Tag: bioenergy

  • Fanning the Northeastern Biomass Flame

    [The bio­mass indus­try is team­ing up with envi­ron­men­tal­ists to increase the amount of forests burned for pol­lut­ing ener­gy in the Great North Woods.] Fan­ning the North­east­ern Bio­mass Flame - by Joseph Sey­mour, March 11, 2014. Source: Bio­mass Magazine Migrat­ing 1 mil­lion homes to bio­mass heat is optimistic—let alone 6 million—but recent devel­op­ments in the north­east­ern U.S. are dri­ving…

  • UK Biomass Project Halted, Developer Blames “erosion of support” for Biomass

    UK bio­mass project halt­ed, devel­op­er blames “ero­sion of sup­port” for biomass – by Nina Chest­ney, March 7, 2014. Source: Reuters Renew­able ener­gy devel­op­er RES has stopped a 300-mil­lion-pound ($500 mil­lion) project to build a bio­mass plant in Northum­ber­land, north­east Eng­land, due to what it called incon­sis­tent gov­ern­ment subsidies. The 100-megawatt (MW) plant was sched­uled to be…

  • New Law Will Make Biomass Heating Cheaper in Massachusetts

    - by Shi­ra Schoen­berg, Decem­ber 1, 2014, Mass Live A new law that goes into effect in Jan­u­ary will make it cheap­er to use renew­able ener­gy to heat a home – and could pro­vide a boost to the wood indus­try in rur­al parts of West­ern Massachusetts. “This is going to help (renew­able) tech­nolo­gies com­pete with and…

  • Commercial Use of Wood Energy is Heating Up

    - by Michael Mccord, Novem­ber 26, 2014, New Hamp­shire Busi­ness Review New Hampshire’s recent­ly released 10-year ener­gy strat­e­gy acknowl­edged an ongo­ing fact of life for the state’s com­mer­cial and res­i­den­tial sec­tors: New Hamp­shire imports 100 per­cent of its fos­sil fuels and nat­ur­al gas. Accord­ing to the NH Wood Ener­gy Coun­cil, New Hamp­shire pays more than $1…