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Canadian natural gas distributor Gaz Métro has announced that it has been conducting a demonstration project aimed at converting wood chips into natural gas using a new thermochemical process. The company has been running the project over several months. It has been in collaboration with British Columbia-based cleantech company G4 Insights. The demonstration-scale project uses a…
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The UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry will concentrate on improving its environmental, operational and safety performance in an effort to move the sector forward, Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association’s (ADBA) CEO Charlotte Morton told Bioenergy Insight. Morton’s comments came as she officially launched ADBA’s Best Practice Scheme for the AD sector at the…
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England’s first action plan designed to increase the quantity and quality of household and commercial food waste collected and recycled has been launched today. Announced at UK AD & Biogas 2016 conference, the Food Waste Recycling Action Plan (FWRAP) developed by industry – including local authorities, waste treatment operators, private sector waste collectors, and industry bodies…
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Swiss clean-tech company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has received an order to construct a second waste-to-energy facility at Ferrybridge, UK, in the aftermath of a successful delivery of the site’s first plant. The complete plant, consisting of a total of four lines, ranks among Europe’s largest and most efficient EfW plants. “HZI proved itself to be an exceptionally constructive…
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Industry giants such as GE Marine, Mitsubishi Corporation and Shell have launched a new cross-industry initiative to accelerate the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel. Other coalition members of SEALNG are the Port of Rotterdam, Carnival Corporation & plc, DNV GL, ENGIE, ENN, GTT, Lloyd’s Register, NYK Line, Qatargas, TOTE Inc and…
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The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has appointed North Energy Associates (NEA) to lead a new Carbon Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Evidence Analysis project in its bioenergy programme. Sheffield-based NEA is a low carbon energy consultancy who specialises in conducting LCAs, particularly relating to bioenergy, biofuels, biochemicals and biomaterials. They will work with partners Forest Research…
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UK wastewater specialist Lanes Group has won a three-year contract with beverage manufacturer Bevisol to take away drinks production effluent for anaerobic digestion (AD). It is making daily tanker collections of 150m 3 of wastewater created during cider production at the Bevisol plant in Ledbury, Herefordshire. The company’s projects manager Tim Powell said the contract was running…
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Pakistan-based University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) has installed a 100kW-biomass gasification power plant at its site to promote green energy. In a statement, the UAF said its new biomass plant will overcome a powers shortfall touching 5000MW. UAF vice chancellor Iqrar Ahmad Khan inaugurated the energy plant. It was launched in co-operation with the Punjab Bio Energy Institute,…
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Bosnia is failing to exploit its biomass potential, according to industry experts. According to media reports on news channel Balkan Insight (BIRN), industry experts say that the Eastern European country could exploit clean biomass energy to cover a significant share of its total electric needs. Fahrudin Kulic, an expert on biomass working with USAID, told BIRN: "Bosnian authorities are planning…
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A team of UK researchers, including experts from Cardiff University’s Cardiff Catalysis Institute, have shown that significant amounts of hydrogen can be unlocked from fescue grass with the help of sunlight and a cheap catalyst. It is the first time that this method has been demonstrated and could potentially lead to a sustainable way of producing hydrogen, which has enormous potential in…
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US Deputy Secretary of Energy, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, has urged the energy industry to attract more young people and more women into the sector to help tackle climate change. She made the comments at a roundtable discussion on ‘The importance of women in energy’, held by UK-based NGO Energy Institute and POWERful Women, a group that aims to get more women into the energy…
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The UK’s House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has today launched a new inquiry into the economics of the UK energy market. UK energy policy over the last decade has focused on three objectives: maintaining continuous supplies of energy and minimising threats to energy security; ensuring that the costs of energy supply are competitive for business and individual users;…
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Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer, has launched a new insurance proposition for biogas and solar plants, projects, or facilities in the UK and Ireland. Biogas and solar are playing an increasing role in the UK's energy mix with 200 biogas plants in operation across the country. In early July, for the first time ever, solar plants produced almost…
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The abolition of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has prompted mixed views from the UK’s renewable energy sector. The UK’s new Prime Minister Theresa May scrapped DECC in her Cabinet reshuffle on Thursday (14 July). DECC policy areas will now move to the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The energy portfolio will now be led by former…
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