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Ukraine’s bioenergy association, UABio, has appealed to its Minister of Energy and Coal Industry to significantly improve Ukraine’s draft energy strategy. The document entitled, Energy Strategy of Ukraine through 2035: Security and Competitiveness outlines the country’s long-term energy development priorities and how these will be achieved. The strategy aims for the Ukraine…
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More than 800,000 new jobs could be created across the EU if MEPs in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee vote for both an ambitious recycling target and to strongly support the refurbishing and reusing sectors on Tuesday (24 January), said the European Environmental Bureau (EEB). Ambitious and intensive support from MEPs for European recycling, reusing and repairing industries…
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A UK sustainable energy company is the first ever to have successfully converted actual landfill gas into usable diesel fuel with no fossil fuel additives, during recent trials. Renovare Fuels, which has its headquarters in London, claims to have developed technology to produce middle distillate hydrocarbons with a selectivity of 55%.  The bi-products of flue gas and water not used to…
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May has launched new proposals for a new industrial strategy, which includes a focus on ‘affordable energy and clean growth’. Launching the green paper, Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said: “This is an important step in building a modern, dynamic industrial strategy that will improve living standards and drive economic growth across the whole…
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Louisa Blair, research manager, Hawkins Wright The global wood pellet market has endured a challenging 2016. Acute oversupply in both industrial and heating sectors, combined with relatively warm temperatures and overrunning maintenance issues at Drax have pressured operating rates and led to a record drop in prices. While certain players have taken steps to rebalance the market, fundamentals…
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Air Liquide and Puregas Solutions signed an agreement to access their respective biogas upgrading technologies. This collaboration allows the two experts to provide biogas upgrading solutions that meet customers' needs and projects’ characteristics. The agreement uses the synergies of Air Liquide and Puregas Solutions and is complementary to the offers of both companies in equipment sales,…
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China’s exports are steadily falling as a share of gross domestic product in a decline that could soon make the country less reliant than India on sales abroad, according to the Financial Times. The shift highlights the growth in the Chinese domestic economy, which could make Beijing better able to withstand trade tensions under US president Donald Trump, who has threatened to hit the…
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Northern Ireland's biggest wood pellets manufacturer, Balcas, has confirmed it shared information about proposed tariff changes in the renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme months before they were officially announced, according to a BBC report. Balcas, based in Ballinamallard, County Fermanagh, said there was "nothing sinister" in the move. It was not aware the information it had received…
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Oman has tremendous potential to be a leading exporter of energy based on renewable sources, an industry expert has said. David Rooney, director of sustainable energy research at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast spoke at an event on renewable energy and biofuels organised by the Independent Learning Centre at SQU, according to…
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Ghana-based Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has unveiled a project to develop a simple, efficient and sustainable electricity generation technology for use in rural and urban communities. According to Ghana Business News, the study focuses on developing microbial fuel cell technology to generate electricity and support wastewater treatment. The project is being jointly…
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Green organisations have welcomed the UK government’s Business Industrial Strategy. UK Prime Minister Theresa May launched new proposals for a new industrial strategy yesterday (23 January, 2017), which included a focus on “affordable energy and clean growth”. The green paper also set out technologies where Britain has strengths in research and development which could be…
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In response to the London smog alert, the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) is calling on the UK government to abolish all support for diesel engines and wood-burners which are posing a growing threat to the health of urban populations. Unusually high amount of domestic wood burning, some of which are subsidised under the Renewable Heat Incentive, has been partly blamed for the latest smog…
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Philippines-based Victorias Milling Co. is expected to complete a cogeneration biomass power plant with 40MW capacity by the end of the year, according to media reports. According to online reports by Business World Online.com, VMC president and chief operating officer Eduardo V. Concepcion said the plant, which will run mainly on bagasse - a by-product of sugarcane, is on track to start…
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MEPs have voted in favour of a 70% recycling and reuse target for 2030. The European Parliament’s Environment Committee (ENVI) voted yesterday (24 January) on a raft of amendments tabled by MEP Simona Bonafè, after a two-day discussion on the legislative aspects of the package. This proposal ups the goal proposed by the European Commission (EC) in its Circular Economy…
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