Mar 6, 2018
Danish biomass plant begins €268 million enhancement
Biomass News
Mar 1, 2018
Local press reported 28 February that a fire had started at Enviva’s Chesapeake, Virginia deep-water marine terminal. The company reports that the fire is now under control.
Onsite personnel, the terminal’s fire suppression systems and emergency services fought the blaze. No injuries have been reported.
According to a release from the local fire department,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 28, 2018
The plant is owned by Grupo Piasa, a company run jointly by a number of Mexican bottlers, including Arca Continental, a major bottler for Coca-Cola in Latin America. It is capable of producing 50MW/h.
The project has received $61 million (€49.8 million) over three years and uses waste from sugarcane milling to generate steam for electricity production. The power will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 27, 2018
27 February Drax posted its 2017 numbers showing growth in energy output and earnings from renewable energy tariffs.
The growth comes despite a fire in December that reportedly cost the company £10 million (€11.3 million) and as coal is being phased-out of the UK’s energy mix.
Energy output was up to 20 TWh in 2017 from 19.6 TWh in 2016, with 65% of this... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 27, 2018
Waste gasification to energy specialist Eqtec has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Cobra Instalaciones Y Servicos, a company specialising in infrastructure projects.
The agreement aims to identify and then collaborate on waste-to-energy projects which will use Eqtec’s proprietary gasifier technology (EGT).
Under the terms of the agreement, Cobra will be... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 21, 2018
Renewable output in the UK rose 27% to 96TWh in 2017, according to new research from Imperial College London scientists, published in collaboration with Drax.
The latest Electric Insights report reveals that 50% of power generation in the UK last year came from low-carbon sources.
Interestingly, a press release announcing the report notes that this 96TWh of electricity... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 19, 2018
A recently published study from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has revealed the economic impact of closing a biomass power plant in the state.
In spring 2017 the Minnesota state legislature passed a law allowing Xcel Energy to buy and then shutdown Benson Power, a 50mW biomass facility that uses a mixture of poultry litter and wood... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 6, 2018
UK based real estate investment trust LXi REIT has announced its acquisition of the Stobart biomass storage and processing plant in Rotherham, Yorkshire.
LXi REIT has acquired the freehold interest on the facility in a sale and leaseback transaction. According to a statement from the company, the purchase price is £3.4 million (€3.8 million).
The biomass facility... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 5, 2018
Biomass and forestry management business Active Energy has announced that its first commercial CoalSwitch plant in Utah, US, will have its official opening this week.
According to Active Energy, CoalSwitch is “unique, high-calorific, high bulk-density, advanced biomass pellet that behaves just like coal, albeit with all the environmental benefits of clean... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 2, 2018
A $115 million bionenergy research centre has opened at the University of Illinois in the US.
The new Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation had its opening ceremony on the 1 February 2018. A collaboration between the University’s Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment, the facility... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 1, 2018
Scottish energy users will receive advice on low-carbon, environmentally friendly energy alternatives from biomass specialists re:heat.
The Scottish Government and Forestry Commission Scotland have appointed the Northumberland based company to provide “impartial technical and specialist commercial” information to consumers through the Wood Fuel Support Service... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 29, 2018
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, has figures on Renewable Energy use in 2016. The newly published data reveal that the share of renewables reached 17% in 2016, with the biggest contributor to that being from wood biomass.
The statistics show that renewable use has grown significantly, more than doubling from the 8.5% share of the energy mix of 2004.... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 22, 2018
The new direct carbon fuel cell (DCFC) design allows it to exploit three times as much energy in the fuel as previous cells.
Materials like biomass and coal can be used in the cell, which will improve the potential for carbon capture as the new process only emits CO2, rather than the mix of pollutants that come out of current coal-fired plants, researchers said. The fuel... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 19, 2018
The UK’s first commercial waste-to-biocoal facility is in development, thanks to a collaboration between the University of Nottingham, smokeless coal manufacturer CPL and the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA).
Capable of producing next-generation biocoal from high moisture biomass such as food waste, the £4 million facility will contribute towards reducing... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 16, 2018
PPC Renewables is looking for a strategic partner to participate in the construction of the largest biomass CHP plant in Greece, according to a statement on the company’s website.
A wholly owned subsidiary of Public Power Corporation – the largest electricity and production and supply company in Greece, PPC Renewables is involved in a variety of renewable energy... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 12, 2018
The European Bioenergy Association (AEBIOM) has released an op-ed accusing NGO’s of derailing discussions about the EU’s renewable energy future with ‘radical statements’ and ‘non-peer-reviewed studies’.
On 10 January, FERN, an NGO that monitors forests in Europe, released a report denouncing plans by EU leaders to include wood in their... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 10, 2018
The plastic pollution to electricity project and biomass generator start-up aims to provide solutions for domestic and commercial problems.
The company invested €4.2 million into ETIA Group, which provides services for handling plastic pollution through energy production, and COGEBIO, a start-up focused on developing biomass generators.
ETIA Group is partnered with... [Read More]
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