Election May Give New Hope For Arizona Biomass

Election May Give New Hope For Arizona Biomass  A major reshuffling of candidates for the Arizona Corporation Commission may bring new life to a derailed effort that would expand biomass utilization in the state to help facilitate much-needed forest thinning and...

SUNY Cobleskill Gasifier Wins $5.8M Wildfire Grant

SUNY Cobleskill Gasifier Wins $5.8M Wildfire Grant A $5.8 million grant from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection was awarded to the State University of New York (SUNY) at Cobleskill for a gasifier project that converts woody biomass into clean...

Enviva Publishes Paper, Hosts Webinar

Enviva Publishes Paper, Hosts Webinar On May 27, 2020, Jennifer Jenkins, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Enviva, and Roger Ballentine, President, Green Strategies, hosted a webinar based on a paper the two published May 6 called Seeing The Forest:...

Drax Adds Rail Link

Drax Adds Rail Link A one-year-old rail link has increased capacity to deliver more sustainable biomass from Drax’s LaSalle BioEnergy pellet plant in Urania, La., to its UK power station. The $15 million rail link, combined with other initiatives, have already...

Highland Pellets Remains Committed

Highland Pellets Remains Committed A recent advertisement promoting “Liquidation Sale, 4 Lines Available” with a photo that is the Highland Pellets wood pellet mill in Pine Bluff, Ark. has generated rumor that Highland Pellets is throwing in the towel. Not true, says...

SPI Will Sell Energy To PSE

SPI Will Sell Energy To PSE Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has teamed up with Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) to purchase 17 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy from SPI’s cogeneration plant at its Burlington sawmill in Mount Vernon, Wash., providing locally generated...