Wood Bioenergy | a Hatton-Brown publication

The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) extends its praise to Sens. Al Franken (D-MN) and Kit Bond (R-MO) and Reps. Betty McCollum (D-MN), Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Paul Tonko (D-NY) for introducing the Thermal Renewable Energy and Efficiency Act of 2010 in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives (S. 3626 and H.R. 5805, respectively). [...]

Klamath Falls Bioenergy, a subsidiary of Northwest Energy in Bellevue, Wash., is seeking a site to build a 35 MW bioenergy power generation plant in Klamath Falls, Ore. The facility will cost $70-$120 million and employ 175 during construction, 30 permanent jobs during operation and 100 associated woods jobs related to logging and hauling biomass. [...]

Novozymes, the world’s leading producer of industrial enzymes, and Lignol Energy Corp., a leading company in the cellulosic ethanol sector, today signed a research and development agreement to make biofuel from wood chips and other forestry residues. The partners aim to develop a process for making biofuel from forestry waste at a production cost down [...]

Thanks in part to a $25 million federal grant, Colorado-based biorefiner Zeachem broke ground in early June on a cellulosic ethanol demo plant in eastern Oregon near Boardman. Company officials say the facility will produce 250,000 gallons of ethanol annually, plus ethyl acetate. The plant is using poplar fiber from Greenwood Resources irrigated fiber farms [...]