In Wisconsin, Michael Green Architects has designed a 55-story, 600-feet mass timber tower for the Marcus Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee that, if built, would be the world’s tallest timber skyscraper. The building would also include residences, offices, restaurants, retail, and public space. Brumunddal, Norway, currently boasts the world’s tallest timber building, at 280 feet. […]
In Wisconsin, ANGI Energy Systems, a Vontier business, and leading provider of sustainable biogas and biomethane compression and decompression solutions, recently its expansion into Europe. This expansion leverages ANGI’s extensive North American experience to bring its industry-leading technology to a new market and builds upon its already well-established reputation for expertise in the field of […]
In Wisconsin, scientists with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center showed that a strain of Novosphingobium aromaticivorans naturally produces the carotenoid nostoxanthin. By deleting or adding selected genes, they engineered strains that produced the valuable carotenoids beta-carotene, lycopene, zeaxanthin, and astaxanthin. They showed that these engineered strains produced carotenoids at comparable levels when grown either in laboratory […]
In France, TotalEnergies and Vanguard Renewables, a U.S. specialist in farm-based organics-to-renewable natural gas production and a portfolio company of a fund managed by BlackRock’s Diversified Infrastructure business, have signed an agreement to create an equally owned joint venture to develop, build, and operate Farm Powered renewable natural gas (RNG) projects in the United States. […]
In Wisconsin, Marquis and United Cooperative announced the sale of Marquis’ Necedah, Wisconsin, ethanol facility to United Cooperative. The facility will operate under the new name of United Energy Necedah LLC. The asset sale will be effective May 31, 2024, ensuring a seamless transition for grain customers and staff. The Necedah facility, which procures 36,000,000 […]
In Ireland, Irish Independent reported that Irish-owned biofuel and renewables group ClonBio has announced plans to invest $500 million in a Wisconsin biorefinery plant. According to the report, this move will create 1,000 local jobs. The report noted that ClonBio biorefineries use natural processes to refine grain for use in a number of different applications, […]
In Wisconsin, the Irish Independent newspaper reports ClonBio plans to invest another $400 million in its Jefferson, Wisconsin to build a biorefinery at the AztalanBio facility it purchased in 2022. The company has already invested $100 million in upgrading the facility to make it the state’s largest ethanol and grain processing plant in the state. […]
In Wisconsin, Virentis Advisors announced several successful RNG tax credit transfer transactions that have recently closed, totaling over $55 million of Qualified Biogas Property ITC value. These include: · Food waste to RNG and fertilizer facility whose ITC was sold to an investment grade corporate buyer · Dairy manure to RNG facility whose ITC was […]
In Wisconsin, The Badger Herald reported that the Wisconsin Energy Institute is researching methods to convert biological matter into fuel and plastics, with intentions to replace fossil fuels. Biofuels are created using biological material to convert their sugars into a fuel compound — many having diverse renewable energy applications, associate director of the Wisconsin Energy […]
In Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have engineered bacteria that can produce two chemical products at the same time from underutilized plant fiber. And unlike humans, these multitasking microbes can do both things equally well. The discovery, detailed in a paper in the December issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, could help make […]
