Feb 17, 2016
Drax: Biomass subsidies could save UK £2bn
Biomass News
Feb 17, 2016
Solar 21, an Irish renewable energy company, is set to build a 22MW biomass power plant near Hull in England.
The company has acquired the project rights and is seeking to raise €60 million through a fundraising round for the scheme.
The Hull plant is the first in a pipeline of five projects in partnership with energy recovery systems company Heat Recovery Solutions,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 17, 2016
IHI Corp., a Japanese heavy equipment manufacturer, will build a 49MW woody biomass power plant in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima.
Construction will begin this year and the plant will start generating power by the end of 2018, the company said in a statement.
The station will produce enough electricity to power 77,000 homes.
... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 12, 2016
The European Commission (EC) has launched a consultation on the preparation of a sustainable bioenergy policy for the period after 2020.
The objective is to consult stakeholders and citizens on an updated EU policy on sustainable bioenergy for the period 2020-2030, as part of the EU renewable energy package foreseen before the end of 2016.
In a statement, the EC said:... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 11, 2016
More than 110 environmental groups across the globe have signed a declaration demanding that bioenergy be excluded from the EU's next Renewable Energy Directive (RED).
The EU is considering renewal of the RED for 2020 onwards in a consultation which ended yesterday (10 February). A decision is expected by the end of the year.
The RED will determine Europe's path forward... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 5, 2016
Construction work is due to begin on a new biomass pipeline at the planned St Andrews University biomass plant in Scotland.
Located at Guardbridge, Fife, the £25 million (€32.5m) plant is being built on the site of a former paper mill.
Hot water will be pumped from the plant four miles underground to provide heating to laboratories and student housing at St... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 2, 2016
The joint venture of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), PensionDanmark, and Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) has completed the construction of a £162 million (€233m) biomass power plant investment in the UK well ahead of schedule.
The construction of the Brigg Renewable Energy Plant, the JV’s first 40MW straw-fired biomass plant... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 29, 2016
Orthios, a UK sustainable energy company, is preparing to begin work on two combined food and power plants in the UK.
To be located at a former Anglesey Aluminium in Wales at Holyhead, Anglesey, the £1 billion (€1.3bn) Orthios Eco Park will process waste wood to produce 299MW of electricity, enough to power 300,000 homes.
The heat produced during power generation... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 28, 2016
Danish Babcock & Wilcox Vølund (BWV), a subsidiary of the US-based Babcock & Wilcox, has been awarded a $90 million (€82.5m) contract for constructing a bioenergy plant in the UK
The contract to design, manufacture, and build the waste-to-energy plant near Haresfield, Gloucestershire, was awarded by a joint venture of Urbased and Balfour Beatty.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 5, 2016
Bioenergy France 3, the French arm of Spanish biofuels producer Ambene, has obtained permission from local officials to build a 41MW biomass-fired cogeneration plant in the south of France.
According to SeeNews, the plant will be constructed in the Torremila industrial zone of Perpignan.
At the end of December, the Pyrenees-Orientales prefecture gave the green light to... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 17, 2015
Construction work has officially begun at Glennmont Partners’ Port Clarence Renewable Energy Plant in Stockton-on-Tees, UK.
Once completed, the £160 million (€220m) plant will burn 250,000 tonnes of waste wood annually to produce 40MW of combined heat and power.
Commercial operations at the plant are expected to begin in 2018.
The project was originally... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 15, 2015
Local farmers will own and operate a new cooperative-style biomass business that will supply a power company on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula.
The A$100 million (€65m) Yorke Biomass Energy (YBE) project, Australia’s first straw-fuelled power plant launched in September this year, has launched a cooperative-style business model that will see local biomass... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 11, 2015
A consortium including the Japanese Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding has been awarded an order to construct a biomass combined heat and power plant in Cramlington, UK.
The 27.8MW facility will be built by Mitsui’s subsidiary Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor as a turnkey solution in a consortium with the Danish boiler supplier Burmeister & Wain... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 11, 2015
Veolia UK, a branch of the French Veolia Group, has secured a contract from Equitix ESI CHP to operate the Sherwood Biomass Plant in Nottingham, UK.
The 20-year contract, worth £50 million (€69m), highlights the growing UK commitment to energy production from biomass, and adds to the £500 million of biomass energy managed by Veolia in the UK and Ireland.
Located... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 9, 2015
The European Biomass Association (AEBIOM), a non-profit bioenergy representative, has selected its new president and vice president.
At AEBIOM’s latest general assembly, Gustav Melin (SVEBIO, Sweden) was elected as AEBIOM president for one further term.
Following his election, Melin gave statement in which he hoped for positive results from the COP21 climate summit... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 8, 2015
The South American country of Uruguay is now generating 95% of its power from renewable sources.
While Uruguay has no nuclear power plants and has not built new hydropower in 20 years, biomass, wind, and solar power are booming.
The massive shift to renewable energy was triggered by the country’s need to break away from its dependence on foreign oil, which in 2000... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 7, 2015
The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul has granted preliminary licenses to ten biomass projects in order to increase its renewable energy output.
The Environmental Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul (Imasul) gave the licenses to a total of 535.75MW worth of eucalyptus-based biomass projects.
The 10 schemes, with a combined investement of $734 million (€679m), will... [Read More]
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