Duke Energy, opponents: N.C. must define 'renewable' - Sustainable Business Oregon

Duke Energy, opponents: N.C. must define 'renewable' - Sustainable Business Oregon: "Duke wants a broad definition. In tests that used both coal and biomass fuel to fire power plants, its biomass material consisted of waste wood and wood chips. Some of the wood came from whole trees Duke cleared near one of its coal plants for construction of a pond to retain coal ash.

Environmental groups contend such wood shouldn’t qualify as biomass fuel. They say counting whole trees as waste wood, listed in the law as a biomass fuel, could broaden the fuels beyond the law’s original intent."