Dec 15, 2016
Everbright signs investment and cooperation agreement Lankao County in China
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Dec 15, 2016
UPM, a Finnish bio- and forestry company, is researching the recycling of green liquor dregs with the aim to reach a zero solid waste to landfill operational status by 2030.
Green liquor dregs – the moist “black ashes” created in the soda recovery boiler while burning dissolved wood material – are one of the most challenging production sidestreams... [Read More]
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Dec 15, 2016
As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and create clean energy jobs, US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has announced new steps with Western states to encourage the development of renewable power, efficiently deliver that electricity to market, and meet growing consumer demands for clean energy.
Under a Memorandum... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 14, 2016
Blenheim Palace, an Oxfordshire, UK, UNESCO World Heritage Site, has instigated a series of environmental initiatives in a bid both to reduce its reliance on traditional energies and its overall carbon footprint.
Among the most significant improvements are a 42% reduction in overall mains water consumption from 2013, the lowest electricity usage figures in five years,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 14, 2016
Scania has unveiled the world’s first bi-articulated Euro 6 gas bus with an impressive capacity for 250 passengers.
The 26m long, front-engine bi-articulated F340 HA 8×2 bus was developed in collaboration with the Colombian bus bodybuilder Busscar de Colombia.
Scania already has its largest Euro 6 gas bus fleet in the Colombian city of Cartagena, and... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 14, 2016
Growing demand for bioenergy, driven by renewable energy targets and policies in Europe, is driving an explosion in wood pellet production.
According to new data published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), global production of pellets soared to 28 million tonne in 2015.
This represents an 8% increase from the previous year's... [Read More]
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Dec 14, 2016
Officials in the US state of Maine have approved a $13 million (€12m) taxpayer subsidy to reopen or keep open several biomass electricity generation plants in the state.
According to Maine Public.com, earlier this year, lawmakers approved a plan to use surplus state revenues to prop up the biomass industry, and the forest-products workers who depend on it, by supplementing... [Read More]
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Dec 14, 2016
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published its response to its consultation on the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) today (14 December, 2016).
For biogas and biomethane, the reforms will vastly improve the carbon cost-effectiveness of further support, BEIS said in its statement response.
New plants will be required to produce at least... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2016
Denmark’s largest power station Avedøre is now producing energy from wood pellets instead of coal.
This is a major step towards Copenhagen's goal of being CO2-neutral by 2025.
For the past 18 months, Avedøre Power Station has been converting its coal-fired power station unit, and the entire CHP plant is now able to produce electricity and heat based... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2016
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Vinod Khosla, Jack Ma, John Doerr and 15 other high-profile investors have formed a new venture firm, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, that will pour at least $1 billion (€943,000,00m) into cleantech companies over the next 20 years.
The firm’s goal, according to its own website will be: “to provide everyone in the world with... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2016
Irish agri-tech business BHSL has agreed to sell eight of its manure-to-energy units to UK-based poultry farms.
In a statement, the company said that the move has generated €13 million in sales.
The firm manufactures manure-to-energy technology which is aimed at transforming the environmental impact of the global poultry industry.
The eight new BHSL Energy Centre... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2016
Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) will use a by-product from its corn processing facility in Decatur, US, to produce a renewable natural gas, which will be distributed by Ameren Illinois into the nation’s natural gas infrastructure.
“We’re proud to work with Ameren Illinois on this innovative project,” said Colin Graves, project manager for ADM.... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2016
The use of gas to cook and for heating will be phased out in the Netherlands under the government’s new energy strategy up to 2050. Instead homes and offices will be heated by surplus heat generated by industry and energy-from-waste plants as well as from geothermal sources.
The Energieagenda policy document, published on 7 December, 2016, states that gas firms will... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2016
Green energy company Ecotricity has revealed it has submitted planning applications to build so-called Green Gas Mills at two proposed fracking sites in Lancashire, UK.
The company has put in Green Gas Mill applications at two fracking sites in Lancashire: Preston New Road, rejected by Lancashire Council, but then approved by the government over the heads of local people;... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2016
The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) has criticised the European Commission’s revised Renewable Energy Directive.
The document was published on 30 November, 2016.
In a statement, the WBA said: “The package contains many well designed proposals but fails to comply with the challenges set by the Paris Agreement. A reduction of the CO2 emissions by 40% by 2030... [Read More]
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Dec 8, 2016
US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma attorney general, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as its administrator.
Pruitt has served as attorney general since 2010, prior to which he had an eight-year tenure in the Oklahoma state senate.
He said that he intends to protect the environment, but at the same time safeguard businesses... [Read More]
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Dec 8, 2016
There is strong public support for producing bioenergy in the UK from both biomass and waste, according to a new survey carried out for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).
The YouGov survey, commissioned by the ETI, questioned over 5,300 adults to gauge public perceptions of bioenergy in the UK, and found that 74% of people... [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)
