Biomass News

AIT-STEIN, a major French decarbonisation player, has secured a license agreement with Danish green-tech company Dall Energy for steam plants. AIT-STEIN produces high-steam boilers, and this licensing agreement will see Dall Energy integrate its gasification technology with AIT-STEIN's portfolio. The Danish company said its unique biomass gasification technology is in high demand throughout the…
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Wales-based waste-to-hydrogen company Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) has demonstrated the viability of producing hydrogen gas from syngas generated from the gasification of waste. The company recently secured almost £4 million (€4.6 million) in government funding to make its biomass and waste-to-hydrogen plants even greener by using carbon capture. Waste-to-energy processes rely on an…
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Pacolet Milliken, LLC (Pacolet), a sustainability-focused firm, has acquired 100% of Piedmont Green Power (Piedmont) from an affiliate of Atlantic Power & Utilities. Piedmont is a 55 MW biomass-fired power plant located in Barnesville, Georgia in the US. Piedmont utilises approximately 600,000 tons of woody biomass feedstock annually, 100% of which is wood waste. It commenced commercial…
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NOVEC Energy Production Halifax County Biomass, a South Boston energy company, has renewed the Operation and Maintenance Agreement (O&M Agreement) with PIC Group for its Halifax County 49.9MW biomass power station until 2026. Under the terms of the O&M Agreement, PIC Group will be fully responsible for day-to-day operation and maintenance services of the biomass power station, located in…
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Mississippi State University has received a grant from the US National Institute of Food and Agriculture for over $610,000 (€558,000) to take foundational steps toward producing viable fuels from agricultural waste. The grant was awarded to El Barbary Hassan, department professor and scientist in the university’s Forest and Wildlife Research Center. Hassan and his team, including…
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MAIRE has announced that NextChem (Sustainable Technology Solutions BU), through its subsidiary NextChem Tech, has been awarded a new contract by ENGIE to carry out a pre-feed for the gasification and methanation of the waste wood as well as the implementation of a carbon capture unit for the Salamandre project in the Normandy region. This award follows the successful completion of the advanced…
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Indonesia's state-owned electricity company PT PLN said that optimising biomass with co-firing technology at coal-fired power plants enabled the reduction of 1.05 million tons of carbon emissions, and the production of 1.04 terawatt hours of clean energy, throughout 2023, according to Antara. PLN President Director Darmawan Prasodjo stated that the company had been developing means to use…
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Bord na Móna's Edenderry power plant in Ireland moved from peat-fired electricity to biomass last week, meaning it no longer harvests bogs for fuel, reported the Irish Independent. The plant is the last of Ireland's peat-fuelled plants to adopt an alternative fuel source. In 2018, Bord na Móna promised a focus on cleaner operations. “Five years ago, Bord na Móna set out on our ambitious…
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ArcelorMittal has commissioned a plant that processes waste wood into bio-coal, suitable for its blast furnace process at its steel plant in Ghent, Belgium. This is a first for the European steel industry, according to the organisation. It estimates a reduction of annual carbon emissions by 112,500 tonnes, with the Torero plant converting 88,000 tonnes of waste wood into 37,500 tonnes of…
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Osaka Gas Co Ltd has began the commercial operation of a 75-MW biomass-fired plant in Hyogo prefecture in southern Japan. The plant, which is called Hirohata Biomass Power Plant, will utilise wood chips - both locally produced and imported - alongside palm kernel shells. The wood chips that are locally sourced will come from Green Power Fuel Co, an Osaka Gas subsidiary. The Hirohata Biomass…
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Stainless steel producer Outokumpu has decided to invest in a pelletising plant to produce biocoke at its site in Tornio, Finland. The investment is approximately €30 million and the aim is to start production mid-2025. The company said that replacing fossil coke with renewable raw materials from biomass is one of the key drivers to reduce its direct emissions in its operations. The carbon…
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Greenhill Energy has launched its $425 million plans to build Australia’s first full integrated processing facility to convert landfill waste and sustainable biomass into high value products such as fertilisers and synthetic fuels, and into low-cost clean hydrogen for use in emission free power and transport. Following recent positive trials and ongoing research and development, Greenhill…
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Task Force 3 of the Biomethane Industrial Partnership has published its report on feedstock potentials from marginal and contaminated lands. The report examines the untapped potential of cultivating biomass on marginal lands and contaminated lands across Europe. While several biowaste streams remain untapped, the report emphasises that their full potential alone cannot fulfill biofuel…
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded two Delaware State University researchers a three-year grant of almost $300,000 (€273.7) for a project that could leverage the properties of microalgae toward energy and cancer treatment purposes. The research is being led by Dr. Ali Parsaeimehr, Principal Investigator (PI) and DSU Postdoctoral Researcher, and Dr. Gulnihal Ozbay, Co-PI and…
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