[Digestion] Subsidies, funding, and politics of AD in the U.S.

[Douglas Renk]

Dr Moss,
 
There is a strong, yet developing voice in DC for the promotion of legislation for AD. I encourage all of us to consider joining the American Biogas Council.
 
http://www.americanbiogascouncil.org/index.asp 
 
They have assembled panels before the energy committee and try to educate policy makers on biogas technology to help obtain fair recognition. ABC also educates in order to differentiate biogas from other biomass energy forms, (i.e. ethanol and incinerators) to demonstrate the greater energy returns and recovery of valuable nutrients and water.
 
All the best,
Doug Renk

--- On Wed, 2/16/11, armoss at umd.edu <armoss at umd.edu> wrote:


From: armoss at umd.edu <armoss at umd.edu>
Subject: [Digestion] Subsidies, funding, and politics of AD in the U.S.
To: digestion at lists.bioenergylists.org
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 11:49 PM


Hello all-
I realize this is a topic that must get attention fairly often from this group, so apologies if I'm asking you to revisit too recent of a post.  I'm interested in finding out what subsidies and funding streams are currently available to the AD community for digester projects and AD businesses operating in the U.S.  I'm aware of some limited carbon trading and occasional grants from the USDA for large-scale agricultural operations but, aside from that, what subsidies or outside funding are AD companies able to obtain?  Are their subsidies available to their clients?  What aspects of the recent stimulus bill (if any) have been successfully applied to the AD field and how far are those funds from drying up?  Are there any state specific programs that any of you are familiar with?  Also, is there a portion of the AD community that is currently organized enough to have a voice and a presence in Washington, D.C.?  If not, what channels are start-up! ! s
 using to promote the technology and/or industry as a whole?

Thanks ahead of time for your responses.

Sincerely, 

Andrew R. Moss
Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Fellow
University of Maryland Dept. of Environmental Science and Technology
1445 Animal Sci./Ag. Engineering (Bldg. 142)
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
Phone:  (865) 363-5535


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