Dec 15, 2015
New partnership between MBP Group and ReSource International
Biogas News
Dec 15, 2015
Reducing, reusing, and recycling the UK’s Christmas dinner plate scrapings and other festive leftovers this year would divert waste from landfill and power homes and businesses, according to research by Tamar Energy.
British households’ Christmas indulgence creates around 230,000 tonnes of additional food waste, the equivalent weight of 38 million turkeys,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 15, 2015
Local farmers will own and operate a new cooperative-style biomass business that will supply a power company on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.
The A$100 million (€65m) Yorke Biomass Energy (YBE) project, Australia’s first straw-fuelled power plant launched in September this year, has launched a cooperative-style business model that will see local biomass... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 14, 2015
The UK government’s revised green gas strategy could place anaerobic digestion at the heart of UK carbon abatement efforts in the wake of the Paris climate agreement, Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) says.
ADBA says in a statement that this ‘historic commitment’ to limiting the amount of greenhouse gas emissions should prove to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 14, 2015
The German Biogas Association (Fachverband Biogas) and the Indian Biogas Association (IBA) have launched a three-year project to foster development of the biogas industry in India.
The initial project, with an option for an additional three years, is funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and operated by Sequa.
‘The potential... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 11, 2015
A consortium including the Japanese Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding has been awarded an order to construct a biomass combined heat and power plant in Cramlington, UK.
The 27.8MW facility will be built by Mitsui’s subsidiary Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor as a turnkey solution in a consortium with the Danish boiler supplier Burmeister & Wain... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 11, 2015
Enviva Holdings, one of the world’s largest wood pellet producers, is establishing the Enviva Forest Conservation Fund.
The $5 million (€4.6m), 10-year programme is designed to protect tens of thousands of acres of bottomland forests in northeast North Carolina and southeast Virginia in the US.
The Enviva Forest Conservation Fund (EFCF), administered by the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 11, 2015
Veolia UK, a branch of the French Veolia Group, has secured a contract from Equitix ESI CHP to operate the Sherwood Biomass Plant in Nottingham, UK.
The 20-year contract, worth £50 million (€69m), highlights the growing UK commitment to energy production from biomass, and adds to the £500 million of biomass energy managed by Veolia in the UK and Ireland.
Located... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 9, 2015
Dieffenbacher, a German international industrial equipment manufacturer, has received an order from Hong Kong, China, for its new recycling division.
The Eppingen-based company will supply two treatment lines for the size reduction and homogenisation of organic waste for a fermentation plant.
In Hong Kong, one of the most technologically advanced fermentation plants for... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 9, 2015
A group of six green banks and two leading non-profit groups are establishing a Green Bank Network to help meet the urgent need of increasing and accelerating investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency worldwide.
With nations around the world making new commitments to reducing heat-trapping pollution, more capital than ever will need to be deployed for clean... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 9, 2015
The European Biomass Association (AEBIOM), a non-profit bioenergy representative, has selected its new president and vice president.
At AEBIOM’s latest general assembly, Gustav Melin (SVEBIO, Sweden) was elected as AEBIOM president for one further term.
Following his election, Melin gave statement in which he hoped for positive results from the COP21 climate summit... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2015
Schmack Biogas, a Viessmann Group company, has been awarded a contract for the construction of a biomethane plant in Épaux-Bézu (Picardy) in northern France.
France is the biggest agricultural producer in the EU and therefore offers one of the largest potential biomass markets for the production of biogas.
Since the feed-in tariff for biogas was revised... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 8, 2015
The South American country of Uruguay is now generating 95% of its power from renewable sources.
While Uruguay has no nuclear power plants and has not built new hydropower in 20 years, biomass, wind, and solar power are booming.
The massive shift to renewable energy was triggered by the country’s need to break away from its dependence on foreign oil, which in 2000... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2015
EnviTec Biogas has begun the construction of an EnviThan gas upgrading plant for WEFRI, a Danish agricultural company.
The plant, with a capacity of 524m³, will be built in the Jutland town of Hammel and is scheduled to go online by summer 2016.
As feedstock the plant will process grass silage, sugar beets, straw, chicken manure, and glycerine, and the produced gas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2015
German manufacturer Weltec Biopower has begun the construction of its second anaerobic digestion plant in South Korea.
Work at the site, located in Gyeonggi-do province about 80 km north of the capital Seoul, started in October and the 450kW biogas plant is to go live in the early summer of 2016.
The plant will have the capacity to process 100 tonnes of organic waste a... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 7, 2015
The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul has granted preliminary licenses to ten biomass projects in order to increase its renewable energy output.
The Environmental Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul (Imasul) gave the licenses to a total of 535.75MW worth of eucalyptus-based biomass projects.
The 10 schemes, with a combined investement of $734 million (€679m), will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 4, 2015
The Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK and the supply chain specialist Terravesta are running new trials to examine how the energy crop miscanthus survives in water-logged land and its effect on the soil after flooding.
The trials come some 18 months after the floods which devastated the Somerset Levels and are being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research... [Read More]
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Aston University has officially opened the Wolfson Centre for Low Carbon Hydrogen, the UK’s first fully integrated facility dedicated to converting biomass into low-carbon hydrogen and electricity under real-world industrial conditions
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