Advanced plant genetic supplier DuPont has partnered up with biomass feedstock developer NexSteppe to develop new sweet sorghum and high biomass sorghum hybrids for biofuels, biopower and biobased products.
The Port of Chesapeake in Virginia has officially entered the biomass shipping business. On Dec. 31, Enviva LP sent 28,000 metric tons of wood pellets to one of Enviva's European utility customers aboard the MV Daishin Maru.
For two days in February, Alternative Energy Solutions International Inc. (AESI) will open the doors to its Kansas Biomass Research Institute (BRI), providing tours of a fully functional biomass power and testing facility.
A recently formed partnership between agriculture giant Perdue AgriBusiness and animal waste utility developer Fibrowatt LLC could lead to a 10 MW biomass power facility in Salisbury, Md.
We Energies is making progress on its 50 MW biomass power plant in central Wisconsin, having begun construction in August, and is one track to meet its 2013 completion goal.
A Northern Netherlands port is now the construction site for a 50 MW woody biomass power plant set to come online in 2013.
Plans for a 34 MW combined-heat-and-power (CHP) facility that will be co-located with a pellet plant are moving along in Fair Haven, Vt., despite continued development suspension of an identical plant in a nearby town.
U.K. Energy Minister Charles Hendry has granted consent to Dalkia BioEnergy plc to move forward with a 53 MW biomass power plant at a former airfield in Northern England's Yorkshire.
A proposed biomass combined-heat-and-power (CHP) facility for Springfield, Vt., will not only provide cost effective energy to the community, but will also be an economic driver for Vermont.
Sonoco, a global packaging products provider, has ended its three-year quest for sustainable energy production at its facility in Hartsville, S.C. The result is a $75 million biomass boiler.
The U.S. DOE has given its Final Acceptance Certificate to Ameresco Inc. for the largest single-source energy performance savings contract (EPSC) underway for the federal government.
New Energy Farms has announced three separate events in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. that will provide landowners, farmers and end users with a chance to learn more about the different energy crops the company grows.
BTEC's final webinar in a 14-part series showed varying wood bioenergy market predictions, but all speakers pointed to growing pellet markets.
California has modified the structure of its renewable portfolio standard to establish content categories for electricity source procurement, and set limitations of procurement in each category for the three compliance periods.
The fate of the EPA Regulatory Relief Act will have to wait, as it was stripped from payroll tax cut extension legislation this week.
Exxon Mobil Corp.'s 2012 Outlook for Energy says electricity is the energy sector with the largest global demand, and by 2040, 15 percent of the world's electricity will be generated by renewable fuels, including biomass.
A University of Iowa renewable energy project is using woody biomass to stimulate the local economy.
Covanta Energy Corp. has withdrawn its request to the New York State Public Service Commission to include energy from waste (EfW) in its list of applications eligible for the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS).
The retrofit of a retired coal ash silo has helped the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) finally become a wood pellet boiler user.
Only two and half weeks after announcing plans to construct and operate a straw-fired biomass plant in the U.K., developer Eco2 has announced it will sell the rights to another proposed straw-powered plant.
Repreve Renewables will hold its second annual Giant Miscanthus Field Day Jan. 10-11 at its farm near Soperton, Ga.
For $92 million, Kedco Plc, an Ireland-based gasification and anaerobic digestion technology developer, plans to bring five biomass combined-heat-and-power (CHP) plants to the U.K.
The second annual U.K. Biomass Directory has been released, and it indicates that the country is in line to meet its goal of producing 10 percent of its energy with biomass by 2050.
The Mediterranean island of Malta may soon combine waste biomass sourced from olive production with carbon capture and sequestration technology (CCS), making the country one of the only in the world to operate on a carbon negative energy balance.
The U.K. Committee on Climate Change has released its Bioenergy Review, which finds that without bioenergy the country is not likely to meet its long-term emissions goals.
Days Creek School in Douglas County, Ore., sped through a typically months-long process in roughly a week, becoming a biomass user capable of reaping the benefits the county's forest economy can offer.
Thermogen Industries, a technology developer and manufacturer operated by New Hampshire-based investment firm Cate Street Capital Inc., is bringing a microwave-based woody biomass torrefaction technology to Maine.
In partnership with the U.K.'s Carbon Trust, the Forestry Commission's Biomass Energy Centre has released a new and improved fuel supplier database.
The University of Montana-Missoula has suspended indefinitely its proposed biomass power project, due to the current low cost of natural gas.
Following a reconsideration period, the U.S. EPA has proposed revisions to its Maximum Achievable Control Technology standards for certain boilers and incinerators.
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