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The government of Massachusetts announced that the Baker-Polito administration has awarded five grants totalling $2,889,285 (€2,548,681) to Massachusetts businesses to fund infrastructure projects to increase the availability of low-carbon, renewable heating fuels.
The grants have been funded by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) as part of the Renewable Thermal…
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The Lancashire Post reports that plans to build a £200 million (€229 million) biomass plant are underway in Preston, Lancashire that would have the capacity to turn up to 395,000 tonnes of residual waste per year, into alternative fuel.
Infrastructure development company, Miller Turner have told the Lancashire Post that the plant will burn largely biomass waste that will generate low…
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A letter written on behalf of 46 groups including environmental, climate and social justice organisations urges the EU not to proceed with proposals to permit the Cordemais power station to be kept open beyond 2021 by burning a mix of biomass and coal.
Referring to the Paris agreement, the groups state that keeping global warming to 1.5 or even 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels requires an…
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The European Union has announced that it is taking steps to reduce CO2 emissions of lorries. The provisional deal has been agreed upon by the Romanian presidency of the Council as well as European Parliament representatives.
The EU’s new rules will make sure that between 2025 and 2029, all new trucks will emit around 15% less CO2 compared to 2019 emission levels. From 2030 onwards, new…
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The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has recently released its joint report with Adaptation Committees assessing measures that they feel need to be adopted in the housing sector to manage climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The CCC report states there are currently 27.2 million households in the UK and the government is committed to building around 1.5 million new homes by 2022.…
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German biogas plant constructer Weltec Biopower announced that it has started to build a biomethane plant for UK-based Lanes Farm Energy in Pontefract, West Yorkshire.
“After in-depth discussions with over ten technology providers, Weltec was selected to be our partner to deliver the technology,” said Tel Sultan, direct of Lanes Farm Energy.
According to the release, the plan will…
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Sweden’s Linköping University revealed a study into the food industry, outlining its high efficiency regarding energy consumption and its use of primary raw materials.
However, the release argues that research has not examined how waste in the form of organic by-products can be used in the most efficient way.
“Much of the waste is used as animal fodder, and some goes to compost…
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Valmet has announced that it has signed a ten year operation and maintenance agreement with Uni Viridas for the biomass plant in Babina Greda, Croatia.
The order has been included in the company’s first quarter of 2019 orders received; however the value of the order has not been disclosed.
The biomass plant is a fluidised bed boiler, BiowerPower 8, a plant with an electrical output of up to…
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British electrical power generation company Drax revealed its end-of-year results, which includes a 9% increase in the Group’s EBITDA to a total of £250 million (€291 million).
Regarding biomass, Drax outlined that it had opened its third US biomass pellet plant, whilst detailing its outlook on biomass as an ‘attractive’ investment option for growth due to lower…
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US-based operator ReEnergy is shutting down the ‘last’ running 39MW biomass plant in the Aroostock Count in Maine which currently employs 20 people, The County reports.
ReEnergy, which is headquartered in New York, stated in a release to The County that the plant in Ashland, Maine was not financially viable under current market conditions.
The plant is expected to stop accepting…
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In a recent press release Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (B&W) announced that its Denmark based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund, has signed a licensing agreement to provide its water-cooled vibrating grate technology for biomass boilers to thyssenkrupp Industries India.
The licensing agreement has been signed on an exclusive basis for projects in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh,…
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French utility company ENGIE announced that it has acquired biomethane producer Vol-V Biomasse.
ENGIE claims that it now has a portfolio of nearly 80 projects, thus supporting its aim of producing 5TWh per year of biomethane by 2020.
In November 2018, Bioenergy Insight reported that ENGIE has revealed that its total investments into biogas by 2030 were going to total €2…
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A study has revealed that biomass burning from neighbouring regions is a major contributor to New Delhi’s winter pollution, Outlook India reports.
Published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the research suggests that urban emissions of black carbon from fossil fuel combustion are not always the predominant generators of pollution in cities like New Delhi.
“Black carbon aerosols…
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According to The Times, Drax has failed its emissions test at a US pellets plant in Louisiana.
The power station owner has admitted to breaching environmental rules in the US after one of its wood pellet plants significantly exceeded air pollution limits.
The Times reports that Drax has admitted that its Morehouse Bioenergy plant in Louisiana produces particulate emissions about four times higher…
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Connecticut-based Quantum Biopower announced that its anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Southington is expecting an upgrade to handle an unexpected rise in packaged food waste.
The company is planning to upgrade the plant with a 25,000 square foot building alongside machinery.
According to the release, the Planning and Zoning Commission has given the company unanimous approval regarding the…
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