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Jun 23, 2022
Adnan Wanii of Ola Mobility Insitute says extracting clean energy from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) can potentially solve the dual challenge of disposing of India's ever-growing mounds of garbage and reducing dependence on fossil fuels.
He says: "The demand from energy-guzzling sectors like transportation, and commitments to decarbonising energy consumption are driving... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 22, 2022
Topsoe’s technologies are set to reduce its customers’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 12 million tonnes in 2022 alone. These reductions will not be one-offs, but ongoing for the years to come. The key driver is Topsoe’s renewable fuels solutions, producing low-carbon fuels from waste and biomass.
Roeland Baan, CEO at Topsoe, commented: “Effectively reducing... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2022
PATRIZIA, a leading partner for global real assets, has acquired an 80 percent majority stake in Italian bio-Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) producer Biomet through its European Infrastructure Fund II.
The circa €75 million deal, which comprises the equity stake and a committed capex programme, marks the debut investment for PATRIZIA’s recently acquired infrastructure... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2022
Veidekke unit Seby secured a 205 million-Norwegian-krone ($20.6 million) contract from Norwegian utility Nedre Romerike Avløpsselskap IKS to build a biogas plant in Lillestrøm, Norway.
The 6,000-square-metre project will include a process building, sludge reception, dewatering building and administration building, according to a statement from the company.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 21, 2022
Alinta Energy - the operator of what will be one of the last coal generators operating in the grid - is arguing for a short term capacity market for coal that could still see all brown coal capacity exiting the market within a decade, but also provide an option to keep it accessible if it were found to be needed to keep the lights on.
Alinta CEO Jeff Dimery recently... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 21, 2022
In a new measure, the Vedanta-owned Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (Balco), in Chhattisgarh's power hub Korba, has begun greening its fuel mix for thermal power generation with biomass briquettes—a move that has the potential to minimise the detrimental effect of using fossil fuels.
The company is utilising around 50 tonnes of biomass briquettes daily to reduce... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 21, 2022
Iran’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organisation (known as SATBA) plans to construct biomass power plants with the capacity to produce 400 megawatt-hours (MWh) across the country, an official with the organisation has announced.
Reza Samadi, director-general of SATBA’s Technical, Economic and Environmental Assessment Office, said the organisation plans... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 21, 2022
Enviva’s terminal at the Port of Pascagoula is now delivering a low-carbon, renewable, drop-in substitute for fossil fuels to help decarbonise industries and the global economy by 2050.
Enviva, the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets, held a ceremony at its newly opened terminal at the Port of Pascagoula, Mississippi on June 15, to commemorate the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 20, 2022
The international biomass exchange, Baltpool, has presented its new logo, updating the company's brand to reflect their aspiration to become the first choice for sustainable biomass trading in Europe.
The new logo’s compass design highlights Baltpool's expertise in the market and their customer-centred approach. Andrius Smaliukas, CEO of Baltpool, said: "With our... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 20, 2022
Japan Petroleum Exploration Company, also known as JAPEX, has broken ground on a 50-MW biomass project in Japan’s Ehime prefecture.
The Ozu Biomass Power Plant will be located in a 25,700 sq m (276,632 sq ft) area in the industrial park of Ozu city. It is expected to be fully operational in August 2024.
The biomass project is being developed by Ozu Biomass Power... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 20, 2022
A $755,000 study will look at the feasibility of heating towns by burning low-grade wood and wood chips.
In what may seem a counter-intuitive solution to meeting its climate goals, New Glasgow will be conducting a feasibility study on burning renewable biomass to heat 90 percent of the Novia Scotia’s town's buildings.
Natural Resources Canada says it will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 20, 2022
Renewable energy company Drax has signed an agreement with British Steel to explore opportunities for its steel to be used to build the world’s largest multi-billion-pound carbon capture project at its power station in the UK.
The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) brings together two major British industries to support the development of bioenergy with... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 17, 2022
The lack of availability of agricultural residue biomass pellets is emerging as a dampener in implementing the Indian Union power ministry’s directive to co-fire biomass with coal in thermal power plants.
In her 2022 budget speech, the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that substituting 5-7 percent of coal with biomass in coal-based power plants could save... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 17, 2022
Statistics from the Wood Recyclers Association (WRA) have shown that the tonnage of waste wood sent to biomass plants in the UK rose by more than 400,000 tonnes (16 percent) in 2021, now taking 61 percent of processed wood in the UK.
And, the WRA said biomass capacity could increase further from around 2.4 million currently to 3 million tonnes.
Richard Coulson, the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 17, 2022
Proteum Hydrogen Technologies, a subsidiary of Proteum Energy, LLC, and the University of Regina have embarked on a joint project aimed at advancing Proteum’s patented and proprietary steam non-methane reforming (SnMR™) technology.
Laurence Tree, Proteum’s CEO, said: “Leveraging Proteum’s SnMR™ technology holds great promise for ethanol producers as the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 17, 2022
EU sanctions taking effect July 10 2022 will end Russian wood pellet exports to Europe, which is expected to cause difficulties with waste disposal at Russian sawmills.
According to Lesprom Analytics, the EU accounted for 80 percent of Russian wood pellet exports.... [Read More]
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