Aug 1, 2022
Sri Lanka’s Biomass Energy 2022 project hosts second SME workshop
Biomass News
Aug 1, 2022
Western New York Energy (WNYE) has completed a $38 million (€37m) expansion to produce high purity alcohol products under the ClearSource brand.
The ClearSource brand includes pharmaceutical, industrial and beverage-grade alcohol using New York farm corn and a natural fermentation process. The company sources corn locally and produces everything onsite to reduce... [Read More]
Features
Aug 1, 2022
Colin Ley reports on how uncertainty in Ukraine is having an impact on new investment in the region.
Surveying the future state of bioenergy in Scandinavia and the Baltics inevitably requires an assessment of what is happening right now in Ukraine and the threat that Russian aggression poses to the longer-term sovereign status of Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 29, 2022
Blackwood Technology B.V. and TTCL have introduced a torrefaction demonstration plant in the Lampang province of Thailand.
Hironobu Iriya, president and CEO of TTCL, commented: “We are delighted to launch this biomass torrefaction plant in the presence of the Japanese ambassador to Thailand, his excellency Mr Nashida Kazuya, and of representatives of the local government,... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 29, 2022
Palisade Real Assets is buying UK-based renewable energy asset manager and developer, Eco2 Management Services Limited (EMSL), for an undisclosed sum.
The mid-market infrastructure investor said the acquisition accelerates its energy transition investment plan in Europe and will “underpin a dedicated bioenergy platform focused on anaerobic digestion assets and adjacent... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 29, 2022
Marvel Power Group (Marvel), a woman-owned clean energy advisory firm, is celebrating its 3rd anniversary with big plans. The firm will be expanding and offering its brokerage services to Europe and Canada.
Aside from reaching new latitudes, Marvel will also begin structuring deals for CO2, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), carbon offsets and hydrogen.
In the... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 29, 2022
EverGen Infrastructure Corporation, Canada’s renewable natural gas (RNG) infrastructure platform, has completed the acquisition of a 67 percent interest in Alberta’s Grow the Energy Circle Ltd.
GrowTEC, located on the Perry Family farm near Lethbridge, Alberta, is a multi-faceted bioenergy venture of sustainable agriculture, integrating responsible best practices... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 29, 2022
Taiwan’s government aims for a climate-neutral economy by 2050
Together with its Asian partner Melchers Taiwan, the manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER is building a biogas plant in the south west of the island state.
For the 360-kilowatt plant, the German biogas specialist is supplying a proven turnkey solution based on high-quality stainless steel technologies. WELTEC... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 28, 2022
Rengo Company Ltd, will install a new biomass boiler for power generation at Tonegawa Division in Japan to promote alternative fuel sources, one of the measures toward CO2 reduction Rengo has stated is an environmental target. With operations scheduled to commence in October 2022, this will be Rengo’s second biomass boiler, following the one in Yashio Mill.
Comprising... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 28, 2022
Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods) is promoting its Greenfarm practice among its own pig farms and contracted swine farmers, to harness energy from biogas and solar power in the quest to make the business more environmentally-friendly. All pig farms of CP Foods have installed biogas systems, and solar farms have been erected at some farms to ensure... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 27, 2022
The development of a circular economy in Malaysia, in line with its status as the world's second-largest exporter of palm oil, could make the country a biomass hub, according to prime minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob.
Opening the Malaysian International Agri-Commodity Expo and Summit 2022 (MIACES) on 26 July, he said that focus should be placed upon using raw... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 27, 2022
The Indian government stated in a press release that it has set a target to raise the share of natural gas in the energy mix to 15 percent by 2030, from 6.3 percent currently.
Rameswar Teli, minister of state for Petroleum and Natural Gas, said that several initiatives had been taken, including:
Expansion of National Gas Grid to circa 33,500 km from the current... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 27, 2022
Although biomass is sometimes seen as an "old technology" because it's been around for a long time, the sector has not reached its potential in Ireland, according to Paddy Phelan of 3 Counties Energy and the Irish BioEnergy Association.
Addressing the recent Energy and Farm Business Show in County Tipperary, Ireland, he observed that biomass can be used "for combined... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 27, 2022
Drax has announced it is accelerating its investment in renewable energy generation as it commissions new biomass pellet production plants in the US.
The company said: "We are accelerating our investment in renewable generation, having recently submitted planning applications for the development of BECCS at Drax Power Station and for the expansion of Cruachan Pumped... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 26, 2022
On Friday, July 22, US senator Catherine Cortez Masto visited Fulcrum BioEnergy’s new Sierra BioFuels Plant in Storey County.
For years, governmental red tape prevented this plant from launching operations, but as a result of advocacy by Senator Cortez Masto with both the Trump and Biden administrations, the plant will soon begin production. Cortez Masto’s... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2022
There are fertile conditions for obtaining bioenergy from hazelnut residues in Azerbaijan, according to reports from FAO Azerbaijan.
FAO Azerbaijan wrote on its official Twitter page that: “There are fertile conditions for bioenergy from hazelnut residues in Azerbaijan. We presented preliminary results of sustainable bioenergy options in the hazelnut value chain within... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 26, 2022
Palisade Real Assets has announced the acquisition of Eco2 Management Services Limited (EMSL), a UK-based renewable energy asset management and development company.
The acquisition accelerates Palisade Real Assets’ energy transition investment ambitions in the United Kingdom and Europe and will underpin a dedicated Bioenergy Platform focused on anaerobic digestion... [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
