New York-based Patriot Energy Services LLC recently announced it has signed a contract to purchase the Greenville Steam Power Plant in Greenville, Maine.
Project area funding is awarded in New York, North Carolina and Arkansas
Since 1997, subarctic forests are thicker and taller than ever before
From spot purchases to multi-year deals, producers, buyers and brokers must know their way around supply agreements.
Securing the right power purchase agreement is essential to the success of a bioenergy project.
Kedco plc has commenced the production of syngas for the generation of electricity from its biomass electricity and heat generation plant in in Newry, Northern Ireland that produces biosyngas for heat and power generation.
Construction has officially begun on a 50 MW biomass power plant planned for eastern Texas. Located 2.5 miles southwest of Woodville, Texas, the plant is being built by East Texas Electric Cooperative, a nonprofit electric cooperative.
A group of Texas AgriLife Research scientists is studying the costs of getting potential bioenergy sources, such as mesquite, to the processed stage for delivery to potential wood-fired bioelectricity plants.
The Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development took place last week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The primary objective of the event is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development.
Financing a bioenergy project in the midst of today's Euro Zone market whirlwind and the continuing saga of another Moody's bank downgrade announcement highlights what has become a confusing, yet simple truth about renewable energy project finance.
I recently came across a report by GlobalData discussing India's extreme dependence on coal, and how the Indian government's move to try to rectify a shortage in the country won't work in short term.
Smurfit Kappa Group plc has announced the startup of a 21.4 MW steam cogeneration plant at its paper mill in Nervion, Spain. According to the company, the cogeneration plant is part of a €20 million ($25 million) biomass energy investment.
The second straw-fired power plant in the U.K. is under development in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, in eastern England. North Midland Construction plc recently announced it has been awarded a $14.9 million contract for work on the 38 MW plant.
A gasification technology designed by Mechanicsburg, Pa-based Enginuity Energy that converts poultry litter and others wastes into energy may be headed to France after a recent visit by two French agriculture officials to the company's headquarters.
New Hampshire has become the first state to grant full credit to renewable thermal projects under a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) through S.B. 218.
A new European Biofuels Technology Platform report that addresses the potential to couple carbon capture and storage (CCS) with biofuel and biomass heat and power technologies. The report is titled “Biomass with CO2 Capture and Storage (Bio-CCS)."
Toronto-based nonprofit organization ZooShare Biogas Cooperative Inc. is working to develop a project that would convert zoo manure and other locally-sourced waste biomass materials into renewable electricity and fertilizer.
North Carolina Natural Energy Inc. has issued a letter of intent to purchase a 40 percent stake in the Construction Management Institute, an investment that will net North Carolina Natural Energy Inc. $984,000 per year for the next three years.
The Senate has finished voting on 73 amendments proposed for the 2012 Farm Bill and passed it on to the House, leaving the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, Rural Energy for America Program and Biorefinery Assistance Program intact.
The American Council on Renewable Energy has launched a new website designed to address the imbalance in America's debate over clean and renewable energy. The Energy Fact Check website allows visitors to learn the truth about renewable energy.
A community outreach program spearheaded by Weston Solutions, an environmental consulting company, has moved a proposed biomass combined-heat-and-power (CHP) facility one giant step closer to completion in Springfield, Vermont.
By reverse engineering a seed, energy crop developer New Energy Farms says it has developed a unique system for establishing miscanthus that could potentially reduce farmer establishment costs by 50 percent or more.
Montreal-based La Coop federee has signed an ownership agreement with advanced biomass company Prairie Bio Energy Inc. Under the agreement, LCF assumes 50 percent ownership over the intellectual property held by the PBE Group.
Covanta Energy Inc. has commissioned a new metal recovery system at its 80 MW waste-to-energy plant in Fairfax County, Va., a system that is specially designed to recover very small particles of non-ferrous metal from three-eighths of an inch.
Opcon, the energy and environmental technology group, has received yet another order for equipment that recycles waste heat, this time within the bioenergy sector in the Czech Republic.
A Brazilian subsidiary of Japan-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. recently received an order for a high-capacity, high-performance biomass-fired boiler from Brazil's largest pulp maker.
The California Energy Commission has selected Clean World Partners LLC to receive a $6 million grant to support a biogas and bioenergy project. The funding will enable the expansion of the company's Sacramento project.
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