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Xylem, a water technology company, has launched a new biogas support system – the Flygt BIS 1 biogas support system - specially adapted for the wall-mounting of submersible mixers in biogas digesters. “Biogas digesters have a sealed cover which means accessing the tank to change the mixer position is difficult,” said Eilert Balssen, market manager Biogas and Agriculture for…
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The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) said it lent more than £1 billion to support UK customers’ sustainable energy projects in 2015, more than doubling lending from 2014 in a third consecutive year of growth for the sector. The record £1bn confirms RBS’s position as the largest lender to the UK renewable energy sector and comes as the bank ramps up support for all businesses,…
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Canada-based wood pellet producer Viridis Energy is up for sale. The company had earlier failed to meet a lender's deadline to pay debts owed by one of its subsidiaries. Viridis appointed US biomass industry consultancy FutureMetrics as the sales representative of the company and its three subsidiaries. In a statement, FutureMetrics said that the company will either be sold entirely through a…
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Energy giant Drax faced protests during its annual general meeting in London over its use of public subsidies to support its coal and wood-burning power station. Protesters came to the Drax power station site near Selby, North Yorkshire on 20 April, 2015. They also campaigned outside the company’s AGM in London on the same date, with banners stating ‘axe Drax’. Speaking…
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Waste management firm Veolia has unveiled a new technology to help wastewater treatment sites increase the amount of biogas output they produce through the anaerobic digestion (AD) process. Wastewater treatment plants process large amounts of sludge through anaerobic digestion, AD, with the resulting biogas used to generate electricity using combined heat and power, CHP, plants. The new system…
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The UK has the potential to increase its production of biomethane in the future and improve resource efficiency, according to a report published by the Renewable Energy Association (REA). In the report, the trade body said that the UK could produce the equivalent of more than 45 liquified natural gas (LNG) by tankers' worth of biomethane, or 40 TWh, per year by 2035. By the end of 2016 the…
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Finnish technology firm Valmet will supply a wood pellet heating plant to electricity firm Helen Oy's Salmisaari power plant. The wood pellet plant will enable Helen to increase the use of bio fuels in district heat production in Helsinki. The new plant helps the city of Helsinki to meet its aim of increasing its production of renewable energy. The start-up of the heating plant is expected to…
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Finnish utility Fortum has called for a clear EU-level sustainability criteria for biomass and a transition to a market-driven system in place of complex subsidy systems. The state-run firm unveiled its views in its latest Energy Review series. Fortum said the uncertainty regarding biomass-related regulatory policy has increased in the EU, which adds instability to the biomass markets and…
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Malaysian waste management company Cenviro will be using DONG Energy’s waste-to-energy technology after signing an agreement with the Danish firm. DONG Energy’s technology is called REnescienece. This uses enzymes to convert food waste and organics household waste constituents into biogas. Thomas Dalsgaard, executive vice president in DONG Energy, said: "Malaysia is a very interesting…
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French industrial gas group Air Liquide has announced the commissioning of 12 biogas purification units in the last 12 months in Europe. With these new units, Air Liquide triples its biogas purification capacity on the European continent. Overall, Air Liquide has designed and deployed worldwide 50 biogas purification units in order to transform biogas into biomethane and inject it into the…
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Two anaerobic digestion (AD) businesses, based in West Midlands of England, have showcased their technology to local MP, Rt Hon Jeremy Wright QC. On a recent visit to Stoneleigh, the Kenilworth and Southam MP learnt how the businesses were supporting the local economy and jobs. By building and supplying AD technology to British farmers across the UK, Stoneleigh Park-based agriKomp and Stoneleigh…
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A cross-party group of MPs has said that the UK government would probably abandon the EU’s biomass land policy if it was not committed to it by EU law. The group, part of the Environmental Audit Committee based in the UK, published its views in a House of Commons report entitled ‘EU and UK Environmental Policy’. The report comes as the UK prepares for an EU referendum on whether…
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Green Energy UK, an independent energy supplier, has become the first energy firm in Britain to supply only renewable green gas to its customers. In a statement, Green Energy said it will now only supply its customers with gas from biomethane from anaerobic digestion plants. Doug Stewart, chief executive of Green Energy UK, said: “Supplying 100% renewable gas and electricity has always been…
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The global biomass pellet market is expected to grow with a CAGR of 11.1% until 2020, according to a recent market study. According to research by Research & Markets, as US-based market watchdog, the increasing use of biomass pellets in power industry is propelling the growth of the global biomass pellet market. The growing demand for renewable energy sources is one of the important factors,…
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