Empowering Ontario to Develop Community-Owned Biogas Systems

Three to four different conversations
I’ve recently spoke to a few people who’ve told me about how biogas is the long term solution.
There’s numerous factors at play here.
In the short term you’ve got public dissent towards wind, over 32,000 solar Feed-in Tariff applications (currently no longer accepting solar applications), some not-so-honest solar installers, and outcry from [...]

Slow Money. Transition Towns. Social Enterprise. The Triple Bottom Line. All of these ideas have been around for varying amounts of time, and many more similar movements have sprung out of the big -isms in recent years.  The point is, they are growing in popularity. More people are concerned about the environment, and more are [...]

Earlier this week, I had an interesting conversation with a post-doc at University of Toronto who is currently completing a life cycle analysis of anaerobic digestion, and studying biomass supply scenarios (to use at Ontario’s coal plants, which are due to close in 2014).
He was sure that using energy crops for biogas was a bad [...]

Ontario’s Community Energy Partnership Program is now accepting applications and providing lots of information for how to get money for community power projects around the province. The program is being run by the Community Power Fund in collaboration with Deloitte.
Some of the details
Community biogas projects are eligible to receive $75-200,000 in order to fund 90% [...]