomon, President and CEO of Ecostrat and Chairman of the BDO Zone Initiative, the biomass “Champion of the Year” for 2026 — recognition of Jordan’s nearly three decades spent solving the bioeconomy’s most stubborn barrier to growth: feedstock risk. The honour lands two years after Ecostrat itself was named…
Read MoreHow low can it go? Well, California Bioenergy’s new dairy biogas to hydrogen project is breaking carbon intensity records in all the best ways. CalBio is working with Bar20 Dairy Farm in Kerman, California to convert dairy manure to low carbon hydrogen for transportation fueling. The California Air Resources Board has released a draft analysis…
Read MoreIn early May, the Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, Wade Crowfoot, called on the heads of eight other state agencies to increase inter-agency collaboration on biomass utilization. Secretary Crowfoot sent a letter to the heads of the CPUC, CEC, Air Board, CalFire, Department of Conservation, Governor’s Office of Business Development and other agencies.…
Read MoreCalifornia Bioenergy LLC (CalBio) has announced that it will expand its use of Mainspring Energy’s linear generators to provide 5.3 megawatts of emissions free power. CalBio’s purchase of an additional eight linear generators will be deployed at its North Visalia and South Tulare cluster biogas upgrading sites. CalBio was the first dairy digester developer in…
Read MoreThe United States Forest Service (USFS), which has provided funding for several forest BioMAT projects, is featuring West Biofuels and one of its BioMAT projects on the USFS homepage. The USFS website underscores how important bioenergy is for forest health, protection against wildfires, air quality, energy reliability and rural economic development. USFS also underscores that…
Read MoreThe Sacramento Bee and multiple other newspapers across the state have printed BAC’s op-ed in support of the BioMAT program. The op-ed urges Governor Newsom to direct the CPUC to follow the law and the science by extending the BioMAT program. More than two dozen BioMAT projects are currently in development and those projects will…
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