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Tag: economics

  • 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…

  • 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 and…

  • 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, GREC,…

  • 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 con­firm…

  • 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 for bio­mass…

  • 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…

  • 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 cut…

  • EU: Oil, Biofuel Companies May Have Colluded on Price Distortion

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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 with…