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  • USDA Spends $9 Million More on Biomass Energy

    - U.S. For­est Ser­vice, April 9, 2015 Today, Agri­cul­ture Sec­re­tary Tom Vil­sack announced the award of over $9 mil­lion to expand and accel­er­ate wood ener­gy and oth­er wood prod­uct mar­kets. The fed­er­al funds will lever­age $22 mil­lion in invest­ments from part­ners, result­ing in a total invest­ment of $31 mil­lion in 23 states. “Work­ing with our part­ners,…

  • Biomass Company Owes Lawrence County, Ohio Back Taxes

    - Beni­ta Heath, April 8, 2015, Iron­ton Tribune Two months after Bio­mass own­er Mark Har­ris paid off two-thirds of the back tax­es he owed on prop­er­ty at The Point indus­tri­al park, he has yet to pay any of the first half tax­es for 2014. Those tax­es, due on March 6, total $5,193.49 on all six parcels, plus…

  • Study: Biofuel Crops Replacing Grasslands, Contributing to CO2 Emissions

    - April 4, 2015, Grand Island Independent A new study from Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-Madi­son researchers show that crops, includ­ing the corn and soy­beans used for bio­fu­els, expand­ed onto 7 mil­lion acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four-year peri­od, replac­ing mil­lions of acres of grasslands. The study — from UW-Madi­son grad­u­ate stu­dent Tyler…

  • Fire at Biomass Power Facility in Thailand

    - April 8, 2015, Bangkok Post A bio­mass pow­er plant with large piles of palm ker­nel shells used for fuel caught fire in Khao Phanom dis­trict of Kra­bi ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing, and dam­age was esti­mat­ed at 100 mil­lion baht.  The fire at Saraff Ener­gies Co start­ed about 1.30am. The plant was tem­porar­i­ly closed for maintenance.  It first emerged…

  • Boardman, Oregon Coal Plant Mulls Biomass

    - by George Plaven, April 6, 2015, EO Media Group As a poten­tial source of renew­able ener­gy, giant cane could be the answer to sav­ing Port­land Gen­er­al Electric’s coal-fired pow­er plant in Board­man long after the facil­i­ty quits using coal by 2020. On the oth­er hand, as an inva­sive species, giant cane could spread wild across the Colum­bia…

  • Bill to Subsidize California Biomass Facilities

    - by John Cox, April 6, 2015, Bak­ers­field Californian Local farm­ers are adding their sup­port to leg­is­la­tion that would divert rev­enue from California’s cap-and-trade pro­gram to bio­mass plants that gen­er­ate pow­er by burn­ing agri­cul­tur­al and urban green waste. Last month the Kern Coun­ty Farm Bureau co-host­ed a meet­ing in Delano to raise aware­ness of Assem­bly Bill 590…

  • Biofuels Gain Traction at Minnesota Legislature

    - by Jon Collins, March 31, 2015, Min­neso­ta Pub­lic Radio A bill to cre­ate a $5 mil­lion tax cred­it to advance the devel­op­ment of the bio­fu­el indus­try in Min­neso­ta is gain­ing trac­tion at the state Legislature. New­er tech­nolo­gies allow the use of plants like native prairie grass­es or alfal­fa for con­ver­sion ethanol. The so-called advanced bio­fu­el tax…

  • Plainfield, Connecticut Biomass Facility Changes Hands Again

    - by Bri­an Dowl­ing, March 25, 2015, Hart­ford Courant Lei­dos Inc. is sell­ing its Plain­field wood-fired pow­er plant to Green­leaf Pow­er, a Sacra­men­to com­pa­ny that is buy­ing bio­mass plants across North America. Green­leaf Pow­er announced Wednes­day it has agreed to buy the 37.5‑megawatt pow­er plant in a deal it expects to close lat­er this year. The com­pa­ny…

  • Obama Loves Biomass Thermal

     by Bio­mass Ther­mal Ener­gy Coun­cil, March 23, 2015, Bio­mass Magazine [Bio­mass indus­try groups over­joyed with the President’s most recent sup­port for bio­mass ener­gy. –Josh]  The Bio­mass Ther­mal Ener­gy Coun­cil  and the Pel­let Fuels Insti­tute (PFI) com­mend Pres­i­dent Obama’s com­mit­ment to expand­ing the use of renew­able ther­mal ener­gy with the issuance of Exec­u­tive Order “Plan­ning for Fed­er­al…

  • $629 Million in Taxpayer Dollars for Bioenergy

    - by Erin Voegele, March 19, 2015, Ethanol Pro­duc­er Magazine On March 12, the U.S. Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­is­tra­tion pub­lished a report on direct fed­er­al finan­cial inter­ven­tions and sub­si­dies in ener­gy for fis­cal year (FY) 2103. The report, which responds to a request from Reps. Fred Upton, R‑Mich., chair­man of the House Com­mit­tee on Ener­gy and Com­merce…