Jan 12, 2023
Bain Capital buys €371m stake in EcoCeres
Biomass News
Jan 11, 2023
China’s state-owned assets supervisor has integrated one of the country’s leading biomass power generation companies, under China's biggest power grid firm State Grid Corporation of China, into State Power Investment Corp., the world's largest renewable power producer, in order to consolidate their assets and better serve the national energy strategy, reported Yicai... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 11, 2023
Bain Capital is approaching a deal to acquire a minority stake in EcoCeres - a biomass company that is majority owned by Hong Kong & China Gas Co, reported Bloomberg. The private equity firm is seeking to boost its sustainable investing strategy, according to people familiar with the matter.
The sources claimed the firms are discussing details of a deal that could... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 11, 2023
The Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) has written to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to emphasise that the important contribution waste wood biomass is making in the transition away from fossil fuels should not be overlooked.
The WRA's letter was sent ahead of the launch of BEIS' Biomass Strategy, highlighting the sector's crucial... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 10, 2023
Standard Biocarbon Corporation (SBC) has announced the arrival in Portland, US of two pyrolysis machines to produce high quality “biochar'' from wood chips.
Biochar is used in agriculture, environmental remediation and storm water management, and has many other emerging uses. The machines, manufactured by Pyreg of Dorth Germany, were unloaded at the Eimskip pier in... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 9, 2023
Researchers from Okayama University have identified an effective mechanical compression system for drying plant biomass for power generation without the need for thermal drying. This is significant because, since plant biomass contains more than 50% moisture, mechanical methods (or heating and natural seasoning) need to be implemented to reduce this to about 35% - to increase... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 9, 2023
The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has inked a pact with Sun Energy Power Engineering Corporation, Sangrur, for the commercialisation of paddy straw-based biogas plant made up of Mild Steel (MS) sheet (above the ground) technology, designed and developed under the Scheme “All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Energy in Agriculture and Agro-based Industries... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 9, 2023
Valmet has announced it will deliver boiler conversions and emission reduction solutions for government-owned Veolia Group’s Hungarian subsidiary CHP-Invest Kft at its power plant in Oroszlány, Hungary. The order includes the conversion of two coal-fired boilers to bubbling fluidised bed combustion to enable the boilers to run mainly on biomass fuel.
The order is included... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 6, 2023
Enviva Inc., a leading producer of sustainably sourced woody biomass, has issued a statement expressing support for the Dutch Parliament’s motion on sustainably sourced biomass, which was passed in December 2022.
It said it fully supports the principle that financial assistance should only be applicable for woody biomass that is sourced sustainably.
Enviva added that,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 5, 2023
The Dominican Republic's National Energy Commission (CNE), has granted a definitive concession to Consorcio Azucarero Central, developer of the 7-MW Energia Renovable Ingenio Barahona biomass-fired energy project.
The definitive concession contract for the plant, which will be located in the municipality of Santa Cruz de Barahona, was signed by Edward Veras, executive... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 4, 2023
A biomass facility has been proposed to be constructed just outside of Jamestown in Tuolumne County, California in the US, reported MyMotherLode.
The site would be constructed on 17 acres near the Sierra Conservation Centre, off O'Byrnes Ferry Road.
Tuolumne Biomass LLC plans to lease the property from T-Five Ranches Inc, with county documents stating that an existing... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 4, 2023
Mississippi is becoming one of the premier sources of sustainable and renewable wood pellets in the world, writes Ian R. Tailyour, senior international advisor, BRYANT SONGY SNELL Global Partners.
Major international wood pellet producing companies are investing billions in the Magnolia State, taking advantage of the state’s tremendous supply of wood and forest products... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 4, 2023
Clean Energy Technologies (CETY), has announced it has entered into an agreement with Synergy Bioproducts Corporation to design, build and operate a biomass renewable energy processing facility using its high-temperature ablative fast pyrolysis reactor (HTAP Biomass Reactor).
Located in Vermont, US this project will convert forest biomass waste products into renewably... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 3, 2023
GAIL Gas Limited (GGL), a central public sector undertaking, has received approval from the Karnataka state government of India to set up a compressed biogas plant on an 18-acre BBMP land at Mandur on the outskirts of Bengaluru, reported Deccan Herald.
The company is expected to install and operate the facility free of charge, whilst the BBMP has been entrusted with supplying... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 22, 2022
Each year, Indonesia produces about 100 million tonnes of the rice straw, and around 60% of this waste is burned in open fields, causing air pollution which has been linked to higher rates of lung cancer.
The amount burned releases enough energy, if it could be harnessed, to power Indonesia’s households 10 times over.
A research consortium which includes Aston... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 22, 2022
The biomass facility that powers Fort Drum in New York, US, is set to close early next year, reported WWNY. The unit employs over two dozen people directly, and it supports dozens of logging and trucking jobs in the north country.
ReEnergy buys wood chips from local lumber yards and sawmills, transfers them into energy, and generates 100% of Fort Drum’s power, a rarity... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 21, 2022
The state-owned West Bengal Power Development Company Ltd (WBPDCL) and Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) in India have both failed in sourcing biomass pellets after no vendors participated in the tenders floated by them, reported Energy World.
West Bengal's thermal power plants are unable to comply with the Union power minister's 5% biomass co-firing mandate due to a lack... [Read More]
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