German energy company RWE announced the startup of a biomass facility that can produce as much as 7.6 megawatts of energy. RWE Innogy, through a joint venture with the municipality of Goch in eastern Germany and local food producer Nahr-Engel, inaugurated a biomass-fuel cogeneration plant. The facility, which uses landscape wood as a fuel source, [...]
U.S. Biomass: Where Do All the Wood Pellets Go?
Europe is usually the last place on one’s mind when riding through miles of surprisingly desolate pine forests, stretching from the Alabama line to Georgia’s marshy coast. But, in an unlikely convergence of European eco-policy and Southeastern pines, a Georgia wood pellet plant is now supplying a German-based utility with a steady stream of carbon-neutral [...]
RWE’s Tilbury Biomass Plant Restarts After Fire
Germany’s RWE said its biomass power plant at Tilbury resumed exporting electricity to the British energy grid last week for the first time since a fire ripped through the site in February. “Everyone on site has been working hard to get the station up and running following the fire in February and the first of [...]
Georgia Biomass Off-Line After Explosion
The new Georgia Biomass wood pellet plant at Waycross, Ga. is off-line after a flash explosion in the pellet processing area halted production at the facility on the morning of June 20. According to industry sources, the explosion occurred in or near a pellet machine, and explosion vents on the bin above blew out and [...]