WASHINGTON
In support of the Biden Administration’s commitment to modernize the nation’s power grid and infrastructure and deliver 100 percent clean energy to businesses and homeowners by 2035, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Tuesday the availability of up to $8.25 billion in loans from its Loan Programs Office (LPO) and the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) for efforts to expand and improve the nation’s transmission grid. This is one of several Biden Administration announcements made today underscoring its commitment to accelerating efforts to expand and modernize the nation’s electrical grid, creating good-paying unions jobs while increasing access to reliable, affordable, clean power.
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Congressional Democrats have introduced a “Green New Deal” proposal that calls for a 10-year national mobilization to curb climate change by shifting the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels. Many progressives support this idea, while skeptics argue that a decade is not long enough to remake our nation’s energy system.
The closest analog to this effort occurred in 2009, when President Obama and Congress worked together to combat a severe economic recession by passing a massive economic stimulus plan. Among its many provisions, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided US$90 billion to promote clean energy. The bil’s clean energy package, which was dubbed the “biggest energy bill in history,” laid the foundation for dramatic changes to the energy system over the last 10 years.
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One of President Biden’s Clean Energy initiatives includes partnering with farmers, ranchers and businesses engaged in livestock production to implement environmentally sound agriculture practices and deploy methane digesters that generate new sources of energy and revenue.
Agriculture producers and businesses engaged in the livestock industry are facing methane emissions remediation issues that impact the future economic viability of the industry. Agriculture producers include individuals or entities directly engaged in the agriculture products and businesses including private for-profit entities, cooperatives, electric utilities, and Tribal corporations/businesses. The addition of an anaerobic digestion system may not only satisfactorily remediate the issue but provide another source of income to the producer or business.
by Bill Hagy (Lee Enterprises Consulting, Inc./ Biofuels Digest) … One of President Biden’s Clean Energy initiatives includes partnering with farmers, ranchers and businesses engaged in livestock production to implement environmentally sound agriculture practices and deploy methane digesters that generate new sources of energy and revenue.
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Anaerobic digesters convert livestock waste into value added renewable energy including renewable natural gas (RNG), electricity, or combined heat and power (CHP) and value-added products such as fertilizers, compost, biochar, and bedding materials.
Only 263 of the projected 8,000 large dairy and hog operations where biogas recovery systems are technically feasible have been constructed. …
There are numerous federal programs and resources available to assist agriculture producers and businesses to determine the feasibility for and construction of anaerobic digesters. More on that here.