Biomass News

At a biomass power plant in the city of Xuzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, giant mechanical claws repeatedly feed bundles of dried straw onto conveyor belts. The straw is then transported to furnaces and converted into clean energy. This facility can process around 300,000 tonnes of agricultural residues like wheat, corn and rice straw annually, producing over 220 million kilowatt-hours of…
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California lawmakers have advanced a bill aimed at expanding the use of biomass as an alternative to open pile burning, with recent amendments designed to address air quality and public health concerns. The legislation, which passed the state Assembly this week, now moves to the Senate for further consideration. The bill is intended to reduce wildfire risk and harmful smoke emissions by…
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The European Commission is launching the “EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform” on 2 July 2025 to help EU companies streamline the sourcing of strategic energy commodities and raw materials. The initiative aims to leverage the scale of the EU’s single market to enhance supply security, competitiveness, and progress toward the green transition. The platform brings together procurement…
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Germany’s leading bioenergy associations have published a detailed set of proposals for reforming the country’s Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), urging policymakers to take swift action to secure the future of bioenergy in the power and heat sectors. The Hauptstadtbüro Bioenergie (HBB), which represents a broad coalition of bioenergy stakeholders, released a comprehensive policy paper…
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Nuada has successfully completed a major trial of its second pilot plant, Nuada Scout, at the Energy Innovation Centre at the University of Sheffield in England, marking a significant step towards commercial-scale carbon capture deployment. Designed, built and commissioned in under a year, the industrial-scale system has been capturing one tonne of CO₂ per day from biomass flue gases with…
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A US startup using artificial intelligence to convert construction waste into biomass fuel has raised $3.75 million (€3.45m) in seed funding. Michigan-based firm Woodchuck, which uses AI to sort and process wood waste into renewable energy, secured the investment from a group led by investor Mason Fink, with backing from energy firm NorthStar Clean Energy, Alloy Partners and Beckett…
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Germany's Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has awarded a total of 187.3 megawatts (MW) to 244 biomass projects in the latest round of its competitive tendering process. This outcome reflects the country's ongoing commitment to expanding renewable energy capacity through market-based mechanisms. The tender, part of Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), is designed to ensure a…
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India’s 5% biomass blending mandate for power plants has created a daily demand of 100,000 tonnes of biomass fuel, yet current supply stands at just 5,000 to 7,000 tonnes, deepening North India’s stubble burning crisis. According to Mohit Verma, founder of Biomass Energeons India, major implementation gaps are undermining both India’s Net Zero 2050 goals and urgent air quality…
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US President Donald Trump issued a high-profile Executive Order on 12 June aimed at overhauling federal wildfire response and turning woody biomass – branches, fallen timber, underbrush – into a strategic resource. “We’re restoring common sense to federal wildfire management,” Trump claimed in a White House briefing, noting the order directs Interior and Agriculture to consolidate…
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DS Smith has brought online a €90 million biomass boiler at its Rouen paper mill in Normandy, France – one of Europe’s largest mill energy transitions to date. The new system replaces the site’s coal-fired boiler with a low-carbon, circular solution powered by locally sourced biomass waste. The project is expected to cut CO₂ emissions by 99,000 tonnes annually – equivalent to…
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The company behind a biomass energy facility near Hull, England has gone into administration, though a successful sale of its land and equipment has safeguarded jobs and maximised returns for creditors. GB-Bio Ltd, the owner of the Tansterne Biomass Plant, was placed into administration on 5 June 2025. Insolvency specialists Jamie Miller and David Shambrook from RSM UK Restructuring Advisory LLP…
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At a recent business forum organised by Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade in Osaka, Japan, Japanese companies pledged to import 640,000 tonnes of Indonesian biomass products, including palm kernel shells and wood pellets. The agreement, announced on 11 June 2025, represents a transaction valued at approximately Rp1.04 trillion (around €63 million). Fajarini Puntodewi, Director General of…
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England's Environment Agency has granted an environmental permit to MVV Environment Ltd for a proposed energy-from-waste facility at Canford Resource Park, Arena Way, Magna Road, Poole in the country's South West region. The facility will process up to 260,000 tonnes of residual municipal and commercial waste each year – specifically household, industrial and non-recyclable mixed waste,…
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Hydro-Québec, the Canadian public utility, has entered into a new long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with a 22-megawatt (MW) biomass-fuelled power plant located in Saint-Félicien, in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Québec. The facility is owned and operated by the Société en commandite Bioénergie AE Côte-Nord Canada, a subsidiary of Groupe Rémabec. The PPA ensures…
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