Mar 4, 2025
RENOVA delays Karatsu biomass facility again
Biomass News
Mar 3, 2025
A Korean investor has spent $2.7 million to replace coal-fired boilers with biomass ones, at a Nam Dinh textile dyeing factory.
The Youngone Corporation's biomass boiler will use rice husk pellets.
The refit was completed by 15 January, and aligns with the organisation's aim to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2030.
The coal elimination project kicked off in early... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 28, 2025
The Mazda Motor Corporation has conducted a demonstration operation of a cupola melting furnace (cupola), the core casting facility installed at its Hiroshima Plant, by fully replacing fossil fuels that emit CO2 during combustion with bio-coal briquettes, a biomass fuel derived from coconut shells.
The initiative is part of the emissions reduction plan announced by Mazda,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 27, 2025
The independent Climate Change Committee's annual carbon budget has stated large-scale biomass must end after 2027, if the UK is to reach net-zero.
The report outlines a route to the greenhouse gas emissions cuts from 2038 to 2042, which it says is a deliverable and cost-effective means for the UK to reach its legally binding goal.
Although the committe backed Drax's... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 25, 2025
Drax has said it will implement an enhanced approach to deliver on its global sustainability targets and to enhance the way it manages its impact on the climate, nature and people.
The company has received a spate of criticism in recent months, including reports that, in the US, it breached environmental regulations 'over 11,000 times'.
There have also been questions... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 24, 2025
India should look to biomass to ensure the energy transition to hydrogen, said Maurits Van Tol, CEO of Catalyst Technologies, a division of Johnson Matthey (JM) one of the global leaders in sustainable technologies.
Talking to businessline during India Energy Week 2025, he said: “When you look at cleantech for India, there are a few things that that I would like to... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 21, 2025
TESS Holdings' subsidiary, PT PTEC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (PTEC), held a ground-breaking ceremony for a biomass plant last month, in West Java, Indonesia.
Biomass fuel will be derived from agricultural crop residues.
TESS established PTEC in Indonesia in 2018, as a research and development base in Indonesia, to best explore how to process agricultural crop residues... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 20, 2025
Germany's Federal Network Agency for electricity and gas (the Bundesnetzagentur), set the price ceilings for biomass and biomethane auctions to be held in the next 12 months at the same levels as last year.
The maximum price that can be bid for new biomass installations remains 19.43 cents per kilowatt hour and that for existing biomass installations 19.83 ct/kWh.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 17, 2025
Green Earth Institute (GEI), Nippon Paper Industries and Sumitomo have reached an agreement to establish a joint venture company, Morisora Bio Refinery LLC, which will focus on the production and sale of bioethanol and biochemicals derived from woody biomass.
Establishment of the joint venture is scheduled for March 2025.
The agreement will bring the construction of... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 17, 2025
Bharat Petroleum Corp has partnered with the National Sugar Institute in Kanpur, India, to develop sweet sorghum as a feedstock for the production of bioethanol.
Bharat Petroleum is allocating INR 500 million for research and development, said the company.
This funding is being earmarked to optimise sweet sorghum yields, enhance agricultural practice and generate efficient... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 13, 2025
The Wood Recyclers’ Association has called for urgent clarity over future support for waste wood-powered biomass plants after the government acknowledged the important role that the technology has to play.
In a written statement, Energy Minister Michael Shanks announced support for large-scale biomass plants, including Drax, to transition to carbon capture and storage... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 12, 2025
px Group, an operator of several critical infrastructure sites in the UK and Europe, has secured an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contract for Tees Renewable Energy Plant (Tees REP).
The contract marks px Group’s further expansion into the biomass power generation industry.
Located in Tees Valley, one of the world’s largest purpose-built pellet biomass power... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 11, 2025
Evero Energy (Evero), a leading waste-wood-to-energy and BECCS company, has announced its strongest quarter to date, increasing net exported power to provide 113,000 MWh of clean electricity to the national grid and local industrial partners.
The company’s Ince, Mersey and Lisahally waste wood biomass plants achieved consistently high availability and generation hours.
In... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 10, 2025
Electricity produced from bioenergy has bounced back after production issues last year, with energy hitting 9.7TWh in the third quarter of 2024, waste-to-hydrogen company Compact Syngas Solutions has revealed.
Analysing government data, it found that maintenance outages at three large power stations were blamed for the fall in last year’s figures, explaining a 23% increase... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 10, 2025
The UK government has agreed a new subsidy arrangement with Drax for its Selby biomass plant.
The facility, which has received billions of pounds in subsidies to date, generates about 5% of the UK's electricity.
However, the Drax plant's emissions are unabated, making the station the single largest CO2 emitter in the country.
According to the government, the arrangement... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 7, 2025
Japan's Renova has announced its 75 MW Omaezakikou biomass plant began operations on 29 January.
The plant uses wood pellets and palm kernel shells as feedstock.
Initially scheduled to start operations in December 2023, the Omaezakikou facility saw several delays.
Most recently, it was delayed last December, due to final adjustments being made to the boiler and turbine... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 6, 2025
Samantha Smith, head of heat and biomass at the REA UK, has mounted a defence for biomass - which is the second-largest producer of low carbon energy in the UK.
"Concerns about carbon accounting, carbon payback and sustainability continue to play out in the media," she observed.
For example, Drax has come under scrutiny due to the amount of subsidy it receives from the... [Read More]
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