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Aug 8, 2017
West Sussex AD company goes into administration
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Aug 8, 2017
Greenbelt Resources Corporation has received “Eco Friendly Technology” registration for its ECOsystem process.
Greenbelt claims that the certification gives the company a greenlight to offer its waste-to-energy process as a solution available to address Indonesia’s food waste challenge. Indonesia is the world’s second biggest ‘food waster’... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2017
Recently released research shows that a shift to biogas in southern India helped revive some of the region’s forests.
Published in July’s edition of the journal Global Ecology and Conservation, the new study describes how forests in south India that had become degraded due to excessive fuelwood extraction recovered after villagers living nearby switched to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 9, 2017
A biomethane fuelled double-decker bus is set to hit Bristol’s roads from 21 August.
The renewable, sustainable biomethane gas will be created from a feedstock of household food waste.
Local bus operator First West of England will use the new biogas double-decker as a ‘pathfinder’ to assess how well the new bus copes with the demands of city-wide operations... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 9, 2017
Cenex, the UK’s ‘first’ centre of excellence for low carbon technologies, has announced its involvement in the UK’s largest trial of biomethane fuelled lorries.
The ‘Dedicated to Gas’ trial will see large fleet operators including Kuehne + Nagel, Wincanton, ASDA, Brit European, Howard Tenens and Great Bear, trial the effectiveness of... [Read More]
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Aug 10, 2017
Former US Vice President Al Gore has arrived in the UK to address how the perils of climate change can be overcome as he promotes his new documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.
The film is a follow-up to his blockbuster 2006 global warming film, An Inconvenient Truth. It was a massive box office hit. His new film hammers home the same message as his first... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 10, 2017
The Almond Alliance of California has called for increased funding from the Farm Bill in order to help develop bioenergy outlets for almond biomass and byproducts in the state.
Kelly Covello, president of the Almond Alliance of California, explained to a Farm Bill listening session in Modesto that the legislation was important to the almond industry in the areas of trade,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 11, 2017
A combined solar and methane power plant is set to commence operations in southern Australia. The facility, built on a landfill site, is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia.
The new project will generate approximately 2000 megawatt hours of renewable electricity each year, enough to power more than 345 homes in the local area.
Northern Adelaide Waste Management... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 11, 2017
EnviTec Biogas Service UK has strengthened its offer across the UK under a landmark agreement with diesel engine specialist MAN Rollo.
The new union sees EnviTec Biogas Service UK developing a service package for MAN Rollo – a global supplier of MAN engines.
Signed at the UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017 in Birmingham recently, the agreement will lead... [Read More]
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Aug 11, 2017
The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain.
The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges.
Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability... [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]
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Indonesian gas distributor PT Pertamina Gas Negara Tbk (PGN) has signed an agreement with NeutraDC Singapore (NDSG) to provide biomethane for forthcoming data centre projects in Singapore
Once cleared, the site will be redeveloped into an Energy, Biochar and Carbon (EBAC) plant – a pyrolysis facility designed to convert plant matter into biochar, renewable electricity and heat
Swedish tanker owner Furetank has announced it will run its European fleet on renewable biogas throughout 2025, marking a major step towards fossil-free shipping
