The appropriately named Progress Energy announced plans to buy 50 megawatts of electricity from a biomass power plant:

http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1497196.html

According to the article:

“Progress will redistribute the electricity to its customers in the Carolinas. Using electricity generated by biomass will count toward meeting a 2007 state law to increase use of renewable energy resources. The plant would burn wood waste — limbs, stumps and tree tops — left over from logging operations.”

Think about this: this is leftover wood that would have to be burned anyway. So why not use it for energy? This is the magic of biomass. It uses renewable sources of energy, it does not negatively impact the environment and its homegrown right here in America.

Now that really is progress!