Researchers combine supercomputing with nano-imaging to reveal how to efficiently break down plant biomass and transform it into transportation fuels

OUJÉ-BOUGOUMOU, QC, July 15, 2019 - Canada's forest sector continues to be an important generator of good jobs in communities across the country, including rural, remote and Indigenous communities in Quebec.

Making the shift to renewable energy sources requires biomass, too.

Biomass is a renewable energy source, generated from burning wood, plants and other organic matter, such as manure or household waste.

BETHESDA, MD —July 15, 2019 — On July 9, 2019, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Permit Board, after an extensive review process that included an extended public comment period, a well-attended public hearing in Lucedale, and hundreds of public comments, unanimously approved Enviva’s permit to begin construction on its Lucedale, Mississippi wood pellet plant.

If there’s one thing Georgia has a ton of — actually a billion tons — it’s trees. The state leads the country in acres of private timberland and volume of timber harvested. Some in the timber industry think we should turn more of that wood into electricity.

Pinnacle Renewable Energy ("Pinnacle" or the "Company") (TSX: PL) today announced that it has entered into a limited partnership agreement (the "Partnership") with Tolko Industries Ltd. ("Tolko") to build Northern Pellet Limited Partnership (the "Facility"), a new industrial wood pellet production facility in High Level, Alberta.

The province is planning a large scale conversion of its rural buildings – from schools to hospitals - to heat them with wood.

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – B.C. Based Boreal Bioenergy is looking to expand their production of torrefied wood pellets and has identified sites of interest in both Fort St. John and Fort Nelson.

Americans are tired of half measures on climate change. Seven in 10 Americans want utility companies to overhaul their operations and generate 100% of the nation's electricity from renewables in the near future.

OSLO (Reuters) - Finland faces having to import biomass because, despite being Europe’s most densely forested country, it will be unable to meet an expected 70% rise in demand for the fuel after it phases out coal.

PORT ALICE, B.C. – The Neucel Specialty Cellulose mill in Port Alice could be the future home of a wood pellet processing plant.

To promote the diffusion of renewable energy, on the premise of Hokkaido Mill (Yufutsu), Nippon Paper Industries

Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc. resumed operations at its Williams Lake plant Saturday following a fire Wednesday.

Valmet has received a repeat automation technology order from Asia's largest capacity biomass power plant owned by GS EPS Co., Ltd.

The U.S. Forest Service is working on the next step of its large-scale forest restoration plan, while the Arizona Corporation Commission considers using forest byproducts for energy production.

Premier says plan still needs a partner

SCA has entered into a cooperation agreement with Moelven to deliver pellets from Moelven’s new pellet factory in Sokna, Norway.

“Biomass” isn't a word most people know. But this renewable, cost effective fuel is becoming increasingly important to our planet.

L'ANSE, Mich. (AP) — State regulators say a power plant in the Upper Peninsula can burn fuel pellets to make electricity.

Is burning biomass made from wood scraps better for the planet than burning coal?