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CMPC, a global pulp and paper company with 47 industrial plants across eight countries, has partnered with Foresight Canada to launch the new Pulp Mill Sludge Efficiency Challenge. The company is seeking innovative solutions to recover fibres from wastewater sludges produced during their manufacturing process. To recover high-potential materials, CMPC is looking for a dehydration system that…
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Last week the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (overseen by the US Department of Energy) published a study that highlighted the supply side options required to deliver Biden's goal of 100% clean energy by 2035. In terms of BECCS, the study said that, by 2035, the US will require 100Mt of negative emissions from BECCS to offset remaining positive carbon emissions in the power sector. The…
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The Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA) launched the bioenergy factsheet series on 1 September 2022. The aim of the factsheet series is to provide information to a wide range of stakeholders on the various forms and aspects of this form of renewable energy. The titles in the series to date are: - Bioenergy – An Overview; -Wood and Solid Biomass Fuels; -Biogas; - Biofuels; - Biochar; -…
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has reached final close on its new fund, CI Energy Transition Fund I (CI ETF I). The fund was oversubscribed and closed at the hard cap of €3 billion - making CI ETF 1 the largest dediacated clean hydrogen fund globally. CI ETF I achieved commitments from investors across the Nordics (~25% of commitments), Europe (~45%), Asia-Pacific (~20%) and North…
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Palisade Real Assets has acquired 100% of Malaby Biogas, a UK-based organic waste anaerobic digestion technology plant located in Warminster, Wiltshire. Malaby has been operating since 2012, processes between 500-600 tonnes of organic waste per week and provides around 2,500 houses with renewable power. It was also the first plant in England to be certified by the Anaerobic Digestion…
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Bioenergy has an essential role to play in China's efforts of reaching peak carbon before 2030, and carbon neutrality before 2060, according to senior professor and vice president of Beijing Institute of Technology Wei Yiming. China Daily reported on the comments Yiming made during an online forum on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), held by the Chinese Society for…
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The UK government's planning inspectorate could give the go-ahead to controversial plans for a biogas plant in Keynsham, Somerset, after plans were rejected by the local council, according to the Bristol Post. Bath and North East Somerset Council (BANES) turned down plans from Resourceful Energy Anaerobic (REA) to build a 92,000 tonne anaerobic digester facility on green belt land in March…
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The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) has called upon the current prime minister, Boris Johnson, and the Conservative leadership candidates, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, to urgently come together and hold an emergency energy crisis summit. In an open letter sent today (11 August), the REA said the Conservative leadership contest has created uncertainty, with "precious…
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Glenrothes MP Peter Grant recently visited Markinch CHP biomass plant to understand the development opportunities between RWE and Scottish gas distribution company SGN. The partnership is to investigate the feasibility of supplying green hydrogen for heating Scottish businesses and homes, produced at the power station site. The visit follows a recent agreement between the two companies to look…
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Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (B&W) has signed a teaming agreement with gas treatment specialist Newpoint Gas to act as a foundational technology partner. It will provide advanced hydrogen generation, decarbonisation and combustion technologies for the redevelopment of the former US Department of Energy Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant site near Piketon in Ohio, US. B&W will…
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Prime minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre and the Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre visited Norwegian forest owner group Viken Skog's Follum mill in Hønefoss on 5 August. A long-term partnership between renewable packaging material producer BillerudKorsnäs and Voken Skog will establish the production of bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp (BCTMP) in Norway. The…
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Sasol Chemicals, a business unit of Sasol, has earned certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) system for its three largest manufacturing facilities in Europe. The company’s facilities in Marl and Brunsbüttel, Germany, and Augusta, Italy, have earned ISCC-PLUS certification for the use of mass balanced bio-based and recycled feedstocks in the…
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Grant specialist Catax has revealed a hydrogen fuel pioneer has secured €295 (£247k) funding to perfect carbon capture technology that will help mitigate the environmental impact of its waste-to-hydrogen plants. Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) has won €294,487 (£246,568) from the Hydrogen BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage) Innovation Programme, run by the Department for…
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Acorn Bioenergy hopes to build an anaerobic digestion plant on land at Fearn Aerodrome in Scotland - a former World War Two military air base. It proposes to build five digestion tanks as a means to convert agricultural waste into fuel. Parts of the site near Balintore are already an industrial estate. The plan would form part of a larger scheme  involving sites in Moray and Aberdeenshire,…
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