Tag: economics
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Biomass Carpetbaggers
Biomass Carpetbaggers – by Tom Tolg, August 20, 2013. Source: The Recorder If Editor Blagg’s pro-biomass column was a meal I’d say it was a thin gruel of tainted leftovers along with a fruit salad loaded with sour grapes. Leaving the dinner table, we stumble onto “carpetbaggers” who Mr. Blagg identifies with the anti-biomass folks. If you…
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New York Biomass Incinerator Awaits $100 Million Handout
New York Biomass Incinerator Awaits $100 Million Handout August 17, 2013, Source: Mid Hudson News Network The Taylor Biomass waste-to-energy project has had the support of U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-Cold Spring, since his candidacy for Congress last year. The Orange County facility is awaiting a $100 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy…
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Gainesville, FL Biomass Settlement Offer Would Alter Contract with City
Gainesville, FL Biomass Settlement Offer Would Alter Contract with City – by Christopher Curry, August 15, 2013. Source: The Gainesville Sun The biomass plant company has sent Gainesville its terms for dropping a $50 million arbitration counterclaim and some city officials say the terms are unacceptable. The Gainesville Renewable Energy Center seeks no money to settle. Instead,…
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Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner
Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner – by Warren Johnston, August 11, 2013. Source: Valley News [For more information on this facility please read “Cellulosic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand“] Mascoma Corp., the Lebanon-based developer of cutting-edge biofuels technology, has lost its major partner in a proposed $233 million ethanol plant in Michigan. Although Mascoma did not…
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Biomass Fuel Subsidies to be Capped in U.K.
Biomass Fuel Subsidies to be Capped in U.K. – by Roger Harrabin, July 16, 2013. Source: BBC The government is turning away from its controversial policy of subsidising UK power stations to generate electricity from burning wood. It is proposing that subsidies for bespoke biomass burning plants should be capped at 400 MW. It will end subsidies…
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Biomass and Other Transition Fuels are a False Solution
Biomass and Other Transition Fuels are a False Solution – by Karen Orr, Energy Justice Network Clean, truly renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030, according to recent research published by the Journal of Power Sources. This can be done economically and without government subsidies if…
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Largest Biomass Incinerator in the World Shuts Down
Largest Biomass Incinerator in the World Shuts Down – by Jan Hromadko, July 8, 2013. Source: Euro Investor RWE AG (RWE.XE) said Monday it has abandoned plans to extend the operating life of the world’s largest biomass-fired power plant, citing poor energy demand, low power prices and a heavy debt load for forcing the German utility to…
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EU: Oil, Biofuel Companies May Have Colluded on Price Distortion
May 14, 2013. Source: Frances Robinson, Wall Street Journal BRUSSELS–The European Union’s antitrust authorities raided the offices of oil and biofuel companies in two EU member states and Norway on suspicion of distorting prices, the EU Commission said Tuesday. “On 14 May 2013, Commission officials carried out unannounced inspections at the premises of several companies active…
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129 Gigawatts of Biomass by 2020?
Electricity Generation from Biomass: Installed Capacity Forecasts for Dedicated, Co-Fired, Anaerobic Digestion, and Biorefinery Facilities May 27, 2013. Source: PR Newswire Accounting for 3% of global electricity generation capacity, biomass power generation (“biopower”) offers reliable baseload power to the grid and is expected to play a cornerstone role in meeting renewable energy targets worldwide. Capacity expansion…
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Biomass Incinerator Proposal for Klamath Falls, Oregon Withdrawn
Project withdrawn after federal funding source issues June 14, 2013. Source: Andrew Creasey, Herald and News A proposed and controversial biomass plant off Highway 66 will not be built due to complications with its federal funding source. Klamath Falls Bioenergy withdrew its application for a site certification Tuesday. The certification process had been mired in delays…
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