Sentences with phrase «biomass power plants»

The plan would also allow biomass power plants to continue to burn some coal so long as they operate under the emissions limit.

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Overall, around 3,330 MW of renewable energy generation capacity was contracted through the round, including 149.4 MW of geothermal projects, 133.8 MW of biomass power plants and other minor renewables.

From biomass power plants causing deforestation to the risks of geoengineering, there are very few aspects of green technologies that are without their own moral conundrums.

In the U.S., federal agencies are being pressured to recognize biomass power plants as carbon - neutral sources of energy.

It also operates biomass power plants in Woodland, California.

«That is not universally true for wood - fired biomass power plants,» Janeway said.

In the latest development of large - scale biomass energy production, the Netherlands is now home to the world's largest biomass power plant running only on — yep, you got it — chicken manure.

Although amendments to the original law have expanded it to a wide variety of renewable resources and technologies, the original PTC applied to generation from tax - paying owners of new wind plants, as well as eligible biomass power plants.

Our society urgently needs as many reasonable, low - risk «carbon management» solutions to this problem as possible, and I think most would agree that planting trees, incentivizing carbon sequestering agricultural practices, and building biomass power plants with carbon capture are reasonable sounding options that we should consider alongside renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other GHG emission mitigation strategies in our fight against climate change.

Biomass power plants share some similarities with fossil fuel power plants: both involve the combustion of a feedstock to generate electricity.

With $ 75,000 in grant money from the state of Maryland, he's just completed a feasibility study for building Thurmont a 30 - megawatt biomass power plant.

Biomass power plants do emit carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, but they release no more than what is naturally in the carbon cycle as trees are planted, downed — by man or nature — and replanted.

«Biomass power plants tend to emit more CO2 than fossil fueled plants per MWh, and as shown by a number of studies, net emissions from bioenergy can exceed emissions from fossil fuels for decades,» Booth says.

The Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) released a video this week revealing the cozy relationship between the biomass industry and legislators like Senator Susan Collins (R - Maine) who are pushing Congress to adopt laws that would classify biomass power plants as carbon neutral.

We believe this approach has significant advantages over large - scale, centralized combustion - based biomass power plants in terms of higher efficiency, lower fuel risk and reduced emissions.»

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The company formed a joint venture with Duke Energy, ADAGE, to build and operate biomass power plants in the U.S..

Environmentalists, who have long pushed the conversation on renewable energy, historically haven't been strong advocates of biomass power plants.

A scientific panel advising the EPA on how to account for carbon released from biomass power plants has cautioned against treating all projects equally.

Firing up with mesquite Nearly 1,000 kilometers to the east, in Marigat, Kenya, Power Africa is partnering with U.S. - based Cummins Power Generation and Kenya Power & Lighting to construct a 11.5 - MW biomass power plant that will burn invasive mesquite, locally known as «mathenge,» that was introduced to East Africa in the 1960s to prevent desertification but has become a nuisance in herding regions of Kenya.

Some renewable energy technologies are thermoelectric as well, including certain types of concentrating solar, geothermal, and biomass power plants.

Major harmful air pollutants, such as SOx, NOx, and PM, come from fossil fuel and biomass power plants, and thus, need to be carefully regulated.

The waste wood, tree branches and other scraps are gathered together from factories and from farms to a biomass power plant.

Fast curing cement could use biochar or ash from burning biomass, potentially from a biomass power plant.

A biomass power plant can turn that wood into heat and electricity while cleaning up the emissions in a way your grandfather — or a coal - fired plant — could never do at home.

Planning permission has been granted to more than 7GW of biomass power plants, which the IIED said is likely to increase demand to 60 million tonnes a year, five or six times the nation's currently available resources.