Feb 6, 2017
Vega Biofuels beefs up biocoal capabilities
Pellets News
Feb 3, 2017
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]
Biomass News
Feb 3, 2017
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]
Pellets News
Feb 3, 2017
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]
Biogas News
Feb 2, 2017
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]
Other News
Feb 2, 2017
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]
Other News
Feb 2, 2017
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]
Biomass News
Feb 2, 2017
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]
Biogas News
Feb 2, 2017
UK-based food waste recycler ReFood (UK) has appointed Britcon to deliver an extension to its £24 million (€28m) plant in Widnes.
Lincolnshire-based construction and development business Britcon is building a new £1.2 million digester tank on the site which processes food waste into gas for the National Grid.
The appointment follows Britcons successful... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 1, 2017
The Austrian Energy Agency (AEA) and the European Biomass Association, AEBIOM, have teamed up together to launch a new ‘Bioheat Profitability Assessment tool’.
The tool is part of a European Union’s H2020 Bioenergy4Business project. It has been developed for the examination and comparison of investments in biomass-heating and equivalent fossil fuelled... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 31, 2017
The World Biogas Association (WBA) has agreed to partner with the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) to showcase the global biogas industry at ADBA’s leading AD & Biogas trade show, which last year was attended by participants from over 50 countries.
UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017 will take place on the 5-6 July at the NEC... [Read More]
Other News
Jan 31, 2017
Britain is falling behind on its commitments to meet its 2020 renewable energy targets, while the European Union overall remains on track, according to a report by Reuters this morning.
Other nations identified by the Commission as falling behind are Luxembourg and Ireland.
Targets are set by the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED), introduced in 2009. The United... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 30, 2017
GE’s Water & Process Technologies is collaborating with a Canadian university on a research initiative to maximise renewable energy generation and simultaneously produce a pathogen-free biosolids fertiliser.
The new pilot is located at the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) wastewater demonstration facility adjacent to the city of Guelph wastewater... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 27, 2017
DuPont Industrial Biosciences has been awarded a grant from the European Commission to demonstrate high-efficiency enzyme production to increase biogas yields.
The grant comes as part of the DEMETER project, funded from the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking under the EU’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme.
Enzyme technology has been... [Read More]
Other News
Jan 27, 2017
The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) is set to invest more than £700,000 (€822,400) in Scottish microenterprises specialising in industrial biotechnology (IB).
Spread across five research projects, the funding will boost research in areas such as new and environmentally-friendly protein production, new tools for vaccines and therapies, processes... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 26, 2017
A special elliptical tank made from precast panels by Whites Concrete (part of the Naylor Group) has been installed for a new anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Lincolnshire, UK.
One of an increasing number of successful biogas plants operated by a leading multi-disciplinary construction, engineering and operating group, Whites Concrete has also provided a circular Sealwall... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 26, 2017
ILC Construction AS has placed an order worth NOK 35 million (€3.91m) with Pilum, the energy and environmental technology Group’s subsidiary Hotab Biosystems , for a turnkey subcontracting solution to deliver a heating plant to the Oslofjord Convention Centre in Stokke, Norway to provide district heating for the convention centre.
Oslofjord Convention... [Read More]
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