Return to main news page
If you would like to use our search facility - please log in or register above.
The results below show our latest news.
The results below show our latest news.
Nov 1, 2012
Bioenergy and biofuels coming online in Florida
Other News
Nov 1, 2012
UK-based Tamar Energy has secured the management and development rights of four of the Countrystyle Group’s anaerobic digestion sites.
The deal sees Tamar Energy acquire the development rights to three of Countrystyle’s sites, with full planning permission for digestive facilities in the south of England, plus the development of a fourth facility subject to... [Read More]
Pellets News
Oct 1, 2015
Nepcon has issued a Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP) certificate to wood pellet producer SBE Latvia (SBE).
SBE is the first in Europe and only second in the world to earn this credential, expected to be in strong demand by European energy producers.
With the certificate in place, SBE Latvia is able to meet the European energy sector’s growing demands for sustainable... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 7, 2012
The Pakistani government is to implement several new plants with the aim of creating a total of 304MW of electricity from city waste.
Many projects are already underway, with an aggregate capacity of 57MW, and the subsequent facilities will create a further 247MW via agricultural, industrial and biogas waste products.
A senior government official stated that agricultural... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 7, 2012
A new report by consultancy firm Deloitte believes biomass could contribute even more than the fifth of UK electricity it is expected to by the end of the 2020s.
Biomass was believed to provide around 21% share of electricity generation by 2030 by Deloitte’s report argues that burning pellets or woodchips could play an even more significant role in meeting climate... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 8, 2012
Renewable energy company Anaergia is set to participate in the creation of ‘the world’s largest college campus-based anaerobic disgestion system in the US.
The Canada-based biogas producer will be involved in the project found at the Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Centre at Michigan State University (MSU).
The project’s aim is demonstrate how anaerobic... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 9, 2012
US-based transportation fuels producer Kior has begun production at its first commercial facility in Mississippi.
It is believed the plant, once running at full capacity within the next 12 months, will be able to produce almost 50 million litres of petrol and diesel per year.
Kior will be using a mixture of biomass, like non-food crops and woodwaste, as part of the manufacturing... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 9, 2012
A Scottish association has secured a loan to help build a renewable heating system near Oban.
The West Highland Housing Association (WHHA) will use the £400,000 ($638,350) given by a government initiative called the Warm Homes Fund, to construct a biomass district heating network at Dunbeg.
The electricity created would be enough to generate power for 50 homes and... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 12, 2012
The Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) has confirmed new international bioenergy standards will come into operation by 2014 across East Africa.
Following a three day workshop at the start of November TBS acting director Dominic Mwakangale believes the bureau is in at the final stages of compiling the proposed standards. The workshop attracted participants from places including... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 12, 2012
Germany-based biotechnology company Direvo is set to commercialise its new conversion process of non-food feedstocks into fuels and chemicals.
Its BluCon platform is the result of an intensive research programme to identify microorganisms viable to cheaply produce chemicals and fuels from carbohydrates created from non-food biomass, so-called second generation biomass... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 19, 2012
Covanta Energy's expansion of the H-Power renewable power plant in Honolulu in Hawaii has finished.
The $302 million (€232 million) project has increased the plant's handling capacity by 900 tonnes to 3,000 tonnes per day of municipal solid waste (MSW). A third boiler has also been installed.
Covanta Energy began expanding the facility at the end of 2009, before which... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 22, 2012
Technology supplier Metso is to provide a Swedish combined heat and power plant with a biofuel-fired boiler.
The plant, based in Torsvik and owned by Jönköping Energi (JE), is expanding and the new 100MW unit will serve to help meet district heating and electric power needs of Jönköping municipality.
The expansion the CHP plant represents a significant... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 23, 2012
Some biomass-related projects in the US are set to benefit from a new multi-million investment by the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP).
REAP hopes to aid ranchers, farmers and small rural businesses fund renewable energy systems and energy-efficiency improvements. The new investment is $16 million (€12.3 million) and is earmarked for 244 projects.
Grants... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 23, 2012
Schools in India are set to benefit from plans by Kochi to introduce biogas plants to help convert waste into heat and power.
Kochi will work with Suchitwa Mission to provide the systems to both government and aided schools under the umbrella theme of ‘My City, My Pride’, part of the Suchitwa Varsham waste management programme.
‘The biogas plants will... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 23, 2012
After six years of research and development BioPower Systems is set to construct its pilot demonstration plant just off the coast of Port Fairy, Australia.
The plant has received a combined funding of AU$10.6 million (€8.4 million) from the Australian and Victorian governments and BioPower Systems has also sealed a new strategic partnership with large Chinese industrial... [Read More]
CONNECT WITH US
Proceeds from the bond sale have been used to refinance $40 million of Gevo RNG’s outstanding 2021 green bonds
SIAAP (Greater Paris Sanitation Authority) and SUEZ have officially inaugurated a new state-of-the-art biogas production unit at the Seine Aval wastewater treatment plant in the Paris metropolitan area
Natural State Renewables has announced a key strategic partnership with Axens as part of its plan to produce carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from surplus forest biomass
