COVID relief bill will be a gamechanger for residential wood heat
The $900 million COVID-19 relief package passed by Congress on Dec. 21 includes provisions of the Biomass Thermal Utilization Act and will enact a th ...
EIA: Densified biomass fuel sales reach 780,000 tons in August
The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently released data showing U.S. manufacturers produced approximately 840,000 tons of densified biomass ...
FPAC applauds government’s plan to plant two billion trees
Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Seamus O’Regan, has unveiled the federal government’s plan to launch its two billion tre ...
Dartmouth College abandons biomass conversion plans
Dartmouth College has stepped away from plans to replace its central heating plant with a new biomass plant. During the COVID-19 pandemic, work on th ...
UK white paper says BECCS, RNG will help meet net zero goal
The U.K. government on Dec. 14 published a white paper that describes how the country will clean up its energy system and reach net zero emissions by ...
Power plant on Reunion Island to be converted to biomass
A 108-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant located on an island in the Indian Ocean located approximately 500 miles east of Madagascar will soon be c ...
Chiyoda, Toshiba ESS complete large-scale BECCS plant in Japan
Chiyoda Corporation has completed the EPC operations contracted with Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions (Toshiba ESS) for a large-scale carbon c ...
Japan’s Hibikinada biomass plant plans January restart
Japan’s 112MW Hibikinada biomass power plant in the southern Fukuoka prefecture plans to resume partial operations on 4 January following an un ...
Over for Moorburg – this is where the coal phase-out reveals its greatest weakness
For the first time, the federal government auctioned decommissioning premiums for coal-fired power plants. Vattenfalls Moorburg is one of the “winn ...
EIA seeks comments on extension of densified biomass fuel report
The U.S. Energy Information Administration is inviting public comments on a proposed three-year extension of its form to collect data for the Densif ...
