Jun 2, 2015
New partnership to benefit Scottish biomass market
Biomass News
Jun 1, 2015
Renewable energy company ElectraTherm, in partnership with Air Burners, is to develop a whole log wood waste burner utilising its Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power generating technology.
The product, called the PGFireBox, eliminates large amounts of wood waste without any pre-processing.
Air Burners, an air curtain burning system, utilises patented technology to dispose... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 1, 2015
Mexico can increase the use of renewable energy in its energy mix from 4.4%to 21% by 2030, according to a report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
'Renewable Energy Prospects: Mexico', prepared in collaboration with the Mexican Energy Secretariat (SENER), also found that Mexico could generate up to 46% of its electricity by 2030 from renewable... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 28, 2015
Renewable energy accounted for 9.8% of total domestic energy consumption in 2014, report the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). This marks the highest renewable energy share since the 1930s, when wood was a much larger contributor to domestic energy supply.
Renewable energy use grew an average of 5% per year over 2001-2014 from its most recent low in 2001. The... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 28, 2015
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has selected E4tech to lead a consortium that will deliver the latest project in its bioenergy programme – a techno-economic assessment of biomass pre-processing.
This 11 month project will provide an assessment of the economic and performance trade-offs associated with pre-processing options, and the value they provide compared... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 27, 2015
Haven Power, the specialist electricity supplier to UK businesses and part of Drax Group, has signed a deal with Thames Water to supply its electricity requirements in an agreement worth more than £500 million (€681 million) over five years.
There is an option for two further five-year renewals which could increase the overall value of the contract to more than... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 26, 2015
Alstom has signed its third contract this year with Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC), the Danish power plant specialist, for a Geared Reaction steam turbine (GRT) at the proposed Tilbury biomass project in the UK.
The 45MW waste wood power station will be located on the River Thames near to London and will be built by BWSC and Aalborg Energie Technik... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 26, 2015
Under a recently executed joint development agreement (JDA), energy services company Cirque Energy could potentially develop and sell renewable energy to Cat Cay Yacht Club, a private island in the Bahamas.
The renewable energy could be produced using Cirque's 'Deployable Gasification Unit (DGU) technology. The operation will process the island's solid waste into syngas... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 26, 2015
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has developed a method of manufacturing chemicals such as benzene, toluene and xylene – known as BTX chemicals – by combining the gasification of lignocellulosic biomass, the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and aromatisation.
Over 85% of the separated benzene exceeded 90% purity and around 50% of the separated toluene... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 26, 2015
Pallmann Group, a manufacturer of innovative size reduction technology, is joining forces with Standard Bio, an expert in novel biomass conversion technologies, to develop a new biorefinery concept that will use low-value organic waste as a resource for clean energy, natural fertilisers and animal protein.
The concept is based around the conversion of renewable resources... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 26, 2015
Aseagas, a subsidiary of Aboitiz Power and renewable energy company, has signed an agreement with GE's Distributed Power business to power its first waste-to-electricity project in Lian in the province of Batangas, Philippines.
The 8.8MW facility will be a biomass power plant running with GE's 'ecomagination' approved Jenbacher gas engines. The Batangas plant will utilise... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 21, 2015
UN FAO, Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Carbon War Room, KLM, Novozymes and the UN Foundation partner to scale up the development and deployment of sustainable bioenergy solutions to meet the global need for sustainable energy.
As part of the 2nd Annual Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Forum, a new multi-stakeholder coalition, co-chaired... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 12, 2015
On 11 May the US Department of Energy (DoE) Savannah River Operations Office (SR) and Ameresco held a ceremonial groundbreaking for construction of a new biomass heating plant project at DoE's Savannah River Site (SRS).
The event will mark the start of phase two to the original energy savings performance contract (ESPC) to increase critical steam security and provide additional... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 12, 2015
Sustainability software and data company Ecometrica has teamed up with Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) to de-risk the investment in the UK biomass energy industry by combining a powerful computer model with state of the art mapping software that will help fire up the UK's energy crop industry, with potential to unlock tens of millions of pounds of new investment.
The Biomass... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 12, 2015
DONG Energy has entered into an agreement to divest its waste-fired Måbjerg combined heat and power (CHP) plant near Holstebro to the Danish utility companies Struer Forsyning Fjernvarme and Vestforsyning Varme.
Thomas Dalsgaard, executive VP of DONG Energy Thermal Power, says: 'The divestment is part of our strategy to focus on the central power stations in Denmark.... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 8, 2015
Renmatix, a technology licensor for the conversion of biomass into cellulosic sugar, has acquired existing assets of the former Mascoma 56,000ft2 manufacturing facility in Rome, New York.
The new feedstock processing facility is dedicated to the first step in conversion to cellulosic sugar (from different types of biomass materials) utilising proprietary Plantrose process... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 8, 2015
Phoenix Energy's joint venture, North Fork Community Power's project has been awarded a $4.9 million (€4.4 million) grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), which will be used to build biomass gasification plant, as well as research into the emerging field of forest biomass utilisation.
The plant will consume biomass sourced from forestry and fuel reduction... [Read More]
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