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Mar 9, 2017
Valmet to deliver multifuel boiler to Kushiro power plant in Japan
Biomass News
Mar 10, 2017
Drax Biomass and the American Forest Foundation (AFF) has announced a multi-year project to invest in the future of small family landowners around Drax’s Morehouse BioEnergy facility in Northeast Louisiana.
The five-year, $1.1 million (€1.03m) project – the “Morehouse Family Forests Initiative” (MFFI) – will provide landowners... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 10, 2017
The UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published a long awaited report on biomass on the same day as the spring budget.
The report was entitled, ‘Use of North American woody biomass in UK electricity generation: Assessment of high carbon biomass fuel sourcing scenarios’.
The aim of the report is to improve understanding... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 10, 2017
German waste to energy equipment manufacturer Steinmüller Babcock Environment has secured a contract to build the boiler and furnace unit for a new energy from waste plant in northwest Stockholm, Sweden.
The company secured the deal from the Swedish subsidiary of the German utility E.ON, to supply the single-line waste to energy plant.
According to Steinmüller,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 10, 2017
UK-based food waste recycling firm ReFood, is expanding its Widnes biogas facility by 33% with the construction of a new anaerobic digestion (AD) tank.
The expansion will take the site’s processing capacity to 160,000 tonnes of food waste each year, making it one of the largest AD plants in Europe.
The plant is situated between the major cities of Liverpool and Manchester... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 10, 2017
Plantation Energy is to re-open a wood pellet processing plant, which has been closed for the last five years, in Albany, Australia.
It is set to be recommissioned due to a low Australian dollar and increased international demand, according to media reports in ABC News.
Plantation Energy secured AUS$7 million (€4.96m) of funding from multinational energy company ENGIE... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 10, 2017
Schmack Biogas, a Viessmann Group company, has been awarded a further contract for the construction of a biomethane plant in Sourdun in northern France.
In mid-December, the French government adopted a new feed-in tariff for electricity from biogas. France is the biggest country in the EU and uses a much larger area for agriculture than Germany. The potential for biogas... [Read More]
Other News
Mar 10, 2017
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt has said that he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.
"I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it's a... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 21, 2017
Alberta is in a prime position to convert its coal-burning plants to biomass fuel in order to meet its climate targets at a low cost by using existing coal-firing infrastructure.
This is the argument four University of Victoria researchers are making in a Policy Options article titled: Refuelling Alberta coal plants with biomass. "Biomass, which today... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 22, 2017
Canadian pulp manufacturer Mercer International has agreed to buy one of Germany's largest sawmills and a biomass power plant.
Mercer International will acquire the Friesau facility for around CAN$55.1 million (€39.7m) plus defined working capital of approximately $9 million.
Mercer International did not disclose the owner of the facility in its press statement.
According... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 22, 2017
French industrial gas manufacturer Air Liquide has completed its acquisition of ENN Clean Energy UK, subsidiary of China’s largest privately-owned energy company ENN Group.
Air Liquide did not disclose the value of the transaction.
ENN Clean Energy's natural gas stations in Wellingborough, Portbury, and Huntingdon in the United Kingdom, will now become part of Air... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 23, 2017
Using biomass to generate low-carbon electricity is a flawed policy that is speeding up and not slowing down climate warming, according to a new study from Chatham House.
The report is entitled ‘Woody biomass for power and heat impacts on the global climate’.
The study maintains that wood is not carbon neutral and emissions from pellets are higher than... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 24, 2017
The Renewable Energy Association (REA), the UK’s largest trade association for renewable heat, power and transport, has slammed the Chatham House report on wood-based biomass and labelled it “misleading”.
Yesterday (23 February), a report published by Chatham House, a London-based policy institute, stated that using wood pellets to generate low-carbon... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2017
Shares in UK-based construction firm Interserve have fallen by a third after the board announced that the costs of quitting the energy-from-waste (EfW) business are more than double those originally expected.
The construction firm announced in August that it was leaving the EfW field after issues arose with its six contracts in the sector, noting that the ‘unique... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 24, 2017
The UK should vary the pace at which it reduces carbon emissions by 2050 in order to prioritise energy policies that “keep the lights on”, according to a House or Lords committee.
The Economic Affairs Committee examined the impact of the policies of successive governments on the electricity market.
In its report, "The Price of Power: Reforming the Electricity... [Read More]
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New documents unearthed by GMB indicate that between 89 and 148 roles are expected to be lost at the plant around 31 March 2027.
The cuts could represent more than 30% of the site’s 465-strong workforce
GreenValue GmbH has advised Balance Erneuerbare Energien on the acquisition of a biogas plant portfolio spanning Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — with a combined thermal input capacity of 46 MW.
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Ireland is backing five research teams with €2.6 million to tackle some of the biggest challenges in renewable gas — from biomethane production using macroalgae to AI-powered digital twins of gas infrastructure.
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