U.S.-based energy company U.S. EcoGen is set to construct three biomass plants in the state of Florida with a total capacity of 180MW. The three biomass facilities are planned in Okeechobee, Clay, and Martin Counties. The company expects that the power produced from these plants will cater to the energy requirements of 30,000 to 50,000 [...]
Demand For Wood Pellets In Europe A Boon In Southeast U.S.
The Port of Wilmington may reap the benefits of environmental regulations in Europe that have spurred a huge increase in demand for forest byproducts from the southeastern United States. Wood pellets, often used in wood-burning stoves, are taking the place of coal in many European power plants with the aim of reducing their carbon footprint. [...]
Wisconsin Biomass Plant On Track To Begin Running In Late 2013
More than 400 people have helped build the $250 million biomass power plant that now towers over Business Highway 51 and the Wisconsin River, and their months of hard work have the project on schedule to begin generating power late this year. When the facility opens, a parade of 50 to 75 semitrucks every weekday [...]
Mississippi Port Plans Wood Pellet Export Facility
The growth of wood pellet manufacturing means a big opportunity for the Port of Pascagoula. Plans are in the works for a $30 million port improvement to accommodate future wood pellet exports. The State of Mississippi will provide about one-third of the financing for this economic development project, built at the port’s Bayou Cassotte facilities. [...]
Pellet Fuels Institute Announces First Mill To Qualify In Its Standards Program
The Pellet Fuels Institute announced last week that New England Wood Pellet, LLC has officially qualified under the Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI) pellet fuel standards program. New England Wood Pellet, LLC (NEWP) is the first pellet manufacturer that can display the PFI Quality Mark on their bags, indicating that they are producing pellets that are [...]
New Portable Biomass Power Plant Draws Visitors To Virginia Tech Campus
Thirty visitors from as far away as New York and Guatemala recently journeyed to the Thomas M. Brooks Forest Products Center in February to see demonstrations of the Department of Sustainable Biomaterials’ new portable biomass power plant. About the size of a Mini Cooper turned upright, the biomass power system generates electricity by burning wood [...]
Auburn University Project To Improve Efficiency Of Biomass Biorefining Process
A research project to improve efficiency in the biorefining process for butanol production from forest and agricultural biomass has been launched by Maobing Tu, an assistant professor in the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. Tu said his study, titled “Carbonyl Inhibition of Butanol Production from Biomass Hydrolysates by Clostridium acetobutylicum,” will be [...]
Standardkessel To Build 7.5MW Biomass Plant In Hawaii
Standardkessel, the long established German power plant technology company, has just closed it’s first U.S. based dedicated biomass project. The plant is situated on the fourth largest Hawaiian island of Kaua’i and will provide base load electrical demand for the island’s 65,000 population. The plant will be the first closed loop biomass power plant to [...]
Wood Pellet Plant Could Come To Louisiana Port
A Canadian company is looking to build a wood pellet facility on 90 acres of Port Allen property owned by the Port of Greater Baton Rouge in southern Louisiana. Biomass Secure Power Inc., of Abbotsford, British Columbia, has an option on the property south of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and north of Northline Road that [...]
Can the U.S. Still Meet Its 2022 Biofuels Targets?
In Washington, the U.S. Energy Information Administration released a map and commentary on its website this week — indicating the spread of commercial-scale cellulosic biofuels, while cautioning that “EIA’s forecasts and projections to date have proven to be too optimistic, as volumes have been below expectations.” EIA went on to state: “Looking forward, important challenges [...]