RUSSELL, Mass. -- The push for more power from renewable fuels has renewed interest in one of the oldest energy sources: wood. While airwaves have been permeated by advertisements for solar and wind ...

BOSTON (State House News Service) – Facilities that burn wood to create energy should not be eligible for credits under a state program that rewards generators of “clean heat,” advocates said ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Massachusetts Land Court ruled last week that a building permit issued in 2011 to Palmer Renewable Energy has long expired, dealing a blow to plans for a $150 million, 35-megawatt ...

In short, clean energy does not come out of a smokestack. Wood-burning energy production is extremely inefficient; a typical power plant burns at about 23 percent efficiency, so 77 percent of the ...

A rising push to pull energy from the world’s forests is heating the planet — despite industry claims otherwise, a new report argues. The report from Princeton researcher Timothy Searchinger and Yale ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. That was an age during which the clear-cutting of forests for ...

State regulators on the Public Service Commission on Tuesday approved a Georgia Power plan to source more energy from burning wood known as “biomass,” despite criticism from consumer advocates about ...

At the state Mass Senior Action Council meeting in Worcester, one of our board members gave a report on Palmer Renewable Energy wanting to build an energy-producing plant in Springfield. This plant ...

In 50 years, my father-in-law has never run out of wood. Since building a wood-heated cabin in Maine in the early 1970s, he has started each summer collecting balsam, birch and maples that fell or ...