Oct 6, 2016
Romania to allocate €100m to biomass and biogas energy
Pellets News
Oct 6, 2016
World’s largest torrefied biomass producer New Biomass Energy has acquired the majority interest in a Mississippi, US, torrefaction plant and plans to continue the production of torrefied biomass.
Initial production at the Quitman plant will supply 2,000 to 3,000 tonnes of torrefied wood for a test burn at Portland General Electric's plant in Boardman,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 5, 2016
The US Endowment for Forestry and Communities has re-launched of the Wood2Energy.org wood bioenergy facility database and mapping tool, the most comprehensive database of its kind in North America.
Wood2Energy.org aims to develop a database and mapping tool that aggregates facility level data to deliver a unique perspective of the wood bioenergy industry.
With separate,... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 5, 2016
BNDES, Latin America’s largest development bank, will not fund new coal- or oil-fired power plants in an attempt to drive investment towards renewable energy.
The Brazilian development bank released a new set of guidelines earlier this week which will see the bank remove all funding available for coal or oil thermoelectric plants, Business Green reports.
It will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 5, 2016
Brazil's power regulator Aneel has revoked the winning status of a 28.5MW biomass project from the energy auction held on 21 August, 2015.
The project was proposed by Brazilian Clealco Acucar e Alcool, which planned to build a plant using sugarcane bagasse as energy source.
The decision was made by Aneel's Special Tender Committee (CEL), the body responsible... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 5, 2016
UK anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operator Biogen has officially opened its 2MW Merevale facility, the company’s seventh food waste recycling plant in the UK.
The plant’s, located near Atherstone in Warwickshire, processing capacity of 45,000 tonnes of waste food from household and commercial sources annually joins Biogen’s network of AD plants that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 4, 2016
US technology juggernaut Apple has entered into an agreement with the University of Aarhus in Denmark to establish a biogas research and development programme.
The venture, along with a €1.7 billion investment, comes after Apple in February 2015 announced it was planning to build two data centres powered entirely by renewable energy in Europe.
The facilities will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 4, 2016
Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU), the fifth largest energy producer in Florida, has switched to burning biomass in the aftermath of a mechanical failure at the company’s Deerhaven coal plant.
The fuel swap had already been in the plans earlier due to a previous breakdown, but the Deerhaven incident caused the company to hurry the decision along.
But the change... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 3, 2016
India, the world’s fourth-largest carbon emitter with its population of 1.3 billion people, has ratified the Paris agreement on climate change.
India, who became the 62nd nation to join the deal, is responsible for 6% of the global CO2 emissions following China, which accounts for 28%, the US for 16%, and the European Union 10%.
In terms of per capita CO2 emissions,... [Read More]
Pellets News
Oct 3, 2016
British Member of Parliament Andrew Percy visited a Canadian biomass plant recently to speak to the staff and witness the operation of the plant providing wood pellets for Drax, UK’s largest energy producer.
Percy’s visit in the role of Minister for the Northern Powerhouse was to the Lavington Wood Pellet plant in British Columbia as part of a programme to... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 3, 2016
EnMass Energy, a US-based green biomass start-up founded in 2015, is commencing its first large-scale biomass energy development project.
EnMass, headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, takes crop waste and turns it into clean and sustainable electricity for rural communities, helping them reduce energy poverty and mitigating climate change.
Pakistan possesses... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 29, 2016
Swedish renewable energy producer OX2 has received a 22 million krona (€2.3m) grant to build a new food waste-to-biogas processing facility in Sweden.
OX2 is also investing 18 million krona of its own capital in the plant, which will be located in the city of Helsingborg in southern Sweden.
The company already operates NSR’s biogas plant in Filborna, for which... [Read More]
Other News
Sep 28, 2016
The bioenergy sector should seize the opportunity to contribute more to the heating and cooling industries to help drive Europe towards a low-carbon economy, said Marie Donnelly, director for renewables at the European Commission.
Her comments were made at the European Biogas Association’s conference in Ghent, Belgium. She also warned that the bioenergy sector needed... [Read More]
Other News
Sep 28, 2016
China Everbright International commenced the construction of 14 bio-projects in the third quarter of 2016, with a total investment exceeding RMB3.8 billion (€508.6m).
The construction of all of the projects is progressing well and on schedule, the company reports.
In the environmental energy segment, five waste-to-energy projects and a food waste treatment project... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 27, 2016
The state of Punjab in India has the potential to generate 2GW of electrical power from biomass alone, a state secretary says.
According to Anirudh Tewari, principal secretary for industries, commerce, and renewable energy in the Government of Punjab, biomass is an important part of the northern Indian state’s energy market.
“One area of renewable energy which... [Read More]
Other News
Sep 27, 2016
Despite a slump in annual additions, the global biopower market is set to show steady growth, at a compound annual growth rate of 4.4%, according to a new market study
Research and consulting firm GlobalData forecasts the global installed biopower capacity to rise from 106.2GW in 2015 to 165.2GW by 2025.
The company’s latest report states that bioenergy is a niche... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 27, 2016
FCC, a Spanish environmental services, construction, and water management group, is participating in a project to convert waste treatment plants into bioenergy factories.
Co-financed by the EU’s LIFE Programme, the Methamorphosis project is headed by FCC Aqualia in partnership with Area Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB), FCC Environment (FCC’s environmental... [Read More]
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