Biomass News

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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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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