News

Hawaii-based ClearFuels Technology has signed a letter of agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to build a biorefinery in Colorado. ClearFuels will receive an initial $7.7 million (€5.6 million) toward the construction of the Colorado refinery as part of an overall $22.6 million DoE grant. The ClearFuels-Rentech biorefinery in Colorado is scheduled to be completed by the end of…
Read More »

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…
Read More »

Generating power from the stalks and straw of sugarcane, also known as bagasse, is becoming increasingly popular in Brazil. Power generation and distribution company CPFL is cashing in on this new trend and is in the development stage of building three bagasse-to-fuel power plants. Costing €155 million, these power plants will have a total output of 145MW.
Read More »

Biomass energy development firm Helius Energy has posted a first half net loss of £0.6 million (€0.7 million) compared with a pre-tax profit of £18,875 last time. At the end of March this year the company reported a cash balance of £12.8 million (H1 2009 £16.8m) and its net assets totaled £30 million (H1 2009 £34 million). According to Adrian Bowles, chief executive at Helius, the…
Read More »

In the UK the Isle of Wight’s first combined heat and power (CHP) generator has been granted planning permission. Following opposition from Calbourne Parish Council, the councillors did a U-turn and decided to support the facility as long as noise and emission levels produced by the generator were frequently monitored. With the capacity to generate 100KW of electricity and 250KW of heat, the…
Read More »

The Zalaegerszeg Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) is undertaking a demo plant in Hungary that will see the production of transport fuel from biogas. DMT Environmental Technology will supply the plant with a biogas upgrading system that has the capacity to process between 40 and 80Nm3 of biogas an hour. The WWTP converts biogas from the combined heat and power (CHP) digesters and is unique…
Read More »

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…
Read More »

Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International magazine, and here Jaroslav Pesek, head of the quality department and strategic reserves at Czech state-run pipeline and storage terminal operator CEPRO, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May. CEPRO is heavily involved with…
Read More »

Biomass energy development company Helius Energy has been granted permission that will see the construction of an electricity plant at Avonmouth Dock, on the Bristol Channel, UK. The Department for Energy and Climate Change gave consent under Section 36 of The Electricity Act 1989 for Helius Energy to build a 100MW electricity-generation refinery that will be fuelled by biomass. The power…
Read More »

In Idaho, US, agribusiness giant Cargill’s second biogas project is up and running at the Bettencourt Dairy B6 farm in Jerome. Using anaerobic digestion (AD), the manure from the farm’s 6,000 cows is turned into methane, which is then burned in generators to create electricity. Cargill’s biogas project is producing enough renewable methane to generate electricity for approximately 1,100…
Read More »

According to a new report, ‘Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? Growth, competition and opportunity in the world’s largest economies,’ China is the front-runner for investing in renewable technology, while the US and the UK are trailing behind in second and third places. In 2009 the UK invested around $11.2 billion (€8.3 billion), while China invested around three times this with…
Read More »

Green wastewater management company Freedom Environmental Services, headquartered in Orlando, US, has signed a contract that will see 26 acres of unused land in Brevard County developed into a waste-to-energy facility. The planned facility and full service wastewater treatment will make use of developed technologies such as anaerobic digestion (AD) and it is thought that this has the ability to…
Read More »

Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Dag Roger Rinde (DRR), managing director of Statoil Energy & Retail Norway, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May. Statoil is the first company in Norway to offer 5% ethanol to general consumers,…
Read More »

In a bid to stop energy company Eco2 constructing an unwanted biomass plant in their neighbourhood in North Lincolnshire, UK, protesters have suggested an alternative site. If the biomass plant is given the go-ahead it will create enough biomass to power 65,000 homes but at a cost of spoiling the area of Scawby Brook. In a compromise campaigners suggested that the firm explores the former…
Read More »