Sentences with phrase «produces wood pellets»

Enviva claims that it produces wood pellets only from low - grade wood resources such as chips, bark, sawdust by - products, treetops, branches, and other forestry debris remaining after the tree trunks from commercial forests have been shipped for construction material.

But two things became clear to me: Burning the wood pellets immediately releases more CO2 than coal (easy to figure out), and producing wood pellets for Europe's power plants is causing a lot of trees to be chopped down in the U.S. (surprisingly difficult to figure out), which immediately reduces carbon sequestration.

Right now, several companies are producing wood pellets — a form of biomass energy that is burned in European power plants — out of trees from clear - cut forests in the American South.

Not exact matches

«The restaurant uses local produce whenever possible — including the pecan wood pellets used in the smoking and grilling.

Pellet cookers use a power - driven auger to feed compressed wood pellets from a hopper into a burn pot that produces heat (and smoke) inside the cooking chamber.

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.

The entity operated a combined heat and power manufacturing plant and was not engaged in our core business of producing and delivering utility - grade wood pellets under long - term off - take contracts.

Electricity is locally produced by a photovoltaic power station that covers about the 60 % of the annual consumption; heating and AC systems use a heat pump powered by photovoltaic panel, thermal solar panel produce up to 100 % of the hot water used in bathrooms; during winter a pellet (compressed wood) high efficiency heating system can guarantee a comfortable warm temperature in all the houses.

Its facilities in North Carolina and Mississippi currently produce and export to Europe more than half a million tons of wood pellets every year.

Not only are the wood pellet - producing pine plantations of the southeastern U.S. typically kept on short rotations that reduce their carbon uptake, the expansion of these plantations to satisfy increased demand for wood products may be harming regional biodiversity, Schlesinger argues.

They have contracted to buy pellets from North and South America and established two wood pellet plants in the southern US to produce 900,000 tons.

Wood pellets are originally produced from wood waste (such as sawdust and shavings), rather than whole logs, and thus can be viewed as an integrated part of forest product manufacturing.

Curran Renewable Energy is still using the process, making it the first pellet mill in the world to produce safe wood pellets for consumers.

Italians consume 40 % of all the pellet burned in Europe while Italy produces only about 10 % of the wood it burns.

Such efficiency is achieved by combined heat and power systems, which use wood to produce both heat and electricity, and by some modern furnaces that burn wood pellets made of dried, ground and pressed wood residues.

The EU has declared wood pellets to be green despite the fact wood pellets produce more CO2 than coal.

Wood pellets have become a popular fuel, but scientists are divided on whether burning wood to produce heat and power can be considered climate friendly.

By diversifying the thermal energy sector to increase use of low - carbon renewable heating and cooling technologies (e.g., air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, wood pellet heating, solar thermal), Rhode Island can make significant strides toward achieving greenhouse gas emission reduction goals while producing substantial economic benefits for the state.

Well, admittedly, letting people in the tropics grow food does interfere with the plan to clear cut all the tropical forests to produce renewable energy in the form of wood pellets that can be shipped to the EU so Europe meets their Paris climate goals.

A 2015 analysis prepared for the American Forest and Paper Association, a trade association, concluded that most wood pellets produced in the U.S., both for domestic burning and for export to the U.K., were prepared from whole trees.

Repeated calls and emails seeking comment from US - based wood pellet - producing companies such as Maryland - based Enviva and its trade group, the American Forest and Paper Association, went unreturned.

That continent's appetite for wood pellets is fueled by the European Union's 2020 climate and energy package, which set binding goals for reducing greenhouse gases, increasing energy produced by renewable resources, and improving overall energy efficiency.

Today there are three, and a typical plant might produce a half - million tons of wood pellets per year.

Millions of tons of wood pellets are being produced in plants across the U.S. South and hauled to coastal ports.