Biomass News

Pinnacle Renewable Holdings announced on 22 May that it has entered into a long-term, take-or-pay off-take contract with Hanwa, a large, diversified trading company in Japan. Pinnacle will supply 75,000 metric tonnes of industrial wood pellets to Hanwa each year from early 2022. The industrial wood pellets will be used by a biomass power generation plant in Japan. "We are pleased to enter into…
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The company, which operates three biomass units in the UK (with a fourth on the way), says it is piloting ‘Europe’s first’ carbon capture storage project. Bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) stores the carbon that’s produced when biomass is burned to produce energy. Coupled with the carbon- absorption that takes place while the biomass is growing, biomass power…
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On 10 May California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued an executive order designed to address the state’s spate of record-breaking forest fires. The measures included long-term use of small bioenergy generators. Combatting dangerous tree mortality, increasing the ability of forests to capture carbon and systematically improving forest management are among the order’s goals. It also…
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The Bruks Siwertell Group has been established following the signing of a joint venture between bulk materials handling specialists JCE Invest and Cargotec. Siwertell and Bruks Holding will both be owned by the joint venture. Cargotec will own 48% of the shares in Bruks Siwertell Group while JCE Invest will own the remaining 52%. "Together Bruks and Siwertell will have a strong position in the…
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Bloomberg is reporting that ValueAct Capital Management has bought $20 million (€16.7 million) in Enviva shares. Enviva’s market capitalisation is around $772 million (€647.6 million).The deal was made through the hedge fund’s socially and environmentally focused ValueAct Spring Fund. The fund has previously invested in the power generator AES and education company Strayer…
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A major waste-to-energy project is a step closer to realisation, with the site’s 21.5MW biomass facility now generating low carbon energy. Bioenergy Infrastructure Group (BIG), a specialist investor and operator in the biomass and waste-to-energy sector, is working to establish a portfolio of bioenergy facilities capable of diverting 1 million tonnes of waste each year from landfill and…
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Biomass company LC Energy has partnered with Berkshire College of Agriculture and Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership to deliver the facility. The collaboration is an effort to address the nationwide skills shortage in the renewable energy sector. The opening of The Energy Centre at Berkshire College of Agriculture (BCA) is intended to enable students aged between 16 and 19 to…
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The British Columbia, Canada based Biomass Secure Power (BSP) has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a power company located in the United States. The MoU became effective on 18 April. Both companies are engaged in the production of renewable heat and power by using sustainable fuels in their existing infrastructure. The MoU states that Biomass Secure Power will commence…
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Drax CEO Will Gardiner told Reuters April 20 that the company plans to cut the cost of the electricity it generates by a third over the next decade. The goal is to reduce the company’s dependency on subsidies. Improvements cited by Gardiner are more efficient turbines and cheaper wood pellets. A spokesperson for Drax told Bioenergy Insight: “We’re looking at a range of options…
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The companies plan to developing process technology and supply capacity for the fuel, which can be used in coal-fired power stations with minimal effort. The companies Clean Energy Generation (CEG) and Stork have initiated a partnership between multiple companies to accelerate the development of biocoal technology, which they say significantly reduces carbon emissions and increases the use of…
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The biomass facility comes under South Africa’s initiative to increase the number of independent power suppliers, a programme designed to diversify electricity supply and increase the proportion of renewable sources in the energy mix. The Ngodwana Energy Biomass Project, South Africa’s first under the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), has…
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Major energy supplier Drax could be ‘coal free’ ahead of the government imposed 2025 deadline, according to the company. The announcement has reignited a long standing controversy over the environmental credentials of wood based biomass. Drax is the owner of the largest power station in western Europe, in Yorkshire, UK. The company has so far upgraded half of this power station to run…
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Boosting the efficiency of croplands through algae production could ‘unlock’ Bioenergy and Carbon Capture Technology (BECCS), according to new research from the University of Hawai’i at Hilo. The new research, which has been published in the journal Earth’s Future, describes an ‘affordable’, combined process to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and…
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The UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published its ‘Energy Trends’ data for 2017. Energy production was 0.4% higher in 2017 than the previous year, according to the government data. This modest rise was the result of increases in bioenergy, gas, wind, solar and hydro output. Coal output apparently hit a record low, while oil and…
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