Jan 16, 2017
Laos expands power grid and eyes biomass in renewable energy push
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Jan 16, 2017
An anaerobic digestion (AD) plant is being blamed for killing more than 1,000 fish in Wales, UK, according to media reports.
According to a report in UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday, officials are investigating if a fault caused hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic waste to be discharged from an AD plant and into the River Teifi in West Wales, killing every single... [Read More]
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Jan 16, 2017
French firm Suez Environnement has announced a strategic partnership with a cloud-based waste and recycling company, Rubicon Global, to advance the digitalisation of its recycling and recovery activities on mainland Europe.
The partnership was announced following Suez acquisition of a stake in Rubicon after it led the company’s latest funding round, which raised... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jan 16, 2017
UK wood fuel supplier Forest Fuels has opened a new wood pellet depot at Garston, Liverpool, in a bid to increase its financial investment in the region.
The ready availability of wood pellets for biomass boilers in the North West of England has been boosted with the arrival of Forest Fuels to its new facility in Liverpool, according to the company.
The... [Read More]
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Jan 16, 2017
Roberto Rinaldi FRSC, a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to fund his world-leading work on lignin valorisation.
According to Imperial College, these highly competitive grants are awarded to “outstanding early career researchers” to help... [Read More]
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Jan 16, 2017
Recycling and waste management company Veolia UK has acquired Cynergin – an energy services company and Energy Performance Contract (EPC) specialist.
Over recent years Cynergin has enjoyed notable success in a number of high profile Hospital Trust and public building energy projects, such as the Yeovil and Warrington & Halton Hospital Trusts and Somerset House... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 16, 2017
Beijing will strengthen environmental protection in 2017 by organizing an environmental police force to step up supervision and accountability in its 16 districts, according to acting mayor Cai Qi.
"Open-air barbecues, garbage incineration, biomass burning, dust from roads -- these acts of non-compliance with regulations are actually the result of lax supervision and weak... [Read More]
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Jan 13, 2017
US President Barack Obama has urged the US to take bolder action in tackling climate change in his last presidential speech.
In his farewell address, delivered on 10 January in Chicago, Obama said: “We’ve led the world to an agreement that has the promise to save this planet. But without bolder action, our children won’t have time to... [Read More]
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Jan 12, 2017
Global clean energy investment fell by 18% to $287.5 billion (€269.7bn) in 2016, dragged down by sharp falls in equipment prices and slowdown in key Asian markets.
According to a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), Chinese investment totalled at $87.8 billion, down 26% from the 2015 record high of $119.1 billion, while Japan invested a meagre $22.8... [Read More]
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Jan 12, 2017
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]
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Jan 12, 2017
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]
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Jan 12, 2017
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]
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Jan 12, 2017
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]
Biogas News
Jan 11, 2017
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]
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Jan 11, 2017
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]
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Jan 10, 2017
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]
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Jan 10, 2017
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]
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