Conference Overview The production of energy from woody biomass can be an important component of a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy security. Biomass represents 79% of independent renewable energy generation in North Carolina and will continue to represent a large portion of the renewable energy portfolio for the foreseeable future. [...]
UT Holding Wood Pellet Seminar, Webinar
The University of Tennessee Center For Renewable Carbon is holding a seminar and simultaneous webinar on wood pellet manufacturing in the southeast on Thursday, August 18 from 9am to 12pm (EST). The seminar will include presentations by an equipment manufacturer and a hardwood pellet producer. There will also be discussions of the markets for pellets [...]
Metso Wins Order For German Biomass Plant
Metso will supply Heizkraftwerk Zwickau Süd GmbH & Co. KG with a modularized biomass power plant for combined heat and power production (CHP) in the municipality of Zwickau in Germany. The CHP plant will be delivered by the Metso-Wärtsilä joint venture, MW Power. The delivery encompasses the complete turnkey solution including not only the entire [...]
Enviva Tells Of Second NC Pellet Plant, Eyes Third In Area
Enviva LP, a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, will build a second $60 million wood pellet manufacturing facility in North Carolina, just off I-95 at Garysburg, near the Virginia state line. Projected to be operational by the fall of 2012, the plant go up 52 miles west of [...]