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Jul 31, 2017
Californian dairy announces ‘first’ full scale electric truck fuelled by biomethane
Biomass News
Jul 31, 2017
New insights have been gained into a unique system some fungi use to digest and recycle wood.
Remarkably, a new study suggests that this unusual mechanism does not involve the use of enzymes, the usual accelerators of chemical reactions.
Microbiologist Barry Goodell first discovered the unique system twenty years ago. However, although three orders of ‘brown rot’... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 1, 2017
As the primary component of natural gas, methane is a common, problematic by product of oil drilling.
A greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the course of a century, methane is a costly challenge for the energy industry. Piping it from remote areas is expensive, so companies burn off about a third of the gas they produce in bright flares that can... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 1, 2017
The “first” pan-African expert network on food and non-food biomass has been launched by African and German researchers.
BiomassNet aims to ensure that food security and environmental sustainability are not compromised in the development of new biomass uses. The scheme’s developers claim this will help to strengthen the emerging African bioeconomies.
The... [Read More]
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Aug 1, 2017
Nine EU Member States have asked the European Commission (EC) for permission to pollute above national limits set in EU law, according to the European Environmental Bureau (EBB).
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland and Luxembourg have all asked for the limits that should have been met in 2015 to be raised so that they no longer appear to... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 1, 2017
Bioenergy can play a role in reducing the risk of forest fires, according to a video recently published on the European Forest Institute’s website.
Across the world, forest fires devastate large areas of forest every year. In 2017, the tragic trend has been seen in forest fires in France, the USA and Portugal. In its new video, the EFI looks at the factors behind... [Read More]
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Aug 2, 2017
The Canadian government is set to invest $2.6 million (€1.8 million) into Sustane, a Halifax, Nova Scotia based waste-to-energy company.
Sustane claims to have developed a new process which converts municipal solid waste into clean burning fuel and other recycled products. The investment will be used to scale up Sustane’s technology, supporting the creation... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 2, 2017
A Californian biomass plant is at the heart of the launch of the ‘first’ software-defined network for critical infrastructure.
Dispersive Technologies new Internet-based, software-defined network for use by California’s energy grid operator to connect entities using real-time devices to the grid’s energy management system, has now gone live.
Humboldt... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 2, 2017
A £6.5 million (€7.6 million) biomass energy project has officially opened at the University of Northampton’s Waterside Campus.
On 1 August, 2017, members from The University of Northampton and sustainable energy specialists, Vital Energi took the opportunity to celebrate the opening by officially switching the 27sqm LED screen on, which was performed... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 19, 2017
Rick Perry, the US Secretary of Energy, has announced $40 million in Department of Energy (DOE) awards for the creation of four DOE Bioenergy Research Centres (BRCs).
Each led by a DOE National Laboratory or a ‘top’ university, the centres are designed to “lay the scientific groundwork for a new bio-based economy that promises to yield a range of important... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 20, 2017
UK power giant Drax has announced that it is pressing ahead with its biomass plans as new figures show the company produced about 17% of the UK’s renewable electricity in the first half of 2017.
The company, which runs a coal and biomass plant in North Yorkshire, UK, published its half-year results for the six months ended 30 June, 2017, yesterday (19 July,2017).
Three... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 21, 2017
Wood pellet giant Enviva has released its latest proprietary Track & Trace forestry data, highlighting the company’s ongoing commitment to a sustainable and transparent supply chain.
These data are another key tool for measuring and demonstrating Enviva’s sustainability practices throughout the Southeastern US.
“We are committed to keeping forests... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 21, 2017
Canada-based biogas upgrading company Greenlane Biogas has extended its biogas upgrading equipment line-up.
In a statement, the company said that it had expanded its Kauri upgrading system to help provide solutions for large-scale projects.
With the capacity to treat up to 3,000 standard cubic feet per minute (SCFM) of biogas, the ‘Kauri’ will enable biogas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 21, 2017
The first sales of biofertiliser produced from the anaerobic digestion process in the UK have been described as “a game-changing moment in the restoration of the UK’s soils”, according to trade body Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA).
Farming family Steve and Sarah Suggitt of Suggitt Farm Services in Norfolk are using digestate,... [Read More]
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Jul 24, 2017
Norway-headquartered Geminor has signed a new agreement to supply refuse-derived fuel (RDF) to the Amager Bakke energy-from-waste plant in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Part of a contract to supply 30,000 tonnes of waste to support the commissioning of the plant, the delivery marks the agreement’s commencement, which will see Geminor manage the transport of RDF material from... [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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