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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Proteum Hydrogen Technologies, a subsidiary of Proteum Energy, LLC, and the University of Regina have embarked on a joint project aimed at advancing Proteum’s patented and proprietary steam non-methane reforming (SnMR™) technology. Laurence Tree, Proteum’s CEO, said: “Leveraging Proteum’s SnMR™ technology holds great promise for ethanol producers as the... [Read More]

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]

Perpetual Next, the Dutch climate tech company that upgrades biological waste streams into renewable raw materials such as bio-carbon and green gas, has acquired €320 million in new equity capital in a Series A financing round. The company will use the capital for technology acquisitions and projects aimed at carbon removal: storing carbon in products that would otherwise... [Read More]

Combined heat and power (CHP) engines are one of the most crucial components of an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, converting biogas into usable heat and electricity. As the UK AD industry continues to mature, many of the CHPs originally installed on biogas plants across the country are now reaching 48,000 hours of operation, at which point they require an E70 service.... [Read More]

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]

The president of the Italian Biogas Consortium (CIB), Piero Gattoni, has been appointed vice president of the board of the European Biogas Association (EBA). The appointment comes after the association’s assembly last month elected Anders Mathiasson as their new president and Michael Niederbacher as vice president, representing industry members. The latest EBA... [Read More]

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]