Aug 4, 2017
EnviTec breaks ground on Philippines biogas plant
Biogas News
Aug 3, 2017
Tamar Energy, an organic waste management company, has earnt a key industry certification across all of its UK anaerobic digestion (AD) network, as well as achieving a range of business quality standards.
All five of the UK based company’s AD plants now meet PAS 110, a key industry standard backed by WRAP and the British Standards Institute, demonstrating the highest... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 2, 2017
A £6.5 million (€7.6 million) biomass energy project has officially opened at the University of Northampton’s Waterside Campus.
On 1 August, 2017, members from The University of Northampton and sustainable energy specialists, Vital Energi took the opportunity to celebrate the opening by officially switching the 27sqm LED screen on, which was performed... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 2, 2017
A Californian biomass plant is at the heart of the launch of the ‘first’ software-defined network for critical infrastructure.
Dispersive Technologies new Internet-based, software-defined network for use by California’s energy grid operator to connect entities using real-time devices to the grid’s energy management system, has now gone live.
Humboldt... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 2, 2017
The Canadian government is set to invest $2.6 million (€1.8 million) into Sustane, a Halifax, Nova Scotia based waste-to-energy company.
Sustane claims to have developed a new process which converts municipal solid waste into clean burning fuel and other recycled products. The investment will be used to scale up Sustane’s technology, supporting the creation... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 1, 2017
The “first” pan-African expert network on food and non-food biomass has been launched by African and German researchers.
BiomassNet aims to ensure that food security and environmental sustainability are not compromised in the development of new biomass uses. The scheme’s developers claim this will help to strengthen the emerging African bioeconomies.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 1, 2017
As the primary component of natural gas, methane is a common, problematic by product of oil drilling.
A greenhouse gas 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the course of a century, methane is a costly challenge for the energy industry. Piping it from remote areas is expensive, so companies burn off about a third of the gas they produce in bright flares that can... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 1, 2017
Nine EU Member States have asked the European Commission (EC) for permission to pollute above national limits set in EU law, according to the European Environmental Bureau (EBB).
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland and Luxembourg have all asked for the limits that should have been met in 2015 to be raised so that they no longer appear to... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 1, 2017
Bioenergy can play a role in reducing the risk of forest fires, according to a video recently published on the European Forest Institute’s website.
Across the world, forest fires devastate large areas of forest every year. In 2017, the tragic trend has been seen in forest fires in France, the USA and Portugal. In its new video, the EFI looks at the factors behind... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2017
Germany-headquartered EEW Energy from Waste has been awarded a contract to build and operate an energy-from-waste plant in the Polish city of Gdansk by the city’s publicly-owned waste management company, Zaklad Utylizacyjny (ZUT).
Bernard M. Kemper, CEO of Chinese-owned German firm, EEW, described the successful participation in the tender process as a milestone... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jul 31, 2017
Japan-based Sumitomo Corp. has acquired 47.6% of the shares of the British Columbia-based wood pellet manufacturer Pacific BioEnergy Corp (PBEC). and made its entry into the wood pellet manufacturing business in Canada.
Wood pellets, a biomass fuel produced by pulverising and compressing dried wood fibres, have been garnering attention for their low-environmental... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2017
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), the UK’s technology innovation provider for process manufacturing, announced that the SeaGas collaboration has successfully harvested a 20-tonne batch of seaweed, the largest harvest of farmed seaweed in the UK to date.
The SeaGas project, funded jointly between Innovate UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2017
The Straus Family Creamery in Marin County, California, has announced the launch of the ‘first’ full-scale electric truck powered by biomethane created from cow manure.
California dairy farmer Straus Family is a pioneer in organic dairy and sustainable agriculture. The new truck is the next step in the dairy’s quest to show that it can be carbon positive,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 31, 2017
New insights have been gained into a unique system some fungi use to digest and recycle wood.
Remarkably, a new study suggests that this unusual mechanism does not involve the use of enzymes, the usual accelerators of chemical reactions.
Microbiologist Barry Goodell first discovered the unique system twenty years ago. However, although three orders of ‘brown rot’... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 28, 2017
Philippines-based property development firm MRC Allied and China-based engineering group Guangdong Power Engineering Co. (GPEC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities in the renewable energy sector.
“The purpose of the MOU is to confirm that both parties have an interest in developing renewable-energy projects in the Philippines... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 28, 2017
New research from Rice University claims biochar from recycled waste boosts crop growth and reduces health costs by helping clean the air of pollutants.
Scientists from the university have concluded that widespread use of biochar in agriculture could significantly reduce health care costs, particularly for those living in urban areas close to farmland.
The research was... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 28, 2017
The US Environmental Protection Agency has invited the San Francisco Public Utility Commission (SFPUC) to apply for a $625 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan.
SFPUC’s project focuses on wastewater treatment system upgrades. San Francisco’s 60-year-old solids treatment facility will be replaced with upgraded infrastructure that... [Read More]
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