Biomass News

Drax is just one of 12 companies selected to take part in the UK Government’s Global Investment Summit next week. The event, hosted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Royal Family, will showcase the opportunities for investment in the UK, demonstrating the government’s commitment to ‘building back better’ post-COVID. Drax will showcase its multi-million-pound negative emissions…
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RWE has invested £200,000 (€234,900) on new noise abatement technology for its Markinch Power Station in Fife, Scotland. The 55 MW combined heat and power (CHP) biomass plant can generate power for 100,000 homes and has been operational since 2015.  Most recently, RWE invested in a state-of-the-art Energy Centre that provides heat to the Glenrothes Energy Network – a local heat scheme…
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Panama City Commission in Florida has approved Panama City Port Authority’s $26 million budget for major projects, including wood pellet storage. The projects will focus on expansion, economic development, and job creation, with Mayor Greg Brudnicki voicing his support for the projects. “The port is a real economic engine for the city, it has been for years,” Brudnicki is reported as…
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CPL Industries has launched its new Ecoke product range, partly using biomass, for industrial firms looking to accelerate their decarbonisation. Ecoke is a manufactured fuel containing 30% sustainably sourced biomass. The new fuel also has significantly lower carbon emissions – up to 30% lower when compared to traditional fossil-based coke and anthracite with comparable performance and…
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A ‘ground-breaking’ collaboration with a unique workforce development component will help bring new technologies to the bioenergy industry in the US. The Integrated Biochemical and Electrochemical Technologies (IBET) to Convert Organic Waste to Biopower collaboration will be led by the University of Michigan and U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, and Northwestern…
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Clean Energy Systems (CES) has raised $15 million (€12.9 million) in a Series A funding round led by Carbon Direct Capital Management to support a carbon-negative power project. The funding will accelerate the first commercial-scale deployment of CES technology at the carbon-negative power project in Mendota, California. Carbon Direct will join Clean Energy Systems’ board of…
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Scientists at the University of Wyoming (UW) have examined the impact of water consumption when combining bioenergy production with carbon capture and sequestration, also known as BECCS. BECCS is a carbon removal technique in which organic material is converted into heat, electricity, or liquid or gas fuels, with the carbon emissions from this bioenergy conversion captured and stored in…
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The Koehler Group is to convert its power plant at the Koehler Paper site in Greiz, Germany, from pulverised lignite (coal) to fine wood fraction fuel. The team at Koehler Renewable Energy, part of the Koehler Group, have developed an innovative technique that will allow a type of biomass to be used as fuel in the existing coal-fired power plant in a ‘completely new way’. The plant’s…
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Sulzer Chemtech’s separation equipment will play a key role in Arbaflame’s pellet production process. The EU-funded Arbaflame project, located just outside of Oslo, Norway, aims to produce 70,000 tonnes of biomass-based combustibles annually for clean power generation. The pellets are made of wood and can be used as a 100% sustainable alternative to coal in power plants to produce…
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Drax said it aims to source 80% of the construction materials and services needed to deliver its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology from the UK supply chain. The ambition includes all construction materials needed as part of the development of the multi-billion-pound project, such as steel, pipes, heat pumps, electricals, and insulation, as well as the support…
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Eleven thermal plants around Delhi, India, have been directed to co-fire with biomass pellets. The Centre’s air quality commission has directed all 11 thermal power plants within a 300-kilometre (km) radius of Delhi to co-fire biomass pellets with coal, noting this could utilise millions of tonnes of biomass, helping to address the issue of stubble burning. Paddy straw burning is a major…
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EQTEC has established a joint venture with its Greek strategic partners, German EPC company ewerGy, operating in Greece via its local partner, ECO Hellas M1KE. The joint venture, EQTEC Synergy Projects, has signed an agreement for the proposed acquisition of a 1 MWe waste-to-energy gasification project in Livadia, Greece (known as Star I) and exclusivity for a second 1 MWe project nearby (Star…
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A new research and demonstration facility aimed at accelerating the development of low-carbon, market-ready bioenergy products and carbon-negative energy systems has opened at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Building on work conducted at UBC’s Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) over the past 15 years, the $8 million (€5.3 million) Biorefining Research and Innovation Centre…
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Green sources of CO2 captured at bioenergy with carbon and capture and storage (BECCS) and green gas plants could bolster the UK's CO2 supply, according to the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA). Volatile global gas prices have demonstrated the urgent need to diversify and decarbonise the UK’s domestic energy system, said the Association. Industry group Oil &…
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