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• BPA Chairman Addresses Pacific West Biomass Conference

  Created: Thursday, 14 January 2010 20:07 Author: Administrator

  In December 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $600 million in Section 932 grants intended to support total investments in biorefinery projects of $1.3 billion. Seven federal grants and loan guarantees, amounting to $323 million and suppor...

• Biorefineries, Yes, but not in California

  Created: Saturday, 12 December 2009 14:20 Author: Administrator

  In December 2009, the Department of Energy announced $600 million in Section 932 grants intended to support total investments in biorefinery projects of almost $1.3 billion.  Seven federal grants and loan guarantees totaling $323 million (supporting...

• Connecting the Dots by Kay Martin

  Created: Saturday, 15 August 2009 15:30 Author: Administrator

  Meteorologists and smart investors share a common passion. They track the potential of critical elements to periodically converge and spawn dramatic events. This is the stuff of perfect storms, political movements, scientific breakthroughs, and industri...

• BPA - Active Advocate for Energy Recovery from Organic Wastes

  Created: Saturday, 01 August 2009 18:37 Author: Administrator

  The BioEnergy Producers Association is an active advocate for balanced regulatory policies as between the export to Asia of California's recyclable materials and the use of organic wastes for the production of renewable energy here at home.  For exampl...

• California's BioEnergy Action Plan

  Created: Saturday, 01 August 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator

  Prepared for the Governor's Bioenergy Interagency Working Group, this action plan states: "Biomass, i.e., biologically-derived renewable materials that can be used to produce heat, electric power, transportation fuels, and other value-added products and c...

• "California's Renewable-Energy Disconnect," By Kay Martin, MSW Management

  Created: Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:32 Author: Administrator

  Technologies that can safely and efficiently produce alternative energy from biomass-waste feedstocks are now commercially available. Given the state's vanguard energy initiatives, the runaway cost of petroleum, increased global-warming concerns, and a wi...

• California's Alternate Fuels Plan

  Created: Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator

  This study released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Energy Commission establishes market penetration goals for alternative fuels of 9% by 2012, 11% by 2017 and 26% by 2022. It states: "Contained in the Bioenergy Action Plan for Ca...

• RENEW LA Master Plan Focuses on Conversion Technologies

  Created: Wednesday, 01 July 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator

  Under the leadership of Councilman Greig Smith, the City of Los Angeles has adopted, and is pursuing, a plan to reduce landfill dependence, while maximizing resource recovery, reuse and recycling.  Conversion technologies figure prominently in the plan b...

• Los Angeles County CT Environmental Fact Sheet

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2009 00:00 Author: Administrator

  CLICK HERE to view an Environmental Fact Sheet released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works in April 2009. The report summarizes publicly available data demonstrating that conversion technologies are a superior option to traditional sol...

• The Role of Renewable Energy in Waste Diversion

  Created: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 16:00 Author: Administrator

  Today, if a municipality places green waste in a landfill for use as alternate daily cover, this is credited toward its mandate for 50% diversion.  If the same green waste were used as a feedstock for the production of advanced biofuels or green power,...