Biomass News

BioNorth Energy has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the Fort St James Green Energy Project in British Columbia. BioNorth Energy is a joint venture between the Arrow Group, the Nak’azdli Development Corporation (NDC - arm of Nak’azdli Whu’ten), and low-carbon infrastructure developer, Nexus Program Management Group (Nexus PMG). The primary asset is a 40 MW biomass power…
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JK Cement has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Private Limited (PRESPL) - India’s largest biomass aggregation and densification company. The MoU, valid for 10 years, is part of JK Cement’s goal to decarbonise its operations and aims to significantly scale up the use of biomass-based and alternate fuels as a replacement for fossil…
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Scottish whisky distillery Bunnahabhain is set to become Islay’s first distillery with a net-zero distillation process with the help of biomass. The distillery is installing a £6.5 million (€7.7 million) biomass energy centre – powered entirely by spent malt and forest biomass (wood chips) sourced from low-value timber felled 15 miles away. The combination of biomass sources should…
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Standard Biocarbon (SBC) has secured $2 million (€1.7 million) in financing from three Maine, US-based institutions to purchase equipment for producing biochar. The company will produce high-quality biochar – the near-pure form of carbon made by processing biomass at high temperatures with little oxygen - at the former site of the Great Northern Paper mill in East Millinocket. SBC will…
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Miscanthus specialist Terravesta has established a new company in Poland as demand for sustainable perennial biomass grows in Europe. The company said it had long-term plans to open a company on the continent and that the move will support EU trade relationships. Terravesta Poland will eventually evolve to become Terravesta Europe and underlines the organisation’s commitment to developing…
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Enviva Partners and GreenGasUSA, an integrated RNG solutions provider, have announced 10-year offtake agreement to decarbonise natural gas-related emissions in Enviva’s operations. The agreement is expected to eliminate more than 64,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent from the atmosphere every year – equivalent to 14,000 passenger cars removed from the road. Enviva’s commitment underwrites a…
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Drax is beginning a major planning consultation to seek the public’s views on its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) proposals. The announcement follows the publication of the Government’s Net Zero Strategy, which outlined how vital engineered greenhouse gas removal (GGR) technologies, such as BECCS, could be in delivering the UK’s decarbonisation ambitions. The…
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Enviva has welcomed a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) for a more rapid transition to net-zero carbon emissions, a tripling of public investments in clean energy technology, and a growing role for ‘modern bioenergy’. The IEA World Energy Outlook report, released last week, is designed to provide independent, objective, scientific assistance to decision-makers gathering…
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The UK Government’s long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy has been welcomed by the renewable energy sector, but does not address the need for a multi-technology approach to heat decarbonisation. While the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) described the newly published strategy is ‘good news’ for domestic heat decarbonisation, it also warned about the growing…
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Rio Tinto, a multinational metals and mining corporation, is developing innovative new technology to deliver low-carbon steel using sustainable biomass in place of coal. Over the past decade, Rio Tinto has developed a laboratory-proven process that combines the use of raw, sustainable biomass with microwave technology to convert iron ore to metallic iron during the steelmaking process. The…
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Ohio, US-based Babcock & Wilcox’s (B&W) renewable segment has agreed to to jointly develop a biomass-to-hydrogen clean energy project in Victoria, Australia with Port Anthony Renewables. The project will utilise B&W’s BrightLoop™ technology. Once completed, the plant is expected to be part of the largest green hydrogen hub in southeastern Australia. BrightLoop technology…
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The East Coast Cluster (ECC) has been named as one of the UK’s first carbon capture, storage and utilisation clusters following a successful bid to the UK Government. The ECC is made up of both Zero Carbon Humber and Net Zero Teesside, supported by the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) - a collaboration between bp, Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell and Total. The successful bid…
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The UK’s biomass heat industry has urged the government to stop ignoring and excluding rural off-grid communities in heat decarbonisation plans. The urgent call was made by the UK Pellet Council (UKPC) and Biomass Heat Works! following the announcement of the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy was announced, including a £450 million (€533 million) boiler upgrade scheme and £5,000…
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The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) and the US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) have slammed a recent report by think tank Chatham House, which the organisations claim misrepresents well-established carbon accounting methodologies for the use of biomass in energy. The report found that US-sourced wood pellets burned in the UK were responsible for 13-16 million…
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