Dec 11, 2018
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Policy News
Dec 10, 2018
A new multi-landmark report has been released by government-led, multi-stakeholder initiative Biofuture Platform detailing how biofuels and bioproducts ‘must play an integral role’ in the future of the global energy transition.
Entitled Creating the Biofuture: A Report on the State of the Low Carbon Bioeconomy, the report uses models and scenarios outlined... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 10, 2018
Three months ago a strong earthquake hit Hokkaido in Japan. The Japan News reports that this meant a large numbers of trees had fallen by landslides, leading to an increase in the number of people using them for biomass.
The fallen trees are to be used for renewable energy by turning them into fuel for stove heaters and biomass power generation. The Japan News say... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 10, 2018
Larry Bagnell, a parliamentary member for the Canadian territory of Yukon announced alongside Canada’s minister of Natural Resources a multi-year investment of €1.25 million ($1.43 million) for a forestry initiative in Yukon.
According to a Natural Resources Canada release, the initiative will result in ‘greener’ heating solutions, job creation as... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 7, 2018
Canadian clean energy solutions company Xebec Adsorption (Xebec) announced that it will be providing Pressure Swing Absorption (PSA) units to companies in both France and Brazil, including a €3.45 million order for an undisclosed French partner.
A stand-alone PSA unit, also known as a Nitrogen Rejection Unit (NRU) will be shipped to Brazil for gas network firm Gasgrid... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 6, 2018
The UK aims to double the ‘size of the impact’ of the bioeconomy by 2030, according to the Government’s newly published Bioeconomy strategy: 2018 to 2030.
Defining the bioeconomy as “the economic potential of harnessing the power of bioscience”, the strategy outlines the approach government, industry and the research community will take. The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 6, 2018
Grow Compost of Vermont has announced its new partnership with Maine-based company, Agri-Cycle, according to Vermont Business Magazine.
In an attempt to divert large volumes of food waste getting sent to landfill, the partnership will use the waste to provide feed for animals, healthy soils and energy creation through anaerobic digestion. Vermont implemented EPA’s... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 5, 2018
In a recent press release Haven Power has announced that 19th century cricket venue, Edgbaston Cricket Ground in the UK is to be upgraded so that it is solely powered by renewable energy.
A two year deal to supply the cricket ground’s energy has been agreed by long-standing energy brokers Amber Energy. A part of Drax Group, Haven Power will be providing the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 3, 2018
Ahead of the COP24 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, new research on biomass potential claims it can be a ‘key solution’ in climate change mitigation.
According to the recently published researched, the amount of domestically available biomass that is used for bioenergy in Europe can triplicate within sustainable and environmental... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 3, 2018
Lithuanian renewables company Modus Energy has completed four biogas projects in Belarus with investment totalling €17.6 million, according to a report by The Baltic Times.
This new investment marks a stepping stone in Modus Energy’s investment focus on Belarus, as well as Poland and Spain.
Funds were partially provided by the Modus Group, an international conglomerate... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 3, 2018
Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA), sets out how the UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry can thrive despite the uncertainties of Brexit and climate change
The real test of a resilient and sustainable industry is its ability to survive through tough times – and goodness knows we’re living... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 3, 2018
A PhD researcher from Brunel University London has won Santander’s University Entrepreneurship Award for his ground-breaking modular wastewater treatment system. Brunel student, Tom Fudge and cofounders Llyr Williams and William Gambier, won the competition and collected the £25,000 (€28,000) award on behalf of WASE.
There are currently 2.3 billion... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 30, 2018
The American Biogas Council (ABC) has released a statement addressing the results of the fourth National Climate Assessment.
The report outlines how climate change could affect the US. It highlighted how climate change could transform the region and impose demanding costs, potentially posing a threat to the health of American citizens.
“The Climate Assessment’s... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 30, 2018
Gas Networks Ireland has announced its new renewable gas project, GRAZE. The project aims to inject large volumes of renewable gas into the natural gas network and has been shortlisted for €8 million of funding under The Climate Action Fund.
According to Farm Ireland, the GRAZE Gas project cost a total of around €29 million and is also part of a larger investment... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 30, 2018
Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods are working together in order to ‘transform’ the future of sustainable energy and agriculture by announcing their Align Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) project.
The RNG project will capture methane emissions from hog farms and then convert them into renewable energy that will later be used to heat and power residential homes... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 30, 2018
Finnish gas company Gasum announced that it is expanding the processing chain at its plant in the city of Turku.
Sludge from the Turku region wastewater service provider is processed at Gasum’s Topinoja biogas plant, converting the waste feedstock into biogas and recycled nutrients.
Following the completion of the expansion project, the Topinoja biogas plant will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 29, 2018
Biomass has potential as an energy source in Georgia, according to Natia Turnava, the country’s Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development.
Georgia Today reports that at the closing conference of the EU Public Service Twinning project ‘Strengthening Sustainable Forest Management in Georgia’ Turnava said, “In Lithuania, biomass is recycled... [Read More]
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India's state of Haryana has inaugurated a 240-tonne-per-day biomass pellet plant in Rewari. The facility was opened by Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi
The transition will be delivered through a 15-year partnership with Carbon AMS, a leading biomethane producer, and forms part of AstraZeneca’s flagship decarbonisation programme, Ambition Zero Carbon
Verdant is seeking approval for a $70 million (€39 million) overhaul that would see the generator run on around 700,000 tonnes of biomass each year
