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The European Parliament Committee for Industry, Research and Energy has voted to adopt a target of at least 35% renewables in the EU’s energy mix by 2030. The vote, on 28 November, was in response to a report by José Blanco, MEP from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, on the percentages of renewable energy in heating and cooling. Blanco said: “The industry…
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Cory Riverside Energy, a UK-based recycling, energy recovery and resource management company, has revealed ambitious plans to build an integrated, low-carbon energy park at its site in Belvedere, south east London. The energy park would complement Cory’s existing Riverside energy recovery facility (ERF), and comprise a range of technologies including waste energy recovery, anaerobic…
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Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are meeting this week in Bonn, Germany, in the biggest climate change talks of the year. Some say the sustainability agenda is moving forward, but not fast enough.  However, there is an organisation in Europe whose overall objective is to accelerate the conversion of fossil-based European industries to low-carbon, resource-efficient, sustainable ones.…
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A scientist from the University of Manchester has argued that developing a modern bioenergy and biofuels system “has huge potential for providing sustainable, low-carbon energy facilitating a range of key sustainable development goals.” Dr Mirijam Roeder is a scientist from the University of Manchester’s School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering and Tyndall Centre…
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EuropaBio, the European Association for Bioindustries, has called for an ambitious revision of the European Bioeconomy Strategy. According to the trade body, such a revision would help tackle climate change and meet the needs of a growing population whilst boosting Europe’s resource efficiency, competitiveness and long-term economic growth. “To achieve this, the revision must put in…
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The UK-based Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has announced a new fellowship programme at its 10 Years of Innovation Conference, in honour of the organisation’s late CEO and Royal Academy of Engineering fellow, Dr David Clarke, who passed away in February 2017. Launched in partnership with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the David Clarke Fellowship is a…
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Bioenergy technologies combined with carbon capture and storage (CCS) can play a significant role in the UK’s future UK energy system, according to Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) strategy manager for bioenergy Hannah Evans. The ETI is a UK-based company formed from global industries and the UK government. It was formed in 2007, but its programme is officially ending at the…
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In his Autumn Budget, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond confirmed that there would be no fresh funds for new renewable energy projects levied through electricity bills until 2025 to help keep energy costs down. It said: "In order to protect consumers, the government will not introduce new low-carbon electricity levies until the burden of [energy] costs are falling. On the…
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PowerHouse Energy Group moves forward with waste-to-hydrogen system design London-based clean energy company PowerHouse Energy Group announced that it had completed early design work on its UK-based 25 tonne-per-day synthetic gas (syngas) plant, according to news channel ProActive Investors. The pre-front-end engineering and design, or pre-FEED, stage validated the company's technology and its…
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Estonian natural gas distributor Eesti Gaas has signed a contract with renewable fuels provider Rohegaas to buy around 11 million m3 of biomethane from the company over the next two years to sell at its compressed natural gas (CNG) stations. “I am very glad that in the new year we will start the sales of biomethane or green gas in all our compressed gas stations," said Raul Kotov, a…
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One of Europe’s largest private sector forest owners and a major player in the bioeconomy, Bergvik Skog is undergoing structural changes as part of a plan to acquire new forest assets and secure its supply of feedstock. Bergvik Skog owns approximately 2.3 million hectares of land in Sweden and about 0.1 million hectares in Latvia. As well as certified wood fibre sales and leasing out land…
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The World Biogas Association (WBA) is celebrating its first year of achievements at the UN COP23 Climate Change Conference in Bonn as global leaders come together to review progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The WBA was founded a year ago (6 November, 2016) at COP22 in Marrakech with the aim of demonstrating the huge contribution that biogas can make to reducing emissions and…
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Global emissions of CO2 in 2017 are projected to rise for the first time in four years, dashing hopes that a peak might soon be reached, according to new research from UK-based Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. The main cause of the expected growth has been greater use of coal in China as its economy expanded. The report points out that China’s growth in fossil emissions will rise…
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Trade associations representing key players in Europe’s energy transition have urged policymakers to take a step-wise approach towards the market integration of small-scale renewable and high efficiency cogeneration installations. Whilst the European institutions are negotiating the recast of the Electricity Market Design Regulation, the signatories of the declaration have recently launched…
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