Sep 28, 2015
Brazil pledges to cut GHG emissions 37% by 2025
Biomass News
Sep 22, 2015
Sustainable Biomass Partners (SBP), an industry-led initiative formed by major European renewable energy utilities, has announced that NSF International (NSF) has become an SBP-approved certification body.
NSF has provided evidence that it meets the SBP requirements regarding its existing accreditations and has demonstrated sufficient resource and competence to manage... [Read More]
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Sep 22, 2015
Using sustainable biomass as a source of energy could reduce the cost of meeting the UK’s 2050 carbon targets by more than 1% of GDP helping to make low carbon energy more affordable for consumers and businesses, according to a report from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).
The insight report ‘Enabling UK Biomass’ looks at the challenges for scaling-up... [Read More]
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Sep 21, 2015
Glennmont Partners has completed the £160 million (€220 million) purchase of the Port Clarence Energy Project from ECO2 and Temporis Capital on behalf of its dedicated clean energy fund, Glennmont Clean Energy Fund Europe II.
The Port Clarence Energy Project will see a new biomass power generation plant built at Port Clarence, Stockton-on-Tees, UK, providing... [Read More]
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Sep 21, 2015
Power plant specialist Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) will be delivering a high-efficiency biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Cramlington, UK.
The construction of the 27.8MW plant is backed by solid UK green energy investors and is in line with the UK target of efficient and renewable energy.
The Cramlington project will be yet another... [Read More]
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Sep 15, 2015
MBI, a US-based biotech company, has been granted a patent (patent no. 9,102,964) for its Afex biomass pre-treatment technology by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
The Afex technology enables energy producers to utilise the nearly 2 billion tonnes of biomass left on the fields annually after the harvest of crops such as corn, wheat, and rice and turn it into feedstock... [Read More]
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Sep 14, 2015
Porvoo Energy aims to increase its production capacity for district heat at its site in Loviisa, Finland, with the construction of a new boiler plant.
Work at the €7 million expansion to the plant, which will see the use of renewable fuels on energy production increase from 70% to 90%, has already begun.
KPA Unicon will supply the site with a Biograte 10MWth biomass... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 14, 2015
Biomass Energy Enhancement (BEE), a Utah, US-based biomass technology provider, has developed a new biomass fuel manufacturing process that could replace coal in power plants without the need for equipment upgrades.
The new process, developed over the past seven years, enables biomass fuel to be utilised in traditional coal-fired power plants as a direct replacement for... [Read More]
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Sep 10, 2015
Western Energy Systems, GE’s distributed power business, and San Francisco-based Phoenix Energy have signed an agreement for GE to provide equipment for an integrated biomass gasification solution to power a bioenergy plant in North Fork, US.
The North Fork facility is the next in a series of bioenergy plants that Phoenix Energy is building in California.
GE’s... [Read More]
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Sep 8, 2015
Yokogawa America do Sul, a subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corp., has received an order from Areva Renewables Brazil, a subsidiary of France-based Areva, to deliver a control system for a biomass power plant that will be the largest facility of its type in Brazil.
The plant is being constructed by Bolt Energias in Sao Désiderio, Bahia, in the north eastern part... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 8, 2015
The 2,000MW coal-fired Eggborough power plant in North Yorkshire, UK, may cease production and close for good in March 2016. Attempts to gain government support in order to convert the station to firing biomass failed.
According to a statement released by Eggborough Power, the facility would need around £200 million (€179 million) in funding over the next three... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 4, 2015
Brazil’s biomass power production has increased 15% year-on-year to 1,860 average megawatts (MWa) in the first half of 2015, says Brazil’s Power Trading Chamber (CCEE).
Installed biomass power capacity hit 10,793MW in June 2015, totalling at about 7.7% of the total power generation in Brazil for the period, a 9.4% expansion over the same period last year.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 3, 2015
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has begun enrolment for farmers and forest landowners seeking financial assistance to grow new sources of biomass for energy production and biobased products.
According to Val Dolcini, Farm Service Agency administrator, funding is available from the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) which was reinstated in the 2014 Farm Bill.
The... [Read More]
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Sep 2, 2015
Pulp company Waggeryd Cell in Sweden has invested SEK 60 million (€6.3 million) in a biomass boiler in order to replace liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) with bioenergy as energy source for the flash dryer.
The ground work is just about to start, with the mounting of the boiler scheduled for March 2016 and the start-up for September.
The mill’s emission of fossil... [Read More]
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Aug 28, 2015
Sevier Solid Waste (SSW) in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee has engaged PHG Energy (PHGE) to build a new biomass gasification plant capable of cleanly converting more than 30 tonnes a day of composted material into thermal energy while producing a valuable high-carbon biochar.
'This new installation will help us reduce the amount of compost we need to transport by converting it... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 25, 2015
Abengoa and Toshiba Corp. have been selected as preferred bidders to build the Tees Renewable Energy Plant.
The project is owned by MGT Teesside, a subsidiary of MGT Power, a British company committed to developing utility scale biomass combined heat and power (CHP) projects.
This will be the world's newly built largest power and steam from biomass plant, and will be located... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 21, 2015
Africa's first grid-connected Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant has been opened in Kenya, developer Tropical Power Energy Group has announced.
The 2.2MW Gorge Farm Energy Park, developed in Kenya's Nakuru Country, will use local crop waste to create biogas for electricity generation.
The developer said the $7.5m plant could reduce the country's carbon dioxide emissions by... [Read More]
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