Largest US Biomass Plant Online in Texas

Southern Company’s 100 MW Nacogdoches Generating Facility – which the company calls the nation’s largest biomass plant – is now operational and putting electricity on the grid in Texas. The plant, which occupies a 165-acre tract of land near Sacul in east Texas, is fueled by non-merchantable wood waste. This…

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Brewery combines wind, solar and biogas

Between biogas, wind and solar, Anheuser-Busch generates about half of its electricity from renewable energy to make beer at its Fairfield, California plant. The company is the largest in the US to use nutrients in its wastewater to make biogas, a process called bio-energy recovery systems (BERS). They also recover…

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Wiltshire’s first biodigester opens for business

The doors have opened on a new biodigester in Wiltshire, UK following 12 months of construction and trails. The anaerobic digester plant is, after trialling feedstocks for around four weeks, now fully operational and located at Bore Hill Farm. ‘We have now moved into the main building and the technology…

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