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BIOENERGY
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South
Dakota Ranchers' Co-op Hopes
to Capture Value from Biogas and Feed
Phil Lusk of PRIME Technologies believes he’s found an environmentally friendly way
to produce ethanol, feed cattle and keep South Dakota ranchers in business at the same
time.
Working with the newly formed Dakota Value
Capture Cooperative, Lusk says PRIME Technologies will build a "closed loop"
facility in Sully County, South Dakota, consisting of an ethanol plant capable of
producing 20 million gallons of ethanol annually and a climate-controlled feedlot capable
of finishing 65,000 head of cattle a year.
Lusk described his project at the
Harvesting Clean Energy conference Oct. 9-11 in Great Falls.
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Hog Farm Methane Plant Proposed in Conrad
Fed Gazette, a publication of the Federal Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, reports in
its July 2001 issue about a proposed hog farm and methane plant in Conrad, Montana. In an
article titled, "Cleaning up: Possible solutions for lessening the impact of animal
waste—scientific, technological and economic—are discussed," FedGazette
reports: "An even larger deal is being discussed in north central Montana, where
local developers are planning a $115 million hog-processing plant near Conrad. In a
seemingly Rube Goldberg complex of technologies, the facility would include two
sites.
"The first would slaughter pigs, digest their waste into methane and fertilizer, grow
crops and generate electricity. The second would vaporize landfill, thereby creating
nitrogen for cooling the slaughtered pigs and hydrogen for powering fuel cells. The cells
would create electricity, fed onto Montana's thirsty power grid along with electricity
generated from ethanol distilled on-site from local corn.
"Got that? Think it’ll work? Some
area residents are skeptical, but the promise of 500 jobs has local and state officials
interested. The Montana Growth through Agriculture Council issued a $50,000 grant to
develop a business plan."
Several
Montana-specific papers on biomass resources are available online
from the Regional
Biomass Energy Program:
Other links:
BIOENERGY
PUBLICATIONS
Biofuels for Your
State
Biofuels
News
AgSTAR
Program
The AgStar Library, operated by the Environmental Protection
Agency, contains an array of information related to manure
management systems. The Library is organized by subject matter as
per the menu below. All products and documents in the library are
downloadable. Articles and news are added as they become
available. The Library also welcomes submissions from others who
might come across information of interest.
http://www.epa.gov/agstar/library/index.html
American
Bioenergy Association
The American Bioenergy Association is a leading voice in the United States
for the bioenergy industry. "We work to build support throughout the
federal government for the biomass industry through tax incentives,
increased biomass research and development budgets, regulations and other
policy initiatives," the ABA says on its website.
http://www.biomass.org/
Bioenergy
Information Network
The Bioenergy Information Network is a gateway to information
about fast growing trees, grasses, and residues for fuels and
power.
http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/
Biomass
Energy Research Association
The Biomass Energy Research Association is a leader in the national effort
to achieve:
- National energy security
- Independence from foreign oil
imports
- Clean air standards
- Compliance with global climate
change initiatives
- Partnerships among industry,
universities and non-profit research organizations, government agencies
and national laboratories
- International research alliances
- Provision of objective
state-of-the-art information to government agencies, legislators and
decisionmakers.
http://www.bera1.org/
Biomass
Feedstock Availability in the United States:
1999 State Level Analysis
Interest in using biomass feedstocks to produce power, liquid fuels, and
chemicals in the United States is increasing. Central to determining the
potential for these industries to develop is an understanding of the
location, quantities, and prices of biomass resources. View a paper describing the
methodology used to estimate biomass
quantities and prices for each state in the continental United States.
http://bioenergy.ornl.gov/resourcedata/index.html
Biomass
Research and Development Initiative
The Biomass Initiative is the multi-agency effort to coordinate and
accelerate all federal bio-based products and bioenergy research and
development. The Initiative is guided by two principle documents:
- The Biomass Research and
Development Act of 2000, passed in June of 2000 (Title III if the
Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000, P.L.106-224) and
- Executive Order 13134: DEVELOPING
AND PROMOTING BIOBASED PRODUCTS AND BIOENERGY, issued in August of 1999
with the accompanying
The site features a news center,
publications, "On the Hill," a calendar and related links.
http://www.bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/
Biomass
Resource Information Clearinghouse
The Biomass Resource Information Clearinghouse provides
high-quality biomass resource data for the United States to the
energy community. Its goal is to create an atlas of U.S. biomass
resources by the year 2000. This atlas will show how much biomass
is available, county-by-county, from a wide variety of resources:
residues from agricultural and forestry industries, municipal
wastes, energy crops, and industrial and institutional
by-products. Currently, there are no national databases of
consistent biomass data for public use.
http://rredc.nrel.gov/biomass/
Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network
Bioenergy is the
use of biomass (organic matter) to produce electricity,
transportation fuels, or chemicals. Bioenergy sources include
agricultural and forestry residues and the organic component of
municipal and industrial wastes. In the future, farms may provide
a dedicated, sustainable source of biomass by growing energy
crops, such as fast-growing trees and grasses. Check the Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network's Bioenergy
website.
http://www.eren.doe.gov/RE/bioenergy.html
Energy
from Crops
For a copy of a paper titled "Energy from Crops and
Agricultural Residues in Montana" (July 30, 1987) by Howard
Haines of the Montana Department of environmental Quality, click
here.
http://rredc.nrel.gov/biomass/doe/rbep/mt_ener_crops/
Ethanol
Producers and Consumers (EPAC)
Ethanol Producers and Consumers (EPAC) is a non-profit
organization with members throughout the nation who support the
production and use of ethanol as a clean, renewable energy
resource.
http://www.ethanolmt.org/
Governors'
Ethanol Coalition
Membership in the Governors' Ethanol Coalition stands at 26 with international
representatives from Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Sweden. The
Coalition's goal is to increase the use of ethanol based fuels, decrease the
nation's dependence on imported energy resources, improve the environment and
stimulate the national economy. The coalition says this will be accomplished
through a coordinated set of activities designed to educate and demonstrate to
the public the benefits of ethanol use; to encourage ethanol fuel production
and use through research and market development efforts; and to make
investments in infrastructure to support expansion of the ethanol market. The
Coalition supports the production of ethanol from corn or other domestic,
renewable resources using sustainable agricultural methods and encourages its
use in environmentally acceptable applications.
http://www.ethanol-gec.org/
Montana
Bioenergy Resources
All plant or plant-derived material—"biomass"—from trees and
grasses, agricultural crops, agricultural or forestry residues, and waste
materials from plant products can be used to produce "bioenergy."
For heating applications or electricity
generation, biomass can be burned in its solid form, or first converted into
liquid or gaseous fuels for energy sources. Biomass power technologies convert
renewable biomass fuels into heat and electricity using modern boilers,
gasifiers, turbines, generators, fuel cells, and other methods.
http://www.eren.doe.gov/state_energy/tech_biomass.cfm?state=MT
National
Biobased Products and Bioenergy
Welcome to the National Biobased Products and Bioenergy web site.
The purpose of this site is to provide information about the
multi-agency Federal activities relating to biobased products and
bioenergy.
http://www.bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/index.html
Northwest
Regional Biomass Energy Program
Northwest Regional Biomass Energy Program, managed by the U.S. Department of
Energy, Seattle Regional Support Office, promotes the use of biomass for
energy production. Biomass consists of renewable organic materials and
includes forestry and agricultural crops and residues; wood and food
processing wastes; and municipal solid waste.
800 5th Ave., Suite 3950,
Seattle, WA 98104
Program Manager: Jeff James
Phone: (206) 553-2079
FAX: (206) 553-2200
[email protected]
States Served: Alaska, Idaho,
Oregon, Montana, and Washington
Main areas of interest: Biodiesel production
Regional
Biomass Energy Program (RBEP)
Regional Biomass Energy Program website features links the
RBEP Strategic Plan, including the history, goal and objectives of
RBEP; lists of regional and state representatives; a bibliography
that provides access to the biomass resource assessment reports in
the data base; a list of states that serves as a short cut to
reports; and RBEP maps that provide access to the biomass
resource assessment maps in the data base.
http://www.ott.doe.gov/rbep/
United
BioEnergy Commercialization Association (UBECA)
The United BioEnergy Commercialization Association (UBECA) is a trade
association that represents the U.S. biomass power industry. UBECA was formed
in 1994 to encourage the development of sustainable biomass resources and
economically competitive biomass energy conversion technologies for the
benefit of electric utilities, power producers, fuel suppliers, their
customers, and society.
http://www.ubeca.org/
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