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Biomass Energy Growing Pains
Several biomass power facilities have come online over the last few years in Colorado, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida, and Hawaii, but not without difficulties, including fires, inefficient equipment, lawsuits, and competing with the low price of natural gas. Gypsum, Colorado Eagle Valley Clean Energy, an 11.5‑megawatt biomass power facility in Gypsum, Colorado started operating in December 2013,…
Gypsum, CO Biomass Incinerator Still Off-Line After December Fire
- by Scott Miller, March 22, 2015, Post Independent A plant that generates electricity by burning beetle-killed wood had only been operating for a few months when a December fire badly damaged the facility’s conveyor system. The plant has been closed since, and will probably remain closed until summer. The plant, built by Provo, Utah-based Eagle…
Beetle-Kill Fuels Bioenergy
- by Kelly Hatton, July 17, 2014, Western Confluence On a morning in early March, I ride with Cody Neff, owner of West Range Reclamation (WRR), in his truck from Frisco, Colorado, to the company’s nearby worksite in the White River National Forest. Light is just starting to reach over the high snow-covered slopes surrounding Frisco, but Neff…
220,000 acres of Colorado’s White River National Forest to be Logged for Biomass Energy
Demand for biomass energy in Colorado will require logging in 220,000 acres of the White River National Forest. ‑Ed. - by Allen Best, March 6, 2014. Source: Mountain Town News For most of the last decade, Coloradans have been talking about how to make good use of their mountain forests, dying and gray. Something is finally happening.…