Oct 3, 2022
Enviva ceremonially opens biomass facility in Mississippi, US
Features
Oct 3, 2022
Ross McKenzie, director of international affairs at Drax, spoke to Bioenergy Insight about the company's expansion into new international markets, and its plans for its UK plant in Yorkshire.
Drax recently announced it had agreed the acquisition of Princeton Standard Pellet Corporation. What are the benefits of this?
"This acquisition adds another pellet plant to our... [Read More]
Features
Oct 1, 2022
We hear how the right training and opportunities provided by their employer have allowed two early-career professionals to reach the shortlist for the Association For Renewable Energy and Clean Technology’s (REA) Young Renewable Energy Professional Award in such a short amount of time.
Two site managers from the east of England, Liam Hughes and Tyler Warman,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 30, 2022
Massachusetts Instite of Technoloy spinoff Takachar has developed a means of converting agricultural waste into clean-burning fuel - winning the Earthshot Prize, the institution announced.
To prepare fields for planting, farmers often burn corn stalks, rice husks, hay, straw and other waste left behind from the previous harvest. In many places, the practice creates huge... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 30, 2022
Kiambu, Kenya is an agriculture-based county that has adopted biogas as a renewable source of energy, according to Kenya News Agency (KNA).
It said Kiambu is one of the top five leading counties in dairy farming over the last five years, and that most farmers there have taken advantage of dairy farming and further embraced the installation of biogas technology.
Promotion... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 30, 2022
Ireland's minister for environment, climate and communications, Eamon Ryan, has said anaerobic digestions is necessary to meet Ireland's 2030 targets under the Climate Action Plan.
Addressing a press conference at the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) following the 2023 Budget on 27 September, he said a market mechanism will be they key way... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 30, 2022
EnviTec Biogas recorded an excellent business performance across all of the company’s segments in the first half of 2022. Group sales revenues rose by 33.1% to EUR 144.2 million.
The increase is essentially attributable to two factors in the company’s Own Plant Operation segment, namely the already high production volumes of BioEnergie Park Güstrow and other own... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 29, 2022
TrustBIX has announced a Biomass Traceability Pilot Project with members of the Biomass Quality Network of Canada (BQNC) - a value chain group that develops quality standards and measurement techniques to accelerate adoption of Canadian biomass in bioproducts.
BQNC is facilitating the commercialisation of agricultural biomass through the development of quality standards... [Read More]
Other News
Sep 29, 2022
Independent analysis by Oxford Economics has shown that last year renewable energy leader Drax contributed CA$1.1 billion towards the Canadian economy and supported 10,400 jobs across the UK.
The analysis measured the economic impact of Drax Group’s Canadian operations, which includes 10 plants across British Columbia and Alberta which produce sustainable biomass... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 29, 2022
Clean power generation provider Mainspring Energy has announced an agreement with Yolo County, California, to pilot a Mainspring Linear Generator running biogas at the Yolo County Central Landfill. In its first 100% landfill biogas pilot project, to be deployed in the upcoming weeks, the Mainspring product will run on biogas produced by the landfill to generate electricity... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 29, 2022
After a few years of extensive consultations, the European Pellet Council has concluded the revision of the ENplus® certification scheme and published the new documentation. ENplus® is the quality certification scheme for wood pellets that certifies the entire supply chain, from the early stages of production to the delivery process.
The new requirements for certified... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 28, 2022
A pair of University of North Dakota (UND) researchers have both received federal grants from the US government to investigate the possibilities of clean energy from farm waste, UND announced on 27 September.
The grants total more than $2.5 million (€2.6m) in research funding, with the majority of the funds from the US Department of Energy.
Junior Nasah, major project... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 28, 2022
EverGen has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Fraser Valley Biogas has signed a term sheet for a long-term offtake agreement.
Fraser Valley Biogas, located in Abbotsford, British Colombia, has been in operation since 2011 and is the original producing RNG project in Western Canada. The facility combines anaerobic digestion and biogas upgrading to produce RNG,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 28, 2022
India's HPCL-Mittal Energy will start up a bio-ethanol plant at its Bathinda refinery in northern India in 2023 as part of measures to reduce its carbon emissions, a company official said on Wednesday.
"Our company is in the process of constructing 100,000 tonnes per annum ethanol plant based on agricultural inputs like waste food," Pravin Shirke, assistant general manager... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 27, 2022
A study conducted by the University of Copenhagen has found that almost half (45%) of Danes have never heard of Denmark's largest source of renewable energy. The university said this is the first study that explores Danish attitudes to woody biomass as an energy source, with the researchers emphasising the lack of awareness needs to be addressed by policy-makers.
Woody... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 27, 2022
The City of Bellingham will stop pursuing anaerobic digestion projects at the Post Point Wastewater Treatment Plant following a unanimous city council vote Monday afternoon, according to Cascadia Daily News.
Instead, the city will complete repairs to the existing incinerator system at the wastewater facility.
The vote reverses a 2017 decision to pursue a complete overhaul... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 27, 2022
Renewable energy-focused development company Kibo Energy has announced it has signed a definitive Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) to acquire a 100% interest in a waste reception anaerobic digestor (AD) and CHP power plant (Southport) at Merseyside, UK.
The acquisition of Southport, a 12MW waste-to-energy project in the UK, is in line with the Kibo's refocused strategy... [Read More]
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Moeve has announced a €600 million investment plan for the construction of up to 30 new biomethane plants by 2030
During the signing ceremony, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, announced a donation of USD 1.5 million for prefeasibility and detailed engineering studies
ADTechOptima’s technologies aim to solve two key problems: the underperformance of anaerobic digesters and the quality of the digestate produced as part of the process
