If Oregon realized its potential for a biogas industry, the state would have an industry 12 times its current size, according to a recent review by Energy Trust of Oregon and The Climate Trust. But kickstarting the biogas industry can't happen without state support, the review concluded.
Biogas is methane gas harvested in an oxygen-free environment. It comes from the breakdown of a variety of organic wastes, everything from sewage and yard debris to manure and food processing residue. It can be either compressed as a transportation fuel, injected into a natural gas pipeline or combusted for electricity or heat.
Its supporters say biogas creates energy and jobs while recycling nutrients and eliminating methane emissions. It also has potential to reduce operating costs for some rural businesses —farmers can substitute bedding hay for animals with residue from biogas digesters, for example — and reduce farm odors.
Energy Trust and The Climate Trust completed a review of biogas potential and benefits in February, producing a white paper called Growing Oregon's Biogas Industry: A Review of Oregon's Biogas Potential and Benefits.Use bluray burner to burn video to BD DVD on blu ray burner disc.
The effort stemmed from meetings hosted by Energy Trust that brought the biogas community together,we supply all kinds of oil painting reproduction, provided a networking opportunity and assessed needs among the small group of early adapters.
"What came out of that was the need for some sort of white paper that, at the very least, promoted what biogas is, raised attention for biogas and offered a brief overview around how we could see more biogas," said Peter Weisberg, senior project analyst at The Climate Trust and a co-author of the paper with the Energy Trust's Thad Roth.Polycore zentai are manufactured as a single sheet,
Ultimately, the review suggested policy tweaks and incentives that could ignite a biogas industry, creating 300 permanent jobs in rural areas and reducing greenhouse gasses by 800,000 metric tons of equivalent carbon dioxide — about 5 percent of the reductions needed to meet state greenhouse goals for 2020.
The sector could be built around wastewater treatment plants, municipal solid waste collectors and food processors and generate more than 100 megawatts of energy from biogas, the review noted, thought the state has only 8 megawatts of biogas installed so far.Free DIY Wholesale pet supplies Resource!
Wastewater treatment plants have developed the most biogas plants in Oregon,Houston-based Quicksilver Resources said Friday it had reached pipeline deals about half of the potential for wastewater treatment plants overall with 5.8 megawatts installed. Other sectors with abundant feedstock and capable infrastructure have been slow to develop, with capital costs presenting a significant obstacle.
Municipal solid waste facilities and dairies show the biggest potential for gains.
The study pegs municipal waste facilities' potential at 30 megawatts of energy generation. Nothing is currently running in this sector, but Columbia Biogas has announced plans to open a 5-megwatt plant in North Portland.
Dairies had 45 megawatts of potential but had developed less than a megawatt of capacity spread among four small plants. Food processors have put just more than 10 percent of their capacity online with 1.6 megawatts installed at Stahlbush Island Farms of Corvallis. The industry holds the potential for 10.4 megawatts, according to the report.
The Stahlbush Island Farms biogas plant, the first in the United States to handle only food waste cost $10 million to develop and created four jobs.
Biogas is methane gas harvested in an oxygen-free environment. It comes from the breakdown of a variety of organic wastes, everything from sewage and yard debris to manure and food processing residue. It can be either compressed as a transportation fuel, injected into a natural gas pipeline or combusted for electricity or heat.
Its supporters say biogas creates energy and jobs while recycling nutrients and eliminating methane emissions. It also has potential to reduce operating costs for some rural businesses —farmers can substitute bedding hay for animals with residue from biogas digesters, for example — and reduce farm odors.
Energy Trust and The Climate Trust completed a review of biogas potential and benefits in February, producing a white paper called Growing Oregon's Biogas Industry: A Review of Oregon's Biogas Potential and Benefits.Use bluray burner to burn video to BD DVD on blu ray burner disc.
The effort stemmed from meetings hosted by Energy Trust that brought the biogas community together,we supply all kinds of oil painting reproduction, provided a networking opportunity and assessed needs among the small group of early adapters.
"What came out of that was the need for some sort of white paper that, at the very least, promoted what biogas is, raised attention for biogas and offered a brief overview around how we could see more biogas," said Peter Weisberg, senior project analyst at The Climate Trust and a co-author of the paper with the Energy Trust's Thad Roth.Polycore zentai are manufactured as a single sheet,
Ultimately, the review suggested policy tweaks and incentives that could ignite a biogas industry, creating 300 permanent jobs in rural areas and reducing greenhouse gasses by 800,000 metric tons of equivalent carbon dioxide — about 5 percent of the reductions needed to meet state greenhouse goals for 2020.
The sector could be built around wastewater treatment plants, municipal solid waste collectors and food processors and generate more than 100 megawatts of energy from biogas, the review noted, thought the state has only 8 megawatts of biogas installed so far.Free DIY Wholesale pet supplies Resource!
Wastewater treatment plants have developed the most biogas plants in Oregon,Houston-based Quicksilver Resources said Friday it had reached pipeline deals about half of the potential for wastewater treatment plants overall with 5.8 megawatts installed. Other sectors with abundant feedstock and capable infrastructure have been slow to develop, with capital costs presenting a significant obstacle.
Municipal solid waste facilities and dairies show the biggest potential for gains.
The study pegs municipal waste facilities' potential at 30 megawatts of energy generation. Nothing is currently running in this sector, but Columbia Biogas has announced plans to open a 5-megwatt plant in North Portland.
Dairies had 45 megawatts of potential but had developed less than a megawatt of capacity spread among four small plants. Food processors have put just more than 10 percent of their capacity online with 1.6 megawatts installed at Stahlbush Island Farms of Corvallis. The industry holds the potential for 10.4 megawatts, according to the report.
The Stahlbush Island Farms biogas plant, the first in the United States to handle only food waste cost $10 million to develop and created four jobs.
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