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Dec 15, 2016
UPM research green liquor dregs utilisation in a bid to reach zero waste status
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Dec 15, 2016
China Everbright International has signed a strategic investment and cooperation agreement with the People's Government of Lankao County in Henan Province to push renewable energy and environmental policies.
The agreement seeks to develop cooperation in the fields of environmental water, alternative energy, and environmentally friendly new materials, and promote all-round... [Read More]
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Dec 15, 2016
The British Retail Consortium (BRC), the trade association for the UK retail industry, has published a report exploring the country’s retailers’ actions in the aftermath of the amount of food waste plateauing in 2013.
Data from the UK Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) shows that retailed produced about 200,000 tonnes of food waste annually between... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 15, 2016
The US Energy Information Administration has published the results of a new survey collecting data from manufacturers of densified biomass fuels, primarily wood pellets.
The survey began collection in January 2016 with data from about 120 planned and operational densified biomass manufacturing facilities in the US.
These facilities have the capacity to produce a total... [Read More]
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Dec 16, 2016
The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) has announced that it has committed £35m (€33m) of senior debt to the construction of Wheelabrator Parc Adfer, a new £180m energy-from-waste (EfW) plant at Deeside Industrial Park in Flintshire, North Wales.
The lending club also includes Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Siemens Bank and Natixis, with Barclays providing... [Read More]
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Dec 19, 2016
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster will face a vote of no confidence in her leadership at the devolved Assembly over allegations about a scandal involving the renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme that is estimated will cost taxpayers £400m (€383m).
The Social Democratic and Labour party (SDLP) has won cross-party support for its motion censuring Foster over... [Read More]
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Dec 19, 2016
Finnish energy equipment manufacturer Wärtsilä will supply a 100MW combined heat and power (CHP) plant to Germany-based energy producer Kraftwerke Mainz-Wiesbaden. The Smart Power Generation power plant, consisting of ten Wärtsilä 34SG engines running on natural gas, is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of 2018.
Wärtsilä's scope... [Read More]
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Dec 19, 2016
The UK renewable energy industry has reacted positively to the government’s renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme plans.
Changes to the scheme were proposed in a public consultation in March. At that time, the renewable heat industry was deeply concerned that the revised tariffs would result in a steep fall in the deployment of many renewable heat technologies. Proposed... [Read More]
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Dec 19, 2016
Shipping company Dampskibsselskabet Norden has announced a nine-year contract to transport pellets for Canada-based Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc. Under the contract, starting in 2018 NORDEN will transport 3.5 million metric tons of wood pellets from Vancouver and Prince Rupert in western Canada to Europe.
According to Norden, it will make eight shipments per year... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 19, 2016
Green & Smart Holdings, a renewable energy company generating power from biogas captured through the treatment of palm oil mill effluent (POME), has brought online its first power plant.
The 2MW Kahang biogas plant, located in the state of Johor, Malaysia, is now fully operational at headline capacity and renewable power generated from the plant is being exported to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2016
The UK now has almost 90 plants injecting green biomethane into the gas grid, double the number this time last year, a new report states.
The statistics were published in the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) December 2016 Market Report, which investigates and explores the growth, developments and market changes in the AD industry to date.
The report... [Read More]
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Dec 8, 2016
There is strong public support for producing bioenergy in the UK from both biomass and waste, according to a new survey carried out for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).
The YouGov survey, commissioned by the ETI, questioned over 5,300 adults to gauge public perceptions of bioenergy in the UK, and found that 74% of people... [Read More]
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Dec 8, 2016
US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma attorney general, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as its administrator.
Pruitt has served as attorney general since 2010, prior to which he had an eight-year tenure in the Oklahoma state senate.
He said that he intends to protect the environment, but at the same time safeguard businesses... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2016
The use of gas to cook and for heating will be phased out in the Netherlands under the government’s new energy strategy up to 2050. Instead homes and offices will be heated by surplus heat generated by industry and energy-from-waste plants as well as from geothermal sources.
The Energieagenda policy document, published on 7 December, 2016, states that gas firms will... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2016
Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) will use a by-product from its corn processing facility in Decatur, US, to produce a renewable natural gas, which will be distributed by Ameren Illinois into the nation’s natural gas infrastructure.
“We’re proud to work with Ameren Illinois on this innovative project,” said Colin Graves, project manager for ADM.... [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
