ASHBURNHAM — A warm and comparatively comfortable winter may await students at the Overlook Middle School in Ashburnham, as the district nears the final steps in installing biomass boilers to heat the ...

SunWood Systems founders Marc DiMario and Dave Frank saw that these institutional installations offered an ideal setting for educating young people about biomass heat and, even more importantly, ...

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 ...

Researchers outline a computer simulation model addressing the challenge of solar power's inherent intermittency by adding biomass as another renewable energy source to advance a reliable, affordable ...

If you're exploring your options for a new heating system, an upgrade or perhaps considering which type of energy efficient heating to use in your self build plans, you'll likely find yourself ...

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 ...

For those who want to burn cordwood, modern wood-gasification boilers offer mid-80 percent steady-state combustion efficiencies and full-cycle efficiencies in the 70-75 percent range. This is much ...

PVT-biomass system for space heating in small homes A US-Chinese research group has developed a hybrid system proposal based on photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) modules, a heat pump, a backup electric ...

Winter is setting in, and citizens are scrambling to ensure they have the necessary heating systems set up before it does. High-efficiency biomass stoves are becoming items of much demand this winter.

BERLIN – The shiny silo at Berlin Memorial School is more than just a pretty architectural feature. It holds the compressed wood pellets that fuel the new biomass heating system at the school, keeping ...