Biomass News

China has announced a five-year plan to convert the country’s northern cities to clean heating through to 2021, according to Reuters, citing Chinese state media. The announcement comes amid a worsening heating crisis in the country. The plan sees the government make “concrete arrangements” for heating in the northern cities, the Securities Times reports. Biomass heating is one…
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The technique makes turning the waste into a useful product more feasible by reducing temperature and pressure requirements. Syngas is an intermediate material before being refined into end-use products like synthetic natural gas and methanol. Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory used switchable polarity solvents (liquids that switch polarity in the presence…
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The European Biomass Association (AEBIOM) has joined renewable energy investors and business organisations in calling for improved governance of energy policy in the European Union. In a statement addressed to Members of the European Parliament, co-signatories including AEBIOM and the European Renewable Energies Federation call for ‘ambitious’ governance regulation. “We join…
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Industrial shredder manufacturer UNTHA has signed a new distribution partnership with engineering firm Sun Earth. The new agreement between UNTHA and Yokohama based Sun Earth will see the Austrian company’s shredding technology supplied to waste and alternative fuel production facilities throughout Japan. It’s a move which will further UNTHA’s expansion into the Asian…
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Attis Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary of Meridian Waste Solutions, has initiated commercialisation plans for its biomass processing facility. The company will immediately begin feedstock evaluation and assess potential locations for commercial scale operations. Over the past month, Attis has completed a series of acquisitions to strengthen its position in the bio-based economy. The company…
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The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP) has launched a consultation as part of its governance transition process. Following a comprehensive review of 12 certification systems in operation across a variety of sectors a proposal for the new governance arrangements for the SBP has been developed. The overriding objective is to transform SBP into a multi-stakeholder governed organisation.   The…
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Biomass and waste derived fuels contributed 2% of total US electricity generation in 2016, according to figures recently released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The EIA figures, included in its recently released annual electric power data, reveal that biomass and waste fuels produced 71.4 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2016. EIA defines biomass fuels as all non-fossil,…
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SENER is set to design, supply, build and commission a new, low emission biomass electricity plant in Huelva, Spain. Engineering and technology group SENER has signed a contract with ENCE Energía y Celulosa for the turnkey arrangement that will see SENER operate and maintain the new facility during its first years of operation. The new facility will be an electricity generation plant using…
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International technology group Andritz will supply a boiler to a new biomass power plant set to be built on the premises of the MES shipyard in Ichihara, 30km east of Tokyo in the Chiba Prefecture. The new biomass power plant, fired with palm kernel shells and wood pellets, will generate around 50MW of power, meaning it will be able to supply approximately 100,000 households with clean energy…
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Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10% of coal used in electricity generation, in turn reducing greenhouse gases and providing an alternative energy source, according to a new study by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). A statement from American Associates BGU notes that…
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The European Biomass Association (Aebiom) has unveiled a new ‘Bioenergy Day’ campaign to raise awareness on bioenergy’s "pivotal" role in the renewable energy transition. More than 20 European countries are expected to benefit from the campaign thanks to the support of 30 national associations and a dozen international trade federations. The ‘Bioenergy Day’ promotion…
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VerdEnergy, a Yorkshire-based company, has secured £200,000 (€224,000) to support its growth from NPIF – Mercia Debt Finance, which is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund. VerdEnergy supplies customers throughout the North of England from its headquarters in York, depots in Richmond and Goole and through its fleet of specialist delivery vehicles. The company was…
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A group of NGOs have called upon the British government to end subsidies for biomass and instead invest in other renewable sources. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and its partners the Dogwood Alliance and Southern Environmental Law Centre have written to Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond ahead of the upcoming Autumn Budget announcement. A significant amount of the…
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The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided an €8.3 million loan to finance the creation of a biomass boiler plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As part of its Green Cities Framework, EBRD is supporting the construction of a 49MW district-heating boiler plant fired by wood biomass in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s second largest city. The €8.3…
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