Beasley Forest Products, LLC (BFP) and Land Care Services, LLC (LCS) have entered into a joint venture to develop a 56 MW biomass fueled power plant at a current industrial site in southeast Laurens County near Dublin. The new business, Green Power Solutions LLC (GPS), has received approval from the Georgia Public Service Commission and [...]
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 [...]
Dominion Unit Converts to Biomass
In a move to generate more power from renewable sources, energy utility Dominion Resources Inc. (D – Analyst Report) announced that its subsidiary Dominion Virginia Power, has decided to use biomass instead of coal in three of its power stations. Dominion Virginia Power’s decision to convert its three generating stations in Altavista, Hopewell and Southampton [...]
Duke Energy Biomass Projects to Count as Renewable
North Carolina power company Duke Energy has won approval to count five biomass co-generation units toward renewable energy standards. Regulators rejected an attempt by opponents to intervene in the company’s application to register two units at its Buck Steam Station plant and three units at its Lee Steam Station as producing renewable energy. The 370MW [...]
EU Group Drops Biomass Rules
In a report published the end of February, the European Commission’s energy department has confirmed there will be no EU effort—yet—to develop regulations concerning standards for biomass origin and sustainability, though the issue of “sustainability criteria” would be reviewed in 2011. The issue was hotly debated last year during Commission meetings. The report stated that [...]