Tag: bioenergy

  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    – by Dave Miller, September 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougherty Payroll Development Authority has given the go-ahead for its part in the proposed new biomass generator in conjunction with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We reported Tuesday that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Procter and Gamble that could help them cut waste, and allowing the…

  • Albany, Georgia Biomass Project Takes Step Toward Reality

    – by Dave Miller, September 4, 2014, WALB News The Albany-­Dougherty Payroll Development Authority has given the go-ahead for its part in the proposed new biomass generator in conjunction with Procter&Gamble in Albany. We reported Tuesday that the PDA Ok’ed a new lease for Procter and Gamble that could help them cut waste, and allowing the…

  • Public Opposition Spurs County to Delay New Biomass Facility

    [Interesting piece by industry PR person in regards to dealing with public opposition to dirty energy projects. -Ed.] – by Al Maiorino, September 2, 2014, Renewable Energy Magazine Transylvania County in North Carolina is currently engaged in intensive internal debate about the role of biomass in their future. The current state of affairs began last year…

  • Hawaii’s Only Coal-fired Power Plant May Switch to Biomass

    – by Duane Shimgawa, August  28, 2014,  Pacific Business News The only coal-fired power plant in Hawaii, which is the single largest generating plant on Oahu, is under financial stress because there is no financial reserve, according to the Hawaiian Electric Co.’s new energy plan released this week. Hawaiian Electric is also asking AES Hawaiito convert some of…

  • Proposed Washington Biomass Incinerator Nets $200k State Grant

    [Another biomass incinerator that would require the logging of public lands. -Ed.]  – by Eric Florip, August 27, 2014, The Columbian A $200,000 state grant will support a new biomass-fueled power plant near Stevenson expected to be operational next year, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday. The money will go to Wind River Biomass Utility, which has…

  • Stalled Springfield, MA Biomass Incinerator Gets Building Permit

    – by Michaelann Bewsee, August 21, 2014, Arise for Social Justice Funny how bad news can make you want to fight even harder for justice. Remember the community’s fight to keep a biomass plant out of Springfield? Yesterday we found out that the Land Court granted Palmer Renewable Energy’s request to reinstate their building permit, undoing…

  • Tennessee Biomass Incinerator Shut Down For Costs, Safety

    – by Frank Munger, August 24, 2014, Knoxville News Sentinel Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Biomass Steam Plant, heralded as a money saver and friend to the environment, failed to live up to its hype operationally, and the U.S. Department of Energy is reportedly trying to renegotiate its deal with the company that performed this and other projects at…

  • Creditors Given OK to Foreclose on WA Biofuel Facility

    – by Kristi Pihl, August 23, 2014, Tri City Herald Some of Green Power’s Tri-City creditors have received the green light to foreclose on the troubled biofuel company’s unfinished Pasco plant. Franklin County Superior Court Judge Cameron Mitchell recently approved a request by the creditors to foreclose on the liens they hold against the company’s personal…

  • California Lawsuit Seeks Pollution Cuts From Massive Tree-burning Power Plant

    – by Kevin Bundy, August 22, 2014, Center for Biological Diversity The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging a Clean Air Act permit issued by the Environmental Protection Agency for a massive, 31-megawatt biomass power plant proposed by Sierra Pacific Industries in Anderson, Calif. The challenge, filed directly in the 9th Circuit U.S.…

  • Berlin, NH Biomass Incinerator Operational, But At What Cost To Ratepayers?

    – by Chris Jensen, August 21, 2014, New Hampshire Public Radio A new biomass plant in Berlin is finally producing electricity for Public Service of New Hampshire under a controversial 20-year contract that a report says will cost PSNH ratepayers $125 million more than if the electricity was purchased on the open market… That estimate came…