Manchester airport has become the first carbon neutral airport in the UK in the aftermath of a decade-long investment effort into energy efficiency and green technologies. The more than £7.5 million (€8.6m) investment campaign saw the installation of more than 25,000 low energy LED lights throughout the airport, including the first on any UK runway, and saving... [Read More]

Veolia’s 8MW Battlefield Energy Recovery Facility in Shropshire, UK, has been officially opened by Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal. The site, located in Shrewsbury and developed by Veolia on behalf of Shropshire Council, has been built to help transform the area’s residents’ residual waste into a resource. The facility processes 90,000 tonnes of... [Read More]

Renewable fuels will play a critical role in decarbonising the transport sector, and will complement the role of electric vehicles, Transport Minister John Hayes has said The UK’s Department for Transport will spend £20 million on supporting twenty innovative low-carbon projects. Speaking at a road transport conference in London, Transport Minister John Hayes... [Read More]

Consumer goods giant Unilever has announced a contract to use biomethane at five of its sites in the UK and Ireland.  Unilever UK & Ireland has signed a deal with a renewable energy company GENeco, which means that from 1 January 2017, its offices in Leatherhead and 100 Victoria Embankment, and its food and drink factories in Norwich, Trafford Park and Cork, will... [Read More]

Africa’s first biogas-powered electricity producer to sell surplus electricity to a national grid has come online at a Kenyan commercial farm. The Gorge Farm Energy Park, located in the market town of Naivasha, produces 2MW of electricity and heat to cultivate 1,740 acres of vegetables and flowers, with enough surplus power to feed 5,000-6,000 rural homes. The farm,... [Read More]

Renewable materials company American Process (AP) and Malaysian MYBiomass will work together to develop technology to produce nanocellulose and cellulosic sugars from oil palm empty fruit-bunches (EFBs). The companies signed a joint-development work agreement (JDA) for production of nanocellulose and cellulosic sugars from EFBs into material as enhancing additives in textile,... [Read More]

The UK government is set to call a snap assembly election in the wake of McGuinness’s resignation over the renewable heat incentive debacle, which has left the administration in Belfast with a £490 million (€562m) bill, according to media reports. According to the Guardian, the secretary of state for Northern Ireland is to address MPs after deputy... [Read More]

Environmental solutions provider China Everbright International has announced that its group has begun to provide online monitoring report of the hourly average level of gas emission for all of its operating waste-to-energy projects. This marks the completion of the "Four Steps" environmental information disclosure plan launched by the group in August 2015.  In a... [Read More]

The UK’s Green Investment Bank (GIB )is set to be stripped of its prized assets once Australia’s Macquarie Group seizes control of the state-owned British lender later this month, according to media reports in The Sunday Times. The Australian bank has ­already lined up suitors for some of the Green Investment Bank’s most valuable assets — even... [Read More]

Enviva Holdings, wood pellet giant, today publicly released the first data from its groundbreaking Track & Trace (T&T) programme. T&T is a proprietary system that enables Enviva to track every truckload of wood the company procures from the forest back to its source, providing a detailed understanding of the characteristics of the wood the company uses. Demonstrating... [Read More]

North India-based city Jaipur’s waste-to-energy plans have hit a roadblock due to the lack of a power purchase agreement (PPA), according to media reports. The Times of India reported that officials said that, in November 2015, the JMC had given its consent letter to establish the plant. Following this, the government departments and awarded company had to sign... [Read More]

Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association’s (ADBA) chief executive Charlotte Morton has written an open letter to the editor of UK-based newspaper The Mail on Sunday in response to the article published on AD on 1 January 2017, claiming it was misleading. The article, written by journalist David Rose and published on 1 January, claimed that AD plants increasingly... [Read More]

Martin McGuinness has stepped down as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister in protest against the handling of the renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme that could cost taxpayers £490m, accoridng to media reports.  The Sinn Féin MLA's resignation took effect from 5pm GMT Monday, according to the BBC. He cited the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) conduct... [Read More]

US researchers have maintained that miscanthus, long speculated to be the top biofuel producer, yields more than twice as much as switchgrass in the US using an open-source bioenergy crop database gaining traction in plant science, climate change, and ecology research. "To understand yield trends and variation across the country for our major food crops, extensive databases... [Read More]

Irish energy specialist Bord na Móna is to stop importing palm kernel shells from plantations in some of the world’s most biodiverse countries following concerns that it is helping to fuel deforestation. According to The Irish Times, since 2010, more than 150,000 tonnes of palm kernel shells (PKS) have been bought by the semi-state company to burn along with... [Read More]

China will invest 2.5 trillion yuan ($361 billion) into renewable power generation by 2020, as it moves away from coal to renewable energy.  The investment will create more than 13 million jobs in the sector, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said in a document that lays out its plan to develop the nation's energy sector during the five-year 2016 to 2020 period. The... [Read More]