Biomass News

Danish biomass company Dall Energy has made its biggest ever deal with French energy firm Coriance/Caen la Mer Energie Verte. Dall will provide four biomass boilers to expand the existing Caen Nord Heating Network and Hérouville-Saint-Clair Heating Network in Caen
 la Mer and help power nearly 40,000 homes with 100% renewable and recovered energy by 2031. The total development enterprise is…
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Trade associations in Germany's Capital Office for Bioenergy have criticised the revision of the leaflets of the Federal Funding for Energy and Resource Efficiency in the Economy (EEW) as 'insufficient'. These were presented by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). According to the associations, the current revision, for which a stakeholder participation process is…
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Last year, EU wood pellet consumption fell by 1.2% to 24.5 million metric tons (MMT), the first reduction since 2015, according to a report produced by the US Department of Agriculture. This drop was caused by a mild winter and a reduced demand from the commercial power sector. Current low prices, combined with government incentives, are forecast to support the popularity of biomass for…
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Drax Group (Drax), a renewable energy company, has named and launched a new transport ship, the m.v. Ultra Yorkshire, in a ceremony at the Shin Kurushima Shipyard in Japan. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Drax Power Station beginning to generate power and to celebrate this occasion the owners of the new ship, Ultrabulk, invited Drax to name its latest vessel. Drax selected the name in…
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Quảng Ngãi Sugar Joint Stock Company has approved an investment of over VNĐ2 trillion (€72 million) to expand its An Khê sugar processing plant and biomass power plant. The investment includes VNĐ1.169 trillion (€42 million) to increase the sugar processing capacity at the An Khê plant in Gia Lai to 25,000 tonnes per day. This project started preparations in June this year, with the…
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In Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah in the US, local innovators will convert ‘liability biomass’ into value-added resources that fight the climate crisis by sucking carbon from the air. A coalition of Western US cities and counties have been awarded awarded $335,000 (€308,000) to four projects designed to fight climate change and reduce wildfire risks. These projects will convert…
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Pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim inaugurated a biomass power plant at its Ingelheim site on 8 July. With the new plant, Boehringer Ingelheim is saving around 50,000 tons of CO2 each year, with the site's own energy generation reducing by around 70%. In total, the company is investing €205 million in sustainable infrastructure projects in Ingelheim and will be able to cover 95% of its…
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An online platform dedicated to the development of the biomass energy market will be launched in Moldova. It will allow all market participants - companies, public institutions and private interests - to publish and follow advertisements for the sale and purchase of products and services in the biomass energy sector. State Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, Carolina Novac, said that renewable…
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Haulage operator GB Railfreight has completed the 10,000th delivery of its biomass train, from Liverpool to Drax Power Station in Selby, North Yorkshire. The organisation said it has delivered over 15 million tonnes of biomass from Peel Ports, Liverpool and Drax Power Station since 2016. According to Drax, the biomass brought by these 10,000 train journeys supports it to power up to 4 million…
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The Costa Rican government, with the support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and other organisations, is seeking to formulate a National Biogas Strategy - utilising pineapple and coffee residues, to transform its energy matrix. The strategy would chart the way for the development, use and transportation of clean energy and fuels from biogas, especially from…
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A 7.5MW biomass plant in Iitate village, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, has completed construction and is set to begin commercial operations in mid-July, the operating company has announced. The biomass facility will process 95,000 tons per year of unused wood and wood bark sourced from various areas in Fukushima prefecture, including those affected by a nuclear disaster, which took place in…
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The European Commission (EC) has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €3 billion (SEK 36 billion) Swedish scheme to support carbon capture and storage (CCS) aimed at reducing carbon dioxide released during the combustion or processing of biomass (biogenic CO2). The measure will contribute to the achievement of Sweden's climate targets and the EU's strategic objectives under the European Green…
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Suzuki Motor Corporation's Indian subsidiary, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (MSIL), has installed a pilot plant for biogas generation & purification at its Manesar Plant in Haryana, India. The plant started operations in June this year. This facility is a functioning pilot plant, generating biogas from Napier grass, a perennial grass of the Poaceae family, cultivated on the premises of the…
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In a push to ‘waste to wealth’ drive of the government, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) in India has planned to produce biomass briquettes by processing the green waste generated in the capital city separately. The civic body also plans to set up a processing unit for flower waste generated in temples to be used in marketable products. The proposals have been taken up during the…
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