biomass

Tanana residents who harvest wood for a local biomass project are six times more likely to engage in subsistence activities. That’s according to a study…

Local trees will continue to provide a source of low cost heat and power for the Tok School. A biomass fueled boiler, first brought on line nearly a…

Alaska’s rural communities are increasingly looking to wind, solar and biomass to reduce their use of expensive diesel fuel to generate heat and…

About 400 people from around Alaska and elsewhere converged on the Westmark Fairbanks Hotel and Conference Center Tuesday to talk about how residents of…

The lights are back on in Fort Yukon, including the Christmas trees, now that three of the village’s four electrical generators are functioning again.A…

The Ninth Rural Energy Conference gets under way Tuesday here in Fairbanks. The three-day gathering of experts and advocates will examine how Alaska’s…

A Native village corporation near Tok and the utility that serves that area have partnered up on a venture to build a small hydroelectric project that…

Alaska Power Company customers in Tok and other small communities in the eastern Interior saw their electricity bills go up this year. Utility rate hikes…

Business and community leaders in Tok are trying to revive a plan to cut the area’s high energy costs by generating electricity using biomass. That’s a…

The Alaska Division of Forestry has given the go-ahead to a long-term timber sales contract that would allow a company to harvest trees on state forest…