Dec 6, 2016
South Africa’s first independent landfill gas project comes online
Biomass News
Dec 6, 2016
China plans to increase the share of biomass-based energy in its power supply in a bid to reduce reliance on coal and improve air quality.
According to China’s National Energy Administration’s 13th five-year plan, covering the period of 2016 to 2020, the country will achieve biomass energy equivalent of 58 million of tonnes by 2020 the end of the plan.
Despite... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 6, 2016
UK food waste recycler ReFood has launched a campaign to reduce business food waste and donate money to homeless charities for the busy Christmas food retail period.
Last year’s campaign raised £4,000 (€4,750) for the company’s chosen charities and diverted an additional 192 tonnes of waste food away from landfill.
This year’s project will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 6, 2016
An initiative by youth organisations in Cameroon to turn human waste into biogas is reducing pollution and providing renewable energy to the university towns of Buea and Bamenda.
Bioenergy-Cameroon, a non-governmental organisation run by young people, installs equipment that converts waste from septic tanks and pit latrines into biogas, which can be used for... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 6, 2016
Pakistan’s first commercial-size biogas plant was has been inaugurated by US consul general Yuriy Fedkiw and the Minister for Livestock and Dairy Development Department of Punjab Asif Saeed Manais.
Joining these dignitaries at the government-owned Bahadurnagar Farm in Okara were Lollywood singers and dancers, bringing a bit of glamour to biogas technology.
The US... [Read More]
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Dec 6, 2016
More than one-fifth of the US population lives in a state with a goal of at least 50% renewable energy, according to the Fourth Annual Energy Report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
According to this new report, entitled Accelerating into a Clean Energy Future, America’s transition to a clean energy economy is irrevocably underway and delivering... [Read More]
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Dec 6, 2016
Danish engineering and contracting company Aalborg Energie Technik (AET) has secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a biomass-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant Novillars, France.
The plant is called Cogéneration Biomasse de Novillars (CBN).
The facility’s construction cost of €87 million has involved 13 players.... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2016
Drax Power has begun its latest search for future engineers starting from today (5 December, 2016).
The company, which operates the UK’s largest power station – and now the country’s biggest single site renewable power generator – is looking to recruit a further six apprentices to join its training programme beginning in 2017.
The places are... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2016
A city in Denmark is about to become the first in the world to provide most of its citizens with fresh water using only the energy created from household wastewater and sewage.
According to the New Scientist, the Marselisborg Wastewater Treatment Plant in Aarhus has undergone improvements that mean it can now generate more than 150 per cent of the electricity needed to... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2016
A £14m (€16.6m) anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, the largest in Wales, was officially opened by Bridgend AM Carwyn Jones on 2 December, 2016.
Developed by Agrivert, the plant takes food waste from Welsh homes and businesses and converts it into renewable energy.
Located at Parc Stormy near Bridgend, it is the company’s first foothold into Wales and is set... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2016
A team of scientists at Bristol University have developed a technology that uses radioactive waste to create a nuclear powered battery encased in man-made diamond with a potential lifespan of thousands of years.
The scientists behind the discovery say that it tackles the problems of nuclear decommissioning, clean electricity generation and battery life. The batteries could... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2016
Investors looking at residual waste treatment facilities should not be put off advanced conversion technologies (ACTs) by their checkered track record, according to specialist UK-based environmental consultancy Eunomia Research & Consulting.
In a new report published on 30 November, 2016, Eunomia has analysed the prospects for ACTs, such as gasification and pyrolysis... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 2, 2016
Air Liquide plans to construct and operate a landfill gas (LFG) to renewable natural gas (RNG) purification plant in Mississippi, US.
The plant will enable the conversion of the methane emitted by waste to a renewable energy capable of heating an estimated 4,500 homes per year.
The site in Walnut, owned by the Northeast Mississippi Solid Waste Management Authority... [Read More]
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Dec 2, 2016
The Finnish Government has expressed its satisfaction with the sustainability criteria for the use of forest biomass in energy production in the European Commission's proposal for a new Renewable Energy Directive.
The revised directive will create a solid foundation for increasing the use of renewable energy sources in Finland, said Olli Rehn, Minister of Economic Affairs.
“What... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 1, 2016
The UK’s 540 anaerobic digestion (AD) plants now generate more energy than the landfill gas sector and represent 2% of total UK gas production.
According to data from the UK Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), the AD industry’s success in the past 12 months – during which time over 100 new plants have come on stream – can be... [Read More]
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Dec 1, 2016
The bioenergy industry has given a mixed response to the European Commission’s revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED).
The revised RED, published yesterday (30th November), strengthens the existing EU criteria for bioenergy sustainability and extends them to cover also biomass and biogas for heat and power, according to the EC.
Commenting on the sustainability... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 1, 2016
Retail heavyweights Waitrose, John Lewis and Argos long-distance lorries are among the first users in the UK of a renewable biomethane fuel which is 35%-40% cheaper than diesel and emits 70% less CO2.
UK-based CNG Fuels will be supplying the retailers with compressed natural gas using biomethane produced from food waste.
According to CNG Fuels, renewable biomethane fuel... [Read More]
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