{"id":3119,"date":"2017-09-15T14:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodpellets.com\/blog\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2017-09-21T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:27:14","slug":"national-clean-energy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/national-clean-energy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaugural National Clean Energy Week Includes Biomass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NationalCleanEnergyWeek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3122\" alt=\"NationalCleanEnergyWeek\" src=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NationalCleanEnergyWeek.jpg\" width=\"828\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NationalCleanEnergyWeek.jpg 828w, https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/NationalCleanEnergyWeek-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first National Clean Energy Week, a forum striving to encourage\u00a0support of the United States&#8217; energy sector through technological innovation and policy change, is taking place the week of September 25-29. According to the organization&#8217;s <a title=\"National Clean Energy Week\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalcleanenergyweek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Across America, clean and readily abundant forms of energy are powering more than homes and businesses. Taken together, our capacity for safe and reliable energy generation is driving a clean energy renaissance that is creating jobs, strengthening America\u2019s national security, and preserving our environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wind and solar energy have long been the power-houses of renewables.\u00a0While the carbon neutrality of biomass (organic materials used for energy) has been debated, studies show significant carbon benefits can be achieved through the use of organic residue based biomass in power generation facilities. Additionally, the collection of forest waste for use is essential to responsible forest management. Unlike living trees that draw carbon from the atmosphere &#8211; dead tree leftovers release carbon into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>This past spring, the House Appropriations Committee voted to officially designate biomass as carbon neutral.\u00a0The FY2017 Omnibus Appropriations bill directed U.S. government energy leaders to recognize the benefits of using forest biomass for energy creation and forest management.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biomass power industry removes over 68.8 million tons of forest debris annually, improving forest health and dramatically reducing the risk of forest fires. In addition, the biomass industry diverts millions of tons of waste material from landfills and open burns. Biomass power plants also eliminate the need for frequent open burns of agricultural waste and forest slash, while continuing to offset the use fossil fuels that produce smog and acid rain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">nationalcleanenergyweek.org<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Biomass power will be highlighted alongside energy sources including solar, geothermal, wind and hydropower during the National Clean Energy Week forum in Washington D.C.<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalcleanenergyweek.org\/individual\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to learn more and get involved!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first National Clean Energy Week, a forum striving to encourage\u00a0support of the United States&#8217; energy sector through technological innovation and policy change, is taking place the week of September 25-29. According to the organization&#8217;s website: Across America, clean and readily abundant forms of energy are powering more than homes and businesses. Taken together, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodpellets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}