The Japanese Ministry of Industry gave the go-ahead for renewable energy feed-in tariffs to come into effect from the start of July. Set to last at least 20 years, the new incentives will require Japanese...

The second phase of the US-Canada Clean Energy Dialogue (CED) has been announced and has received positive comments from both countries’ renewable fuel associations. The CED was established in 2009...

Biomass energy technologies are well established and their use has been widespread across mainland Europe, with the UK showing particularly strong interest. The value of the technology does vary depending...

Brazil is already a world leader in renewable power, with 83% of its electricity coming from renewable energy (mainly hydro and the burning of bagasse). Yet many believe the country’s biomass potential...

According to Eurostat in 2010, the EU27 imported more than 2.6 million tonnes of pellets from outside the EU as domestic production increasingly falls short of growing demand. But this is just the start,...

It has been noted by some business-savvy people that Chile could become the first Latin American nation to be known as a ‘developed country’. After a Gross Domestic Product per capita of nearly...

Peru, despite being sandwiched by renewable energy giants like Brazil, Chile and Columbia, has been quietly housing a mini-bioenergy and biofuels revolution of its own; a combined power and ethanol facility...

Burn any fuel and the result will be both gas and solids. The gsses include CO2 from burning carbon, and H2O (as water vapour) from burning hydrogen. If the oxygen flow is insufficient CO is formed, which...

For over 10 years Choren Industries dedicated itself to developing — among other technologies — its Carbo-V technology for the gasification of waste materials, from wood and other biomass to...

An enormous number of possible conversion pathways, technologies, and process configurations exist for biofuels production from biomass. The way those conversions, or transformations, are effected have...

Moisture content in biomass varies considerably and may range from 15% for recycled wood to over 50% in virgin wood thinning. Although not a new method, gasification is a popular way of producing onsite...

W orldwide, 7.2 billion tonnes of coal is burnt every year, most of it in power generation. Co-firing biomass with coal is the easiest, cheapest way to reduce fossil fuel consumption, and many power companies...

Torrefied wood today is regarded as the ‘new coal’ and besides having many similarities with coal it is predicted to replace many types of biomass in the years to come. Densified torrefied...

As part of its efforts to lay the foundation for a ‘bio-based economy’, the Dutch government aims for renewable energy to account for 14% of national energy consumption by 2020. This involves...

this year and it saw lots of debate and discussion about the future of the European stance on bioenergy production and consumption. Around 250 participants gathered to reflect on issues such as energy...