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  • RWE Drops Biomass Power, Adds Biomass Thermal, Wind

    - by Anna Simet, March 12, 2015, Bio­mass Magazine While RWE Group report­ed it achieved its earn­ings tar­gets for 2014 and EBITDA was sig­nif­i­cant­ly bet­ter than planned, low elec­tric­i­ty prices and unusu­al­ly mild weath­er neg­a­tive­ly affect­ed busi­ness per­for­mance, which dropped 25 per­cent from 2013 to 2014. Peter Teri­um, CEO of RWE, said that cur­rent­ly, 35 to 45 per­cent…

  • Procter & Gamble Fires Up Massive Biomass Investment

    - by Heather Clan­cy, March 3, 2015, Forbes  With com­pa­nies like Apple and Google reg­u­lar­ly steal­ing head­lines for their solar and wind invest­ments, it’s easy to for­get “renew­able” ener­gy comes in many forms. For con­sumer prod­ucts giant Proc­ter & Gam­ble bio­mass con­tin­ues to be high­ly strate­gic. Indeed, it’s work­ing on one of the biggest cor­po­rate bio­mass plants in the Unit­ed States,…

  • Hardwood Trees Chipped for Nova Scotia Biomass

    - by Roger Tay­lor, Feb­ru­ary 26, 2015, Her­ald Business Hard­wood trees are being allowed to go up in smoke, and with them a num­ber of rur­al man­u­fac­tur­ing jobs that are hard to replace. It is easy to reach that con­clu­sion after read­ing sto­ries about sev­er­al com­pa­nies in rur­al Nova Sco­tia that have been mak­ing prod­ucts from…

  • New York Republicans Trying to Slip Pricey Biofuels Mandate into Budget

    - by Fredric U. Dick­er, March 2, 2015, New York Post With a bit­ter-cold win­ter and sky­rock­et­ing heat­ing oil use, the GOP’s tim­ing couldn’t be worse. Sen­ate Repub­li­cans, under pres­sure from mav­er­ick super­mar­ket bil­lion­aire John Cat­si­ma­tidis, are try­ing to slip a “green bio­fu­els” man­date into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new bud­get that could add $150 mil­lion a year to…

  • Wisconsin Governor Wants to Cut $8 Million from Bioenergy Research

    - by Thomas Con­tent and Lee Bergquist, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2015, Jour­nal Sentinel In an about-face from his first term, Gov. Scott Walk­er wants to elim­i­nate fund­ing for a Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-Madi­son renew­able ener­gy research cen­ter that has played a key role in help­ing land one of its biggest gov­ern­ment grants ever. In his bud­get, Walk­er is…

  • BLM Plan to Convert Nevada’s Pinyon Forests to Biomass Threatens Ancient Rituals

    - by Lisa Gale Gar­rigues, Indi­an Coun­try Today Media Network For cen­turies the piny­on trees of Neva­da have nour­ished the Shoshone, Paiute and oth­er peo­ples, giv­ing them pine nuts, ingre­di­ents for soup, milk and even a place to pray. Now it is about to become some­thing else: a prof­itable source of biomass. The Piny­on-Juniper Part­ner­ship, a con­sor­tium…

  • Local Opposition Affects Oregon Biofuel Plant

    - by Al Maior­i­no, March 3, 2015, Envi­ron­men­tal Leader In 2014, the Unit­ed States Depart­ments of the Navy, Ener­gy and Agri­cul­ture award­ed a $70 mil­lion grant to Red Rock Bio­fu­els for the design, con­struc­tion, com­mis­sion­ing and per­for­mance test­ing of a new bio­fu­el refin­ery.  The biore­fin­ery is planned for Lake­view, Ore­gon, close to the Fre­mont Nation For­est…

  • Firing Up Hawaiian Biomass Facility

    - by Chris D’Angelo, Feb­ru­ary 11, 2015, The Gar­den Island Green Ener­gy Team, LLC’s $90 mil­lion bio­mass-to-ener­gy facil­i­ty in Koloa is now hot. “They lit the boil­er and have start­ed mak­ing steam,” said Kauai Island Util­i­ty Coop­er­a­tive spokesman Jim Kel­ly, who is han­dling press inquiries for GET. “For the next prob­a­bly three to four weeks, they’re going…

  • U.S. Added 254 Megawatts of Biomass Energy in 2014

    - by Erin Voegele, Feb­ru­ary 6, 2015 Bio­mass Magazine The Fed­er­al Ener­gy Reg­u­la­to­ry Commission’s Office of Ener­gy Projects has released the Decem­ber edi­tion of its Ener­gy Infra­struc­ture Update, report­ing the U.S. added 254 MW of bio­mass ener­gy capac­i­ty last year. In Decem­ber, the U.S. added five bio­mass gen­er­at­ing units with a com­bined capac­i­ty of 23 MW. Dur­ing…

  • Exploiting Private Forests for Bioenergy

    - by Roy Keene The debate over a sin­gle wood pow­ered elec­tri­cal gen­er­a­tor in Eugene has been myopi­cal­ly focused on just one project and one pro­posed fuel source. Sup­port­ers for Seneca Sawmill Co.’s pro­posed pow­er plant have yet to pub­licly men­tion that slash could be replaced with chipped trees as fuel prices rise, or that this…