{"id":1705,"date":"2018-05-14T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T16:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2022-03-21T09:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T13:06:29","slug":"bts-bioenergy-awarded-500000-dollar-combined-heat-and-power-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/2018\/05\/14\/bts-bioenergy-awarded-500000-dollar-combined-heat-and-power-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS Bioenergy Awarded $500,000 Dollar Combined Heat and Power Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
\nContact:\u00a0Jahmai Sharp-Moore<\/a> | 443-694-3651<\/p>\n

Baltimore, MD <\/strong>\u2013 Today the Maryland Energy Administration announced that BTS Bioenergy will receive a $500,000-dollar Combined Heat and Power (CHP) grant to aide in the construction of a new bioenergy facility. BTS Bioenergy, headquarter in Italy, will build their first U.S. facility at the Maryland Food Center Authority in Jessup, MD on a 400-acre industrial lot.<\/p>\n

The BTS Bioenergy facility will combine anaerobic bio-digestion with a 1.4 mega-watt CHP system which will produce an estimated $821,000 dollars in annual electricity revenue and simultaneously yield nearly $200,000 dollars annually in fuel savings due to thermal off sets and the elimination of boilers. This facility in Howard County will process 100,000 tons of food waste per year, significantly reducing food waste.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new bioenergy plant will generate renewable energy by recycling food waste, diverting waste from landfills and decrease the need for traditional fossil fuels,\u201d explained MEA Director, Mary Beth Tung, Ph.D. \u201cCHP systems offer cost-effective payback period and is an excellent example of the importance of public-private partnerships here in Maryland,\u201d concluded Director Tung.<\/p>\n

“Working together with the Maryland Energy Administration shows what is good for business can also good for the environment.\u00a0 The ability to create combined heat and power from organics once destined for incineration or already overcrowded landfills helps solve an important environmental challenge, while creating affordable sustainable energy and reducing greenhouse gases.\u00a0 We look forward to a long relationship here in Maryland.\u201d said Shawn Kreloff, CEO & Executive Director BTS Bioenergy<\/p>\n

Last June, Governor Larry Hogan signed the Waste Reduction and Resource Recovery Plan Executive Order which was designed to enhance Maryland\u2019s sustainable materials management and beneficial reuse. MEA was one of several state agencies challenged to assist in efforts that boost the state\u2019s recycling rate via research and adoption of renewable energy recovery technologies including anaerobic digestion.<\/p>\n

Over their 20-years in business, BTS Bioenergy has designed, financed and built over 200 sustainable, clean anaerobic bio-digestion energy generation plants. \u00a0BTS Bioenergy expects their Maryland facility to be operational in 2019. BTS Bioenergy is in the process of working with local food producers and waste haulers in the region to obtain organic waste that would traditionally be sent to a landfill or incinerated.<\/p>\n

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Maryland Energy Administration
\n<\/strong>The mission of the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) is to promote affordable, reliable and cleaner energy for the benefit of all Marylanders.\u00a0\u00a0To achieve its mission, MEA advises the Governor and General Assembly on matters relating to energy policy.\u00a0 MEA administers grant and loan programs to encourage clean energy technologies in all sectors of Maryland’s economy: Residential, Commercial, Agricultural, and Transportation. For more information about the Maryland Energy Administration, visit www.energy.maryland.gov<\/a> and follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a> and LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:\u00a0Jahmai Sharp-Moore | 443-694-3651 Baltimore, MD \u2013 Today the Maryland Energy Administration announced that BTS Bioenergy will receive a $500,000-dollar Combined Heat and Power (CHP) grant to aide in the construction of a new bioenergy facility. BTS Bioenergy, headquarter in Italy, will build their first U.S. facility  …Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,10,26,4],"tags":[265,263,36,262,93,264,19,99],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-newsletters","category-press-releases","tag-bioenergy","tag-biofuel","tag-biomass","tag-bts","tag-chp","tag-food-waste-to-energy","tag-renewable","tag-renewable-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}