Dec 6, 2017
Industry news: shredder manufacturer UNTHA signs distribution deal with Japanese company
Biomass News
Dec 5, 2017
Attis Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary of Meridian Waste Solutions, has initiated commercialisation plans for its biomass processing facility. The company will immediately begin feedstock evaluation and assess potential locations for commercial scale operations.
Over the past month, Attis has completed a series of acquisitions to strengthen its position in the bio-based... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 5, 2017
Following a recent audit by Bureau Veritas, CPL Carbon Link has achieved ISO14001:2015 environmental accreditation.
Wigan based CPL Carbon Link is a provider of mobile carbon filtration systems and spent carbon reactivation services for purification applications in the water treatment, biogas and food industries among others.
With a focus on environmental purification,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 4, 2017
Miguel Arias Cañete, the European Union Commissioner for Energy and Climate Action, has inaugurated the new phase in the All-Gas project in the El Torno treatment plant in Chiclana, Cadiz.
Co-financed by the European Commission with the Seventh Framework Programme, the All-Gas Project aims to demonstrate the large scale production of biofuels and biogas based on... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 1, 2017
Production has started at Drax Biomass’ (DBI) newest sustainable compressed wood pellet facility, LaSalle BioEnergy in Urania, Louisiana.
“This is a very exciting moment, we have a dedicated and motivated work force that after months of upgrades, retrofits, and training is ready to produce,” said Pete Madden, President and Chief Executive Officer of Drax... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 30, 2017
The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP) has launched a consultation as part of its governance transition process.
Following a comprehensive review of 12 certification systems in operation across a variety of sectors a proposal for the new governance arrangements for the SBP has been developed.
The overriding objective is to transform SBP into a multi-stakeholder governed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 30, 2017
Anaerobic digestion is playing a pivotal role in a ground breaking environmental project that has seen European oysters returned to the waters of the Dornoch Firth on Scotland’s east coast.
Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University, whisky distillery Glenmorangie and the Marine Conservation Society have pioneered a project to return oyster reefs to the Dornoch Firth... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 30, 2017
Beer maker Carlsberg’s brewery in Falkenberg, Sweden, is now powered 100% by biogas and green electricity. The move has reduced the brewery’s carbon emissions from thermal energy and electricity to zero.
Earlier in 2017, the Carlsberg Group launched a new sustainability programme – Together Towards Zero. One of the four ambitions stated in the programme... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 29, 2017
Biomass and waste derived fuels contributed 2% of total US electricity generation in 2016, according to figures recently released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The EIA figures, included in its recently released annual electric power data, reveal that biomass and waste fuels produced 71.4 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2016. EIA defines biomass... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 29, 2017
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has used one of its modelling scenarios to predict that bioenergy will provide nearly 17% of final global energy demand in 2060, compared with 4.5% in 2015.
In its latest Technology Roadmap, entitled ‘Delivering Sustainable Bioenergy’, the IEA provides the technology milestones and policy actions needed to unlock the potential... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 28, 2017
Two EU-funded projects have called for the creation of an “embryonic” European biomethane market to encourage its use as a transport fuel.
This was concluded at a conference held by the two projects called BIOSURF (Biomethane as sustainable and renewable fuel) and Bin2Grid on 24 November, 2017, in Brussels.
The projects are aimed at increasing the production... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 28, 2017
Cory Riverside Energy, a UK-based recycling, energy recovery and resource management company, has revealed ambitious plans to build an integrated, low-carbon energy park at its site in Belvedere, south east London.
The energy park would complement Cory’s existing Riverside energy recovery facility (ERF), and comprise a range of technologies including waste energy... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 28, 2017
The European Parliament Committee for Industry, Research and Energy has voted to adopt a target of at least 35% renewables in the EU’s energy mix by 2030. The vote, on 28 November, was in response to a report by José Blanco, MEP from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, on the percentages of renewable energy in heating and cooling.
Blanco... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 28, 2017
Japan’s Osaka Gas Company has launched a pilot project in Thailand to determine the feasibility of supplying natural gas to vehicles by continuously removing carbon dioxide and other impurities from biogas generated from agricultural waste, and refining it into high purity methane gas. The ultimate goal of the pilot is to realise a full commercial operation.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 28, 2017
Chonburi Clean Energy (CCE), a joint venture company established by waste management firm Suez, WHA Utilities and Power, and Glow Energy, has begun work on an industrial waste-to-energy power plant in Chonburi, Thailand.
According to Suez, the facility is the first waste-to-energy plant in Southeast Asia to meet European emission standards.
With a designed capacity of... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 28, 2017
SENER is set to design, supply, build and commission a new, low emission biomass electricity plant in Huelva, Spain.
Engineering and technology group SENER has signed a contract with ENCE Energía y Celulosa for the turnkey arrangement that will see SENER operate and maintain the new facility during its first years of operation.
The new facility will be an electricity... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 28, 2017
Sweden-headquartered H&M is taking discarded clothing to a combined heat and power (CHP) station in Stockholm, according to media reports.
The CHP station in Vasteras, northwest of Stockholm, is converting from oil-and coal-fired generation to become a fossil fuel-free facility by 2020, according to a report in Bloomberg.
In a statement, H&M stated that it will... [Read More]
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Proceeds from the bond sale have been used to refinance $40 million of Gevo RNG’s outstanding 2021 green bonds
SIAAP (Greater Paris Sanitation Authority) and SUEZ have officially inaugurated a new state-of-the-art biogas production unit at the Seine Aval wastewater treatment plant in the Paris metropolitan area
Natural State Renewables has announced a key strategic partnership with Axens as part of its plan to produce carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from surplus forest biomass
