Utilities customers help pay for biomass because electric utilities buy its products to produce electricity, paying four ...

As we slowly wean ourselves away from our centuries-long love affair with fossil fuels in an attempt to reduce CO 2 emissions and combat global warming, there has been a rapid expansion across a broad ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Todd Thomas The global ...

Tons of biomass used to be hauled out of New Mexico to paper mills in the Northwest. Today, Local Energy converts woodchips like these (a pile at the former Duke City Lumber in Espanola) to energy for ...

Two amendments tucked inside the bipartisan energy bill that passed the Senate yesterday are elevating the question of whether biomass is a renewable energy source on par with wind and solar in the ...

Honeywell's innovative technology aims to transform biomass into efficient fuels, addressing longstanding challenges in ...

Josh Schlossberg is an investigative journalist, horror author and former environmental organizer who lives in Denver, Colorado. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Biomass Monitor, a ...

Dartmouth College had a plan to build a wood chip burning plant to heat its campus. This would have added a new biomass market for landowners and foresters within a 50 mile radius of Hanover. But, ...

Last Friday saw one of the biggest economic development announcements for the Black Belt in recent memory - a $175 million biomass wood pellet plant in Sumter County, and a big promise by the company ...

Even though it's considered a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, biomass is still not one of the most common forms of domestic heating systems, which is why I'm often asked – 'what's it like to ...

GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD)—It’s been months since the International Paper Mill shut down in Georgetown County, and the site’s future remains unconfirmed. Rumors of a biomass plant coming to the ...

Biochar is a carbon-rich material that is made from biomass through a thermochemical conversion process known as pyrolysis. Don’t worry if that all sounds like a mouthful—read on for an introduction ...