Eggert, who owns 6,300 nearby acres of alfalfa, has led a conversion of the 220,000-square-foot facility so that it can process alfalfa into pellets to feed his own livestock under the Silver Sage Farms brand.

Instead of making wood products, it will use state-of-the-art technology imported from Germany to process locally grown alfalfa hay into animal feed, supporting dairy farms across the state in the Willamette Valley.

When it comes time for project implementation, supply is just one of four important factors to consider when determining the right scale for your community.

It would be the first time the state installed a wood pellet boiler for a public building.

She greeted community members and forestry employees for the welcome and ribbon cutting for the brand new biomass project.

At six public schools across the Prince of Wales Island in Alaska, the installation of modern wood heating systems has fueled a surge of energy savings, student entrepreneurship and, surprisingly, improved nutrition.

Now that renewable energies are cost competitive with fossil fuels in many markets around the world, they are starting to be implemented as mainstream sources of energy in countries like Sweden and Costa Rica.

Harney County-based High Desert Biomass Co-op and regional business lender Craft3 have closed on a $1.1 million loan to allow for long-term, community ownership of an innovative, biomass district heating system in Burns.

At best, the road to finding an efficient and economic means of heating the Plumas County Health and Human Services Center has been rocky.