Mountain View School District in Susquehanna County has the Power To Save this week because it heats its buildings with a renewable resource, wood chips! That cuts down on fuel costs. In the last 20 ...

As many places in the US and Europe increasingly turn to biomass rather than fossil fuels for power and heat, scientists are focusing on what this trend might mean for air quality -- and people's ...

BRATTLEBORO — Robert Clark was extremely skeptical when he first heard about the wood chip option. Three years ago, when school board officials were finalizing the designs for the $55.7 renovation ...

HARTFORD — Hartford’s new alternative energy system might not lower taxes, but related savings should slow the pace of spending. A new wood chip burning plant is expected to cut this year’s energy ...

To reduce reliance on coal, the MU Power Plant started burning wood chips in 2006, and the city followed suit in 2008, burning wood chips in the summer and winter when demand for electricity is ...

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, ...

A research team at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has received a $150,000 grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to study the ...

A new heating system at Sunapee Elementary School is the “Corvette” of wood-burning operations, said Mathew Bouranis, the school district’s facilities director. But a “Prius” may be a more apt ...