The following documents provide useful background information.

Useful Documents

• The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) and the Water Environment Federation (WEF) are pleased to release the Water Resources Utility of the Future . . . Blueprint for Action.

• Water Environment Federation:
  - Charting the Future of Biosolids Management – Final Report, May 2011
  
  
• Water Environment Research Foundation:
  - Energy Resource and Recovery
  - Wastewater Sludge Alternative Energy
  - Energy Opportunities
  - State of Science Report
  
  
• Bay Area Regional Solids Processing Facility Tech Memo:
  - Interim Biosolids Management Alternatives
  
  
• Bay Area Clean Water Agencies:
  - Bay Area Bioslolids Management: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policies
  - Biosolids Fact Sheet
  

Media

• Renewable Energy Focus, Biowaste to Energy Demonstration Project gets Funding, April 2013
  
  

• Teru Talk, CEC Approves Amendment of Delta Diablo Biosolids to Energy Contract, March 2013
  

• South Florida Business Journal, Miami-based Chemergy Selected for California Biofuel Project,
  March 2012

• WaterWorld, Benefits of Biosolids: How Water Utilities are Turning Waste into Resource
  Social Media Tools
  

• Richmond Confidential (also appeared in SF Gate and The Bay Citizen),
  Bay Area Agencies Working Together to Create Sewage Alchemy... August 2011

• Contra Costa Times, East Contra Costa Sanitation District Awarded ... March 2011

• Earthjustice.com, Californias are Eyeballing Human Waste... April 2011

• Business Green, California Ploughs $1M into Poo Power, March 2011

• Fuel Cell Today, California Project will Convert Sewage to Electricity with Fuel Cells, March 2011

• istock Analyst, $1 Million for Energy Project Research, March 2011

• The Bay Citizen, The Inside Poop on a New Energy Source, March 2011

• Electric Energy Online.com, Energy Commission Awards Nearly $1 Million ... March 2011

• Waste Management World, Energy Commission Awards Nearly $1 Million ... March 2011

• MergerMarket, BayArea Biosolids to Energy Project, May 2010

• Miller-McCune, When Sewage is not a Dirty Word, April 2010

• Independent, Project Converts Sludge to Energy, February 2010

• Contra Costa Times, Coalition Flush With Energy Ideas, February 2010
  
  

Related Articles

• EE Publishing, Renewable Energy: The' Wild West' ... December 2011
• L.A. Times, Fountain Valley Hydrogen Station Fills 'er Up with Sewer Gas, August 2011
• CNN: Turning Sludge into Energy (video)
• Public Works Magazine, Biosolids Boost