All Entries in the "World Opinion" Category
The Last Word: “This is a huge loss to the local economy.”
Seymour Crawford: Fine Gael TD for Cavan-Monaghan: “This is a huge loss to the local economy. The siting of such a plant in the Republic would have had a huge advantage for farmers in the Republic, especially all engaged in the poultry industry, through the disposal of waste and the recycling to create energy.”
American Wind [...]
The Last Word: “Waste water purification plants…one of the largest drivers of operating and energy costs.”
Dr. Christoph Riemer, head of the Süd-Chemie Water Treatment: “Waste water purification plants are an indispensable component of municipal waste water treatment, but they are also one of the largest drivers of operating and energy costs for communities.”
Andris Piebalgs, EU Development Commissioner: “Africa has a vast untapped renewable energy potential, ranging from hydro, to solar, [...]
The Last Word: “Objective and reliable information about biomass technologies and fuels.”
Rick Handley, organizer of Biomass Boot Camps: “The purpose is to provide information for facility owners and managers who are looking for objective and reliable information about biomass technologies and fuels, the questions they have about development, and we are bringing together local experts to provide that information.”
Opinion: biomass facility is “an attempt to utilize a locally renewable and currently dying resource”
Tom Richard, Director of Penn State’s Institutes of Energy and the Environment: “The push-pull between economies of scale for conversion facilities and diseconomies of scale for feedstock supply chains suggest three distinct business models for biomass feedstock supply: independent local suppliers, large contiguous plantations and regional or global commodity markets.”
Kristen Bertuglia, the town of Vail’s [...]
Opinion: “We generate an amount of energy equivalent to 5.3 percent of nuclear, coal, and natural gas electric power sector energy consumption”
Christopher Galik, research coordinator at Duke University’s Climate Change Policy Partnership: “If we look at all the coal-fired boilers in the Southeastern United States that aren’t currently using biomass, and we maximize the amount of biomass that they can potentially co-fire, we generate an amount of energy equivalent to 5.3 percent of nuclear, coal, and [...]
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The Last Word: “Residents are justifiably worried about the impact on their quality of life.”
Gavin Adkins, Director of the Wood Panel Industry Federation and Kronospan Director of Sawmilling: “Since the Government started subsidising biomass power stations to burn timber the price of wood has increased by 30% over 3 years. Inevitably this will have to be passed on to the consumer. This could all be avoided if the Government [...]
The Last Word: “Certification of the massive Burger project without proper scrutiny could weaken Ohio’s renewable-energy standard.”
Neil Etherington, Able UK, group development director: “Quite rightly the potential for the UK in becoming an international leader in the renewable energy sector has been compared to the impact of North Sea oil and this project offers the chance for the Humber to become the key centre in the UK and Europe.”
Will Reisinger, Ohio [...]
The Last Word: “Biomass is much more like hydro—it has a firm capacity—and as a utility, that is what we like.”
Senior Biosystems Engineer, Dennis St. George: “There are many attributes that make an energy source functional and one of them is capacity, or the ability to deliver energy when you need to. With our hydro system, if we need to generate more power, it’s nearly an instantaneous process. The problem with wind and solar is [...]
Opinion: “Expanding the use of biomass is absolutely key to Scotland hitting its targets for renewables.”
Niall Stuart, CEO of Scottish Renewables Agency: “Expanding the use of biomass is absolutely key to Scotland hitting its targets for renewables and could make a massive cut in CO2 emissions for the way we heat and power homes and businesses. This report confirms what the industry has been saying for some time that these benefits [...]
