Malta Inc, Boston, Mass., raised $26 million in a Series A round of funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), Menlo Park, Calif.

California Bioenergy LLC (CalBio), Visalia, Calif., received funding from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), San Francisco; the California Air Resources Board (CARB), Sacramento, Calif.; and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), Sacramento, Calif., for three dairy pilot projects selected to install dairy digester renewable fuel technology.

Organic Valley, La Farge, Wis., announced plans to become what is said to be the largest food company in the world to be 100% renewably powered.

Tetra Pak announced plans to install a new photovoltaic (PV) panel array at its Denton, Texas, headquarters campus.

The J. M. Smucker Co., Orrville, Ohio, entered into a long-term power purchase agreement with Lincoln Clean Energy (LCE), Chicago, for 60 megawatts (MW) of the utility-scale 230 MW Plum Creek Wind Project in Wayne County, Neb.

Tetra Pak, Vernon Hills, Ill., now obtains half of its global electricity supply from renewable sources, putting the company on course to meet its RE100 commitment of using only renewable electricity across all global operations by 2030.

Organic Valley, La Farge, Wis., announced what is said to be a first-of-its-kind community partnership that will enable it to become the largest food company in the world to source 100% of its electricity from renewable sources.

The team at the University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC), Morris, Minn., created a goal in 2013 to raise renewable electric energy generation on dairy farms by establishing a “net-zero” energy milking parlor.

2015 was a record year for renewable energy installations, according to the Renewables 2016 Global Status Report, produced by REN21, France.

Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington, D.C., is investing $68 million in 540 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects nationwide.