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California & Denmark Webinar:
Environmental and Economic Importance of Anaerobic Digestion and Renewable Natural Gas

Tuesday, October 24, 2019, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Agenda & Speakers

Webinar Materials

  1. Welcome and Introductions
    Troels Mandel Vensild, Minister Counselor, Food & Agriculture, Embassy of Denmark
    Jenny Lester Moffitt, Undersecretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture
  2. Digesters, Biogas and RNG - Meeting California and Denmark’s energy and environment goals
    • Discussion of Danish policy and incentive drivers for biogas growth
      Louise Hansen, Commercial Advisor, Trade Council of North America
    • Discussion of current CDFA incentive programs for methane capture
      Geetika Joshi – Dairy Digester Research and Development Program
    • Current and Future regulations designed to capture and utilize methane in California
      Mary Jane Coombs, Chief of the Projects Assessment Branch, California Air Resources Board

  3. Farm-Based Biogas Plant Examples from California and Denmark
    • Danish Dairy Biogas Plant Developer and Operator
      Trine Dalsgaard, Nature Energy
    • California Dairy Operators and Developers
      Joey Airoso (dairy producer)
      Daryl Maas (Maas Energy -developer)
      Neil Black (CalBio – developer)