APS Energy Services has begun construction on a large-scale renewable energy facility as part of the Northern Nevada Correctional Center’s plan to generate heat and electricity using forest waste products. A 30-kW solar photovoltaic system will be combined with a wood-fired biomass boiler. Wood chips from surrounding forest-thinning industries will be processed in a heat [...]

According to the latest “Monthly Energy Review” issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration this week, renewable energy accounted for more than 10% of the domestically-produced energy used in the United States in the first half of 2008.
For the period January 1 to June 30, 2008, the United States consumed 50.673 quadrillion Btus (quads) of [...]