A publically owned energy provider in Southern Sweden will use a circulating fluidized bed boiler manufactured by Global Power Group, a subsidiary of Sweden-based Foster Wheeler AG.
Seattle-based ecoTECH Energy Group has begun site work for a 5 MW biomass facility that will supply heat and power to an aquaponics greenhouse project near McBride, British Columbia.
A pellet boiler subsidy program designed to help 40 homeowners in Berlin, N.H., reduce heating costs through wood pellet-based heat has been extended indefinitely. It was slated to expire this month.
Westar Trade Resource president and CEO, Cindy Thyfault, has some advice for U.S. renewable energy companies looking to enter the global marketplace.
Forth Energy, a joint venture between Scottish & Southern Energy plc and Forth Ports Ltd., has withdrawn its application to construct a 100 MW combined-heat-and-power plant at the Port of Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Heat is Power Association, a new trade organization focused on the wide-scale development of a waste heat-to-power (WH2P) market, has officially launched and is welcoming new members.
The USDA has announced a $25 million Notice of Funding Availability for its Repowering Assistance Program, which is designed to provide a financial incentive for biorefineries to use biomass in place of fossil fuels for heat or power production.
The British-based broadcasting giant, BSkyB Ltd., has installed a combined-heat-and-power system at the company's Heathrow, London studio complex that will begin operations this year.
The New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning (OEP) is now the second state-affiliated energy information provider in the Northeastern U.S. to include average residential pricing for wood pellets.
Now in its fourth year, the Northeast Biomass Heating Expo, slated for March 21-23 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has released its 2012 conference program.
An $11.2 million biomass plant at Colby College in south central Maine is now on line and will provide heat, hot water and electricity for the campus. The facility is expected to save the school $1.5 million annually in heating costs.
The U.S. EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) has issued a draft report response to the EPA's Accounting Framework for Biogenic CO2 Emissions from Stationary Sources. The framework was first issued by the EPA in September.
U.S. President Barack Obama called on Congress during his Jan. 24 State of the Union Address to get working on a national clean energy standard, and stressed the importance of new incentives for renewable energy innovation.
FlexEnergy illustrates growth in global biomass energy capacity that may reach 83.1 GW by 2017
Denmark plans for 100 percent renewable energy use by 2050.
New Jersey's new energy plan raises the biomass bar
A biomass conversion in Louisville, Ky., will revamp a closed coal boiler house, saving and creating more than 350 jobs.
A Canadian community merged three biomass plants into one big success story for district heat.
A $71 million combined-heat-and-power (CHP) project under construction at Port Angeles, Wash., received good news from the state's Pollution Control Hearings Board this month.
The USDA announced Jan. 20 a Notice of Funding Availability for its Rural Energy for America Program, and is inviting agricultural producers and rural small businesses to apply.
Public and private enterprises in Oregon are working diligently to develop and expand a local biobased economy, according to speakers at the Pacific West Biomass Conference & Trade Show.
Attendees at the 2012 Pacific West Biomass Conference & Trade Show in San Francisco, Calif., Jan. 16-18 had the opportunity to learn about current trends in financing mechanisms during the event's opening general session.
Key factors to fuel handling design and implementation include raw material supply and power purchase agreements, according to Desmond Smith, vice president of Bruks Rockwood Inc. and speaker at the Pacific West Biomass Conference & Trade Show.
A $20 million biomass district heating project proposed for Montpelier, Vt., has received recommendation from city and state officials on three necessary contracts.
Verso Paper Corp. has finished a $45 million energy system upgrade at its Quinnesec, Mich., pulp and paper mill.
Nova Scotia Power has continued to move forward with a $200 million biomass cogeneration project at a paper mill in Cape Brenton, Nova Scotia, Canada, despite the mill's September closure over financial difficulties.
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