Millions of dead trees in California create a huge risk of wildfire. It’s led Governor Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency that will require utilities, power plants and state agencies to work ...

Many bioenergy industry proponents put forth carbon neutrality as a basis for their support. However, the claim may not hold up under scrutiny. By some accounts, biomass power plant emissions ...

Though experts say biomass should continue to play a key role in the U.S. renewable power portfolio for its baseload properties, contributions to forest management, and other reasons, a swathe of ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global biomass power generation market size is expected to grow by 39.21 GW during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 5% during the forecast period. Download latest ...

The use of renewable fuels for power generation is set to increase dramatically in the U.S. primarily due to current and proposed government policies and requirements. Yet for all the publicity that ...

Biomass, which is essentially trees and grasses as well as forestry and agricultural waste, is burned as a source of both heat and electricity all over the world Dear EarthTalk: There’s a lot of talk ...

Last week, Steve Adler, the mayor of Austin, Texas, announced that city taxpayers would be paying $460 million for a biomass power plant they’d previously paid $128 million to help build on top of a ...

California’s most expensive electricity source is finally poised to lose a government handout that props up its high costs ...

The Association of Power Producers highlighted the challenges faced by thermal power plants in meeting biomass co-firing ...

Companies that burn wood pellets for energy may be “marking their own homework on sustainability”, an influential cross-party committee has warned. In a report published on Friday, MPs on the Public ...

Source: Eurostat SHARES database, http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/energy/data/shares. Note: Biomass as percentage of total energy does not include solid biomass used ...

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