Feb 25, 2026
Independent study finds BDO Zones generate billions in rural economic impact
Biomass News
Feb 25, 2026
Spanish biorefinery group Ence generated more than 1,240 GWh of biomass electricity in 2025 — a six per cent increase on the previous year — as the company accelerates its transformation into a diversified renewable energy business, even as falling pulp prices pushed it to a €55 million annual loss.
Biomass electricity generation in the second half of 2025 delivered... [Read More]
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Feb 24, 2026
The Netherlands has seen a significant contraction in wood pellet imports over the past two years, according to the country's National Market Report 2025, presented to the 83rd session of the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry late last year.
After a sustained period of growth driven by utility-scale co-firing, imports of wood pellets into the Netherlands... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 23, 2026
Malaysian biomass energy specialist Wasco Greenergy Bhd is targeting expansion beyond its core markets of Malaysia and Indonesia, as industrial clients across the region face mounting pressure to decarbonise, reported SunBiz.
The company, a subsidiary of global energy infrastructure group Wasco Bhd, specialises in engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning... [Read More]
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Feb 20, 2026
Finnish technology company Valmet is to deliver a flue gas condensing heat recovery system to Veolia's EC4 combined heat and power plant in Łódź, Poland, as part of the utility's HeatUp! decarbonisation programme.
The system will capture more than 50 MW of energy from flue gases and feed it into the city's district heating network, with projected CO2 savings of over... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 19, 2026
FLS Group AG, global developer of investment-grade forestry and carbon removal projects, and Cula, a provider of MRV software and digital infrastructure for carbon removal projects, have announced a partnership to strengthen trust in biochar carbon removals by improving how the underlying evidence is captured, tracked, and verified.
The partnership focuses on a critical... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 17, 2026
Bulgaria’s largest state-owned coal-fired power station will begin co-firing biomass with lignite at the end of February, marking a significant step in efforts to improve cost efficiency and extend the operational lifespan of the country’s coal assets.
The plant will initially introduce a 5 per cent biomass share in its fuel mix, gradually increasing this... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 13, 2026
Carbogenics, an Edinburgh-based bio-carbon designer, has closed a $3 million investment and grant funding round to accelerate growth and international expansion of its carbon removal technologies.
The funding will support the deployment of CreChar, a biochar product designed to transform biomass waste into a carbon-negative solution, particularly within the biogas industry.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 12, 2026
A Croatian engineering firm is developing a data centre that will run on biomass energy generated from waste material produced by the country's olive oil industry.
Inovapro plans to construct what it describes as a "green AI data centre" in Čaporice, near Trilj, approximately 30 miles northeast of Split. The €20 million facility will have a capacity of around 3MW and... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 11, 2026
Barcelona-based Waste to Energy Advanced Solutions (WtEnergy) has secured €10 million in financing to accelerate deployment of its biomass and industrial waste gasification technology across Europe.
The company, which specialises in energy recovery through gasification, will use the funds to execute its project pipeline, standardise plant design, strengthen its organisation,... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 6, 2026
Millions of tonnes of UK waste wood could be without a domestic market from next year if the government does not take urgent steps to protect the UK's waste wood biomass sector, the Wood Recyclers' Association (WRA) has warned.
Around 4.5 million tonnes of waste wood arise in the UK each year and the majority of this (nearly 3 million tonnes) – including lower grade... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 4, 2026
This article by Jordan Solomon and Fred Ghatala was originally published in iPolitics on 29 January 2026.
Canada's forest industry is being dismantled in plain sight.
Over the past year, trade uncertainty and US tariffs have erased thousands of forestry jobs and billions of dollars in economic value. Mills have closed. Communities that depend on forestry have been... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 3, 2026
Isometric has launched a pyrolyser pre-approval scheme designed to remove a major bottleneck in validating and expanding biochar projects.
Previously, biochar suppliers had to validate each pyrolysis or pyrogasification unit individually. For suppliers scaling across multiple sites or deploying dozens of units in distributed projects, this significantly limited validation... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 2, 2026
O&S Doors has installed a biomass-fuelled Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system at its Dungannon facility in a £9 million investment that is set to transform manufacturing waste into usable energy.
The project, partially funded by a £2.4 million grant from the Shared Island Sustainability Capital Grant Scheme, marks a significant milestone in industrial biomass... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 30, 2026
FLS Group AG and DecarboEngineering have entered into a strategic partnership to develop and deploy large-scale carbonisation projects in Paraguay, beginning with an initiative projected to convert 35,000 tonnes of waste biomass into biochar annually.
The first project under the partnership, named Project Alfheim, is expected to produce around 13,000 tonnes of high-quality,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 29, 2026
Researchers at the CSIR–Central Leather Research Institute (CSIR-CLRI) in Chennai have developed a new approach to increasing biogas production by using banana and cauliflower waste, while also helping to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The research team created a low-cost biogas enhancement method that incorporates banana peels and cauliflower stems into food-waste... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 28, 2026
Canada requires a comprehensive national strategy to guide the role of biomass in achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, according to researchers at Polytechnique Montréal's Institut de l'Énergie Trottier.
Normand Mousseau, director of the institute, and research professional Roberta Dagher argue that despite Canada's abundant biomass resources from forests and agricultural... [Read More]
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