In Wisconsin, Senator Mary Felzkowski (R-Tomahawk) and Representative Chanz Green (R- Grand View), along with industry leaders, local officials, and investors, have introduced legislation to support Wisconsin’s forestry industry and the broader Northwoods economy. The Forestry Revitalization Act will invest in a new facility located in Hayward, WI to turn woody biomass into sustainable aviation fuel. To […]
In Wisconsin, Virentis Advisors announced recently its clients have recently completed bioenergy ITC transfer transactions totaling over $68 million. The transactions include: · A dairy manure to RNG facility whose ITC was sold to an investment grade corporate buyer. · A biomass to power facility whose ITC was sold to an investment grade institutional buyer. […]
In Wisconsin, in February 2025, the German biogas specialist WELTEC BIOPOWER has successfully completed the commissioning and handover of a dairy RNG (Renewable Natural Gas / biomethane) plant in Barron County, Wisconsin. After just four months of construction, the dairy farm produces 2.36 million standard cubic meters of RNG/biomethane annually (86,600 MMBTU per year). This […]
In Wisconsin, a multi-institution research team led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison received $5.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a novel approach to cut synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use in two key crops for U.S. ethanol production – corn and sorghum. The UW-led project was one […]
In Wisconsin, Sativa Building Systems (SBS) has been awarded a $1.9 million contract by the U.S. Army to develop groundbreaking bio-based insulation. This two-year Phase II SBIR project builds on SBS’s success in creating innovative hemp-based solutions that align with the Department of Defense’s sustainability goals. Hempcrete is an impressive material, with properties that exceed […]
In Wisconsin, Sativa Building Systems has been awarded a $1.9 million contract by the U.S. Army to develop biobased insulation. The two-year Phase II Small Business Innovation Research project builds on SBS’ previous successes with hemp-based solutions that align with the Department of Defense’s sustainability objectives. “Our Z Panel hempcrete block panel was a major […]
In Wisconsin, HYCO1, Inc. achieved a key milestone in commercializing its breakthrough CO2 conversion technology, already surpassing 1,500 hours of continuous steady-state operation in its first commercial CUBEtm Syngas system (CUBEtm stands for Carbon Utilization. Best Efficiency). The revolutionary HYCO1 catalyst technology installed in collaboration with Agra Energy at its New Franken, WI biofuels plant, […]
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 […]
