Jul 22, 2016
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Pellets News
Jul 21, 2016
Wood processing specialist Canfor has opened two new wood pellet plants worth C$58 million (€40.3m) in Canada’s British Columbia.
The two plants, located at Fort St. John and Chetwynd, were built at Canfor's existing sawmills and have a combined annual production capacity of 175,000 tonnes of wood pellets, Prince George Citizen reports.
The Chetwynd plant began... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 21, 2016
The UK’s House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has today launched a new inquiry into the economics of the UK energy market.
UK energy policy over the last decade has focused on three objectives:
maintaining continuous supplies of energy and minimising threats to energy security;
ensuring that the costs of energy supply are competitive for business and individual... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 20, 2016
Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer, has launched a new insurance proposition for biogas and solar plants, projects, or facilities in the UK and Ireland.
Biogas and solar are playing an increasing role in the UK's energy mix with 200 biogas plants in operation across the country.
In early July, for the first time ever, solar... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 20, 2016
Brazil's power sector regulator Aneel has licensed a 5MW biomass project that won a contract in the A-5 energy auction held on 29 April.
Aneel's licences confirm the tax regularity and the legal, technical, economic, and financial qualifications of the projects.
Owned by local Predilecta Alimentos, the wood chip-fuelled plant will begin commercial operation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 19, 2016
UK-based waste management company Urbaser Balfour Beatty (UBB) has begun site preparation works at its Gloucestershire energy-from-waste (EfW) plant, despite concerns over the site’s effects on public health.
To be located at Javelin Park, Gloucestershire, UBB hopes to have the construction work begin in earnest in September 2016.
The company has signed a contract... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 18, 2016
The global death rate from air pollution will skyrocket in the next few decades lest the energy buckles down and significantly reduces its emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.
In the Energy and Air Pollution special report under the World Energy Outlook, IEA says an estimated 6.5 million death are caused by air pollution annually.
Of these deaths, 3.5... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 15, 2016
UK-based energy-from-waste (EfW) technology supplier, Energos, has entered administration, due to “cash flow issues caused by contractual disputes with their two main contractors”.
Matthew Wild and Lindsey Cooper of RSM Restructuring Advisory have been appointed joint administrators of Energos.
The company had four ongoing contracts for the construction... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 15, 2016
French resource management company Veolia has signed a five-year contract with Lowell Energy AD for the operations and maintenance of its Lowell Energy Anaerobic Digester.
Under the contract, Veolia is charged with improving performance of the anaerobic digestion (AD) system to increase biogas and power output.
Commissioned in 2015, the Lowell Energy biogas-to-electricity... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 15, 2016
The abolition of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has prompted mixed views from the UK’s renewable energy sector.
The UK’s new Prime Minister Theresa May scrapped DECC in her Cabinet reshuffle on Thursday (14 July). DECC policy areas will now move to the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The energy portfolio will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 14, 2016
The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), a representative of the UK AD industry, has called for “more ambition” for anaerobic digestion from the government in its response to the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) consultation, which was submitted today.
The consultation, which considers tariff levels and scheme rules from 2017, proposed to leave “caps”... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 14, 2016
Arizona’s first attempt to generate electricity with a mix of biomass and coal will take place later this year, using debris from forest thinning projects in northern Arizona, US.
The test run will take place at the Coronado Generating Station in eastern Arizona, operated by the Salt River Project (SRP), reports Knau Arizona Public Radio.
Officials plan to burn coal... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jul 14, 2016
Within 25 years, the US could produce enough biomass to support a bioeconomy, including renewable aquatic and terrestrial biomass resources that could be used for energy and to develop products for economic, environmental, social, and national security benefits, a new study finds.
The 2016 Billion-Ton Report, jointly released by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 14, 2016
A UK biogas company has been ordered to pay £20,000 (€23,859) for poor management of a facility and polluting waterways.
The UK Environment Agency said Trinity Hall Biogas poorly managed its anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, which led to watercourses being polluted, the Energy Live News reports.
Luton Magistrates’ Court heard water... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 14, 2016
The UK’s new Prime Minister Theresa May has scrapped the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in her Cabinet reshuffle. DECC policy areas will now move to the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The energy portfolio will now be led by former Communities Secretary Greg Clark.
A DECC spokesman confirmed to Bioenergy Insight that... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 13, 2016
Researchers at the University of Georgia have crossed American sweetgum tree with its Chinese cousin, creating hybrid sweetgum trees that have a potential to boost bioenergy production.
The hybrid sweetgums have a better growth rate and denser wood than native varieties and can produce fibre year-round.
Sweetgum trees thrive under diverse conditions, grow as fast as pine... [Read More]
Other News
Jul 13, 2016
Groen Gas Gelderland (GGG), a co-operative venture between biogas specialists BEB Holding, Engie Biogas Holding and Biogas Plus, has started construction of biogas plant in the Netherlands.
The plant, which is due to open in 2017, aims to produce gas from 72,000 tonnes of waste per year. The waste includes manure, high-energy crops and grass.
AIM-listed Greenlane Biogas,... [Read More]
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