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The European Commission has launched a new three-year project called BioBase4SME to support the development of a bio-based economy in North West Europe (NWE). The €5.83 million project, launched through the EC’s INTERREG NWE Programme, will help start-ups and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to overcome technological and non-technological barriers on their path to turn bio-based…
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Despite a slump in annual additions, the global biopower market is set to show steady growth, at a compound annual growth rate of 4.4%, according to a new market study Research and consulting firm GlobalData forecasts the global installed biopower capacity to rise from 106.2GW in 2015 to 165.2GW by 2025. The company’s latest report states that bioenergy is a niche market in the renewable…
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The bioenergy sector should seize the opportunity to contribute more to the heating and cooling industries to help drive Europe towards a low-carbon economy, said Marie Donnelly, director for renewables at the European Commission. Her comments were made at the European Biogas Association’s conference in Ghent, Belgium. She also warned that the bioenergy sector needed to make biogas and…
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China Everbright International commenced the construction of 14 bio-projects in the third quarter of 2016, with a total investment exceeding RMB3.8 billion (€508.6m). The construction of all of the projects is progressing well and on schedule, the company reports. In the environmental energy segment, five waste-to-energy projects and a food waste treatment project commenced construction. The…
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EXCLUSIVE: Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association’s (ADBA) chief executive Charlotte Morton has urged the UK government to support anaerobic digestion (AD) as it formally announced plans to go ahead with building a new £18bn nuclear power station in Somerset. The new plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset is being financed by the French and the Chinese. In exchange, China wants…
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Andrea Leadsom, the UK’s new Environment Secretary, has praised a bioenergy project as she launched a new ‘State of Nature’ report. In a speech on the environment, she said that the UK will continue to show global leadership on issues such as combatting climate change.  She also said that the government had to explore innovative ways of funding to encourage better decision…
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Forestry Tasmania, a corporation owned by the Government of Tasmania,  is signing contracts with two operators to export woodchips from forests in southern Tasmania, but the industry has concerns it will have product left on its hands. According to media reports on abc.net, the expressions of interest process (EIO) for a solution for woodchip exports in the south opened in June last…
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A project led by Professor Zhiguo Yuan from the University of Queensland will receive almost AUD$680,000 (€605,000) from the Queensland government to demonstrate a pilot scale zero-energy sewage treatment technology. The university’s research team will set out to triple the bioenergy from sewage than what is currently available. The bioenergy recovered is expected to completely offset…
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Waste management firm Veolia is planning to invest £750 million (€898m) in its UK-based recycling business in the next five years. Veolia UK chief executive Estelle Brachlianoff told Reuters  that gradually rising landfill taxes had been a major revenue driver for Veolia in Britain, where it has annual revenue of about £2bn, making it the company's second-largest market…
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Hong Kong-based environmental services provider China Everbright International has completed its acquisition of Polish waste management and recycling firm, Novago. The acquisition was worth approximately €123 million, including an equity purchase price of €118 million and €5 million for the land bank. According to Everbright,  the deal marks the beginning of the…
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Blue Sphere Corp., a US clean-tech independent power producer, announced that its joint venture waste-to-energy facility under construction in Charlotte, North Carolina, is nearing completion. In 2014, the company entered into a joint venture to develop, construct and operate a biogas facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, under the management of a third party.  In recent weeks,…
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China and the US – the top two greenhouse gas emitters in the world – have both agreed to ratify the Paris Agreement, a global framework to limit the effects of climate change. While China had already earlier announced that it would ratify the agreement, the joint announcement has been hailed by climate campaigners as a significant advance in combating global warming, The Guardian…
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Energy-intensive industries and the products they make can play a considerable role in the global effort to tackle climate change, according to a new report from the World Bank Group, CLASP and Carbon Trust. Making them part of the solution while helping them stay competitive is a key challenge for policy makers, the report highlighted. ‘Climate-friendly technologies’ The…
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M+W Group, the lead contractor for UK-based Surrey County Council’s new Eco Park, under construction in Shepperton in Surrey, has selected Saxlund International to provide the bulk material handling solution for the storage and discharge of RDF (refuse derived fuel) to feed the gasification facility within the site. Saxlund International, is a subsidiary of Opcon, a Swedish energy and…
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