Feb 25, 2025
Drax claims to have developed an ‘enhanced approach’ to sustainability framework
Biomass News
Feb 24, 2025
India should look to biomass to ensure the energy transition to hydrogen, said Maurits Van Tol, CEO of Catalyst Technologies, a division of Johnson Matthey (JM) one of the global leaders in sustainable technologies.
Talking to businessline during India Energy Week 2025, he said: “When you look at cleantech for India, there are a few things that that I would like to... [Read More]
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Feb 21, 2025
TESS Holdings' subsidiary, PT PTEC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (PTEC), held a ground-breaking ceremony for a biomass plant last month, in West Java, Indonesia.
Biomass fuel will be derived from agricultural crop residues.
TESS established PTEC in Indonesia in 2018, as a research and development base in Indonesia, to best explore how to process agricultural crop residues... [Read More]
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Feb 20, 2025
Germany's Federal Network Agency for electricity and gas (the Bundesnetzagentur), set the price ceilings for biomass and biomethane auctions to be held in the next 12 months at the same levels as last year.
The maximum price that can be bid for new biomass installations remains 19.43 cents per kilowatt hour and that for existing biomass installations 19.83 ct/kWh.
The... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2025
Green Earth Institute (GEI), Nippon Paper Industries and Sumitomo have reached an agreement to establish a joint venture company, Morisora Bio Refinery LLC, which will focus on the production and sale of bioethanol and biochemicals derived from woody biomass.
Establishment of the joint venture is scheduled for March 2025.
The agreement will bring the construction of... [Read More]
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Feb 17, 2025
Bharat Petroleum Corp has partnered with the National Sugar Institute in Kanpur, India, to develop sweet sorghum as a feedstock for the production of bioethanol.
Bharat Petroleum is allocating INR 500 million for research and development, said the company.
This funding is being earmarked to optimise sweet sorghum yields, enhance agricultural practice and generate efficient... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2025
The Wood Recyclers’ Association has called for urgent clarity over future support for waste wood-powered biomass plants after the government acknowledged the important role that the technology has to play.
In a written statement, Energy Minister Michael Shanks announced support for large-scale biomass plants, including Drax, to transition to carbon capture and storage... [Read More]
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Feb 12, 2025
px Group, an operator of several critical infrastructure sites in the UK and Europe, has secured an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contract for Tees Renewable Energy Plant (Tees REP).
The contract marks px Group’s further expansion into the biomass power generation industry.
Located in Tees Valley, one of the world’s largest purpose-built pellet biomass power... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2025
Evero Energy (Evero), a leading waste-wood-to-energy and BECCS company, has announced its strongest quarter to date, increasing net exported power to provide 113,000 MWh of clean electricity to the national grid and local industrial partners.
The company’s Ince, Mersey and Lisahally waste wood biomass plants achieved consistently high availability and generation hours.
In... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2025
Electricity produced from bioenergy has bounced back after production issues last year, with energy hitting 9.7TWh in the third quarter of 2024, waste-to-hydrogen company Compact Syngas Solutions has revealed.
Analysing government data, it found that maintenance outages at three large power stations were blamed for the fall in last year’s figures, explaining a 23% increase... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 10, 2025
The UK government has agreed a new subsidy arrangement with Drax for its Selby biomass plant.
The facility, which has received billions of pounds in subsidies to date, generates about 5% of the UK's electricity.
However, the Drax plant's emissions are unabated, making the station the single largest CO2 emitter in the country.
According to the government, the arrangement... [Read More]
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Feb 7, 2025
Japan's Renova has announced its 75 MW Omaezakikou biomass plant began operations on 29 January.
The plant uses wood pellets and palm kernel shells as feedstock.
Initially scheduled to start operations in December 2023, the Omaezakikou facility saw several delays.
Most recently, it was delayed last December, due to final adjustments being made to the boiler and turbine... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2025
Samantha Smith, head of heat and biomass at the REA UK, has mounted a defence for biomass - which is the second-largest producer of low carbon energy in the UK.
"Concerns about carbon accounting, carbon payback and sustainability continue to play out in the media," she observed.
For example, Drax has come under scrutiny due to the amount of subsidy it receives from the... [Read More]
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Feb 5, 2025
Enviva will close its biomass plant in Amory, Mississippi on 7 February.
The 115,000 metric tonne per year pellet plant will cease operations due to market dynamics and the facility's infrastructure and operations, according to the company.
This site was Enviva's first US-operated plant, and was acquired in 2010, having previously been owned by CKS Energy.
“Enviva... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2025
The formation of Dall Group has been announced, which follows the acquisition of Weiss Energie France (Weiss) and Biomasse Services ét Maintenance (BSM) from Groupe Roullie.
The new group consists of Weiss, BSM as well as Dall Energy.
Dall Energy's founder, Jens Dall Bentzen, is the new group CEO, while former Torben Høberg, has been appointed to lead Dall Energy as... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 3, 2025
Nestle has installed a biomass boiler at its factory in Kabirwala, Pakistan.
The biomass boiler will contribute to a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and generate 80,000 tonnes of steam per year.
According to Nestle, 85% of the factory's thermal energy needs will be met, whilst six million Nm3 of natural gas and 29 tonnes of heavy furnace oil will be saved... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2025
Emerging Fuels Technology (EFT), a leader in Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis and renewable fuel innovation and technology, has signed a Master License Agreement with Highbury Energy Inc. and a Site License with Wanagekong-Biiwega’iganan Clean Energy Corporation (WBCE Corp) — an Indigenous majority-owned and Indigenous-led joint venture with Highbury — aiming to produce... [Read More]
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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
Veolia and Waga Energy have inaugurated a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the Granges landfill site in Burgundy, eastern France
Repsol is preparing to begin producing biomethane and hydrogen at its industrial complex in Sines, Portugal, with operations expected to start in 2026
