Oct 19, 2015
GIC affiliate to acquire majority interest in Greenko Mauritius
Biomass News
Oct 15, 2015
The construction of one of the world’s largest biomass power plants is set to begin in Belgium in early 2016.
Belgian Eco Energy’s (BEE) proposed 215MW plant will be built in at the Port of Ghent, where it will cover an area of approximately 5ha.
The €315 million project will create an estimate of 1,000 jobs during construction and between 100-120 permanent... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 13, 2015
The global biogas upgrading market is expected to grow to $1.97 billion (€1.72bln) by 2022 at a compound annual growth rate of 28.65% from 2014-2022, according to a new market study.
Some of the key drivers of the market include strict government regulations, greenhouse gas emissions reductions, volatile fertiliser price, and demand for renewable energy and transportation... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 13, 2015
A potential revolution is unfolding on out-of-the-way logging roads.
Foresters and researchers are innovating unique ways to make use of forest residues, or low quality trees, tree tops, limbs, and chunks that formerly would have been left in slash piles and burned, or worse, left to rot.
Last year, Humboldt State University (HSU) and 15 regional partners in California,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 8, 2015
Agraferm Technologies has received three new orders for biogas plants in England.
Near Lincoln, in Metheringham, the company is building a new gas-to-grid biomethane plant. The plant will consist of one digester and a post digester yielding 400Nm3/h of biomethane and 500kW of electricity.
The Metheringham project will be one of Agraferm's smaller plants. As the company's... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 8, 2015
Turboden, a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and provider of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) power systems for distributed generation from renewable sources and waste heat, has announced the successful commercial operation of two biomass-fed ORC units supplied to West Fraser, an integrated wood products company based in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
A... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 7, 2015
The African continent could generate nearly a quarter of its energy needs through the use of indigenous, clean, renewable energy by 2030, according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Africa 2030 – a comprehensive roadmap for Africa’s energy transition – finds that a combination of modern renewable technology could realistically... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 6, 2015
The £138 million (€187 million) Cramlington biomass power station in Northumberland, UK has successfully reached financial close.
The new 27MW biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant will provide renewable electricity and heat to adjacent pharmaceutical businesses. It will be fuelled with sustainable forestry by-products sourced from the local area.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 6, 2015
Gas and electricity company Belgian Eco Energy (Bee) has announced that Veolia will be responsible for the operation of its Ghent, Belgium-based biomass-fired power plant when it comes online in 2019.
The plant, construction on which is due to begin in the first quarter of 2016, will produce 215MW of renewable electricity from woodchips, making it one of the largest in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 6, 2015
Greenlane Biogas has signed a contract with Promus Energy, a project development company focusing on renewable and sustainable technologies, to provide an integrated biogas upgrading solution for a dairy farm located in Yakima County, Washington.
Included in the solution is the supply of a Totara+ biogas upgrading unit and additional process equipment to deliver pipeline... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 5, 2015
Energy ministers from the G20 countries and heads of international organisations affirmed their commitment to renewable energy at the first-ever G20 Energy Ministers Meeting in Istanbul on 2 October.
The high-level participants endorsed an 11-point communiqué, including the adoption of a renewable energy toolkit, which provides options for G20 countries to take... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 5, 2015
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has announced that a group led by ADAS, which includes E4tech, RDI Associates, Crops for Energy and Imperial College Consultants, will work on its new project to refine current estimates of available UK land that can be used for the production of crops and forestry for bioenergy.
The ETI is investing £156,000 (€210,000)... [Read More]
Pellets News
Oct 5, 2015
Lignetics, the largest residential wood pellet manufacturing company in the US which now has a production capacity of approximately 550,000 tonnes a year of wood pellets, has acquired the assets of GF Funding (whose facility was formerly known as Geneva Wood Fuels), expanding its footprint into Maine and upper New England.
Lignetics has wood pellet manufacturing plants... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 5, 2015
In Japan, Sumitomo Corp., a power producer and supplier, has announced plans to build a 50MW biomass-fired power plant in Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture through its wholly owned subsidiary Summit Energy Corp. The plant will become a new source of power supply for Summit Energy's electric power retail business.
The Sakata biomass power plant will be built in the Sakata... [Read More]
Pellets News
Oct 1, 2015
Nepcon has issued a Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP) certificate to wood pellet producer SBE Latvia (SBE).
SBE is the first in Europe and only second in the world to earn this credential, expected to be in strong demand by European energy producers.
With the certificate in place, SBE Latvia is able to meet the European energy sector’s growing demands for sustainable... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 29, 2015
Novozymes, Novo Nordisk, Dong Energy, and Bigadan are investigating the possibility of producing biomass-based biogas.
If the results from the pre-investigation, expected to last a year or more, confirm the preliminary analyses, the parties intend to go ahead and realise biogas production.
In Kalundborg, Denmark, Novo Nordisk and Novozymes have extensive factory facilities,... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 28, 2015
SBP, an industry-led initiative formed by major European biomass energy utilities, has announced its first certification of a biomass producer.
NSF International, an SBP-approved certification body, has certified the Aliceville, Alabama, facility of US pellet producer Westervelt Renewable Energy.
The SBP certificate issued to Westervelt covers the manufacture of woody... [Read More]
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