After operating the first biomass boiler in the Ketchikan, Alaska, Federal Building, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has concluded that biomass boilers are a viable alternative for ...

SITKA - A Southeast Alaska island village plans to use a version of an ancient renewable energy system to lower its high energy costs. Kake wants to build a biomass district heating system to warm its ...

A US-Chinese research group has developed a hybrid system proposal based on photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) modules, a heat pump, a backup electric boiler, and biomass generating units. They say it could ...

Dartmouth College had a plan to build a wood chip burning plant to heat its campus. This would have added a new biomass market for landowners and foresters within a 50 mile radius of Hanover. But, ...

Sawdust and wood scraps at Mud Bay Lumber Company in Haines. Haines is one of dozens of communities around Alaska that have looked into biomass technology. (Photo provided by Clay Good/REAP) Alaskans ...

Hundreds of residents in Inverclyde forced to put up with repeated breakdowns from bio mass boilers and huge rises in bills ...

Utilities customers help pay for biomass because electric utilities buy its products to produce electricity, paying four ...

Tenants and residents whose homes are heated by a faulty biomass boiler in Greenock are in danger of falling into fuel ...

In 2008, Michael Kramer came up with a plan to build his own biomass boiler, so he turned to the Mailbox Markets in Lancaster Farming to piece it all together. Kramer, a mechanical engineer, wanted to ...