Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the Nova Scotia government continues to search for new markets for wood chips, a change made earlier this spring has allowed ...

For those who want to burn cordwood, modern wood-gasification boilers offer mid-80 percent steady-state combustion efficiencies and full-cycle efficiencies in the 70-75 percent range. This is much ...

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 ...

Fonterra’s Waitoa manufacturing site is now using around 50% less coal as its new wood biomass boiler swings into action. Waitoa is the third Fonterra manufacturing site to reduce coal use this year, ...

ROLLING — A 95-year-old sawmill business in northeastern Wisconsin can now generate enough power from burning bark and wood chips that it has started selling excess electricity back to the grid. In ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Mt. Bachelor has announced it will start construction next June of a state-of-the-art biomass (wood energy) facility to heat its buildings, saying it will replace propane heat in ...

Biomass has many advantages as a fuel for boilers: It’s inexpensive, readily available in many regions, CO 2 neutral, and its use warrants government subsidies. The fuel also presents unique concerns ...

Across many industries, biomass boilers are being adopted to replace or complement coal and heavy-oil systems, providing renewable heat and helping companies meet tightening environmental policies.

Imagine that every village in areas where timber is plentiful – in Scotland, say, or in the South East – had its own biomass-powered district heating system. Local farmers would deliver lorry loads of ...

Cranfield University has been granted funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for a biomass boiler to reduce carbon emissions on its Cranfield campus. The University will ...