At current prices, that amount works out to a cost of roughly $552,000 per year, versus $140,400 for wood chips that produce an equivalent amount of heat, O’Shea said.

You can opt for a single wood species or mix things up to form a custom recipe. With the right blend of wood chips, you can ...

Decomposing wood chips of any type bind up nutrients needed for plant growth. Adding them as a soil amendment or more than an inch-thick mulch would be risky and lead to nutrient deficiencies.

Wood chip mulch, unlike rock mulch, rots into the soil and increases the organics of desert soil. After planting, apply this mulch in a circle 6 feet wide from the trunk and 3 inches deep.

CEO Butch Cersosimo watches the wood chips get screened at Cersosimo Lumber Company's new wood chip mill in Vernon. (Zachary P. Stephens/Reformer ... Typically there is a single operator sited inside ...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will fire up its Renewable Fuel Heat Plant (RFHP) this fall as the weather gets colder. The new $3.3 million boiler facility will heat South Table ...