A new, next-generation bioproducts mill is up and running in the town of Äänekoski, Finland. The mill, operated by Finnish forestry company Metsä Group, came into operation on schedule on 15 August at 6:00am. According to a statement from Metsä, pulp deliveries from the mill to customers will begin in early September 2017. Before the bioproduct mill... [Read More]

Danish biotechnology company Novozymes has published its interim financial report for the first half of 2017, revealing better than expected growth from the company, including a strong showing from its Bioenergy division. Bioinnovator Novozymes specialises in developing enzymes and microorganisms for industrial applications, replacing chemicals to accelerate production... [Read More]

The UK government has proclaimed that high environmental standards will be maintained post Brexit. The Brexit paper entitled ‘Future customs arrangements: A future partnership paper’ details the UK government’s aspirations for the UK’s future customs arrangements. As the UK leaves the European Union and therefore the EU Customs Union, the government... [Read More]

Among the hundreds of classic vehicles and high powered sports cars at the RACQ Motorfest in Brisbane, Australia, one of the country’s major urban utilities unveiled its own contribution, dubbed the ‘Poo Car’. “The car runs on electricity generated from sewage from our Oxley Creek Sewage Treatment Plant,” said Michelle Cull, a spokesperson... [Read More]

A ‘state-of-the-art’ anaerobic digestion (AD) facility has been opened in East London, which will convert inedible food waste into renewable energy and biofertiliser. ReFood’s new AD facility in Dagenham was opened in July by Shirley Rodrigues, London’s deputy mayor for environment and energy, and Norbert Rethmann, honorary chairman of the RETHMANN... [Read More]

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has published the draft London Environment Strategy. Focusing on improving the environment in the city and mitigating its contribution to climate change, the report states that “London needs to reduce, reuse and recycle more, to see waste as the valuable resource that it is and to reduce London’s increasing waste bill as the... [Read More]

Work is underway on water company Severn Trent’s new food waste and green gas plant, located in Spondon, close to Derby, UK. Severn Trent is set to invest around £20 million in the facility, which will convert 50,000 tonnes of food waste a year into renewable gas that will be pumped into the distribution network. Jones Celtic BioEnergy, an engineering company,... [Read More]

The waste-to-energy plant and northern commercial greenhouse pilot project, announced as part of the government of Quebec’s 2017-2017 economic plan, will be established in Kuujjuaq - the largest northern village in Nunavik, Quebec. A sum of CAD$5 million (€3.3m), spread over three years, will serve to design and build a thermal waste-to-energy processing... [Read More]

UK-based Minister for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth, Jake Berry MP, has officially opened one of the flagship facilities of the Northern Powerhouse and Cheshire Science Corridor - the Energy Centre at Thornton Science Park. The Northern Powerhouse is a proposal to boost economic growth in the North of England by the 2010-15 coalition... [Read More]

EnviTec Biogas Service UK has strengthened its offer across the UK under a landmark agreement with diesel engine specialist MAN Rollo. The new union sees EnviTec Biogas Service UK developing a service package for MAN Rollo – a global supplier of MAN engines. Signed at the UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017 in Birmingham recently, the agreement will lead... [Read More]

A combined solar and methane power plant is set to commence operations in southern Australia. The facility, built on a landfill site, is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia. The new project will generate approximately 2000 megawatt hours of renewable electricity each year, enough to power more than 345 homes in the local area. Northern Adelaide Waste Management... [Read More]

The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain. The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges. Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability... [Read More]

New research claims that air pollution policy reduces the extent to which population growth in urban areas results in increased pollution emissions, without disrupting the economic growth resulting from this urbanisation. More than half of the world’s population currently lives in urban areas, and the United Nations predicts another 2.5 billion people will move to... [Read More]

Former US Vice President Al Gore has arrived in the UK to address how the perils of climate change can be overcome as he promotes his new documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. The film is a follow-up to his blockbuster 2006 global warming film, An Inconvenient Truth. It was a massive box office hit. His new film hammers home the same message as his first... [Read More]

The Almond Alliance of California has called for increased funding from the Farm Bill in order to help develop bioenergy outlets for almond biomass and byproducts in the state. Kelly Covello, president of the Almond Alliance of California, explained to a Farm Bill listening session in Modesto that the legislation was important to the almond industry in the areas of trade,... [Read More]

Cenex, the UK’s ‘first’ centre of excellence for low carbon technologies, has announced its involvement in the UK’s largest trial of biomethane fuelled lorries. The ‘Dedicated to Gas’ trial will see large fleet operators including Kuehne + Nagel, Wincanton, ASDA, Brit European, Howard Tenens and Great Bear, trial the effectiveness of... [Read More]