Biomass News

Renewable energy producer Albioma has announced the industrial commissioning of its 100% biogas/biomass plant. The plant, Galion 2, will be located in Martinique and was commissioned on the 26 September 2018. According to the press release, Galion 2 has become the first 100% biogas/biomass plant in the French overseas departments and is dedicated to renewable energy production. The plant has a…
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Reported by Horizon, research by the CarboPlex team as part of a project coordinated by Dr. Jan Mumme, found that biochar has profoundly improved results when used in an additional process first. Biochar is the result of biomass that is heated to 400-800°C to produce a charcoal-like material. The CarboPlex team developed a material named CreChar, made from paper waste and combines carbon and…
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US-based technology solutions company, EQTEC, announced in a press release that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with California-based power firm Phoenix Biomass, to supply its EQTEC Gasifier Technology (EGT) for two plants. Both contracts are estimated to be worth €10 million ($11.7 million) collectively. The press release detailed Phoenix’s willingness to utilise…
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Two biomass plants in South Carolina are to be acquired by Atlantic Power Corporation. One is located in Allendale and the other in Harleyville. Both plants were originally owned by EDF Renewables Inc. and were sold together for a total of $13 million (approximately €11.10 million). The deal is expected to be finished by the third or fourth quarter of 2019 after a restructuring of the…
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The Corinth Wood Pellets manufacturing facility in Corinth, Mississippi caught fire on Wednesday evening. Over 20 fire departments were controlling the fire that broke out. The fire began at around 6pm in the manufacturing part of the mill. The blaze was described by the dispatcher as a large fire that would take some time to control. The firefighters were fighting the fire through the night and…
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Power Philippines has reported that electric power distributor AboitixPower is looking to sell its 8.8 MW biomass plant located in Lian, Philippines. The biomass plant was acquired by the company in 2016 and led to the expansion of its renewable energy work, as they previously produced hydro, run-off-river hydro, geothermal and solar energy.     The company’s chief operating…
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) announced in a press release that their combined heat and power plant (CHP) Kent Renewable Energy had commenced operations on September 13, two months ahead of schedule ‘to specification and within budget’. The CHP plant has a capacity of 27MW and is in Sandwich, Kent within the United Kingdom. With fuel locally sourced courtesy of EuroForest,…
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Edmonton Maple Reinders has completed construction of the High Solids Anaerobic Digester at the Edmonton Waste Centre. The Canadian facility has been commissioned and handed over to the City of Edmonton. It is designed to integrate into the existing processing and transfer facility and will be able to process up to 48,000 tonnes of organic waste per year. The digester is a design-build…
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As reported by local media outlet, New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR), New Hampshire legislators voted and subsequently overturned the vetoing of Senate Bill 365 (SB365), a bill which focused on the subsidisation of biomass plants across the state. The overturning occurred by a narrow margin of 226 to 113 (66.7%) legislators, which was the minimum number of votes needed for a majority. On…
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J Murphy & Sons announced that it had landed a contract to develop a new energy and recycling facility in Huddersfield for Yorkshire Water. The firm estimates the deal to be worth over €64 million ($74 million). The development will include new aerobic digesters; a new sludge reception plant; sludge thickening plant and storage; CHP and dual fuel boilers; sludge dewatering and lime…
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New Hampshire Public Radio reported that the Toxics Action Center (TAC) and the Energy Justice Network (EJN) have both come forward in their support of the Governor of New Hampshire Chris Sununu’s decision in June of this year to veto a bill designed to subsidise and encourage the development of biomass and solar energy across the state. The biomass bill, Senate Bill 365 (SB365),…
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Biomass could cover the energy needs of all 28 member states of the EU from 19 November to the end of the year, according to Bioenergy Europe. The figures have been announced as part of the build up to Bioenergy Europe’s ‘European Bioenergy Day’, which will be held on 19 November to mark the point in the year from which Europe’s energy needs could be met with bioenergy.…
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Major UK energy supplier Drax has switched on the fourth biomass generating unit at its power station in North Yorkshire, marking a significant step in what it claims to be Europe’s largest decarbonisation project. Back in June this year, Drax took the coal-fired generating unit offline in preparation for its conversion to running on sustainable biomass. Three of the site’s six coal…
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European stakeholders involved in the wood chips sector can now review and comment on the main elements of Bioenergy Europe’s (formerly AEBIOM) proposed woodchip certification guidelines. Since the start of 2018, Bioenergy Europe has been ‘actively’ working on a quality scheme for woodchips ‘at the international level.’ Named ‘GoodChips’, the…
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