With a plethora of different wood pellet standard programs, mills' quality measures vary depending on which set their customers adopt.
With the availability of agricultural biomass, North American companies are promoting the benefits of converting grass into energy in an effort to spur the industry.
The 2011 U.S. Billion-Ton Update enhances its 2005 predecessor and finds potential for dedicated energy crops through direct inventory analysis and rigorous sustainability modeling.
How to improve briquetting operations to efficiently densify fibrous agricultural residues from crops, horticulture operations and forests.
The House and Senate agriculture committees are scheduled to deliver a legislative package to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction on Nov. 1, outlining suggestions to cut $23 billion from agriculture programs as part of the 2012 Farm Bill.
The U.K.'s Department of Energy and Climate Change got approval from the European Commission Oct. 26 to launch its Renewable Heat Incentive with a sizeable reduction in the tariff for large biomass technologies.
Biomass Power Association President and CEO Bob Cleaves addressed the U.S. EPA's Science Advisory Board Biogenic Carbon Emissions Panel at its meeting Oct. 25 to review its recently released Accounting Framework for Biogenic CO2 Emissions.
The authors of a study recently published by Oregon State University's College of Forestry says that the production of bioenergy from U.S. West Coast forests would increase carbon dioxide emissions by at least 14 percent over the next 20 years.
A 300-megawatt biomass power plant proposed for Holyhead, Wales, could represent the center of a strategy to build a number of eco parks in the U.K., according to the project's preferred bidder, Lateral Power Ltd.
In an effort to promote renewable energy, create jobs and reduce Maryland's contribution to agricultural runoff polluting the Chesapeake Bay, the state released a request for proposals for the purchase of power produced from animal waste.
Huntsville, Ontario, could be the site for a $50 million, co-located, 10-megawatt biomass power plant and 8-metric-ton-per-hour wood pellet plant, if the proper equity partner can be found to move on with development.
Wood pellet manufacturer Enviva LP has made a deal with Dominion Virginia Power to supply two of its proposed biomass plants with wood chips.
The U.K. DECC released its proposal for Renewables Obligation banding levels from 2013 to 2017 on Oct. 20, leaving a few biomass technologies at current levels, but proposing to add more, such as enhanced cofiring and biomass conversion.
The American Council on Renewable Energy assembled a Biomass Definition Subcommittee that has crafted a unified biomass definition, which its members will pitch to senators and representatives during the first week of November.
Valio Ltd has awarded Metso-Wartsila Power a contract to install and commission a biomass boiler system at its Lapinlahti, Finland, cheese plant. It will generate the steam and heat needed for the cheese plant's operations.
Once completed and operational, a 300,000-ton wood pellet mill near Portland, Maine, will export its product to European customers through one of only two deepwater ports in the Northeast U.S.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada-based Firebox Energy Systems Ltd. has announced plans to build a 30-megawatt (MW) biomass power plant on the designated lands of Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation Reserve #133 near Glenevis, Alberta.
The Northern Virginia Power Cooperative has received a $90 million loan from the USDA Rural Utilities Service to help build a biomass power plant near South Boston in southern Virginia.
The U.S. EPA has announced it will propose revisions to its Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials rule, following a strong push from industries, including biomass, concerned with its current constraints.
Moving its way through Congress, the EPA Regulatory Relief Act has received bipartisan approval in the House, leaving Senate approval the last step in passage of legislation that would grant the EPA time to improve the flawed boiler MACT rules.
Just when the prospects for a biomass district heating plant planned for downtown Vancouver, Wash., were looking glum, it turns out there is hope for the project after all.
Iberdrola Renewables has announced that its 26.8-megawatt (MW) biomass power project at Collins Pine Co.'s Fremont sawmill in Lakeview, Ore., will be put on hold indefinitely, due to lack of a power purchase agreement.
John Elliot, president and CEO of the Economic Development Corp. of Erie County, kicked off BBI International's Northeast Biomass Conference & Trade Show with discussion about the opportunities for worldwide export of biomass via the Great Lakes.
A single, science-based and inclusive biomass definition is the focal point in the biomass industry's efforts to bolster policy that can spur development, said Charlie Niebling at the opening session of the Northeast biomass conference.
What started as a trip to Gussing, Austria, to see a combined-heat-and-power plant in action has turned into developing plans for a similar facility in northern Pennsylvania's borough of Smethport.
Biomass torrefaction company HM3 Energy Inc. has been selected as one of three finalists in the 2011 Cleantech Open Business Competition's Pacific Northwest Division.
Making the connection between the local supply of woody biomass and the need for future energy cost reduction, a school district near Meadville, Pa., agreed to commission a thermally led combined heat and power project.
Calvin Ernst, owner and operator of Ernst Conservation Seeds, lives a biomass-related life every day. The Meadville, Pa.-based company was founded in 1965 and has expanded and now includes Ernst Biomass and a pellet manufacturing facility.
The BPA participated in the grand opening of the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center biomass facility in Gainesville, Fla., on Oct. 11. Upon completion, this facility will be one of the two largest biomass facilities in the country.
Eastern Illinois University has commissioned a biomass gasification energy system that will annually consume about 27,000 tons of wood chips to provide heat and electricity to the campus.
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