Here's another way to keep up with the booming biogas markets and technologies: visit our Video Center to view news and demonstrations of innovations like this wastewater plant that turns kitchen grease Into biogas.

This well-produced video from Chevron Energy Solutions, a unit of Chevron Corporation, and the City of Millbrae, California documents Millbrae's Water Pollution Control Plant, which transforms inedible kitchen grease from restaurants into biogas that provides electricity and heat to treat the city's wastewater.

The San Francisco Bay area city spent more than $5.5 million for new equipment and upgrades but the project pays for itself in energy cost savings and fees collected from restaurant waste haulers. This single facility reduces greenhouse gases by 1.2 million pounds a year. It’s a small plant in a huge market for renewable energy sources that actually save taxpayers money. According to the video, US restaurants generate an average of 14 pounds of grease per person per year. That’s 4.2 billion pounds of potential energy that’s largely left untapped and going to landfills where it releases methane into the atmosphere.

When you visit the Video Center, here are some links and keywords that you can use in the site’s search feature:
 
Keyword search for "cogeneration" 
 
Keyword search for "biogas" 

If you have a video about biogas or cogeneration (or other relevant topic) that you’d like to add to this site, see these instructions on how to upload your own video. It's free.

Don Dunnington
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