Biomass News

Bioenergy Infrastructure Group (BIG), a platform established to invest and operate biomass plants in the UK, has reached financial close on its second waste-to-energy project. The new £200 million (€284 million) plant has a 25MW capacity and will be located on 7.5 acres in Hull, East Yorkshire. BIG was established by cornerstone investor Infracapital, alongside shareholders Helios,…
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E.ON UK, a subsidiary of the German power company E.ON has confirmed that Ironbridge Power Station in Shropshire will cease commercial generation and will close permanently following. The iconic plant, which has reached its 20,000 hours limit of generation under the Large Combustion Plant Directive, was officially first synchronised to the grid by former E.ON colleague Mike Smith in…
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The South American country of Uruguay is now generating 95% of its power from renewable sources. While Uruguay has no nuclear power plants and has not built new hydropower in 20 years, biomass, wind, and solar power are booming. The massive shift to renewable energy was triggered by the country’s need to break away from its dependence on foreign oil, which in 2000 accounted for 15% of its…
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The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul has granted preliminary licenses to ten biomass projects in order to increase its renewable energy output. The Environmental Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul (Imasul) gave the licenses to a total of 535.75MW worth of eucalyptus-based biomass projects. The 10 schemes, with a combined investement of $734 million (€679m), will be located in the cities of…
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The Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK and the supply chain specialist Terravesta are running new trials to examine how the energy crop miscanthus survives in water-logged land and its effect on the soil after flooding. The trials come some 18 months after the floods which devastated the Somerset Levels and are being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council…
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Veolia UK, a branch of the French Veolia Group, has secured a contract from Equitix ESI CHP to operate the Sherwood Biomass Plant in Nottingham, UK. The 20-year contract, worth £50 million (€69m), highlights the growing UK commitment to energy production from biomass, and adds to the £500 million of biomass energy managed by Veolia in the UK and Ireland. Located in Widmerpool,…
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The European Biomass Association (AEBIOM), a non-profit bioenergy representative, has selected its new president and vice president. At AEBIOM’s latest general assembly, Gustav Melin (SVEBIO, Sweden) was elected as AEBIOM president for one further term. Following his election, Melin gave statement in which he hoped for positive results from the COP21 climate summit in…
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Local farmers will own and operate a new cooperative-style biomass business that will supply a power company on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula. The A$100 million (€65m) Yorke Biomass Energy (YBE) project, Australia’s first straw-fuelled power plant launched in September this year, has launched a cooperative-style business model that will see local biomass suppliers own and…
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A consortium including the Japanese Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding has been awarded an order to construct a biomass combined heat and power plant in Cramlington, UK. The 27.8MW facility will be built by Mitsui’s subsidiary Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor as a turnkey solution in a consortium with the Danish boiler supplier Burmeister & Wain Energy. The contract also…
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Construction work has officially begun at Glennmont Partners’ Port Clarence Renewable Energy Plant in Stockton-on-Tees, UK. Once completed, the £160 million (€220m) plant will burn 250,000 tonnes of waste wood annually to produce 40MW of combined heat and power. Commercial operations at the plant are expected to begin in 2018. The project was originally developed by Eco2 Limited…
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Bioenergy France 3, the French arm of Spanish biofuels producer Ambene, has obtained permission from local officials to build a 41MW biomass-fired cogeneration plant in the south of France. According to SeeNews, the plant will be constructed in the Torremila industrial zone of Perpignan. At the end of December, the Pyrenees-Orientales prefecture gave the green light to the €50m ($54m)…
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Danish Babcock & Wilcox Vølund (BWV), a subsidiary of the US-based Babcock & Wilcox, has been awarded a $90 million (€82.5m) contract for constructing a bioenergy plant in the UK The contract to design, manufacture, and build the waste-to-energy plant near Haresfield, Gloucestershire, was awarded by a joint venture of Urbased and Balfour Beatty. The facility will treat…
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Orthios, a UK sustainable energy company, is preparing to begin work on two combined food and power plants in the UK. To be located at a former Anglesey Aluminium in Wales at Holyhead, Anglesey, the £1 billion (€1.3bn) Orthios Eco Park will process waste wood to produce 299MW of electricity, enough to power 300,000 homes. The heat produced during power generation process will be used…
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The joint venture of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), PensionDanmark, and Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) has completed the construction of a £162 million (€233m) biomass power plant investment in the UK well ahead of schedule. The construction of the Brigg Renewable Energy Plant, the JV’s first 40MW straw-fired biomass plant contracted in August…
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