The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) is calling on the government to put forward a new policy on support for anaerobic digestion (AD) on farms and using wastes, in the light of the UK government announcing its decision to continue limiting anaerobic digestion deployment in the Feed-in Tariff (FIT). Commenting on the announcement, ADBA Chief Executive... [Read More]

Union Bank, a US-based banking company, has announced that 11 of its San Francisco Bay Area offices have enrolled in MCE’s Deep Green electricity service enabling these locations to switch to 100% renewable energy. Union Bank is the first financial institution within MCE’s service area to commit to Deep Green, and now operates 100% carbon-free in Marin County... [Read More]

Iran plans to invest $3 billion (€2.8bn) on constructing renewable energy power plants, said Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian. “Iran intends to launch a large-scale project to construct renewable energy power plants over the sixth Five-Year Development Plan to generate five thousand megawatt of energy in the country,” Chitchian said, as quoted... [Read More]

Sweden’s Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, has unveiled proposals to go carbon-neutral by 2045. Last week (2 February, 2017) Löfven set a statutory target to go carbon neutral will be trigged by 1 January, 2018. Under the proposed Climate Act, the government will be required by law to include a climate report in the country's annual budget and to... [Read More]

US power company NRG Energy (NRG) and its subsidiary Reliant,  a well-known retail electricity provider in Texas, have teamed up with the NFL to provide 100% green-e certified renewable energy to NRG Stadium, site of Super Bowl LI, and the George R. Brown Convention Center, location of the NFL Experience and other NFL celebrations in Houston. “Reducing the environmental... [Read More]

Canada-based Hefler Forest Products has sold its 3.7MW biomass power plant in Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia, the first sale of its kind in Canada. The new owners, Hawthorne Capital and Katalyst Wind, are considering having a third party operate the sawmill on site.  Kevin Bromley, a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, told The Chronicle Herald the sale... [Read More]

US-based Rocky Mountain Power will test a new biomass fuel that may reduce the amount of coal being burned by power plants, according to a media report in Bloomberg. The Utah-headquartered utility, which is part of Pacificorp, will use a plant in Utah to test a biomass fuel made by Active Energy Group Plc, Paul Murphy, a spokesman for RMP told Bloomberg. Active Energy’s... [Read More]

The Hawaii County Planning Department has given the green light for an energy-from-waste (EfW) plant to be built in Waikoloa. The Planning Department found no significant environmental impact from the proposed facility that will be built with private equity, according to the Hawaii Tribune Herald.  “The County of Hawaii Planning Department has reviewed the comments... [Read More]

Vega Biofuels announced that it has expanded its manufacturing capabilities to include multiple sizes of its biocoal product to meet recent demand. Biocoal is a renewable, green energy product made from timber waste using a technology called torrefaction.   Torrefaction is the treatment of biomass at high temperatures under low oxygen conditions.   Vega Biofuels... [Read More]

Brazil’s Secretary of Economic Development, Science and Technology formally announced that company Butiá Indústria e Comércio de Pellets’ plans to construct a 36,000-ton wood pellet plant in the municipality of Butiá, Brazil. The raw material to produce the pellets will come from eucalyptus plantations in the central-southern region... [Read More]

Dong Energy has decided that by 2023, coal will no longer be used as fuel at the company’s power stations. The decision is a result of the company’s vision to lead the way in the transformation to a sustainable energy system and to create a leading green energy company. Since 2006, Dong Energy has reduced its coal consumption by 73%, and the company has now... [Read More]

UK engineering firm Spencer Group has announced it has erected three major silos as the centrepiece of a major bioenergy project in the Port of Tyne, in the north of England. They are located at the heart of large-scale wood pellet facilities at the Port of Tyne. The structures, each 36m (118ft) tall and 45m (147ft) in diameter, have been built by Spencer as part of a... [Read More]

Pentair announced that it has completed the acquisition of Union Engineering, headquartered in Fredericia, Denmark.Union Engineering specialises in sustainable technologies for capturing, recovering and purification of carbon dioxide. As an established leader in carbon dioxide management and recovery with its Haffmans brand, the addition of Union Engineering’s technologies... [Read More]

Coal generation in Europe is being phased out and will continue to do so due to competition from cleaner energy sources, such as natural gas and renewables, as well as governments efforts to cut emissions, according to a new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The UK is leading the way when it comes to reducing coal dependency, helping to put coal's share... [Read More]

Remigijus Lapinskas, president of the World Bioenergy Association gives his predictions for 2017. 2016 was a positive year for the global climate negotiations. 120 countries ratified the Paris Agreement limiting the global warming to less than 2°C. With the ratification, countries pledged to reduce fossil fuel use, increase energy efficiency and deploy renewable energy... [Read More]

The Africa Development Bank (ADB) has given a grant of $1m (€1.14m) to renewable energy firm Earth Energy to develop a 20MW biomass power plant in northern Uganda in order to mitigate climate change due to deforestation, according to news website AllAfrica.com , climate change is fundamentally a development issue which is threatening to worsen poverty and hurt economic... [Read More]