September 30, 2026
BY Erin Krueger
Advertisement
Advertisement
New Zealand’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority on Oct. 1 announced it is investing in five new wood energy aggregation facilities and four projects that aim to produce torrefied biomass and wood pellets.
Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. on Sept. 30 announced that construction is underway on Altamaha Green Energy, a 70 MW biomass cogeneration project adjacent to the company’s Jesup, Georgia, manufacturing facility.
The USDA on Sept. 30 published a final rule that fundamentally changes the structure and administration of REAP. The program will now require projects to be fully built and operational before an application can even be filed.
Valmet has been selected by Strategic Biofuels to provide biomass power generation and flue gas cleaning technologies for its Louisiana Green Fuels project in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. The facility is expected to have 300 MW of generating capacity.
The call for presentation abstracts for the 20th Annual International Biomass Conference & Expo, produced by Biomass Magazine, is now open. The event will take place March 2-4 at the Cobb Convention Center in Atlanta, Georgia.