Biomass
Biomass includes plant materials and animal waste that are used for biopower, biofuels, biogas, and bioproducts. We include articles on the role of biomass in clean energy efforts and legislative actions to replace fossil fuels and reduce carbon emissions. Information on the Biomass Power Association (BPA) is also included.
Burning Down the House: The Shocking Economics of Energy
Imagine if Mitt Romney's sons burned through their entire family fortune in less time than it takes to watch Titanic in 3D. That would ...
Goldman Sachs to Pump $40bn into Clean Energy
Goldman Sachs Group plans to invest $40 billion over the next 10 years into renewable energy, an area ...
Contract Wins: Q.Cells’ PV on Ikea, Turboden ORC at Heathrow, EnerNOC in SF
IKEA has ordered 7MW of Q.Cells' solar modules. The retailer will install Q.Cells' CIGS thin-film modules on the rooftop of its main ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Production Tax Credit, Light Bulbs, Buffett on Keystone
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 11 items.
President Barack Obama urged Congress to extend ...
NREL Unveils ‘More Accurate’ Energy Project Emissions Calculator
Cradle-to-grave greenhouse gas emissions from solar photovoltaics are about 5 percent of those from coal; wind and solar are about equal in emissions; and nuclear ...
West Fraser Timber Company to Install 13 MW Biomass Plant, Sell Power to Utility
West Fraser Timber Company will generate 13 MW of power for its British Columbia plant and the province as a whole, using wood chips converted ...
Renewables Briefing: Markey Group, Constellation Energy, U.S. Air Force
Here's the latest news on renewable power installations, contracts, financing, permits and market changes affecting corporate environmental and energy executives.
Markey Group has opened a £1.1 million ...
Biogas Market ‘to Reach $8.9bn by 2017′
The world market for biogas plants is projected to reach $8.9 billion by 2017, according to a report by Global Industry Analysts Inc.
Growth will be ...
Defense Department Targets 3GW of Renewables by 2025
The Department of Defense has pledged to deploy 3 GW of renewable power - including solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal - by 2025, in what ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: E15 Registrations, EPA Delays, BPA in Packaging
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 13 items.
The EPA approved the first applications for ...
Energy Use in Manufacturing Down 10% in Four Years
Energy consumption in the U.S. manufacturing sector fell from 21,098 trillion Btu (tBtu) in 2006 to 19,062 tBtu in 2010, a decline of almost 10 ...
Liberty Paper Mill to Self-Power with Anaerobic Digester
Liberty Paper's mill in Becker, Minn., is expected to completely self-power using a $15 million water pretreatment plant with bio-gas generator, writes the Minneapolis ...
Renewables Briefing: Sainsbury's 6.9MW Solar PV, RGS Energy Capital, Wells Fargo, Navy Biojet Fuel
British supermarket chain Sainsbury's has installed 6.9 MW solar PV systems on store rooftops in the south of England. The series of 115 projects, completed ...
Ernst & Young: Incentives Helped Make U.S. Top for Renewable Energy Investments
Public funding helped the U.S. surpass China last year as the number one country for renewable energy investments, reversing positions held since 2009, but China ...
Fire Rages at Europe’s Largest Biomass Power Station
A massive fire blazed Monday at RWE npower's wood-pellet-fired Tilbury power station, the largest biomass plant in Europe, the Financial Times writes.
The fire started ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: RFS 2011, EU ETS, UK Solar Subsidy Cuts, IMO Code
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) has asked that the EPA deny a petition submitted this month by the petroleum industry that would retroactively change the ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CARB Diesel Vehicles, China vs. EU ETS, Mexico Climate Law
California's On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation has shifted the reporting date to March 30, 2012, for most privately and federally owned diesel fueled trucks ...
Walmart Rockets from 15th to Third in EPA Green Power Rankings
Walmart has shot to third place on the EPA's rankings of the country's top green power purchasers, from 15th place just last ...
BSkyB Studio to Get 40% of Energy from Biomass CHP
BSkyB, the U.K. satellite and telecoms company, will generate up to 40 percent of the energy for its new main studio campus through a ...
Verso Completes 28 MW Biomass Project
Verso Paper Corp. has completed a $45 million renewable energy project at its pulp and paper mill in Quinnesec, Mich.
The project includes design upgrades to ...
