Thailand’s Energy Ministry will show the country’s potential as “the land of energy crops” at Astana Expo 2017, an international exposition themed on ‘future energy’ held in Kazakhstan’s capital. The Thailand Pavilion or ‘Sala Thai’ will showcase the country’s ‘Bioenergy-for-all’ concept in the hope... [Read More]

Yorke Biomass Energy is building a demonstration plant in South Australia to demonstrate how a straw burning generator can provide miners with a competitively priced power source for the first 10-20 MW of power. It is hoped that the new project will eventually allow remote mining projects in farming areas to access their baseload electricity from straw powered biomass... [Read More]

Denmark-based utility energy firm Dong Energy has made a commitment to renewables and agreed to divest its entire oil and gas business to Ineos in a deal worth up to $1.3bn (€1.16bn). The transaction includes production, development and exploration sites off Denmark, Norway and west of Shetland. Ineos said the move would make it the biggest private group operating... [Read More]

China’s ‘first’ fully integrated biomass and waste-to-energy project launched in Lingbi China Everbright Greentech has announced that construction is complete on the Lingbi integrated biomass and waste-to-energy project, with the site commencing commercial operation. The Lingbi urban-rural integration project is the first of its kind in China to have... [Read More]

Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has reiterated its commitment to sustainable UK manufacturing by sourcing 100% of its electricity from renewable sources. The news comes as CCEP switches on a new, eight hectare solar farm at Europe’s largest soft drinks factory in Wakefield, a city in West Yorkshire, England. The solar farm, which is the size of 12 football pitches,... [Read More]

British manufacturer Landia has been awarded a major new contract at an Anaerobic Digestion plant in Scotland. The company will provide pumping, mixing, ensiling and pasteurisation equipment for fish morts that will be utilised as feedstock for the expanding Anaerobic Digestion facility. The plant’s 8m3 pasteuriser, fitted with a side-entry propeller mixer and dry-installed... [Read More]

Active Energy (AEG) has entered into an agreement in principle with the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, which would provide the company and its affiliate, Timberlands, with a Crown timber licence and forest management agreement related to two Forest Management Districts covering 1.2 million hectares. Both parties are considering other potential joint ventures,... [Read More]

EU countries looking to improve their environmental credentials by increasing the amount of bioenergy they use, have been accused of threatening the fight against global warming. “The normally climate friendly countries - including France, Finland, Sweden and Austria - are trying to weaken EU rules on emissions from land and forests. They plan to significantly increase... [Read More]

Netherlands-based energy distribution and storage specialist Alfen is constructing a large and sustainable energy installation for the Theobroma cacao factory in Nigeria. According to Alfen, this system combines solar energy, bioenergy from cocoa shells and large-scale battery storage for the sustainable production of energy and steam. It guarantees a reliable energy supply... [Read More]

Waste management firm Veolia, through its subsidiary Proactiva Medio Ambiente Mexico S.A. de C.V., has won a contract to build and operate what it describes as the first waste-to-energy facility in Latin America. In a statement, it said that it won the public call for tenders published by the government of Mexico City to build the facility. With a capacity twice that of... [Read More]

The Indian Biogas Association (IBA) has launched a campaign calling for the government to remove taxes on biogas products in the country. A nationwide association of biogas operators, manufacturers and plant planners, IBA has just launched an online petition calling on the government to exempt biogas from Goods and Services Tax (GST). “According to the Government... [Read More]

The UK’s Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has called for greater government support for low carbon transport fuels such as biomethane, following the recent launch of Nottingham City Transport’s (NCT) £17 million (€19.8 million) double-deck ‘Bio-Gas’ bus fleet. Running on biomethane produced from anaerobic digestion,... [Read More]

UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday has once again criticised the anaerobic digestion (AD) process in an article published yesterday (21 May, 2017). In an article written by journalist David Rose, entitled ‘This green and poisoned land’, the newspaper describes how an AD operator in Tregaron, Wales, caused a “serious pollution incident”. The article... [Read More]

Seawater in Egypt could be turned into drinking water using biomass energy as a source of heat in a new collaborative project from academics at the UK-based University of Sheffield UK and Egypt-based Port Said University. The two year project will see academics from the world-leading Energy 2050 Institute partner with Egyptian experts to develop a system that could provide... [Read More]

Researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the workings of the ‘third’ method of microbial production, known as ‘flavin-based electron bifurcation’ (FBEB). Their findings could be hugely significant for the world of microbial energy and biofuels. The discovery of FBEB led to a drastic shift in the way scientists think about how organisms... [Read More]

The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has passed comment on the energy, climate change and environmental policies outlined in the 2017 general election manifestos of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties. ADBA chief executive Charlotte Morton was positive about the Conservative party’s continued commitment to the Paris Climate... [Read More]