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Three California counties have launched a pair of free online tools designed to connect private landowners with qualified forestry professionals, supporting wildfire risk reduction and improving the regional woody biomass supply chain.
Placer, Nevada, and El Dorado counties have been working together under the California Forest Residual Aggregation Market Enhancement (Cal FRAME) initiative,…
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Household wood-burning emissions in Flanders have risen sharply in recent years, even as official figures submitted to European authorities indicate a decline, according to an investigation by Flemish public broadcaster VRT.
Data collected through field measurements by the Flemish Environment Agency (VMM) show that concentrations of benzo(a)pyrene — a carcinogenic compound associated with wood…
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Energy company Drax Group has confirmed plans to cut up to 150 jobs next year while reporting record levels of renewable power generation in 2025.
New documents unearthed by GMB, including a Section 188 notice served to staff, indicate that between 89 and 148 roles are expected to be lost at the plant around 31 March 2027. The cuts could represent more than 30% of the site’s 465-strong…
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A Maryland-based startup says it has developed a biomass processing system capable of almost doubling sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) yields without adding significant processing costs, potentially opening a more economical route to large-scale renewable jet fuel production.
Atlantic Biomass, LLC, working with Ohio State University and Hood College and backed by funding from the US Department of…
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Biomanufacturing projects located in Biofuel Development Opportunity (BDO) Zones generate an average of $423 million in annual economic impact per project, according to a newly published independent study — a finding that their proponents say makes a compelling case for expanded government support.
The report, authored by Dr Burton C. English, Institute Professor Emeritus at the University of…
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Spanish biorefinery group Ence generated more than 1,240 GWh of biomass electricity in 2025 — a six per cent increase on the previous year — as the company accelerates its transformation into a diversified renewable energy business, even as falling pulp prices pushed it to a €55 million annual loss.
Biomass electricity generation in the second half of 2025 delivered EBITDA of €20…
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The Netherlands has seen a significant contraction in wood pellet imports over the past two years, according to the country's National Market Report 2025, presented to the 83rd session of the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry late last year.
After a sustained period of growth driven by utility-scale co-firing, imports of wood pellets into the Netherlands peaked at almost 2.7…
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Malaysian biomass energy specialist Wasco Greenergy Bhd is targeting expansion beyond its core markets of Malaysia and Indonesia, as industrial clients across the region face mounting pressure to decarbonise, reported SunBiz.
The company, a subsidiary of global energy infrastructure group Wasco Bhd, specialises in engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of steam-energy systems,…
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Finnish technology company Valmet is to deliver a flue gas condensing heat recovery system to Veolia's EC4 combined heat and power plant in Łódź, Poland, as part of the utility's HeatUp! decarbonisation programme.
The system will capture more than 50 MW of energy from flue gases and feed it into the city's district heating network, with projected CO2 savings of over 82,000 tonnes per…
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FLS Group AG, global developer of investment-grade forestry and carbon removal projects, and Cula, a provider of MRV software and digital infrastructure for carbon removal projects, have announced a partnership to strengthen trust in biochar carbon removals by improving how the underlying evidence is captured, tracked, and verified.
The partnership focuses on a critical weak point in today's…
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Bulgaria’s largest state-owned coal-fired power station will begin co-firing biomass with lignite at the end of February, marking a significant step in efforts to improve cost efficiency and extend the operational lifespan of the country’s coal assets.
The plant will initially introduce a 5 per cent biomass share in its fuel mix, gradually increasing this to 30 per cent during the trial…
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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.
The company…
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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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