Mar 23, 2023
ACCIONA Energía commences construction of biomass plant in Extremadura, Spain
Biomass News
Mar 23, 2023
Biomass and feedstock supplier Ecostrat has announced that USA BioEnergy has joined the BDO Zone Strategic Alliance as a partner in the Project Group.
The BDO Zone Initiative is an economic development platform that enables local communities to deploy powerful economic development tools – BDO Zone Ratings – to achieve the goal of driving, accelerating, and catalysing... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 23, 2023
EnviTec has said that its strategy to serve the growing French market more quickly is beginning to pay off. The firm invested in an in-house laboratory for EnviTec Biogas France in summer 2022.
"This was exactly the right decision, to offer our French customers an efficient and above all time-saving local analysis service,” said Martin Brinkmann, managing director of... [Read More]
Policy News
Mar 22, 2023
Drax has welcomed the UK government's support for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the recent Budget, but added it needs its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project to gain Track 1 status. Without this, Drax Power Station "may become unviable", and unable to contribute secure power at a time of such critical need.
This led to Drax's decision to... [Read More]
Policy News
Mar 22, 2023
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $590 million (€546.9m) to renew its four existing Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs).
The DOE said the funding will help support the department's research into the next generation of sustainable, cost-effective bioproducts and bioenergy from domestic biomass resources, which is critical to reducing greenhouse gas emissions,... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 22, 2023
Following five years of work to clarify which waste wood items are potentially hazardous, the Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) has welcomed plans by the Environment Agency to withdraw RPS 250 on September 1st.
Introduced in July 2021, Regulatory Position Statement (RPS) 250 currently allows potentially hazardous ‘amber’ waste wood items from the construction and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 22, 2023
US-based BioTown Biogas (BTB), a leading renewable energy producer in the waste-to-value energy market, is today (22 March) activating its new digester and processing facility, one of the largest on-farm biodigesters in the world.
An on-site commissioning ceremony marking the ceremony will be attended by Indiana's Lieutenant Governor and the state's Secretary of Agriculture... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 21, 2023
Intermunicipal environmental firm EcoWerf opened its new anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Leuven, Belgium, on 17 March.
EcoWerf already produces 20,000 tonnes of valuable compost from source-separated biowaste each year, and biogas will now be produced from the same biowaste.
To achieve this, DRANCO has constructed a new digester for the plant.
"DRANCO stands for a... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 21, 2023
Drax announced today (21 March) that it will pause its planned £2 billion (€2.2bn) UK investment in bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) until it receives more clarity on government support, reported Reuters.
Drax welcomed the UK government's recent budget support for carbon capture and storage (CCS) but said it required a firm commitment to BECCS before... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 21, 2023
Bioenergy Devco, the North American division of BTS Bioenergy has announced a $30 million (€27.8m) investment by Annapolis-based HASI, a leading investor in climate solutions.
Bioenergy Devco is a leading player in the design, engineering, construction, financing, and operation of anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities to recycle organic material and produce renewable... [Read More]
Policy News
Mar 17, 2023
The Net-Zero Industrial Act was proposed to the European Union (EU) on 16 March.
The Act is designed to scale up the manufacturing of clean technologies in the EU and make sure the EU is well-equipped for the clean-energy transition. It was announced by President von der Leyen as a part of the Green Deal Industrial Plan.
The Act is designed to create better conditions... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 17, 2023
SGC Energy, a green energy solution provider in South Korea, will work with a Vietnamese power engineering consulting firm to carry out projects to convert coal power plants into biomass-based generating facilities, it announced on 15 March.
The partnership was made followed by Vietnam’s state project to phase out coal power generation which accounts for 40% of the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 17, 2023
The UK government recognises the important contribution that the waste wood biomass sector makes to energy security and net zero goals, according to energy minister Graham Stuart.
The comment came in the answer to a parliamentary question tabled by Martyn Day MP on behalf of the Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA), asking about support for the waste wood biomass industry.
Stuart’s... [Read More]
Policy News
Mar 17, 2023
Bioenergy Europe has released a statement affirming that, although it welcomes the EU's publication of the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), it regrets "a lack of strategic vision for the bioenergy industry and net-negative technologies like bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)."
The Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) is part of the Green Deal Industrial Plan... [Read More]
Policy News
Mar 16, 2023
The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivered the Spring budget yesterday (15 March). Hunt placed a clear emphasis on nuclear energy, classing it as environmentally sustainable, and stating that the UK will "need another critical source of cheap and reliable energy - and that is nuclear".
"Increasing nuclear capacity is vital to meet our net-zero obligations,"... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 16, 2023
On 14 March, the European Parliament adopted draft measures to increase the rate of renovations and reduce energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions in the EU building sector by 2030.
The proposed revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive aims to make the sector climate-neutral by 2050. It also aims to increase the rate of renovations of energy-inefficient... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 16, 2023
A fire on 14 March resulted in the temporary closure of Kansai Electric Power's 1.8GW coal- and biomass-fired power generation plant at Maizuru in Japan, reported Argus Media.
The fire took place at 21:52 Japan time (12:52 GMT) on 14 March at a facility that delivers wood pellets to boilers.
Kansai was therefore forced to suspend operations of the 900MW No.2 unit at... [Read More]
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Germany's Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has awarded a total of 187.3 megawatts (MW) to 244 biomass projects in the latest round of its competitive tendering process
Veolia and Waga Energy have inaugurated a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the Granges landfill site in Burgundy, eastern France
Repsol is preparing to begin producing biomethane and hydrogen at its industrial complex in Sines, Portugal, with operations expected to start in 2026
