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Salt River Project has approved a contract to continue purchasing renewable energy from a Snowflake biomass plant that will provide reliable baseload power while helping to cut the risk of devastating forest wildfires in northern Arizona. The 10.5-year purchase power agreement with Novo BioPower will use wood chips from strategic forest thinning efforts in the SRP watersheds focusing on the East…
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Enviva, the world’s leading producer of sustainably sourced wood biomass, published a white paper that discusses unlocking the future of biomass beyond fossil fuels into other industrial applications, including steel, cement, lime, chemicals, and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), among others. While Enviva’s sustainably sourced biomass is predominately used today to decarbonise power and heat…
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Recent comments by ADBA chairman Chris Huhne and Irish environment minister Eamon Ryan are positive for the expansion of renewable, green biogas production across the island of Ireland, but to maximise the benefits of increased anaerobic digestion capacity, operating efficiency and the use of digestate must be fully considered. This is according to Matt Hale, international sales & marketing…
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India has been severely lagging in ensuring that at least 5% of coal used in thermal plants was mixed with biomass despite guidelines mandating them to do so, according to the Hindu Times. This recalcitrance by power manufacturers has prompted India's Power Ministry to consider cutting coal supply to non-compliant plants, it emerged from the proceedings of an inter-ministerial meeting of the…
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Waste resource management company Geminor has warned that energy shortage and tougher competition across Europe is resulting in higher prices for waste wood. This means that "the search for waste wood and new alternative fuels is more intensive than ever". The steadily declining business activity in Europe, in combination with trade boycotts of Russia and Belarus, has led to a sharp drop in…
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Drax was accused by a BBC Panorama investigation of cutting down environmentally-important forests, in an episode that was aired on 3 October. The BBC said it had "discovered some of the wood comes from primary forests in Canada", whilst claiming Drax said it "only uses sawdust and waste wood. The Panorama investigation involved analysing satellite images, tracing logging licenses and utilising…
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We hear how the right training and opportunities provided by their employer have allowed two early-career professionals to reach the shortlist for the Association For Renewable Energy and Clean Technology’s (REA) Young Renewable Energy Professional Award in such a short amount of time. Two site managers from the east of England, Liam Hughes and Tyler Warman, were shortlisted for the REA's…
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Maarten Gnoth, founder and managing director of Hinterland Management - a bespoke sustainable investment development and management enterprise focussing on biomass supply chains - gave a talk at Bioenergy Insight's International Biomass Congress & Expo in July, expanding upon his presentation at a World Bioenergy Association webinar. Gnoth, who has significant experience in business…
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Enviva, a leading producer of sustainably sourced woody biomass, held a ceremonial ribbon cutting at its recently constructed wood pellet manufacturing facility in George County, Mississippi (MS) on 30 September. The company said the event commemorates the emergence of more US-based green jobs, and the completion of a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, along with Enviva’s continued…
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Sri Lanka's pioneer in financing renewable energy, DFCC Bank, has partnered with the National Innovation Agency (which was established following the parliamentary act 22 of 2019), to promote biogas technology. DFCC Bank is the National Innovation Agency's financial services provider, and intends to broaden awareness about the possibilities of biogas. Professor Ajith de Alwis, chief innovation…
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Drax, which has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from the UK government, has been accused by a BBC Panorama investigation of cutting down environmentally-important forests. The company runs Britain's largest power station, which burns millions of tonnes of imported wood pellets. The BBC said it had "discovered some of the wood comes from primary forests in Canada", whilst…
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EnviTec Biogas recorded an excellent business performance across all of the company’s segments in the first half of 2022. Group sales revenues rose by 33.1% to EUR 144.2 million. The increase is essentially attributable to two factors in the company’s Own Plant Operation segment, namely the already high production volumes of BioEnergie Park Güstrow and other own plant facilities combined…
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Ireland's minister for environment, climate and communications, Eamon Ryan, has said anaerobic digestions is necessary to meet Ireland's 2030 targets under the Climate Action Plan. Addressing a press conference at the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) following the 2023 Budget on 27 September, he said a market mechanism will be they key way to deliver anaerobic…
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Kiambu, Kenya is an agriculture-based county that has adopted biogas as a renewable source of energy, according to Kenya News Agency (KNA). It said Kiambu is one of the top five leading counties in dairy farming over the last five years, and that most farmers there have taken advantage of dairy farming and further embraced the installation of biogas technology. Promotion of biogas technology…
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