At the end of May changes to the UK’s non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) came into force. The changes will introduce new technologies to be covered by the scheme and new tariffs which may...

The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has published a number of renewable energy proposals that could affect support mechanisms in place for renewable energy technologies, including those...

The UK government, on 19 May, announced that it will allow continued investment in anaerobic digestion (AD) plants from funds which qualify under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). It was previously...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently released its Clean Power Plan proposal which, for the first time, cuts carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution from existing power plants — the single...

Construction has reached an advanced stage on Britain’s latest biomass power plant, a 30MW waste wood-fuelled facility that Europe’s second largest electricity company, E.ON, expects to commission...

There is something very symbolic about the fact London’s first commercial-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) plant has been built on a former coal handling yard and certainly reflects the UK’s...

Renewable energy has grown in popularity across the UK during the past few years, in both the residential and industrial sectors. And it has done so to such an extent that, in its recent report ‘Review...

The biomethane-togrid market in the UK has finally gained true momentum, that is, if the number of recently announced projects receiving the go-ahead is taken as an indicator. The most commercially efficient...

The development of biogas production and monitoring has had many twists and turns since its early days in Germany, and is now driven by the economic considerations of each varying application and country....

Dry’ or high solids anaerobic digestion (AD) is commonly used to process bio-waste in mainland Europe. In the UK, however, the first tranche of AD facilities have all ‘wet’ systems where...

In 2008, faced with increasing power utility bills, Cannington Cold Stores, a supplier of prepared and packaged products to UK supermarkets, established Cannington Bio-Energy to produce an affordable renewable...

It is not unfair to say that working with sewage waste is a fairly unpleasant business, especially when dealing with a whole town’s-worth. However, for KB Bioenergy, owner of the anaerobic digestion...

Biogas is an eco-friendly energy source that is becoming increasingly important in today’s energy supply. It can be used to generate power and/or heat or as a fuel, and provides a high energy yield...

Biomass fuels appear as a promising economic and environmental alternative to fossil fuels, being renewable and not contributing to the increase of the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. Nonetheless, the...

Minnesota Power operates the Hibbard Renewable Energy Center in Duluth, Minnesota, US. At Hibbard, superheated steam for power generation is supplied by two identical boilers. The units, originally supplied...

Direct fire heating — specifically boiler technology — is not a new technology and is still arguably the most common way to produce energy from biomass. Since the 1800s direct combustion of...

New biomass conversion technologies create opportunities for companies, especially in the pulp and paper, oil and gas, chemicals and materials, and power generation industries. It is estimated that by...

In real estate, it is said that location is everything. If this is the case, Halifax Grain Elevator occupies a prime piece of real estate, ideally situated to support the growing biomass sector in Nova...

Amsterdam, Europe’s largest petrol port and second largest coal port, has a unique logistical location within the world’s largest international energy hub ARA (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp)...

Drax Power Station in the UK, already the largest power station in the UK, is also set to become the UK’s largest single renewable energy generator through the operation of the new Biomass Eco Store...

Since its inception in 1998, the international market for wood pellets has grown from zero to 24 million tonnes and is expected to double again by 2020. Wood pellets are shipped internationally, to be...