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• PG&E and BioEnergy Solutions Turn the Valve on California's First 'Cow Power' Project
  Mar 4, 2008 - /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
  
  Pacific Gas and Electric Company and BioEnergy Solutions today announced that their biogas-to-pipeline injection project in Fresno County has begun production of renewable natural gas derived from animal waste. It is the first project in California that will deliver pipeline-quality, renewable natural gas to a utility.
  
  
• PG&E Co Seeks to Research Biomethane Resources for Its Customers
  Jan. 24, 2008 - /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
  
  Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced that it has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to identify partners for a potential project to demonstrate technologies that could cost-effectively produce significant quantities of biomethane -- pipeline-quality, renewable natural gas. The demonstration project is part of PG&E's commitment to increase the amount of clean energy it provides customers throughout its northern and central California service area.
  
  
  
• Biofuel: Major Net Energy Gain From Switchgrass-based Ethanol
  Jan 14, 2008 - ScienceDaily
  
  ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2008) — Switchgrass grown for biofuel production produced 540 percent more energy than needed to grow, harvest and process it into cellulosic ethanol, according to estimates from a large on-farm study by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  
  
• Some Biofuels Are Worse Environmentally Than Fossil Fuels, Analysis Shows
  Jan 7, 2008 - ScienceDaily
  
  Biofuels reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in comparison to fossil fuels. Smithsonian researchers highlight a new study that factors in environmental costs of biofuel production. Corn, soy and sugarcane come up short. The authors urge governments to be far more selective about which biofuels they support, as not all are more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels.
  
  
• Britain to build the world's biggest biomass plant
  Nov 21, 2007 - m2 Presswire
  
  The massive expansion of the UK's renewables sector continues apace today as consent is granted, by the Energy Secretary John Hutton, for a 350MW wood-chipped fuelled electricity generating plant in Port Talbot, south Wales.
  
  
• China turns to clean biomass solution for emission cuts
  Dec 4, 2007 - Xinhua
  
  China has launched eight biomass plants in five leading grain-producing provinces to cut carbon dioxide emissions in electricity generation amid growing global concerns over greenhouse gas and climate change.
  
  
• PPL Partners With Vermont Landfill to Develop Renewable Energy Generating Facility
  Nov 8, 2007 - PRNewswire-FirstCall
  
  PPL Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of PPL Corporation , will develop and install a 4.8- megawatt methane-to-electricity power generation system at the Moretown Landfill in Moretown, Vt., the company announced Thursday (11/8).
  
  
• UNEP poised to stir green energy revolution in E. Africa
  Nov. 8, 2007 - The Associated Press
  
  NAIROBI - A U.N.-backed initiative is set to harvest environment-friendly hydroelectric power from millions of tea and sugar cane growers across East Africa, U.N. officials said Thursday.
  
  
• Norway will solve manure problems by 2010
  Nov 5, 2007 - UPI
  
  Norway is looking to solve a manure problem with a large biogas plant, which will allow farmers to turn their animals' mess into energy by 2010.
  
  
• Texas plant uses dairy waste to make natural gas
  Nov 5 - Angela Brown - The Associated Press
  
  The nation's largest manure-to-natural gas plant got up and running Monday in the heart of Texas dairy country, a project expected to produce enough energy to power 11,000 homes a year
  
  
• Dallas Zoo to transform poop into power: New biogas facility will transform dung into energy
  Nov 2, 2007 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Holly Yan-The Dallas Morning News
  
  The Dallas Zoo could someday be powered in part by Jenny and Keke's elephant poop. Their dung -- which totals more than 300 pounds a day -- will be used to help create heating, water and electric power at the zoo through a new biogas facility, officials said.
  
  
• Poultry power seen saving bay: Gansler's call for manure-burning electric plant among proposed solutions
  Nov 2 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Tom Pelton - The Baltimore Sun
  
  Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler called yesterday for higher fines for agricultural polluters and a manure-burning plant to transform chicken litter into electricity.
  
  
• Energy that grows back: Burning wood considered carbon neutral
  Apr 15, 2007 McClatchy-Tribune Business News
  
  With greenhouses gases and global warming capturing everyone's attention these days, people who promote burning biomass to generate electricity note that wood is a carbon-neutral fuel, at least in the long run.
  
  
• Power to Be Made From Husks
  Aug 07, 2007 - New Vision/All Africa Global Media
  
  Kampala: With power shortage biting hard, a new technology that uses husks from plants and wild grass to generate electricity has been introduced.
  
  
• Texas plant powers state's electric grid using only biodiesel
  Mar 17, 2007 The Associated Press
  
  Chicken fat and a $3.5 million investment are behind a breakthrough in the way Texans heat, cool and light their homes and offices.
  
  
• Chicken litter used to generate power in Miss. pilot project
  Oct 24, 2006 Nikki Davis Maute AP
  
  A waste-to-energy pilot operation five miles west of Collins could change the power source for farmers and developers not only in Mississippi but worldwide.
  
  http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=5582011&nav=0hBEa4D7
  
  
• Corn Ethanol And Soybean biodiesel Studied
  
  The first comprehensive U.S. analysis of the life cycles of soybean biodiesel and corn grain ethanol shows biodiesel performs better than corn ethanol.
  
  http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/printer_21227670.shtml#continue

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