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The Fayetteville Public Works Commission (PWC) and Bloom Energy, a leading distributed energy company, today announced plans to install and operate 1.5 megawatts of solid oxide fuel cells. Creating renewable […] The post Fayetteville PWC and Bloom Energy to Transform Waste into Clean Community Electricity appeared first on American Biogas Council.

Phillips 66 made a final investment decision on May 11 to move forward with Rodeo Renewed, the project to convert its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, into one of the world’s largest renewable fuels facilities.

Officials with WTE LLC and Hitachi Zosen Inova USA LLC announced the construction of an RNG facility that will generate approximately 120,000 MMBTUs of this negative carbon fuel from a Colorado dairy.

The USDA predicts that soybean oil use in biofuel production for 2022-’23 will be up in its latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, released May 12. Soybean oil prices are expected to be down slightly.

The USDA on May 10 announced it received more than 450 proposals for large-scale projects under its new Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program. The agency is accepting proposals for smaller-scale projects through June 10.

The National Business Aviation Association and nearly 80 stakeholders sent a letter to Congressional leaders on April 22 advocating for passage of the Sustainable Skies Act, which would create a blender’s tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel.

Green Rock Energy Partners LLC on May 12 announced it has acquired a stake in Bio Town Biogas LLC, a producer of renewable power that is expanding into renewable natural gas, in partnership with Bio Town Ag (BTA) and lenders.

The U.S. EPA on May 9 opened a 15-day public comment period on the pool of 20 candidates who have been selected to serve on an external expert panel to peer review the EPA’s third triennial report to Congress on biofuels and the environment.

Parkland Corp. announced plans to increase renewable fuel production at its Burnaby Refinery in British Columbia. The company will expand existing coprocessing volumes and build a stand-alone renewable diesel complex.

Officials at Gevo Inc. discussed progress with the development of the company’s renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Iowa and the proposed Net-Zero 1 refinery under development in South Dakota during a first quarter earnings call, held May 9.

U.S. Gain has announced a new offtake agreement with EnTech Solutions at their agricultural biodigester near Madison, Wisconsin. This project is a partnership between EnTech Solutions, Northern Biogas, and four local Dane County dairy farms.

The HoSt Group has entered the U.S. market with three new biogas projects at dairy farms in upstate New York and in Ohio. The projects are being developed in close cooperation with SJI Renewable Energy Ventures and Rev LNG.