Kroger will use an anaerobic conversion system from Feed Resource Recovery to convert waste food into energy to help power its Ralphs/Food 4 Less distribution center in Compton, Calif. The anaerobic conversion system will process more than 55,000 tons of organic food waste into renewable energy annually (300,000 pounds daily), providing power for the 650,000-sq-foot …Continue Reading
German-based Weltec Biopower and Finland-based Doranova are constructing a biogas plant in Jeppo, Finland, that will supply power to the grid. The plant will produce biomethane refined to natural gas quality, which is suitable for all consumption paths, including the growing network of Finnish natural gas stations. The plant is being designed with modular components, …Continue Reading
The Department of Energy awarded 88 grants to small businesses in 28 states to develop clean energy technologies with a strong potential for commercialization and job creation. These awards, totaling over $16 million in investments, will help small businesses with promising ideas that could improve manufacturing processes, boost the efficiency of buildings and generate electricity …Continue Reading
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The Department of Energy will provide technical expertise to five Alaska Native villages to help with clean energy installations and upgrades, energy planning and training over the next six to nine months. The Native Villages of Kongiganak, Koyukuk, Minto and Shishmaref and the Yakutat T’lingit Tribe will receive help to strengthen wind power infrastructure, develop …Continue Reading
An apartment block in Hamburg, Germany, that uses an algae covered exterior as a bioreactor has become fully operational. The Bio Intelligent Quotient building features over 2,000 sq ft of integrated photo-bioreactors made from green algae housed in transparent panels (pictured). The “passive-energy house” generates biomass and heat as renewable sources of energy from the algae. At …Continue Reading
Ongoing drought in Midwest America is driving up the price of ethanol and threatening the long term sustainability of the biofuels industry. Heavy water shortages across the “corn belt,” the major maize producing region of the United States, have damaged the supply of corn bushels, driving up the price of ethanol fuel. This is another …Continue Reading
A wastewater treatment plant in California run by Inland Empire Utilities is providing 60 percent of its power from a fuel cell that makes energy from the sewage that the plant produces. Regional Water Recycling Plant No. 1 is located about 40 miles east of Los Angeles and has been treating sewage since 1948, reports Slate. But …Continue Reading
An ArcelorMittal steel plant in South Africa cut R90 million ($9.7 million) from its energy bill through an efficiency improvement project. The project was the product of a energy management strategy that was launched in 2010, Dhesan Moodley, the general manager of the steel and mining giant’s Saldanha works (pictured) in South Africa’s Western Cape province, told ESI-Africa.com. Initially, …Continue Reading
The US Patent and Trademark Office granted a record 3,061 clean energy technology patents in 2012, a 30 percent increase over the previous year and led by Toyota, according to an index published by Cleantech Group. The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index, which provides a measure of inventive activity and evidence of the effectiveness of …Continue Reading
