May 8, 2018
US-Estonia partners announce first commercial biorefinery
Biomass News
May 8, 2018
A major waste-to-energy project is a step closer to realisation, with the site’s 21.5MW biomass facility now generating low carbon energy.
Bioenergy Infrastructure Group (BIG), a specialist investor and operator in the biomass and waste-to-energy sector, is working to establish a portfolio of bioenergy facilities capable of diverting 1 million tonnes of waste each... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 4, 2018
Biomass company LC Energy has partnered with Berkshire College of Agriculture and Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership to deliver the facility. The collaboration is an effort to address the nationwide skills shortage in the renewable energy sector.
The opening of The Energy Centre at Berkshire College of Agriculture (BCA) is intended to enable students... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 30, 2018
CNG Fuels is reporting that demand for ‘100% renewable biomethane’ from its refuelling station in Leyland, UK has more than tripled in the last year.
The facility was first unveiled in March 2016, with CNG Fuels stating at the time it was the facility of its kind in the UK.
Capable of refuelling more than 500 heavy-duty vehicles per days, the facility also... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 30, 2018
New research is suggesting that advanced anaerobic digestion and reverse osmosis filtration in agriculture could be leaving behind ‘concerning levels’ of antibiotic residues.
According to the World Health Organisation: “Antibiotics are medicines used to prevent and treat bacterial infections. Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in response... [Read More]
Policy News
Apr 30, 2018
A 23 April policy statement announced that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will consider all biomass used for energy production carbon neutral.
In what it called a pragmatic approach, the EPA will consider biomass a carbon neutral source of power in future decisions. However, it added that the policy statement ‘does not represent a final agency action’.
“To... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 27, 2018
The British Columbia, Canada based Biomass Secure Power (BSP) has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a power company located in the United States. The MoU became effective on 18 April.
Both companies are engaged in the production of renewable heat and power by using sustainable fuels in their existing infrastructure. The MoU states that Biomass Secure... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 23, 2018
Drax CEO Will Gardiner told Reuters April 20 that the company plans to cut the cost of the electricity it generates by a third over the next decade. The goal is to reduce the company’s dependency on subsidies.
Improvements cited by Gardiner are more efficient turbines and cheaper wood pellets.
A spokesperson for Drax told Bioenergy Insight: “We’re looking... [Read More]
Other News
Apr 23, 2018
The scaling up of renewable energy production needs to be drastically accelerated if the world is to meet the decarbonisation and climate change mitigation goals set out in the Paris agreements, according to a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency.
Published earlier this month, IRENA’s Global Energy Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050 argues that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 23, 2018
Biomethane’s potential to replace natural gas has been analysed in a new report from IEA Bioenergy.
As well as looking at the available substrates and technologies for green gas production, the report analyses the logistic demands of injecting green gas into existing gas grid infrastructure.
According to the IEA Bioenergy Task 37 study, there are ‘good opportunities... [Read More]
Other News
Apr 23, 2018
A project called Biogo-for-Production has developed new nanocatalysts to create an integrated modular and highly efficient process for producing fuels from renewable energy sources.
The researchers focused on the development of advanced nanocatalysts, coupled with advanced reactor concepts to realise modular, highly efficient, integrated processes for the production of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 20, 2018
The growth follows the opening of facilities in the US and Europe.
Since the beginning of 2018, the Paris-based Air Liquide has commissioned three new biomethane production units, in the United States, in France, and in the United Kingdom. With these units, the company has doubled its biomethane production capacity, which now stands at 60 MW, the equivalent of 500 GWh... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 19, 2018
The companies plan to developing process technology and supply capacity for the fuel, which can be used in coal-fired power stations with minimal effort.
The companies Clean Energy Generation (CEG) and Stork have initiated a partnership between multiple companies to accelerate the development of biocoal technology, which they say significantly reduces carbon emissions... [Read More]
Other News
Apr 16, 2018
The amount of biomethane injected into French gas networks almost doubled between 2017 and 2016, according to a new overview of France’s renewable gas sector.
Figures in the report from GRTgaz show that 406 million kWh of gas were injected into the network over the period. This, apparently, is equivalent to the consumption of nearly 34,000 homes.
The report finds... [Read More]
Other News
Apr 16, 2018
Veolia has launched an innovative online trading platform with the aim of making it easier to sell and buy organic resources. According to the company, the website could be of use to the anaerobic digestion and biomass industries as a way of trading resources.
Dubbed BioTrading, the new website will function as a sales and auction market place. The idea, according to Veolia,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 13, 2018
The biomass facility comes under South Africa’s initiative to increase the number of independent power suppliers, a programme designed to diversify electricity supply and increase the proportion of renewable sources in the energy mix.
The Ngodwana Energy Biomass Project, South Africa’s first under the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 11, 2018
Major energy supplier Drax could be ‘coal free’ ahead of the government imposed 2025 deadline, according to the company. The announcement has reignited a long standing controversy over the environmental credentials of wood based biomass.
Drax is the owner of the largest power station in western Europe, in Yorkshire, UK. The company has so far upgraded half... [Read More]
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Unilever has begun using biomethane derived from palm oil waste to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at its largest facility in Indonesia, marking the country’s first commercial biomethane offtake
A renewable energy company in Brown County, Wisconsin, US, has sought bankruptcy protection after struggling with years of financial and operational setbacks
U.S. landfill biogas facilities are achieving record levels of energy capture and investment, according to new analysis released Wednesday by the American Biogas Council (ABC)
