Interview: How The Wood Pellet Export Industry Will Impact North Carolina
Wood pellets. They’re a simple idea, but their potential implications are far more complicated and controversial. Member countries in the European Union are buying these small, compressed cylinders,...
View ArticleEnergy Builds On B.C. Woody Biomass Project
The city’s biomass project has achieved critical mass as it moves ahead in earnest with the next phase of its alternative heating project for the downtown. Utilizing biomass from locally collected wood...
View ArticleIndeck Energy Wood Pellets Qualify For PFI Standards Program
Indeck Ladysmith, LLC, manufacturer of Indeck Energy Premium Wood Pellets, recently announced its qualification to the Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI) Standards Program. As a program participant, the...
View ArticleDeclining Electricity Prices In The Northeast Hinder Biomass Market
In 2015, New Hampshire set a record for biomass use: 2.6 million tons of low-grade wood was converted to electricity. In 2014, biomass accounted for roughly 22 percent of Maine’s total harvest volume....
View ArticleKentucky Plant Produces Electricity, Steam From Wood Waste
Workers at a Kentucky plant are doing more than making doors, molding and stair parts. They’re creating fuel to help power the factory. Cox Interior in Campbellsville has a combined heat and power...
View ArticleCanada’s Moose Cree First Nation Sowing Seeds For Wood Pellet Plant
The Moose Cree First Nation is looking seriously at getting into manufacturing as its next big development project. The First Nation’s economic development department is about to begin work on a...
View ArticleBurning Question: Is Woody Biomass The 21st Century Fuel?
For hundreds of millennia, humans have depended on wood as a basic but reliable source of fuel. Today efforts to grow that dependence in the face of an evolving energy landscape are widespread. But...
View ArticleB.C. University Developing $33 Million Biomass Plant
Simon Fraser University is set to start construction on a new biomass plant that will power the university and adjacent urban community while drastically reducing emissions. SFU, along with SFU...
View ArticlePinnacle Renewable Energy To Feed Hungry Japanese Biomass Industry
A lot more wood is about to pass through Prince Rupert — as pellets. On Friday, the company that owns Westview pellet terminal, Pinnacle Renewable Energy Group, announced they have finalized a contract...
View ArticleRed Rock Biofuels Facility Breaks Ground In Oregon
Remember in the iconic “Back To The Future” films when Doc Brown placed garbage in the time machine’s engine to fuel it? From science-fiction to science-fact, a similar process will soon become reality...
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