Items Tagged with 'biomass'

Partially offsetting today’s low commodity prices, there’s good news for farmers and the U.S. economy: By 2030, the U.S. could triple its use of “readily available non-food biomass resources from our nation’s farms, forests, and waste streams” to produce “transportation fuels, electricity, commercial products, and high-value chemicals.”

A new research project aims to employ renewables instead of petroleum in producing acrylic fibers used for everything from textiles to automobiles.

Biomass and waste fuels provided just 2 percent of total U.S. electricity generation in 2016, a total of 71.4 billion kilowatt-hours (kwh) of energy.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2017 - Congress is considering a bill to extend tax credits for clean energy. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.,  introduced the Renewable Electricity Tax Credit Equalization Act, which applies to closed-loop and open-loop biomass facilities, as well as geothermal, municipal solid waste, qualified hydropower and marine and hydrokinetic facilities.