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.
Air Products Fuels Cars with Hydrogen from Wastewater
Specialty gas company Air Products has opened a hydrogen fueling station (pictured) that draws feedstock from municipal wastewater.
In addition to providing hydrogen, the process, taking place ...
Distiller Powers Nissan Leaf on Whiskey
Worried about rising fuel costs? Spare a thought for Scotland, where things seem to have got so bad that one business has resorted to ...
International Paper Cuts Energy Use, Increases Landfilling
International Paper reduced its global energy use from 2007 to 2010, but increased its landfilled solid waste from 2006 to 2010, according to ...
Cargill Waste-to-Energy System Brings Meat Plant’s Renewable Capacity to 80 Percent
Canadian agribusiness, Cargill, will invest approximately $37.8 million ($36 million Canadian dollars) in a waste-to-energy project at its High River, Alberta, beef processing facility. The system ...
Alternate Energy Choices and Challenges in Vermont
The small state of Vermont isn’t often a hotbed of national news. Nonetheless, the Green Mountain State does pride itself on its ...
Biomass-Powered Data Centers: Next Step for Green IT?
Over the past several years, those of us in the data center industry have seen dramatic strides in Green IT, primarily focused ...
Weyerhaeuser Installing Waste-Heat-to-Energy Plant
Weyerhaeuser Company is building a waste-heat-to-energy plant at its mill in Greenville, N.C.
The installation will capture waste heat from a kiln where cut lumber ...
Boeing, Alaska Air Press for Biofuel Research
Oilseed, forest residues, municipal solid waste and algae are all promising feedstocks for the future of aviation, according to an industry research initiative that ...
GM Landfill-Gas Powered Plant Saves $1.1 Million in Energy Costs
General Motors Orion assembly plant in Orion, Michigan, is powering 40 percent of production of the 2012 Chevrolet Sonic and Buick Verano with landfill gas ...
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: Boiler Rule Delay, Coal Ash, Waste-to-Energy
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is delaying the implementation of standards for industrial boilers and incinerators.
The EPA released the final Clean Air Act standards ...
Anheuser-Busch Improves Recycling, CO2, Energy Use
Anheuser-Busch InBev increased its relative recycling rate by 24 percent in 2010, while improving energy use, CO2 emissions and water consumption, according ...
Obama Calls for Increased Natural Gas, Biofuel to Reduce Foreign Oil Dependence
President Barack Obama yesterday announced a plan to cut U.S. oil imports by a third by 2025.
Speaking at Georgetown University, the president ...
GM Leads Pack as Clean Patents Jump by Record 170%
Clean energy patents hit a record high in 2010, as GM took the leadership position from Honda, according to a patent index published by ...
Paper By-Products Fire Sappi Mill, Help Feed Cows
Sappi Fine Paper is using black liquor, a residue from the pulping process, to generate energy equivalent to 100,000 barrels of fuel oil.
The company’s ...
Drax Power Eyes Complete Switch to Biomass
Drax Power, Britain's biggest coal burning power station, envisions ...
Environmental Enforcement: Biomass Plants Fined $835,000 For Clean Air Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District have settled claims brought against two biomass power plants in California's Central Valley, the agencies announced yesterday.
The companies have ...
Environmental Enforcement: Court Grants Brief Boiler Rule Extension to EPA
A federal District Court judge in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20 issued an order extending by 30 days the Environmental Protection Agency's deadline to issue emission ...
Milk and Fruit to Help Power Unilever Plant
Unilever has started building a system to derive energy from wastewater at a Dutch Ben & Jerry’s factory.
The Paques bio-digester will ...
EPA Defers GHG Rules for Biomass and Biogenic Sources
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is granting an exemption under its controversial greenhouse-gas requirements that will provide a three-year reprieve for biomass facilities that ...
University’s $3.5M Dry Bio-digester is First in Nation
The University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh, which ranked 35th on Sierra Magazine’s “Cool Schools” for its green energy initiative, is just months from completing the first US ...
