A company in Southeast England is offering free biomass boilers to businesses that are looking to reduce their heating bills and take advantage of the Renewable Heat Incentive.
Carlton Owen, president and CEO of the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, said typical problems such as project finance or feedstock availability are not the real challenges facing the industry.
William Strauss, president and CEO of FutureMetrics, demonstrated the operation of a fuel calculator to the crowd at the Northeast Biomass Heating Expo in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., March 21-23.
Attendees at the Northeast Agricultural Biomass Heating seminar, held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in conjunction with the Northeast Heating Expo, included experts and novices focused on agricultural biomass applications.
Several speakers presented a history of their paths from farmer to fuel pellet developer during the Northeast Agricultural Biomass Heating Seminar, a one-day event held in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., that preceded the Northeast Biomass Heating Expo.
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition has released its 2012 Farm Bill platform, which provides suggestions to improve some federal bioenergy programs, including the Repowering Assistance Program and the Biomass Crop Assistance Program.
Already having built more than 200 biogas plants across Europe, Weltec Biopower GmbH has begun construction of another, to be one of Germany's largest when completed, according to the company.
As a result of collaboration between California-based Ceres Inc. and Aberystwyth University in Wales, the first comprehensive genetic map of miscanthus has been published.
Through the Maine Forest Service's Wood-to-Energy Public Building Program, the school and city hall in Gardiner officially cut the ribbon on wood pellet boiler installation projects.
Plenty of uncertainty surrounds implementation of Boiler MACT rules, as Congress attempts to delay them, but emission control developer Tri-Mer Corp. isn't waiting around for the final version.
A comprehensive forest biomass study indicates that only about one-third of Washington State's commercially available biomass is currently utilized.
After a 30-month development and construction period, a crowd of approximately 150 stakeholders and employees watched Massachusetts-based Ameresco Inc. and the U.S. DOE cut the ribbon at the Savannah River Site Biomass Cogeneration Facility.
With a $25,000 grant, The Oakdale Renewable Energy Plant on a University of Iowa satellite campus will locate and procure additional sources of feedstock to supplement the oat hulls and wood waste its boiler already uses.
By the end of this month, several U.K. primary schools could be in line to receive biomass boilers, possibly with investments from their regional planning entity in West Yorkshire, England.
Itasca Community College, located in Northern Minnesota, has partnered with the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, Skogforsk, to further develop the forest-based bioenergy supply chain in Minnesota.
Plans for Beaver Wood Energy's 34 MW CHP facility co-located with a pellet plant in Fair Haven, Vt., are still moving along, but construction depends on the state's pending RPS.
The largest advanced waste water treatment facility in the world is installing a CHP facility and has hired Pepco Energy Services to design, build and operate it.
Wood pellet boilers are now classified as a conventional, primary heating source, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and consequently will now qualify for Federal Housing Authority Funding.
A biomass boiler developer based in Quebec has received funding from the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program to test a biomass boiler on agricultural residues.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has made public an early release version of its 2012 Annual Energy Outlook, predicting biomass and wind electricity to dominate projected increases in U.S. non-hydro renewable electricity generation.
The Forest Guild has released its report, "Forest Biomass Retention and Harvesting Guidelines for the Southeast," identifying how expanding markets for forest bioenergy can enhance forests, while meeting the social and economic needs of society.
Advanced Bio Heat Co. expects its wood pellet-fired forced-air furnace to bolster the U.S. wood pellet industry by creating a requirement for stocking inventory during the summer.
A provision to grant the U.S. EPA more time to finalize and reevaluate the Maximum Achievable Control Technology rules for industrial boilers has been left out of the payroll tax cut extension bill that Congress has passed.
A producer and collector tax credit has improved economic sustainability in Oregon's biomass industry
One of Britain's largest nurseries has proposed an 8.5 MW combined-heat-and-power biomass plant at its New Milton, Hampshire County, location.
More than 400 professionals gather to talk biomass in The City by the Bay
Conference tour visits wastewater treatment plant, dairy digester
Conference general session hashes out bioenergy carbon cycles
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