Tag: climate

  • Will Energy Storage Plus Solar Inspire Customers to Abandon Utilities?

    – by Lisa Cohn, February 28, 2014, Energy Efficiency Markets To hear the Rocky Mountain Institute tell the story, it’s not a question of whether utility customers will start defecting from their utilities in favor of off-grid solutions that involve energy storage and solar energy. It’s a question of when. Truth is, it’s already happening in…

  • Keep Corporate Polluters at Bay, Please Donate Today!

    Energy Justice Network is one of the few national nonprofits in the U.S. organizing with grassroots communities to say NO! to all forms of dirty energy, from fracked gas, to coal plants, to biomass and waste incineration, to nuclear power. Over 2014, we have raised $89,700 from individual donors, only $10,300 away from our goal of $100,000! Will you…

  • Census Bureau Releases Biomass Incinerator Data

    – by Erin Voegele, December 3, 2014, Biomass Magazine   The U.S. Census Bureau recently released new economic census statistics on renewable energy, reporting that revenues for electric power generation industries that use renewable energy resources increased 49 percent from 2007 to 2012, reaching $9.8 billion. In 2007, revenue was only $6.6 billion. Biomass is among the…

  • Over 1,200 New Biomass Incinerators to be Constructed Within the Next 10 Years?

    – December 4, 2014, AltEnergyMag Electricity generation from solid biomass continues to increase throughout the world. In late 2013, around 2,800 operational power plants worldwide were incinerating biomass only or very large shares of this fuel. These plants had an electricity generation capacity of about 42 GWel. Additionally, around 350 fossil power plants were co-incinerating biomass.…

  • Biomass Energy: Another Kind of Climate Change Denial

    (Graphic: Indiana Joel) We’re all familiar with climate change deniers, cheerfully and/or willfully ignorant folk who refuse to accept that human-caused carbon emissions are responsible for the climate crisis — or that there even is a climate crisis. Those of us who value science and common sense typically have as much patience for these twenty-three percent of…

  • Why We Must Fight Gas-fired Power Plants

    – by Mike Ewall, Energy Justice Network The Ban Ki Moon U.N. Climate Summit is shortly coming to New York City. As we march and teach workshops at climate convergences, the media is likely to focus on the story of the Obama administration’s “Clean Power Plan” moving us away from coal in order to mitigate climate change. The story won’t be told…

  • Biomass Incinerators Sue Feds for $22 Million

    – by Maeusz Perkoswki, September 16, 2014, Capital Press Two biomass facilities in California that use agricultural waste to generate electricity claim the federal government owes them about $22 million. The plaintiffs — Ampersand Chowchilla Biomass and Merced Power — claim the U.S. Treasury Department is wrongly withholding funds from an economic stimulus program that helps…

  • Biomass Causes Problematic Emissions Too

    – by Richard Ball, August 31, 2014, The Washington Post The Post’s Aug. 28 editorial “An answer to global warming” made good points about a carbon tax. However, a serious problem that was not mentioned is how to deal with adverse impacts from biomass energy sources, such as burning wood in power plants. Most proposed carbon control…

  • 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…