Many bioenergy industry proponents put forth carbon neutrality as a basis for their support. However, the claim may not hold up under scrutiny. By some accounts, biomass power plant emissions ...

Though experts say biomass should continue to play a key role in the U.S. renewable power portfolio for its baseload properties, contributions to forest management, and other reasons, a swathe of ...

The use of renewable fuels for power generation is set to increase dramatically in the U.S. primarily due to current and proposed government policies and requirements. Yet for all the publicity that ...

Last week, Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin, Texas, announced that city taxpayers would be paying $460 million for a biomass power plant they’d previously paid $128 million to help build on top of a ...

>> WELCOME TO NEW HAMPSHIRE'S BUSINESS. BIOENERGY PLANTS ARE SHUTTING DOWN AND PUTTING HUNDREDS OUT OF WORK AND ALSO, POSSIBLY, NEW COSTS TO CONSUMERS. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT IN THE NEXT FEW ...

U.S. Renewables Group sold the 19 MW Tracy biomass power plant in California to Greenleaf Power, an owner and operator of green energy power plants, according to Electric Light & Power/POWERGRID ...

Companies that burn wood pellets for energy may be “marking their own homework on sustainability”, an influential cross-party committee has warned. In a report published on Friday, MPs on the Public ...

Biomass energy is made by burning living things like trees, crop residues, and other “woody biomass” to produce electricity. Like fossil fuels, biomass energy releases loads of planet-heating carbon ...

Biomass, which is essentially trees and grasses as well as forestry and agricultural waste, is burned as a source of both heat and electricity all over the world Dear EarthTalk: There’s a lot of talk ...

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GREENFIELD, Mass. Matthew Wolfe, an energy developer with plans to turn tree branches and other woody debris into electric power, sees himself as a positive force in the effort to wean his state off ...