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Jul 8, 2016
ADBA exclusive: UK’s anaerobic digestion industry will focus on boosting performance
Biogas News
Jul 7, 2016
The UK anaerobic digestion (AD) market has expanded with a new player when a new company called Amur launched at the UK AD & Biogas show in Birmingham.
The business, part of AB Agri, an Associated British Foods subsidiary, will work with agricultural and waste-fed AD operators to supply them with high quality feedstocks and additives to improve plant performance.
Nigel... [Read More]
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Jul 7, 2016
England’s first action plan designed to increase the quantity and quality of household and commercial food waste collected and recycled has been launched today.
Announced at UK AD & Biogas 2016 conference, the Food Waste Recycling Action Plan (FWRAP) developed by industry – including local authorities, waste treatment operators, private sector waste collectors,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 7, 2016
DuPont Industrial Biosciences has launched Optimash AD-100, an innovative new enzyme product to help biomethane producers improve biogas yields and process robustness.
Optimash AD-100 represents DuPont Industrial Biosciences’ entry into the growing biogas sector, with an enzyme that has been shown to produce up to a 13% increase in biogas yields in anaerobic digesters.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 6, 2016
Almost a third more biogas energy is being produced in the UK compared to this time last year, according to new figures from industry trade body Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA).
The AD Market Report, published at UK AD & Biogas 2016 trade show, shows that the UK now has 617MWe of biogas capacity, enough to power the equivalent of 800,000 homes.
However,... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jul 5, 2016
Midlands Wood Fuel (MWF), wood fuel supplier to Central and Northern England and Wales, has today joined forces with Forest Fuels, another UK wood fuel supplier, under the ownership of AMP.
MWF is a long-standing wood fuel supplier with 14 depots covering an area that stretches from York down to Gloucester and Oxford, with more than 500 customers.
According to Forest Fuels... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 5, 2016
Finnish process technology and automation provider Valmet will deliver a biomass-fired boiler plant and related automation and environmental systems to Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill (Segezha PPM) in Russia.
The boiler, located in the Republic of Karelia, will produce steam for the mill's production processes and enables the mill to use wood residues and sludge as fuel and... [Read More]
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Jul 5, 2016
Swiss clean-tech company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has received an order to construct a second waste-to-energy facility at Ferrybridge, UK, in the aftermath of a successful delivery of the site’s first plant.
The complete plant, consisting of a total of four lines, ranks among Europe’s largest and most efficient EfW plants.
“HZI proved itself to be an... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jul 5, 2016
UK engineering company Spencer Group has won a significant contract for the design and construction of a facility for the handling, storage, and rail-loading of wood pellets in the UK.
The facilities being designed and built by Spencer are at Tyne Dock, South Shields, where the Port of Tyne recently invested £25 million (€29.5m) in extending Riverside Quay to... [Read More]
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Jul 27, 2016
Industry giants such as GE Marine, Mitsubishi Corporation and Shell have launched a new cross-industry initiative to accelerate the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a marine fuel.
Other coalition members of SEALNG are the Port of Rotterdam, Carnival Corporation & plc, DNV GL, ENGIE, ENN, GTT, Lloyd’s Register, NYK Line, Qatargas, TOTE Inc... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 18, 2017
Home furnishings giant IKEA has announced that it has completed installation of its fourth biogas-powered fuel cell system at its San Diego store.
Furthering the Swedish retailer’s investment in fuel cell technology, this project complements the company’s focus on other renewable energies such as solar and wind. IKEA already owns three fuel cell systems at... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 19, 2016
UK-based waste management company Urbaser Balfour Beatty (UBB) has begun site preparation works at its Gloucestershire energy-from-waste (EfW) plant, despite concerns over the site’s effects on public health.
To be located at Javelin Park, Gloucestershire, UBB hopes to have the construction work begin in earnest in September 2016.
The company has signed a contract... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 18, 2016
The global death rate from air pollution will skyrocket in the next few decades lest the energy buckles down and significantly reduces its emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.
In the Energy and Air Pollution special report under the World Energy Outlook, IEA says an estimated 6.5 million death are caused by air pollution annually.
Of these deaths, 3.5... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2016
The abolition of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has prompted mixed views from the UK’s renewable energy sector.
The UK’s new Prime Minister Theresa May scrapped DECC in her Cabinet reshuffle on Thursday (14 July). DECC policy areas will now move to the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The energy portfolio will... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2016
UK-based energy-from-waste (EfW) technology supplier, Energos, has entered administration, due to “cash flow issues caused by contractual disputes with their two main contractors”.
Matthew Wild and Lindsey Cooper of RSM Restructuring Advisory have been appointed joint administrators of Energos.
The company had four ongoing contracts for the construction... [Read More]
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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
