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Apr 4, 2025
Sac County is recognised for ‘A’-rated corn stover biomass
Biomass News
Apr 3, 2025
Canfor Corporation and Canfor Pulp Products Inc. have released their joint 2024 Sustainability Report. The report describes the companies' approach to managing environmental, social and governance activities, and reports on established targets. Report highlights include maintaining certifications for sustainable forest management and fibre procurement activities, with... [Read More]

Biomass News
Apr 3, 2025
Evero Energy (Evero), a leading waste-wood-to-energy and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) company, announces the appointment of Elliot Renton to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He succeeds Simon Hicks who steps down after four–years in the role. With two decades of experience in senior leadership positions, Renton brings a strong track record of strategic... [Read More]

Biomass News
Apr 2, 2025
There is renewed interest by large industry users in exploring biomass as an industrial heat decarbonisation option. This follows the recent publication of the Irish government’s Industrial Heating Decarbonisation Roadmap. The government is also seeking to extend the biomass support under the Support Scheme for Renewable Heat (SSRH) to the emissions trading sector. Later... [Read More]

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Mar 28, 2025
Austrian holding company Nextwood Two, has submitted a merger report to acquire KUREKSS. Nextwood is indirectly owned by HS Timber, one of the world's leading wood-working companies. It operates in the fields of bioenergy production, as well as wood processing and sawn timber trade. KUREKSS is a lumber producer and exporter, which owns a sawmill in the Ventspils region. It... [Read More]

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Mar 28, 2025
Waste-to-energy company Compact Syngas Solutions has been awarded funding to drive industrial decarbonisation in the hard-to-abate Kenyan tea sector – in one of the first five projects in a new United Nations scheme. Multi-million-pound funding has been awarded by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Accelerate-to-Demonstrate (A2D) facility,... [Read More]

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Mar 26, 2025
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a programme for high-efficiency cogeneration from biomass-to-biogas projects in Poland. The initiative will have a budget of €238 million from the EU Modernisation Fund, Polish National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. With a particular focus on waste biomass, the funding is designed to accelerate... [Read More]

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Mar 21, 2025
Kemper County, Ecostrat, and the BDO Zone Initiative have announced the issue of an investment grade BDO Zone ‘A’ Rating for Kemper County, Mississippi. The BDO Zone is rated for 1,105,000 bone dry tons per year of woody biomass and extends within a 75-mile radius from the centre point, Scooba, MS. Kemper County's 'A' rating indicates high prospective viability to... [Read More]

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Mar 21, 2025
px Group, a leading fully integrated industrial operations and solutions provider based in Teesside, England, has appointed Tracy Wilson-Long as its new Managing Director Power & Renewables. Originally from Teesside, Tracy brings a wealth of experience to the role, having previously held strategic leadership positions at bp Exploration & Production and Exergy... [Read More]

Biomass News
Mar 20, 2025
Elyse Energy and its partners have selected BioTfueL® technology for its biomass-to-sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project called BioTJet. This initiative will produce sustainable SAF from end-of-life wood waste & local forestry residues with the addition of green hydrogen. Led by Elyse Energy and with Axens, Avril and IFPEN as partners, the BioTJet project aims... [Read More]

Biomass News
Mar 20, 2025
Mark Hayton has been announced as the new Chair of the Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA), taking over from Richard Coulson who steps down after a four-year term. Richard chaired his final members’ meeting and AGM in Bristol on March 19, before handing over the reins to Mark, director of wood recycling company EGGER Timberpak, which sources waste wood for EGGER’s... [Read More]

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Mar 19, 2025
British American Tobacco has invested €4.7 million in a biomass-fuelled heating plant at its cigarette factory in Kanfanar, Croatia aiming to cut the factory's CO2 emissions by 65%, reported See News. BAT acquired the factory in Kanfanar, on the Istria peninsula, in 2015 when it took over local tobacco company Tvornica Duhana Rovinj (TDR) for over €500 million. According... [Read More]

Policy News
Mar 17, 2025
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia has directed its main electricity producer to ramp up biomass use, starting immediately and continuing for the next two years. As reported by CBC News, the Tim Houston-led province government has made a regulatory change, which requires Nova Scotia Power to use 160 gigawatt hours of biomass every year until 2027. This builds from... [Read More]

Biomass News
Mar 14, 2025
A report by The Times has outlined how Drax attempted to 'silence' an employee, after she raised concerns that it had misled British energy regulator Ofgem about its true sustainability credentials. In a London-held tribunal, Rowaa Ahmar, who was head of Drax’s public affairs and policy team, claimed she was unfairly dismissed, months after expressing concerns to executives... [Read More]

Biomass News
Mar 14, 2025
New Zealand's government has welcomed the announcement of an initiative to establish a large-scale biomass torrefaction facility in the Central North Island. This facility, developed by Carbona, represents a significant step in New Zealand’s transition to a sustainable, low-emissions energy future while supporting regional economic growth and job creation. With an... [Read More]

Biomass News
Mar 13, 2025
Brazil’s national oil company (NOC) Petrobras-controlled Riograndense refinery has completed tests to produce fuels from eucalyptus biomass in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state, reported Argus. Bio-oil derived from eucalyptus biomass has been processed by the refinery, and converted into various fractions. These include fuel gas, liquefied petroleum gas, components... [Read More]

Biomass News
Mar 12, 2025
Mote, a technology leader in carbon-negative energy production, announced the successful first close of its Series A funding round this month, securing $7 million in investment led by Nella Next and Preston-Werner Ventures. The round also included Counteract and other strategic partners. This first phase is part of a targeted $15 million Series A funding round. Mote’s... [Read More]


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