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Category Archives: Renewable Fuel

Cultivating Fuel on Farms and the Growth of the US Farm Digester Industry

Biomass Rules Posted on October 24, 2025 by Mark JennerOctober 24, 2025

Revenue-generating renewable methane is real and a growing industry. My encounter with MAAS Energy Works at Simpson University in Redding, California earlier this month, was a homecoming for Biomass Rules. The importance of this topic was reenforced with the American … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, definition, economics, education, farm, macro, Making $ense of Energy, policy, production, Renewable Fuel, science, wealth creation | Tagged AgStar, American Biogas Council (ABC), biogenic methane, Business of Biogas 2025, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), Cultivating Fuel on Farms and the Growth of the US Farm Digester Industry, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ethanol, farm anaerobic digesters, fossil natural gas, MAAS Energy Works, manure, methane, MTBE, renewable fuels standards (RFS), renewable natural gas RNG, Simpson University | Leave a reply

Just a Kid in a ‘Biogenic Methane’ Candy Store

Biomass Rules Posted on October 20, 2025 by Mark JennerOctober 20, 2025

While at visiting Simpson University’s Operation Management’s class last week, I received a welcomed education!  The day I was visiting Simpson University’s Business Department, so was MAAS Energy Works.  Wow!  Such a happy convergence. Twenty years ago, through Biomass Rules, … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, definition, economics, education, farm, firm, macro, Making $ense of Energy, policy, Renewable Fuel, science, wealth creation | Tagged American Biogas Council (ABC), BioCycle, biogas pipeline, biogenic methane, BioTown, Business of Biogas 2025, California Biomass Collaborative, farm anaerobic digesters, fossil natural gas, heat, injection facilities, Just a Kid in a Biogenic Methane Candy Store, MAAS Energy Works, manure, methane, renewable natural gas RNG, renewable power, Simpson University, UC-Davis | Leave a reply

Energy Independence Reflections: July 4, 2025

Biomass Rules Posted on July 8, 2025 by Mark JennerJuly 8, 2025

The Big Beautiful Bill has passed.  I am trying to keep up as best as a multi-value chain, policy-adjacent economist can.  I am a professional skeptic, and therefore, am pretty sure that regardless of the new policy, we will forge … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, Biomass Rules, definition, economics, education, firm, macro, Making $ense of Energy, policy, Renewable Fuel, science, wealth creation | Tagged Big Beautiful Bill, Biomass Rules, choices matter, energy independence reflections, federal markets, here to stay, international markets, July 4 2025, local markets, Lower 25 states have 16 percent renewable capacity, regional markets, renewable energy is local, renewable power, trade balance across state lines, Upper 25 states have 42 percent renewable capacity, US 30 percent renewable power | Leave a reply

Lessons Learned from 18,000 Points of Light – Making $ense of Energy

Biomass Rules Posted on May 13, 2025 by Mark JennerMay 13, 2025

The joy of finding a new dataset to explore enflamed my modeling focus more than was justified.  IT WAS GREAT TO BE LOOKING FOR STORIES IN A BRAND NEW DATASET! Challenge #1:  Monthly data from the power utility was too … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, education, Making $ense of Energy, policy, production, Renewable Fuel, science, wealth creation | Tagged 2024, annual, daily, direct use, forensic modeling of missing data, hourly, kilowatt-hours (kWh), kilowatts (kW), lessons learned from 18000 points of light, Making $ense of Energy, making sense of energy, minutes, monthly, residential solar power, solar panel power production, solar panel power sales, south Central Illinois, utility supplied power | Leave a reply

Mapping 10,000 Points of Hourly Power Use – Making $ense of Energy

Biomass Rules Posted on April 29, 2025 by Mark JennerApril 29, 2025

In February, I asked my Electric Cooperative for help in understanding our solar panel output for 2024.   They responded with 10,000 data hourly power consumption points over the 12 months of 2024 and the first two months of 2025. As … Continue reading →

Posted in analytics, economics, firm, Making $ense of Energy, policy, production, Renewable Fuel, science | Tagged 5-minute increment, daily, daylight, demand, electric cooperative, historical data, hourly, hypothetical data, kilowatt (kW), Making $ense of Energy, making sense of energy, mapping 10000 points of hourly power use, modeling total household demand, monthly, nighttime, off-peak, sales, solar offsets, solar production, supply | Leave a reply

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  • Cultivating Fuel on Farms and the Growth of the US Farm Digester Industry
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