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Carbogenics, an Edinburgh-based bio-carbon designer, has closed a $3 million investment and grant funding round to accelerate growth and international expansion of its carbon removal technologies.
The funding will support the deployment of CreChar, a biochar product designed to transform biomass waste into a carbon-negative solution, particularly within the biogas industry.
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A Croatian engineering firm is developing a data centre that will run on biomass energy generated from waste material produced by the country's olive oil industry.
Inovapro plans to construct what it describes as a "green AI data centre" in Čaporice, near Trilj, approximately 30 miles northeast of Split. The €20 million facility will have a capacity of around 3MW and is expected to be…
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Barcelona-based Waste to Energy Advanced Solutions (WtEnergy) has secured €10 million in financing to accelerate deployment of its biomass and industrial waste gasification technology across Europe.
The company, which specialises in energy recovery through gasification, will use the funds to execute its project pipeline, standardise plant design, strengthen its organisation, develop new…
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Millions of tonnes of UK waste wood could be without a domestic market from next year if the government does not take urgent steps to protect the UK's waste wood biomass sector, the Wood Recyclers' Association (WRA) has warned.
Around 4.5 million tonnes of waste wood arise in the UK each year and the majority of this (nearly 3 million tonnes) – including lower grade material that is…
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This article by Jordan Solomon and Fred Ghatala was originally published in iPolitics on 29 January 2026.
Canada's forest industry is being dismantled in plain sight.
Over the past year, trade uncertainty and US tariffs have erased thousands of forestry jobs and billions of dollars in economic value. Mills have closed. Communities that depend on forestry have been destabilised. Investment…
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Isometric has launched a pyrolyser pre-approval scheme designed to remove a major bottleneck in validating and expanding biochar projects.
Previously, biochar suppliers had to validate each pyrolysis or pyrogasification unit individually. For suppliers scaling across multiple sites or deploying dozens of units in distributed projects, this significantly limited validation speed.
Under…
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O&S Doors has installed a biomass-fuelled Combined Heat and Power (CHP) system at its Dungannon facility in a £9 million investment that is set to transform manufacturing waste into usable energy.
The project, partially funded by a £2.4 million grant from the Shared Island Sustainability Capital Grant Scheme, marks a significant milestone in industrial biomass adoption. The system will…
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FLS Group AG and DecarboEngineering have entered into a strategic partnership to develop and deploy large-scale carbonisation projects in Paraguay, beginning with an initiative projected to convert 35,000 tonnes of waste biomass into biochar annually.
The first project under the partnership, named Project Alfheim, is expected to produce around 13,000 tonnes of high-quality, WBC-certified biochar…
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Researchers at the CSIR–Central Leather Research Institute (CSIR-CLRI) in Chennai have developed a new approach to increasing biogas production by using banana and cauliflower waste, while also helping to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The research team created a low-cost biogas enhancement method that incorporates banana peels and cauliflower stems into food-waste digesters. The addition…
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Canada requires a comprehensive national strategy to guide the role of biomass in achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, according to researchers at Polytechnique Montréal's Institut de l'Énergie Trottier.
Normand Mousseau, director of the institute, and research professional Roberta Dagher argue that despite Canada's abundant biomass resources from forests and agricultural lands, the country…
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Drax has launched its Biomass Tracker, a new digital tool that provides greater visibility into the journey woody biomass takes through the company's global supply chain.
The interactive tool shows the countries and states where Drax sources its biomass, the types of fibre used in Drax's own woody biomass, how it is transported, and the carbon associated with each stage of its journey to Drax…
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Elridge Energy Holdings Bhd is expanding its regional footprint after its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bio Eneco Sdn Bhd, signed a memorandum of understanding with Thailand's Berkana Power Co Ltd.
The agreement covers the supply of biomass fuel to the Thai power generation market, marking a strategic move for the group as South-East Asia increases its renewable energy requirements.
Under the terms…
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Bioenergy remains Europe’s largest renewable energy source and will be critical to achieving energy independence alongside climate goals, according to a new report from Bioenergy Europe.
The Brussels-based organisation’s latest Landscape Report, published on 21 January, provides a comprehensive overview of the EU energy system at a time when security of supply has become a defining priority…
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Clear policy guidance on sustainable biomass sourcing is essential to unlock private investment in bioenergy and support the UK’s transition to net zero, according to Alicia Newton, senior scientific officer at Drax.
Speaking following Drax’s inaugural science summit, Positively Net Zero, held this month, Newton highlighted the UK government’s consultation on a common biomass…
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A new study has shown for the first time that waste cardboard can be used as an effective source of biomass fuel for large-scale power generation, offering a potential new domestic resource to support the UK’s renewable energy sector.
Engineers from the University of Nottingham have carried out the first comprehensive characterisation of cardboard as a fuel source and developed a new method…
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