Dec 11, 2015
Japan’s Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding to build Cramlington biomass plant in UK
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]
Biogas News
Dec 4, 2015
The announced £1.15 billion allocation for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) budget by 2021 could quadruple the number of UK biomethane plants.
The forecast, released by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), says that the Chancellor George Osborne’s spending review could support the construction of an additional 140 biomethane plants.
These... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 3, 2015
Three pasteurisation systems made by Landia are helping Shropshire Energy produce 2.5MW of renewable energy at its AD plant in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Designed as a free-standing unit that heat-treats organic waste so that the resulting thin substance can be used as an energy-efficient substrate, each of the three 8m3 pasteurisers at Shropshire Energy is fitted... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 2, 2015
Vega Biofuels has entered into a joint venture agreement to manufacture green energy products from industrial hemp.
The joint venture (JV) company includes Vega Biofuels and Oregon, US-based Now Corp., and it will operate under the name Vega Now from the Now Corp.'s property in Colorado.
The two companies will be working together to test industrial hemp as a feedstock... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 1, 2015
UK energy regulator, Ofgem, has published a summary of the results of its benchmarking exercise of voluntary schemes against the UK's Renewables Obligation land criteria for woody biomass.
The SBP Framework has been evaluated and found to be fully compliant with the legislation. The summary of results can be found in Ofgem's updated Renewables Obligation: Sustainability... [Read More]
Other News
Dec 1, 2015
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the final volume requirements for bioethanol under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016.
In addition, the final volume requirements for biodiesel for 2014 and 2017.
The EPA has increased the required levels from its earlier suggestion in June, and hopes that the rule will boost renewable... [Read More]
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