Sentences with phrase «for wood biomass»

By deeming wood biomass also a «dispatchable» power source, and by directing that energy retailers must purchases a complement of «dispatchable» power, an energy market for wood biomass could be created.

Not exact matches

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

The process, which Morihara compares to roasting coffee beans, turns wood biomass into briquettes that are a clean replacement for coal.

According to Hawkins Wright, a leading provider of market intelligence and analytical services to the international pulp, paper and biomass industries, the Japanese market represented three per cent of global demand for industrial wood pellets in 2016, and Wright forecasts an increase to approximately 10 per cent of global demand in 2021, and 17 per cent in 2026.

The Party also promises to help the forestry industry by examining a tax credit for the purchasing of machinery for efficiency and environmental performance, streamlining forestry regulations and supporting the development of biomass products that use wood fibre.

Despite their overall satisfaction with the spending plan, the Adirondack Council said they were displeased with a provision that declares wood - based biomass energy to be «carbon - neutral,» encouraging federal support for its expansion.

After poring over the literature, Mendum and Njenga reported that little previous empirical research into wood burning in sub-Saharan Africa has been conducted, so policy makers have scant data to guide them in formulating best practices for sustainable biomass production and consumption.

And all wood - and biomass - burning stoves were replaced with cleaner, modern stoves that use electricity or natural gas for energy.

The CHP plant will use biomass, such as wood, for fuel.

Processing the biomass for energy use (converting trees into wood pellets, for instance) and shipping it overseas only adds to the total emissions produced by the industry, he noted.

Schlesinger also pointed out that much of the wood raised and harvested in the United States for energy purposes is actually shipped to the European Union, where biomass is currently treated as a carbon - neutral energy source.

«I was surprised by how much of the biomass dead wood accounted for in badly logged forests,» said lead author Dr Marion Pfeifer from the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial.

The storm left 5.6 million cubic yards of fallen trees, broken branches and dead greenery in Houston, and Rice's team took first place in the contest with their plan to convert the wood into biomass charcoal, or «biochar,» for use as a CO2 - trapping soil amendment.

«Forests in the United States are robust and sustainably managed, and climate science has consistently and clearly documented the carbon benefits of utilizing forest biomass for energy production,» Senator Susan Collins (R — ME), said on the Senate floor on 3 February, a day after lawmakers approved her amendment adding the wood - burning provision to the energy bill.

Today a similar panel is reviewing proposed EPA guidelines for how states or businesses can calculate the carbon footprint of power plants using biomass such as wood.

The amount of biomass available from corn and food crops is very small; for biofuels to have a large impact, we must harness energy from nonedible plants, also known as cellulosic biomass — wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, and energy crops.

According to the new findings, because selective logging leaves behind significant damage and tree debris, dead wood actually accounts for a large part of the total aboveground biomass.

The study also calls out an uncomfortable reality for biomass energy proponents, who argue that burning grasses and waste wood to produce energy and heat homes is a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.

There are also potential industrial and environmental uses: Cellulose and woody stems from plants — in the form of paper, wood, and related materials — account for more than half of the biomass in waste dumps worldwide.

«In biomass like wood, corn stover and switchgrass, cellulose is the most abundant polymer that researchers are trying to convert to biofuels and plastics,» said chemist Z. Conrad Zhang, who led the work while at PNNL's Institute for Integrated Catalysis.

In India, a major contributor to poor air quality is the practice of burning wood, dung and similar sources of biomass for cooking and heating.

Tallahassee Florida USA is the perfect place for large - scale Tree - fed biogas generator (a process that converts biomass, mainly wood in this case, to electric power in an oxygen - free environment).

Conversion of coal plants to burn wood, dedicated new - build wood burning power plants as well as combined heat and power and biomass boilers for heating are creating huge new demand for wood pellets.

«An unknown amount of wood will be required for co-firing in coal plants, with estimates for Ohio alone, where the State's Public Utilities Commission has approved over 2,100 MW of biomass power, of about 20 million tons of wood required for fuel annually»

The American Lung Association recognizes that pollution from the combustion of wood and other biomass sources poses a significant threat to human health, and supports measures to transition away from using these products for heat production.

By that time Drax Group PLC will have three of their six, 660 MW units, converted to biomass and will require 7 million tons of wood pellets annually for fuel.

The American Lung Association does not support biomass combustion for electricity production, a category that includes wood, wood products, agricultural residues or forest wastes, and potentially highly toxic feedstocks, such as construction and demolition waste.

The American Lung Association calls for effective enforcement of existing laws and regulations governing the combustion of wood and other biomass sources, as well as the expanded regulation of air pollution emissions from these sources.

Biomass Heating Systems Are a Proven Technology — One That Has Been in Use for Thousands of Years since humans began burning wood to cook and keep warm.

And closer study of biomass burning is calling into question the «carbon - neutral» assumption: that growing wood or other biomass captures the same amount of CO2 that subsequent burning for electricity generation releases.

Another category is biomass grown in excess of what would have grown absent the demand for bioenergy, such as growing winter cover crops for energy and replacing traditional — yet inefficient — fuel wood harvests in some poor countries with wood grown in agroforestry systems and local plantations.

This is important context for the thorny question of whether, and how, carbon emissions from burning bioenergy — renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources (a category that includes both biofuels like ethanol and biomass like wood used to generate electricity)-- should be included in prospective carbon taxes.

Governments claim to be meeting emission reduction targets by reporting the percentage increase in renewable energy uptake, never really accounting for the emissions created by wood biomass energy.

In June of 2010, Manomet and its partners released the results of a six - month study to better understand the implications of using wood for energy in Massachusetts, titled «Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study.»

«Everybody's looking for a new solution, rather than the one that worked just fine for their grandfathers,» said Tom Reed, the chief scientist at the Biomass Energy Foundation in Golden, Colo. «They all heated their houses with wood.

This is because the majority of wood processors today recycle their waste wood off cuts either into other products or for biomass, often in replace of fossil fuels.

Mabee and Saddler (2007) reviewed a number of regional and global outlook studies on forest fibre availability to determine the renewable global supply of forest biomass for wood energy production.

Many countries have no clear perception of the amount of biomass that can be collected from ongoing forest operations, and have never assessed the full potential of wood residues for energy generation.

They concluded that increased demand for wood energy in industrialized countries will have a significant impact on the amount of available excess forest biomass, taking between 10 and

This type of forest has large volumes of biomass that can not be used by traditional wood - processing industries, which represent a potential source for energy generation.

Most forest biomass used for energy in these countries is recovered from indirect sources, including black liquor from wood pulping and other wood residues (Steierer et al., 2007).

«Bioenergy advocates often claim that CO2 pollution from wood - burning power plants doesn't harm the climate, because biomass is sourced from «forestry residues» (tree tops and branches left over after the tree trunk is taken away for sawtimber or pulp).

This is a USDA Farm Service Agency program that can help farmers get a better price for any agricultural product they sell as biomass (like wood pellets).

«They've convinced certain legislators in Congress to vote for legislation written by biomass industry lobbyists that would force EPA to treat tree - burning power plants as if they have zero carbon emissions, claiming that as long as US forest stocks are stable or growing by any amount, this offsets the carbon pollution pouring from the smokestacks of wood - burning power plants.»

In order for biomass to be carbon neutral, you'd have to actually increase the amount of carbon being sucked out of the atmosphere by forests by an amount commensurate with the total net emissions created by chopping down a carbon sink and then adding a slew of new emissions by burning wood for energy.

Current estimates indicate that 1.2 billion people (~ 18 % of global population) live without access to electricity and more than 2.7 billion depend on wood or some other form of biomass, including animal dung, for heating and cooking (IEA, 2016).

Almost two out of every five rely on wood or other biomass for cooking or heating.

Its contribution to final energy demand is five times higher than wind and solar PV combined, even when inefficient and unsustainable traditional biomass, such as the use of wood and dung for cooking, is excluded.

The project reduces GHG emissions associated with the consumption of biomass for wood fuel traditionally used to boil drinking water.

In the video, she is defending an amendment that would force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to treat power plants that burn wood and other biomass for electricity as emitting no carbon pollution.