Tag: forestry

  • New Law Will Make Biomass Heating Cheaper in Massachusetts

    - by Shi­ra Schoen­berg, Decem­ber 1, 2014, Mass Live A new law that goes into effect in Jan­u­ary will make it cheap­er to use renew­able ener­gy to heat a home – and could pro­vide a boost to the wood indus­try in rur­al parts of West­ern Massachusetts. “This is going to help (renew­able) tech­nolo­gies com­pete with and…

  • Commercial Use of Wood Energy is Heating Up

    - by Michael Mccord, Novem­ber 26, 2014, New Hamp­shire Busi­ness Review New Hampshire’s recent­ly released 10-year ener­gy strat­e­gy acknowl­edged an ongo­ing fact of life for the state’s com­mer­cial and res­i­den­tial sec­tors: New Hamp­shire imports 100 per­cent of its fos­sil fuels and nat­ur­al gas. Accord­ing to the NH Wood Ener­gy Coun­cil, New Hamp­shire pays more than $1…