News

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Reimagine Phoenix Call for Innovators (CFI)

The City of Phoenix is asking for input from innovators with manufacturing processes and technologies that create new products or energy from items found in the trash. CFI responses will be used to craft future economic development opportunities for companies interested in growing in Phoenix.  This is your chance to help re-shape how the city manages its trash.  Find the CFI at: www.phoenix.gov/solicitations/277

Transforming Trash into Resources Pilot Program Request for Proposals (RFP)

Phoenix is also seeking innovators to repurpose/recycle the following items: carpeting and carpet foam, furniture, latex paint, mattresses, non-rechargeable batteries, palm fronds, and residential food waste. The city is looking to contract with businesses and non-profits for creative alternatives that divert these items from the landfill. Find the RFP at: www.phoenix.gov/solicitations/280

EVENTS

SWANAPalooza

March 16 - 19, 2015

New Orleans, LA

For more information regarding this meeting, please visit the website:

https://swana.org/Events.aspx

Alternative Technology Advisory Subcommittee (ATAS)
March 26, 2015
Alhambra, CA

For more information regarding this meeting, please visit the website:
http://dpw.lacounty.gov/epd/tf/meetings.cfm

Green California Summit

April 7-8, 2015

Sacramento, CA

For more information regarding this meeting, please visit the website:

http://www.green-technology.org/gcsummit/

BioCycle West Coast Conference 2015
April 13 - 16, 2015
Portland, Oregon
For more information on this event, please visit the website:
http://www.biocycle.net/

Waste Expo
June 1 - 4, 2015
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information on this event, please visit the website:
http://www.wasteexpo.com

NEWS

64 Tons Per Day Gasification Plant Planned in Lebanon, TN

Nashville, Tennessee based waste to energy firm, PHG Energy, and the City of Lebanon, Tennessee, have signed a contract to develop a downdraft gasification plant that will cleanly convert up to 64 tons (58 tonnes) per day of blended waste wood, scrap tyres and sewer sludge. According to the company, the facility will provide an environmentally sustainable method of waste disposal while producing green power, generating up to 300 kW of electricity in the process. To read more, click here.

Gasification Plant Being Considered in Florida Keys

Yard waste from Monroe County, Florida will head west to a Lake Okeechobee town as a gasification plant is built in South Miami-Dade. Monroe County commissioners voted last week to sign a 30-month interim agreement with Energy 3, a Maryland firm pursuing efforts to build the new facility to convert Florida Keys yard waste into a synthetic fuel used by power plants. To read more, click here.

Dairy Farm AD Facility Operational in Tulare, CA

A first-of-its-kind anaerobic digester in California captures methane from agricultural waste and turns it into clean biogas to power an ethanol facility in Tulare County. The Calgren Ethanol Biodigester, which is now online, will power the production of tens of millions of gallons of ethanol, all consumed in California's Central Valley. To read more, click here.

0.8 MW AD facility operational in Lowell, MI

If the lights seem brighter in Lowell this week, it might have something to do with FOG, or maybe salad dressing. The Lowell Energy Anaerobic Digester - LEAD LLC - is now or will soon begin generating up to 800 kilowatts of power that will be purchased by the city-owned utility, Lowell Light & Power, and supplied to its 2,600 electricity customers. To read more, click here.

$8 Million Dollar Anearobic Digestion Facility at Dairy Farm in Coopersville, MI

A large dairy farm is going to start producing electricity rather than smells from the manure produced by its 3,000-plus dairy cows, according to Sustainable Partners LLC (Spart), a company that operates a similar power plant in Lowell. Spart announced it has been selected to build a 1.4 megawatt anaerobic digester at Beaver Creek Farm. Electricity generated by the $8 million-plus digester will be used by the farm and sold to Consumers Energy. To read more, click here.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Reimagine Phoenix Call for Innovators (CFI)

The City of Phoenix is asking for input from innovators with manufacturing processes and technologies that create new products or energy from items found in the trash. CFI responses will be used to craft future economic development opportunities for companies interested in growing in Phoenix.  This is your chance to help re-shape how the city manages its trash.  Find the CFI at: www.phoenix.gov/solicitations/277

Transforming Trash into Resources Pilot Program Request for Proposals (RFP)

Phoenix is also seeking innovators to repurpose/recycle the following items: carpeting and carpet foam, furniture, latex paint, mattresses, non-rechargeable batteries, palm fronds, and residential food waste. The city is looking to contract with businesses and non-profits for creative alternatives that divert these items from the landfill. Find the RFP at: www.phoenix.gov/solicitations/280

EVENTS

SWANAPalooza

March 16 - 19, 2015

New Orleans, LA

For more information regarding this meeting, please visit the website:

https://swana.org/Events.aspx

Alternative Technology Advisory Subcommittee (ATAS)
March 26, 2015
Alhambra, CA

For more information regarding this meeting, please visit the website:
http://dpw.lacounty.gov/epd/tf/meetings.cfm

Green California Summit

April 7-8, 2015

Sacramento, CA

For more information regarding this meeting, please visit the website:

http://www.green-technology.org/gcsummit/

BioCycle West Coast Conference 2015
April 13 - 16, 2015
Portland, Oregon
For more information on this event, please visit the website:
http://www.biocycle.net/

Waste Expo
June 1 - 4, 2015
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information on this event, please visit the website:
http://www.wasteexpo.com

NEWS

64 Tons Per Day Gasification Plant Planned in Lebanon, TN

Nashville, Tennessee based waste to energy firm, PHG Energy, and the City of Lebanon, Tennessee, have signed a contract to develop a downdraft gasification plant that will cleanly convert up to 64 tons (58 tonnes) per day of blended waste wood, scrap tyres and sewer sludge. According to the company, the facility will provide an environmentally sustainable method of waste disposal while producing green power, generating up to 300 kW of electricity in the process. To read more, click here.

Gasification Plant Being Considered in Florida Keys

Yard waste from Monroe County, Florida will head west to a Lake Okeechobee town as a gasification plant is built in South Miami-Dade. Monroe County commissioners voted last week to sign a 30-month interim agreement with Energy 3, a Maryland firm pursuing efforts to build the new facility to convert Florida Keys yard waste into a synthetic fuel used by power plants. To read more, click here.

Dairy Farm AD Facility Operational in Tulare, CA

A first-of-its-kind anaerobic digester in California captures methane from agricultural waste and turns it into clean biogas to power an ethanol facility in Tulare County. The Calgren Ethanol Biodigester, which is now online, will power the production of tens of millions of gallons of ethanol, all consumed in California's Central Valley. To read more, click here.

0.8 MW AD facility operational in Lowell, MI

If the lights seem brighter in Lowell this week, it might have something to do with FOG, or maybe salad dressing. The Lowell Energy Anaerobic Digester - LEAD LLC - is now or will soon begin generating up to 800 kilowatts of power that will be purchased by the city-owned utility, Lowell Light & Power, and supplied to its 2,600 electricity customers. To read more, click here.

$8 Million Dollar Anearobic Digestion Facility at Dairy Farm in Coopersville, MI

A large dairy farm is going to start producing electricity rather than smells from the manure produced by its 3,000-plus dairy cows, according to Sustainable Partners LLC (Spart), a company that operates a similar power plant in Lowell. Spart announced it has been selected to build a 1.4 megawatt anaerobic digester at Beaver Creek Farm. Electricity generated by the $8 million-plus digester will be used by the farm and sold to Consumers Energy. To read more, click here.