It’s not just the EU — in November 2018, the EPA issued a press release noting that, together with the USDA and DOE, forest biomass should be treated as a carbon neutral energy source.

In theory, burning biomass (any kind of plant material) to derive energy is a carbon-neutral endeavor, meaning that the carbon dioxide released during the process is in turn absorbed by other ...

In September, the industry appeared to shrug off the proposed RED regulations on biomass and focused instead on the continued definition by the EU of woody biomass as a renewable energy source, on ...

But Adam Sherman, the program director of the Biomass Energy Resource Center in Montpelier said district heating systems and large-scale biomass-to-electricity projects shouldn't be lumped together. .

In 2019, biomass constituted 60 percent of all renewable energy used in the European Union—following the organization’s 2009 pledge to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy, which led to ...

Experts argue that biomass energy effectively acts as a loophole for countries to under ... Wood pellets are a less efficient energy source than coal, meaning they actually release more CO2 into ...

What drove Kusel into a side business—logging small and dead trees and burning them in biomass boilers—is fear of fire. In 2007, the 65,000-acre Moonlight Fire blew flaming embers onto his ...

The battle over biomass is heating up in Washington and its eventual outcome could color the future of the Black Hills. Earlier this week, both Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and Sen. John Thune ...