Forest energy

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Biomasse, Energie aus Holzbiomasse, Bioenergie, Forest energy, Biomass, Bioenergy

Federal regulations requiring an average renewable fuel content of 5% in gasoline have been finalized and will come into effect starting December 15, 2010. The 5% renewable fuel content requirement in gasoline will require about two billion litres a year of renewable fuel across Canada, a volume estimated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about one megatonne a year.

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Papier- und Zellstoffindustrie, Biomasse, Energie aus Holzbiomasse, Bioenergie, Forest energy, Biomass, Bioenergy, Pulp- and Paperindustry

On Thursday the province announced it has directed Ontario Power Authority to negotiate an agreement with Ontario Power Generation, the plant’s owners, to buy the power produced at the Atikokan plant.

MPP Bill Mauro (Lib., Thunder Bay-Atikokan) said with the plant making up 40 per cent of Atikokan’s municipal tax base, the province’s decision to keep it open means the town’s survival.

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Pellets, Pellets, Biomasse, Energie aus Holzbiomasse, Bioenergie, Forest energy, Biomass, Bioenergy

Enviva Will Supply Biomass to Meet Half of a Major Power Plant's Fuel Requirements, Powering Hundreds of Thousands of Homes with Renewable Energy.

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Biomasse, Energie aus Holzbiomasse, Bioenergie, Forest energy, Biomass, Bioenergy

Ministry of Industry of the Omsk region is to produce bio fuel from lignum fossil and woodworking wastes. The project is to be realized in cooperation with LLC Proryv-Invest.

Besides, the company intends to design heat power plants that will use lignum fossil and wastes as raw material.

Currently LLC Proryv-Invest is to develop a feasibility study and prepare a commercial offer.

Forest products markets / Holzproduktmärkte: Waldhackgut, Wood residues, Wood chips, Biomasse, Energie aus Holzbiomasse, Bioenergie, Forest energy, Biomass, Bioenergy

The company that wants to build a controversial wood-burning power plant near Shelton has signed a fuel-supply contract with Mason County’s largest private timberland owner – Green Diamond Resource Co.

Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but Adage spokesman Tom DePonty said the agreement should provide about 20 percent of the 604,000 tons of wood debris the company needs to power its plant each year.

It is the first fuel-supply contract signed by Adage and a forest landowner for the $250 million project.