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The waste-to-energy company is sixth out of the ten companies in the energy list. This year, Apple topped the Fast Company general list of the top fifty most innovative companies.
Over three dozen editors, reporters and contributors looked at thousands of companies to make the list. The other companies in the 2018 energy top ten are Green Mountain Power, BYD, Sonnen, Drift Marketplace, WePower,…
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While the scheme is on-budget, it has drastically reduced its goals for participation and emissions savings. The responsibility for these savings will now fall to other policies like the Clean Growth Strategy as the initiative focuses on combating non-compliance and other means of exploiting its financial incentives.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has released its report on the Renewable Heat…
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The facility is going to use a patented process from ARC Applied Sciences, who claim that it will ‘revolutionise’ the UK’s biomass supply.
Sourced from UK wood and using technology developed at the company’s first plant in Austria, the pellets from the plant in East Yorkshire are to be supplied nationally to domestic and commercial consumers. The plant is expected to be…
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Waste gasification to energy specialist Eqtec has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Cobra Instalaciones Y Servicos, a company specialising in infrastructure projects.
The agreement aims to identify and then collaborate on waste-to-energy projects which will use Eqtec’s proprietary gasifier technology (EGT).
Under the terms of the agreement, Cobra will be the EPC (engineering,…
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27 February Drax posted its 2017 numbers showing growth in energy output and earnings from renewable energy tariffs.
The growth comes despite a fire in December that reportedly cost the company £10 million (€11.3 million) and as coal is being phased-out of the UK’s energy mix.
Energy output was up to 20 TWh in 2017 from 19.6 TWh in 2016, with 65% of this energy coming from…
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The plant is owned by Grupo Piasa, a company run jointly by a number of Mexican bottlers, including Arca Continental, a major bottler for Coca-Cola in Latin America. It is capable of producing 50MW/h.
The project has received $61 million (€49.8 million) over three years and uses waste from sugarcane milling to generate steam for electricity production. The power will go to running the…
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Local press reported 28 February that a fire had started at Enviva’s Chesapeake, Virginia deep-water marine terminal. The company reports that the fire is now under control.
Onsite personnel, the terminal’s fire suppression systems and emergency services fought the blaze. No injuries have been reported.
According to a release from the local fire department, responders were called at…
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Balmoral Tanks is expanding into the pipe arena, following the acquisition of Chesterfield, UK based Servomac.
Established in 1999, Servomac designs, fabricates, installs and tests pipework systems for biogas sector, as well as water and renewable energy.
Balmoral Tanks specialises in tank design and storage, as well as treatment products. This includes a broad range of services and installations…
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Biogen has announced the acquisition of Tamar Energy, one of the largest anaerobic digestion owners and operators in the UK. According to a statement from Biogen, the acquisition has created one of the largest independent anaerobic digestion platforms in the country.
The combined group operates 13 AD plants and six composting sites across England, Scotland and Wales, combining a range of food and…
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A study published in the journal Nature has found that removing subsidies for fossil fuels will have less of an impact than previously thought. Other scientists have insisted that the removal of economic support for fossil fuels is still a necessary step towards a carbon-free economy.
The paper says that the demand for energy is just too high for cutting subsidies to have a game-changing impact.…
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Reforms to the UK’s Renewable Heat Incentive have finally been laid before Parliament, ending months of indecision and confusion. The RHI is a government scheme designed to incentivise the generation of heat from renewable sources. It directly affects the UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry.
According to a statement from the UK’s Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources…
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Denmark’s biogas industry has the potential to create 20,000 new jobs and generate 16 billion kroner (€2.1 billion) of exports, according to new analysis.
Exports of biogas technology from Denmark are expected to reach growth of at least 100% by 2035, but could exceed expectations and rise to as much as 900%, The Local reports. The analysis was performed by the consulting agency Damvad…
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The trade association for the US biogas industry, the American Biogas Council, has responded to the passing of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018.
Passed on 9 February, the legislation only includes a one year retroactive extension of the Production Tax Credit for biogas and biomass through 2017. However, similar credits for other renewable technologies, such as solar and wind, have been extended…
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Local press is reporting that the NGO, Biogas Taita, is working with the community to reduce fuel costs and increase the use of the cleaner burning fuel.
The system uses anaerobic digestion to generate the gas, which is then used for cooking and heating in households. The project suffered from poor availability of information about biogas, with some families fearing that it was unsafe to use due…
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