Jun 23, 2022
Sterling TT’s CACW coolers to be installed at new Japanese biomass plant
Biomass News
Jun 22, 2022
Topsoe’s technologies are set to reduce its customers’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 12 million tonnes in 2022 alone. These reductions will not be one-offs, but ongoing for the years to come. The key driver is Topsoe’s renewable fuels solutions, producing low-carbon fuels from waste and biomass.
Roeland Baan, CEO at Topsoe, commented: “Effectively reducing... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 21, 2022
Iran’s Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organisation (known as SATBA) plans to construct biomass power plants with the capacity to produce 400 megawatt-hours (MWh) across the country, an official with the organisation has announced.
Reza Samadi, director-general of SATBA’s Technical, Economic and Environmental Assessment Office, said the organisation plans... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 21, 2022
Alinta Energy - the operator of what will be one of the last coal generators operating in the grid - is arguing for a short term capacity market for coal that could still see all brown coal capacity exiting the market within a decade, but also provide an option to keep it accessible if it were found to be needed to keep the lights on.
Alinta CEO Jeff Dimery recently... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 21, 2022
In a new measure, the Vedanta-owned Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (Balco), in Chhattisgarh's power hub Korba, has begun greening its fuel mix for thermal power generation with biomass briquettes—a move that has the potential to minimise the detrimental effect of using fossil fuels.
The company is utilising around 50 tonnes of biomass briquettes daily to reduce... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 21, 2022
Enviva’s terminal at the Port of Pascagoula is now delivering a low-carbon, renewable, drop-in substitute for fossil fuels to help decarbonise industries and the global economy by 2050.
Enviva, the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets, held a ceremony at its newly opened terminal at the Port of Pascagoula, Mississippi on June 15, to commemorate the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 20, 2022
Japan Petroleum Exploration Company, also known as JAPEX, has broken ground on a 50-MW biomass project in Japan’s Ehime prefecture.
The Ozu Biomass Power Plant will be located in a 25,700 sq m (276,632 sq ft) area in the industrial park of Ozu city. It is expected to be fully operational in August 2024.
The biomass project is being developed by Ozu Biomass Power... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 20, 2022
A $755,000 study will look at the feasibility of heating towns by burning low-grade wood and wood chips.
In what may seem a counter-intuitive solution to meeting its climate goals, New Glasgow will be conducting a feasibility study on burning renewable biomass to heat 90 percent of the Novia Scotia’s town's buildings.
Natural Resources Canada says it will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 20, 2022
The international biomass exchange, Baltpool, has presented its new logo, updating the company's brand to reflect their aspiration to become the first choice for sustainable biomass trading in Europe.
The new logo’s compass design highlights Baltpool's expertise in the market and their customer-centred approach. Andrius Smaliukas, CEO of Baltpool, said: "With our... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 20, 2022
Renewable energy company Drax has signed an agreement with British Steel to explore opportunities for its steel to be used to build the world’s largest multi-billion-pound carbon capture project at its power station in the UK.
The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) brings together two major British industries to support the development of bioenergy with... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 17, 2022
Statistics from the Wood Recyclers Association (WRA) have shown that the tonnage of waste wood sent to biomass plants in the UK rose by more than 400,000 tonnes (16 percent) in 2021, now taking 61 percent of processed wood in the UK.
And, the WRA said biomass capacity could increase further from around 2.4 million currently to 3 million tonnes.
Richard Coulson, the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 17, 2022
EU sanctions taking effect July 10 2022 will end Russian wood pellet exports to Europe, which is expected to cause difficulties with waste disposal at Russian sawmills.
According to Lesprom Analytics, the EU accounted for 80 percent of Russian wood pellet exports.... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 17, 2022
The lack of availability of agricultural residue biomass pellets is emerging as a dampener in implementing the Indian Union power ministry’s directive to co-fire biomass with coal in thermal power plants.
In her 2022 budget speech, the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that substituting 5-7 percent of coal with biomass in coal-based power plants could save... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 16, 2022
Alfred H Knight is pleased to announce that its new, state of the art sample preparation facility is now fully operational and receiving samples.
The site, located in the Olympic Business Park, Kilmarnock, is a result of significant investment and expansion of Alfred H Knight’s operations in Scotland, and will now be home to all of the energy services’ sample... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 15, 2022
Roseburg is exploring the feasibility of locating a second MDF panel plant or bioenergy production facility within its current Western operating footprint.
The proposed facility would use up to 300,000 bone-dry tonnes of wood residuals each year.
This fibre would be sourced from current company operations and from important existing long-term suppliers. The feasibility... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 14, 2022
Orsted aims to capture 400,000 mt of CO2 a year from two of its biomass-fired cogeneration plants in Denmark, if it is successful in an ongoing tender for support, the Danish energy company said on June 13.
In June, the Danish Energy Agency reissued a tender for carbon capture, use and storage backed by DKK 16 billion ($2.26 billion) of state support. Applications to... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 14, 2022
Norske Skog's 10 percent-owned Green Valley Energie joint venture is ready to start the construction of a biomass boiler at the mill site of Norske Skog Golbey in France.
The biomass energy plant will produce electricity and heat from waste and residue materials.
The steam will be used by the Norwegian paper products manufacturer's Golbey mill and the electricity... [Read More]
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