A major supplier of recycled-wood fuel to the Gainesville biomass plant sued the plant operators today for more than $5 million in damages due to breach of a long-term fuel supply contract.

Vencor says it will test industrial hemp to make torrefied products, including Bio-Coal, a renewable energy product.

Vencor will test industrial hemp as a feedstock used to manufacture various torrefied products, including Bio-Coal, a renewable energy product.

UPM Biofuels opened the world's first wood-to-biodiesel factory in Finland, producing 120 million litres annually.

CDI, located in Sault Ste. Marie, who build, sell, and install steel fabricated structures including platforms and conveyor stands all over Canada.

KiOR, which converts wood and other cellulosic fibers into gasoline, said in an SEC filing it is unable to make a $1.8 million loan payment to a state agency that funded it, and has retained advisors to develop strategies, including possible sale.

Imports of U.S. Wood Pellets by Country. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Nearly 21,000 tons of timber and woody debris damaged by February ice storms in the Southeast is being burned at Ameresco's Savannah River bio-energy plant in Aiken, SC. It represents 55% of the power plant's wood fuel purchases.

Nearly 21,000 tons of damaged timber and woody debris utilized for renewable energy in lieu of storm-related wood being sent to landfills.

Large-scale production of torrefied biomass is set to begin, the result of a joint venture between New Biomass Energy LLC and Solvay Energy Services. The recently created Solvay Biomass Energy will be co-located at NBE's facility in Quitman, MS.