Mar 7, 2019
Indian biomass firm to raise $10 million in funding
Biomass News
Mar 4, 2019
According to The Times, Drax has failed its emissions test at a US pellets plant in Louisiana.
The power station owner has admitted to breaching environmental rules in the US after one of its wood pellet plants significantly exceeded air pollution limits.
The Times reports that Drax has admitted that its Morehouse Bioenergy plant in Louisiana produces particulate emissions... [Read More]
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Mar 1, 2019
A study has revealed that biomass burning from neighbouring regions is a major contributor to New Delhi’s winter pollution, Outlook India reports.
Published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the research suggests that urban emissions of black carbon from fossil fuel combustion are not always the predominant generators of pollution in cities like New Delhi.
“Black... [Read More]
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Mar 1, 2019
A letter written on behalf of 46 groups including environmental, climate and social justice organisations urges the EU not to proceed with proposals to permit the Cordemais power station to be kept open beyond 2021 by burning a mix of biomass and coal.
Referring to the Paris agreement, the groups state that keeping global warming to 1.5 or even 2 degrees above pre-industrial... [Read More]
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Feb 27, 2019
US-based operator ReEnergy is shutting down the ‘last’ running 39MW biomass plant in the Aroostock Count in Maine which currently employs 20 people, The County reports.
ReEnergy, which is headquartered in New York, stated in a release to The County that the plant in Ashland, Maine was not financially viable under current market conditions.
The plant is expected... [Read More]
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Feb 26, 2019
British electrical power generation company Drax revealed its end-of-year results, which includes a 9% increase in the Group’s EBITDA to a total of £250 million (€291 million).
Regarding biomass, Drax outlined that it had opened its third US biomass pellet plant, whilst detailing its outlook on biomass as an ‘attractive’ investment option for... [Read More]
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Feb 26, 2019
Valmet has announced that it has signed a ten year operation and maintenance agreement with Uni Viridas for the biomass plant in Babina Greda, Croatia.
The order has been included in the company’s first quarter of 2019 orders received; however the value of the order has not been disclosed.
The biomass plant is a fluidised bed boiler, BiowerPower 8, a plant with an... [Read More]
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Feb 21, 2019
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has recently released its joint report with Adaptation Committees assessing measures that they feel need to be adopted in the housing sector to manage climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The CCC report states there are currently 27.2 million households in the UK and the government is committed to building around 1.5... [Read More]
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Feb 20, 2019
The government of Massachusetts announced that the Baker-Polito administration has awarded five grants totalling $2,889,285 (€2,548,681) to Massachusetts businesses to fund infrastructure projects to increase the availability of low-carbon, renewable heating fuels.
The grants have been funded by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) as part of the... [Read More]
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Feb 20, 2019
The Lancashire Post reports that plans to build a £200 million (€229 million) biomass plant are underway in Preston, Lancashire that would have the capacity to turn up to 395,000 tonnes of residual waste per year, into alternative fuel.
Infrastructure development company, Miller Turner have told the Lancashire Post that the plant will burn largely biomass waste... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2019
Canada’s government announced a federal investment of up to $7 million (€6.19 million) to a biomass cluster under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
The cluster, led by producer BioFuelNet Canada Network, will also include an additional $3.1 million (€2.74 million) in contributions from the industry for a total of $10.1 million (€8.93 million).
Three... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2019
A new anaerobic digestion facility in Utah opened to the public this week will convert food waste to clean, renewable energy, local news outlet Desert News Utah reports.
Around 700 tonnes of food waste is to be taken and turned into energy by Wasatch Resource Recovery, a public-private partnership between Alpro Energy & Water and the South Davis Sewer District, daily.
Desert... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2019
UK-based biomass company Drax announced a ‘world’s first’ demonstration pilot of a bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) technology at its power station near Selby in North Yorkshire.
The technology, developed by UK-based C-Capture, can obtain upwards of a tonne of CO2 a day.
According to Drax, it is the first-time carbon dioxide has been captured... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 4, 2019
C-Capture, a company specialising in carbon dioxide emissions removal, has raised £3.5 million in an equity funding round led by BP Ventures, Drax and IP Group.
Designed to help mitigate climate change, C-Capture’s technology is a chemical process for carbon dioxide removal. It has been designed for use in power stations as well as aluminium, cement and steel... [Read More]
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Jan 28, 2019
According to Reuters, the French government and utility EDF are going to study the possibility of converting the 1.2GW Cordemais coal power generators to burn biomass.
Reuters reports that President Emmanuel Macron’s government is set to phase out electricity production from the country’s remaining coal-fired power plants by 2022. The government also plans... [Read More]
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Jan 28, 2019
Toshiba has announced that its consolidated subsidiary, Sigma Power Ariake Corporation (SPAC) has signed a collaboration agreement with Omuta City of Fukuoka Prefecture. The agreement will reinforce Toshiba’s renewable energy generation work by constructing a new biomass plant in Omuta City through SPAC.
The plant is to begin construction in autumn 2019 and... [Read More]
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Jan 24, 2019
Canada’s minister of Natural Resources, Amarjeet Sohi, announced a $589,629 (€518,599) investment in three Indigenous projects in British Columbia to create jobs and boost local economies. The release was published on news outlet Cision.
Two of these investments will be utilised to research the possibility of using biomass to heat and power local Indigenous... [Read More]
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