Jun 13, 2022
LG Chem partners with GS EPS to build biomass power plant
Biomass News
Jun 9, 2022
Researchers have developed a new joint system draws energy from the sun and biomass can provide 100 percent of the heating needed for a one-story house during the year. In the warmer months, the system can generate surplus electricity that can be resold to the grid. The system has been developed and tested so far only at the simulation level, but it seems to have excellent... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 9, 2022
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) in Indonesia has claimed that the biomass substitution programme, or co-firing in coal-fired steam power plants, will increase the country’s New Renewable Energy (NRE) mix by 1.8 percent.
"This co-firing programme will increase the NRE mix by around 1.8 percent through partial substitution of coal with biomass up... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 9, 2022
On 5-6 July, The International Biomass Congress & Expo and International Biogas Congress and Expo aim to bring together leading producers, suppliers, regulators and other engaged organisations over a two-day period. High-level speakers and experts in their field will address a range of topical issues relating to the biomass sector.
This year’s conferences will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 7, 2022
The world-leading certification scheme to guarantee high-quality wood pellets, ENplus, said it is continuing its expansion, as it now certifies over 1,200 companies.
In 2021, the total production of certified pellets was estimated to be 13.6 million tonnes, and the projection for the certified volumes for 2022 is over 14 million tonnes.
In the recent few years,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 7, 2022
Biomass-based electricity is gaining attention of regulators and policy makers, as the country moves towards power generation that is not carbon-intensive. A new biomass-based boiler technology introduced this year claims to accommodates all kinds of agricultural residue as fuel and can be greener and may also help reduce the burden of stubble burning.
Around... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 6, 2022
“The vision of Green Science Alliance is to offer technologies for sustainable, carbon neutral society,” it said.
This already includes a next generation rechargeable battery, a fuel cell, and a CO2 photo conversion to chemical energy (the process called artificial photosynthesis).
Now, Green Science Alliance is also trying to replace all petrochemical-derived... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 6, 2022
Brazilian pulp and paper producer Suzano SA has announced it has secured a supply contract for 50 average megawatts (MWa) of biomass power in Brazil’s latest energy tender.
The company has won a contract for the sale of energy in the regulated environment (CCEAR) with distribution concessionaires Cemig, Light SA and Coelba. It was awarded the deal at a tariff of BRL... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 1, 2022
Brazilian power companies have contracted just under 1GW of new renewable capacity divided relatively evenly between hydropower, solar and wind and over 400MW of biomass projects in the country’s latest auction, which again underlined the impact of a weak domestic economy and low power demand.
The tender, which saw a total of 947.9MW awarded encompassing 189.7MW of... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 1, 2022
Brett Martin, the UK's largest producer of polycarbonate sheet materials has launched new, more sustainable sheet options, which it says “represent a quantum shift towards climate neutral plastic sheets produced from a certified mass balanced source with bio-based feedstock”.
This new development is the result of Brett Martin's partnership with Covestro, one of the... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 31, 2022
Austrian district heating supplier Kelag Energie & Waerme is planning to build a biomass power plant to supply up to 20 GWh of heat in a municipality in the country's westernmost state of Vorarlberg.
Under the plan, between 15 GWh and 20 GWh of heat should be produced from biomass in the municipality of Lustenau in the medium term and supplied to between 100 and 200 buildings... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 31, 2022
Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW), a subsidiary of Japan-headed Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) has announced that it has been awarded a contract to deliver a new 77 MWth bubbling fluidised bed (BFB) boiler plant to municipal energy company Jämtkraft in Sweden.
The new BFB boiler will be part of the Lugnvik plant in Östersund and will use biomass as fuel ensuring a secure supply... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 30, 2022
Greencoat Capital funds, managed by Greencoat, have agreed to acquire 100 percent of Margam Green Energy Plant (“MGEP”), a waste wood-fired biomass plant located in Port Talbot, South Wales, from Glennmont Partners.
MGEP has been operational since May 2019 and is one of the largest biomass plants in the UK, with a processing capacity of c.290 thousand tonnes per... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 27, 2022
The Bioenergy Action Plan which is being developed by the Ministry of Energy aims at eliminating the use of wood for cooking in all public institutions by 2028.
The principal secretary Ministry of Energy Maj. Gen. Dr Gordon Kihalangwa, while speaking at Machakos University during the official opening of the validation workshop of the National Bioenergy Strategic Action... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 27, 2022
Enviva Inc, the world’s leading producer of sustainable wood bioenergy, and MOL Drybulk Ltd (MOLDB), a subsidiary of Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd (MOL), a leading global marine transport group, announced they have signed an additional memorandum of understanding to deploy an environmentally friendly bulk carrier (EFBC) to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the ocean... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 26, 2022
Fulcrum BioEnergy Inc, a pioneer in the creation of net-zero carbon drop-in transportation fuels from landfill waste, has announced the completion of commissioning and the initial operations of its Sierra BioFuels Plant. It is the world’s first landfill waste-to-renewable-transportation-fuels plant and has begun operations, processing prepared waste feedstock and successfully... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 25, 2022
The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has rejected plans for Hu Honua Biomass Power Plant.
In its 164-page decision with one dissent, the three-member panel listed a variety of reasons why Honua Ola Bioenergy, formerly known as Hu Honua, should not be granted an amended power purchase agreement with Hawaiian Electric Light Company.
The top reasons were given... [Read More]
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