Tag: biomass
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Plainfield, Vermont Biomass Continues to Rile Neighbors
- by Eric Blaisdell, March 27, 2015, Vermont Public Radio Things got so heated at Plainfield’s Select Board meeting Monday night in a discussion about Goddard College’s planned biomass-fueled heat plant, that one elected official told board members they’d be in “deep water” if they disregarded some residents’ wishes to have another meeting on it. The school is…
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Planned La Pine, Oregon Biomass Incinerator Hinges on Market
- by Dylan J. Darling, March 17, 2015, Bend Bulletin A wood-burning power plant remains a possibility for La Pine, with the city now taking the lead on the project from Deschutes County and the company behind it waiting for a change in the energy market. “It’s just been on hold due to market conditions,” said…
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Gypsum, CO Biomass Incinerator Still Off-Line After December Fire
- by Scott Miller, March 22, 2015, Post Independent A plant that generates electricity by burning beetle-killed wood had only been operating for a few months when a December fire badly damaged the facility’s conveyor system. The plant has been closed since, and will probably remain closed until summer. The plant, built by Provo, Utah-based Eagle…
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Kauai Biomass Facility to Get Fuel from Burned Forest
- by Chris D’Angelo, March 5, 2015, The Garden Island It is unlike any other logging operation in Hawaii’s history. And the $90 million biomass-to-energy facility the logs are destined for is as unique as the project itself, state officials say. “This is the largest operation that we’ve had,” said Lisa Hadway, administrator of the state Department…
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Biomass: The Unsustainable Energy Source
- by Atheo, Aletho News The promotional material from Big Green Energy, aka Biomass Gas & Electric, presents biomass as “clean, renewable energy,” sustainable and green. The US Department of Energy uses the terms “clean and renewable” when introducing visitors at its website to the topic. But is it accurate to describe the repeated removal of biomass…
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Planned La Pine, OR Biomass Facility Hinges on Market
- by Dylan J. Darling, March 17, 2015, Bend Bulletin A wood-burning power plant remains a possibility for La Pine, with the city now taking the lead on the project from Deschutes County and the company behind it waiting for a change in the energy market. “It’s just been on hold due to market conditions,” said…
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RWE Drops Biomass Power, Adds Biomass Thermal, Wind
- by Anna Simet, March 12, 2015, Biomass Magazine While RWE Group reported it achieved its earnings targets for 2014 and EBITDA was significantly better than planned, low electricity prices and unusually mild weather negatively affected business performance, which dropped 25 percent from 2013 to 2014. Peter Terium, CEO of RWE, said that currently, 35 to 45 percent…
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RWE Drops Biomass Power, Adds Biomass Thermal, Wind
- by Anna Simet, March 12, 2015, Biomass Magazine While RWE Group reported it achieved its earnings targets for 2014 and EBITDA was significantly better than planned, low electricity prices and unusually mild weather negatively affected business performance, which dropped 25 percent from 2013 to 2014. Peter Terium, CEO of RWE, said that currently, 35 to 45 percent…
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Procter & Gamble Fires Up Massive Biomass Investment
- by Heather Clancy, March 3, 2015, Forbes With companies like Apple and Google regularly stealing headlines for their solar and wind investments, it’s easy to forget “renewable” energy comes in many forms. For consumer products giant Procter & Gamble biomass continues to be highly strategic. Indeed, it’s working on one of the biggest corporate biomass plants in the United States,…
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Hardwood Trees Chipped for Nova Scotia Biomass
- by Roger Taylor, February 26, 2015, Herald Business Hardwood trees are being allowed to go up in smoke, and with them a number of rural manufacturing jobs that are hard to replace. It is easy to reach that conclusion after reading stories about several companies in rural Nova Scotia that have been making products from…