The owner of four Maine biomass-to-energy facilities says it’s been certified under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. ReEnergy Holdings says it’s the first company solely focused on producing electricity from biomass to be certified under the program. Company CEO Larry Richardson says ReEnergy earned the distinction by using sustainably-harvested biomass. “That is a critical part of [...]
Council Of State Approves Wood Pellet Facility At North Carolina Port
The North Carolina Council of State has approved a lease agreement to let a wood pellet maker build a facility at the State Port of Wilmington. The North Carolina State Ports Authority Board of Directors approved the deal with Enviva Holdings, LP last week. The state says the wood pellet export facility at the Port [...]
Biomass Facility At New York’s Fort Drum To Hold Grand Opening Event
A new biomass facility on post will have its grand opening this morning, drawing several regional business and government leaders. The 60-megawatt generating plant, which will be operated by ReEnergy Holdings LLC, Albany, has been touted as a project that will provide the area surrounding the post with renewable power and lead to more jobs. [...]
Georgia Power Enters Into 20-Year Agreement To Add Biomass Energy
U.S.-based energy company Georgia Power has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Rollcast Energy to boost its biomass power capacity by 53.5MW. Under the agreement, Georgia will procure the biomass power from Rollcast’s Piedmont Green Power plant, located in Barnesville in the U.S. state of Georgia. The owner of the plant will [...]
North American Wood Pellet Exports Reached New Record Of 3.2 Million Tons In 2012
The wood pellet export industry in North America has grown exponentially in a relatively short period of time. The export value has increased from an estimated 40 million dollars in 2004 to almost 400 million dollars in 2012. This fairly new trade development is the result of Europe’s quest to reduce its dependence on fossil [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Savannah River Site Marks One Year Anniversary Of Biomass Cogeneration Facility
Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Ameresco, Inc., a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, came together to mark the first year of successful operation of its new renewable energy fueled cogeneration facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS). Under the Department’s single largest renewable Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC), the [...]
New Mexico Renewable Energy Bill Includes Biomass Advances
State legislation that could make it more attractive to produce electricity from biomass, such as forest slash from tree thinning projects, cleared its first committee last week. Senate Bill 204 would amend New Mexico’s Renewable Energy Act by allowing Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to be issued for electricity produced from thermal energy derived from biomass [...]
Mississippi Company Makes Third Bulk Shipment Of Torrefied Wood Pellets To Europe
New Biomass Energy LLC announced its third transatlantic bulk shipment of torrefied wood pellets to Europe to be used as fuel in coal-fired power plants. The shipment consisted of over 4,000 tons of torrefied wood pellets produced at New Biomass Energy’s plant in Quitman, Mississippi. “We see our shipments of thousands of tons during this [...]