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Roberto Rinaldi FRSC, a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to fund his world-leading work on lignin valorisation. According to Imperial College, these highly competitive grants are awarded to “outstanding early career researchers” to help them consolidate their…
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French firm Suez Environnement has announced a strategic partnership with a cloud-based waste and recycling company, Rubicon Global, to advance the digitalisation of its recycling and recovery activities on mainland Europe. The partnership was announced following Suez acquisition of a stake in Rubicon after it led the company’s latest funding round, which raised more than $50 million…
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Environmental solutions provider China Everbright International has announced that its group has begun to provide online monitoring report of the hourly average level of gas emission for all of its operating waste-to-energy projects. This marks the completion of the "Four Steps" environmental information disclosure plan launched by the group in August 2015.  In a statement, the Hong…
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An anaerobic digestion (AD) plant is being blamed for killing more than 1,000 fish in Wales, UK, according to media reports. According to a report in UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday, officials are investigating if a fault caused hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic waste to be discharged from an AD plant and into the River Teifi in West Wales, killing every single fish along an eight-mile…
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The UK’s Green Investment Bank (GIB )is set to be stripped of its prized assets once Australia’s Macquarie Group seizes control of the state-owned British lender later this month, according to media reports in The Sunday Times. The Australian bank has ­already lined up suitors for some of the Green Investment Bank’s most valuable assets — even though it has yet to seal…
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Laos is looking to expand its power grid network and may use renewable energy to produce electricity, according to Xinhua News. The Laos government plans to install 54 more electricity transmission lines and build another 16 substations by 2020. Laos Minister of Energy and Mines Khammany Inthirath has revealed the plan recently, saying the government recognises the need to install more…
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The UK government is set to call a snap assembly election in the wake of McGuinness’s resignation over the renewable heat incentive debacle, which has left the administration in Belfast with a £490 million (€562m) bill, according to media reports. According to the Guardian, the secretary of state for Northern Ireland is to address MPs after deputy first minister Martin…
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Enviva Holdings, wood pellet giant, today publicly released the first data from its groundbreaking Track & Trace (T&T) programme. T&T is a proprietary system that enables Enviva to track every truckload of wood the company procures from the forest back to its source, providing a detailed understanding of the characteristics of the wood the company uses. Demonstrating an unmatched…
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Renewable materials company American Process (AP) and Malaysian MYBiomass will work together to develop technology to produce nanocellulose and cellulosic sugars from oil palm empty fruit-bunches (EFBs). The companies signed a joint-development work agreement (JDA) for production of nanocellulose and cellulosic sugars from EFBs into material as enhancing additives in textile, paper, and…
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Renewable fuels will play a critical role in decarbonising the transport sector, and will complement the role of electric vehicles, Transport Minister John Hayes has said The UK’s Department for Transport will spend £20 million on supporting twenty innovative low-carbon projects. Speaking at a road transport conference in London, Transport Minister John Hayes said that renewable fuels…
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The European Biogas Association (EBA) has presented its sixth edition of its Statistical Report - the reference publication on the state of the art of biogas and biomethane in Europe. The report reflects the steady growth in the biogas sector, with the number of biogas plants practically tripling during the past six years. “There were 17,376 biogas plants and 459 biomethane plants in…
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Swedavi, a state-owned group that owns, operates and develops ten airports across Sweden, has received sustainable aviation fuel at Stockholm Arlanda Airport, which has been supplied by SkyNRG and Air BP. It marks the start of deliveries of sustainable aviation fuel through the Fly Green Fund and demonstrates Swedavia’s commitment to sustainable aviation. Fly Green Fund is the first of its…
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More than 40% of the electricity generated on Christmas Day came from renewable sources, according to a Drax-commissioned report. On average, 12.4GW of electricity generated came from green sources – 63% more than in 2015 when just 25% of the electricity generated came from renewables, and up 195% compared to five Christmases ago in 2012 when just 4.2GW (or 12% of the energy generated) came…
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The use of residual forest biomass for rural development faces significant economic hurdles that make it unlikely to be a source of jobs in the near future, according to new research by economists from Oregon State University. In a model of the forest industry, researchers in the College of Forestry combined an evaluation of costs for collecting, transporting and processing biomass with the…
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