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.
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 ...
Job Growth, Environmental Well-Being Tied to Biotechnology Advancement
Prospects for adoption of a national Renewable Portfolio Standard appear to have dimmed for the foreseeable future. That is at least the prevailing ...
Colby College Building $11 Million Biomass Plant
As part of a plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2015, Colby College in Maine has begun construction on a biomass plant that will replace ...
Biomass to Power Dow’s Aratu Complex
The Dow Chemical Company's largest manufacturing facility in Brazil, the Aratu Complex, has plans to add biomass to its energy mix. Upon completion in December ...
US Farmers Ready to Grow Energy Crops on Underutilized Land
A survey of U.S. growers showed that 71 percent of respondents were very interested or interested in growing dedicated energy crops to produce biomass ...
