Jun 12, 2017
SEaB optimistic over new investment from San Francisco trade mission
Biogas News
Jun 12, 2017
Biogest is set to build its fifth gas-to-grid biogas plant in the UK. The company, which is already supporting eighteen plants in the UK with its biological and technical service, is also expanding the network of service contracts it has in the country.
When completed, the new plant will have an output of 1,400 standard cubic metres of biogas per hour, corresponding to... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2017
As the shockwaves of last night’s UK General Elections are still being felt, the incumbent Tory government losing its majority and the opposition Labour party making substantial gains – leading to a hung parliament, the UK’s Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has issued its thoughts on what the surprise results could mean for the... [Read More]
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Jun 8, 2017
At 1pm on 7 June 2017, renewable energy set a new record for energy generation in the UK. Wind, solar, biomass and hydro combined to generate an estimated 18.7 gigawatts, equivalent to roughly 50.7% of the country’s energy demands, enough to supply about 13.5 million homes with electricity.
The achievement was announced by the National Grid’s control room on... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 8, 2017
Danish biogas plant specialists Xergi are set to build their largest biogas plant yet, supplying Danish dairy company Arla Foods with green energy for the production of milk powder in Videbaek in western Denmark.
Once completed, the new plant will supply Arla Food’s milk powder production with green energy in the form of biogas, which is converted to electricity... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 7, 2017
The Goldman Sachs Group is set to expand into Japan’s biomass industry, according to an article by Nikkei Asian Review.
Japan Renewable Energy, a solar power company established by Goldman Sachs, intends to build new biomass plants at ten or more locations by 2020, investing roughly 40 billion yen (€326 million). It is projected that the total power generation... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 7, 2017
Dalkeith, Midlothian based industrial services company NWH Group has acquired the business and assets of DJ Laing Recycling Solutions’ wood processing division.
The six acre Petterden, Scotland site processes recycled wood into biomass for energy plants. It will be able to supply 60,000 tonnes of biomass per year. As part of the acquisition ten staff will transfer... [Read More]
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Jun 6, 2017
MEP Bas Eickhout has proposed sweeping reforms to EU legislation regarding bioenergy and biofuels.
They come amid the Dutch politician’s proposals for increasing the EU’s renewable energy share target for 2030 from 27% to 45%.
"The entire energy sector must be sustainable by 2040 one hundred percent." Eickhout said, according to Groen Links. Just as significantly,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 6, 2017
A company hoping to build an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Norfolk, UK, has submitted a new bid after its first application was blocked on a technicality, according to the Eastern Daily Press.
The planning application submitted by The Planning Group, on behalf of developer Mikram, outlines the company’s intentions to build two digesters, two storage tanks, a... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 6, 2017
The bioenergy industry is set to benefit from a proposed energy U-turn by South Korea’s new government would put the environment at the centre of energy policy, shifting one of the world’s staunchest supporters of coal and nuclear power toward natural gas and renewables.
According to a report in Reuters, if implemented, the ambitious plans by the world's fourth... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 5, 2017
A new study argues that carbon emissions are drastically lower when biomass is used to generate electricity instead of natural gas.
The new research was commissioned by the US Biomass Power Association. Dr. Madhu Khanna, professor in Environmental Economics at the University of Illinois, and Dr. Puneet Dwivedi, assistant professor in Sustainability Sciences at the University... [Read More]
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Jun 5, 2017
The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) has criticised President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement.
According to the WBA, the Paris Climate Agreement, which was agreed upon by more than 190 countries, was the single most important global treaty ever.
Last week (1 June, 2017), Trump framed his decision to pull the US from the landmark Paris... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 5, 2017
NexSteppe, a US feedstock provider for the bio-based industries, has announced the launch of a new product line.
The new product line is called Metano Alto.
Metano Alto Industrial Sorghums are bred to deliver both high crop yields in the field and high biogas and biomethane yields in a digester.
”We are seeing a significant level of interest from our customers in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 5, 2017
The ‘first’ plant in Brazil to make biomethane for fuelling vehicles has been opened in the city of Foz do Iguaçu, in the state of Paraná.
Brazilian company Intaipu Binacional, the ‘world’s largest’ generator of renewable clean energy, opened its new biomethane facility on 2 June 2017. It will see non-polluting biomethane, which... [Read More]
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Jun 2, 2017
Americans want to know when they’re power is coming from renewable sources, according to a new study from Washington State University (WSU).
Interestingly, this concern over energy use isn’t connected to political beliefs, the sociologists behind the research finding both Democrats and Republicans were interested in using non-fossil fuel energy sources.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 2, 2017
Vega Biofuels has announced that it will build a new biochar manufacturing plant in Anchorage, Alaska. The new facility will produce biochar for use in a high grade agricultural growing medium for legal cannabis growers in the Pacific Northwest, as well as Alaska.
It was recently announced that Vega had entered into a reseller agreement with an Anchorage cannabis start-up... [Read More]
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Jun 2, 2017
The Trade Association Group, an umbrella body comprising the main organisations in the UK’s waste and resource management sector, has set out its top priorities for the next government.
The UK is set to hold elections on 8 June, 2017.
In a statement, the group said: “We believe that improvements in resource efficiency – the way in which materials, energy,... [Read More]
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Germany's Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has awarded a total of 187.3 megawatts (MW) to 244 biomass projects in the latest round of its competitive tendering process
Veolia and Waga Energy have inaugurated a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the Granges landfill site in Burgundy, eastern France
Repsol is preparing to begin producing biomethane and hydrogen at its industrial complex in Sines, Portugal, with operations expected to start in 2026
