Apr 6, 2021
Construction of 75 MW Renova biomass plant underway
Pellets News
Apr 1, 2021
Pinnacle Renewable Energy has received shareholder approval for the planned takeover by Drax Group.
A meeting on 31 March saw an ‘overwhelming majority’ of Pinnacle shareholders vote in favour of the arrangement, through Drax’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Drax Canadian Holdings.
The arrangement will see Drax’s Canadian business acquire all of the issued and... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 30, 2021
Clydesdale Bank has announced a £6 million (€7 million) investment to support North Yorkshire’s poultry sector using renewable energy.
The funding, a collaborative effort between the bank’s renewable and agricultural divisions, has allowed biomass boiler company, Biomass Group, to acquire Richard Maxwell Ltd and provide renewable heating to poultry sheds.
Owning... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 26, 2021
Volvo Cars’s manufacturing plant in Daqing, China, is now powered by 100% climate-neutral electricity, with 83% coming from biomass.
With the addition of the Daqing plant, the company’s global manufacturing network is now powered by close to 90% climate-neutral electricity, a key step towards its goal of making its manufacturing operations climate-neutral by 2025.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 26, 2021
A grant from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC) is helping to convert wood fibre to generate electricity.
The funding will allow speciality transport company Valley Carriers to bring 24,000 cubic metres of wood fibre into the city of Merritt to be utilised as bioenergy instead of burning it in slash piles.
Valley Carriers initially explored an opportunity... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 25, 2021
Sulzer will supply pumps and mixers to a new €1.6 billion bioproduct mill project in Finland.
Metsä Fibre, part of the Finnish forest industry company Metsä Group, which specialises in wood-based bioproducts such as pulp, sawn timber, bioenergy, and biochemicals, and Sulzer Pumps Finland, signed an agreement for the supply of process pumps, medium-consistency pumps... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 24, 2021
Drax Group has contributed £728 million (€844 million) towards the economy in the North of England and supported 6,600 jobs across the region, according to a new report.
The independent analysis by Oxford Economics measured the economic impact of Drax’s UK operations, which includes Drax Power Station near Selby in North Yorkshire, the country’s biggest renewable... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 23, 2021
On 23 February, the first biomass thermal power plant using UK agri-tech was officially opened in Moldova’s capital.
The launch of the newly-installed 150 kW biomass thermal power plant – a project pilot - in Chisinau marked the start of the transition of the energy supply system from imported fossil gas to renewable energy.
The project aims to switch the Centralised... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 18, 2021
CHAR Technologies has received an order from one of Canada’s largest steel producers for up to 1,000 tonnes of its CleanFyre biocoal.
CleanFyre is a carbon-neutral, solid biofuel, made from various woody biomasses and wood wastes and provides a low greenhouse gas (GHG) emission biocoal substitute to integrate into existing steelmaking processes.
The contract builds... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 18, 2021
Biomass will be included in the second phase of the UK Government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme.
The scheme was designed to pave the way for the decarbonisation of large public buildings such as schools and hospitals.
The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) has welcomed the announcement. Previously, the REA expressed its disappointment... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 17, 2021
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $2 million (€1.67 million) to four research and development projects advancing clean hydrogen production technologies.
In a statement, the DOE said these technologies may prove ‘pivotal’ to reducing carbon emissions and reducing the Biden Administration’s climate change goals.
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 17, 2021
The Zero Carbon Humber (ZCH) Partnership has won its £75 million (€87.5 million) bid to pursue its major decarbonisation infrastructure project.
This latest news is further boosted by a successful bid from the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), which provides offshore pipeline and safe storage for emissions captured in the Humber region and Teesside.
The three... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 11, 2021
Ørsted, Microsoft, and Aker Carbon Capture have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore ways to support the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) at biomass-fired heat and power plants in Denmark, also known as BECCS.
CCS is ‘widely accepted’ as an important instrument to meet both the Danish climate targets of 70% carbon reduction by 2030... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 10, 2021
UK biomass projects will receive £4 million (€4.6 million) in government funding as part of a £92 million (€107 million) investment to support three new ‘innovation challenges’ in the green energy sector.
The government funding will drive forward the next generation of technologies that will help the UK transition to clean, green energy to tackle climate change,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 8, 2021
Bühler Group, a Swiss plant equipment manufacturer, has partnered with Belgian thermal energy plant firm Vyncke to offer integrated solutions to transform biomass side stream products into clean process energy.
Both firms have set a goal of reducing energy consumption in all new food plants by at least 50% by 2025. The first focus of the partnership is in the cocoa,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 5, 2021
Chevron Corporation, Microsoft, CleanEnergy Systems and Schlumberger New Energy will collaborate to develop a ‘ground-breaking’ bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project to produce carbon-negative power in California.
The BECCS plant in Mendota will convert agricultural waste biomass, such as almond trees, into a renewable synthesis gas that will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 5, 2021
Albioma has reported ‘stable’ revenue for 2020 and shared its latest biomass development plans.
The firm’s net income was up slightly in 2020 by 25%. Revenue amounted to €506.7 million, stable compared to the previous year. Stripping out the impact of changes in fuel prices (-€13 million) and the currency effect related to the decline of the Brazilian real... [Read More]
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