All Entries Tagged With: "wood"
US Forest Service grants $1.7m to expand use of waste wood
In Arizona and New Mexico, the US Forest Service has granted $1.7 million to small business in order for them to expand their use of waste wood from National Forest land for energy production.
The companies in Arizona receiving funding include Cooley Forest Products in Phoenix, Arizona Log and timberworks in Eagar and San Carlos Apache [...]
Clenergen acquires 18MW biomass power plant in India
In India, Clenergen has agreed to acquire an 18MW biomass-fired power plant located 40km from Chennai, subject to bank approvals of the company’s assumption of previous outstanding debt and loans.
The facility, which runs on wood waste, was upgraded from 12MW in 2008 and sells its electricity to the local utility via short-term power supply contacts [...]
The Last Word on Biomass: “What was overlooked was that some ”waste” — like sawdust — was actually being sold.”
Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail, on misguided congressional economics: “Congressmen should act like physicians when they tend the national economy — and first do no harm. But over and over again, legislative prescriptions imposed by policymakers in Washington have poisoned the economy. Take the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, a half-billion-dollar subsidy program included in the 2008 [...]
Wisconsin PSC approves switch of Ashland plant from coal to biomass
In Wisconsin, the state Public Service Commission OK’d a proposal by Xcel Energy to switch its Ashland plant from coal-fired power to forest-residue gasification by 2012. The conversion project at the Bay Front Power Plant will cost $58.1 million, according to the utility’s plan, and will utilize wood waste from logging operations.
The utility already has [...]
