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Volume 7, Issue 1
Published: January 15, 2016
The promises of Paris
It took two weeks of heated negotiations,but the work is now done. The world leaders gathered in Paris have celebrated their success in Paris as the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations...
Word on the street
Industry leaders give their predictions for the year ahead....
Less talk, more action
The European Union claimed to have played a key role in brokering the COP21 agreement in Paris last December, sending a clear signal to investors, businesses, and policymakers that...
Innovate and invest
The macro drivers for investment into UK waste projects have been both well understood and well received amongst the London financial community in recent years. Increased...
Investing in bioenergy: a financial perspective
What are the various elements of a bioenergy investment which need addressing in order to secure external investor financing? A business plan is a necessity for funders'...
Financing a complex waste project
Many projects in the renewables industry share a similar set of financing challenges. These include negotiating fundable project contracts, finance structuring, and...
The Dutch agitators
Brothers Jan and Toine Aben from Wanroij, North Brabant in the Netherlands, run a family business called Aben BV. The company operates in dairy farming, pig farming,...
Stirred, not shaken
At the most simple level, mixing an anaerobic digester is important to release gas bubbles trapped in the medium. This is done in order to gain an even temperature throughout the reactor and to prevent...
Down under
Yarra Valley Water is Metropolitan Melbourne’s largest water and sewerage business, providing water supply and sewerage services to over 1.7 million people and over 50,000 businesses. Now the company...
Failure-proofing AD
In order to select the optimal storage tank for an anaerobic digestion (AD) application, a series of potential failure points must be considered. The most important area inside an AD tank is the vapour...
Still going strong
Although subsidies are declining in Europe, it will remain the world’s most important market for biomass power plants, with €75 billion to be invested within the next 10 years. The market in...
The cloud that helps the crops grow
To understand the applications and benefits of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for biomass production, look no further than a recent partnership between DataMapper and Genera Energy. DataMapper, a cloud-based...
From emitter to reducer
On the River Ouse in North Yorkshire, UK, sits the village of Drax. From amidst the village’s flat farmland rise several steadily humming cooling towers of the eponymous Drax Power Plant. Commissioned...
A new lease of life
In Europe, renewable energy targets are in place for 2030, with more long-term goals still to be set. Every European nation is different. Denmark, for example, has one of the highest percentages of electricity...
Biomass utilisation and cost
More than 100 billion litres of first generation biofuels was produced globally in 2014. Around 55% of this was corn ethanol produced in the US, and 25% was sugarcane ethanol produced in Brazil. However,...