EXCLUSIVE: Unseasonably warm weather is affecting global demand for wood pellets, according to an industry expert. Speaking at the Argus Biomass 2016 conference held in London, Joao Rocha Paris, CEO of Portugal-based wood pellet firm Enerpar, said Europe was the main consumer of wood pellets in the world. However, he said due to three consecutive warm winters "we are facing... [Read More]

Clean Energy Technologies (CET) will deliver an innovative waste-to-energy system set for completion in Tennessee, US, later this year that will provide renewable electricity to a municipal wastewater treatment plant. The Tennessee project will mark the second commercial collaboration utilising the Clean Cycle Generator from CET. CET's equipment will generate over... [Read More]

Technical operator SudWasser has commissioned the biogas plant manufacturer Weltec Biopower as the general contractor for the setup of an anaerobic digestion unit and the utilisation of sewage gas at a wastewater plant in Burgebrach in Bavaria, Germany. The collected gas will be used for the generation of energy in the combined heat and power (CHP) plant for the existing... [Read More]

Environment and sustainability professionals have high levels of work satisfaction because they find their jobs personally, professionally and financially rewarding, according to new research. Statistics released by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) show that 82% of its members are satisfied with their career – the highest figure ever... [Read More]

US energy firm Bowerman Power has opened a new green energy plant in California. The plant, based in Orange County, will turn landfill gas into electricity. According to Bowerman, the facility will provide enough electricity to power 26,000 homes. With Bowerman, a subsidiary of Montauk Energy, joining the Olinda Landfill in Brea and the Prima Deshecha Landfill in San Juan... [Read More]

US Democrat Senator Ron Wyden (Oregon), is calling for increased production of sustainable, low-carbon biomass energy to heat and power homes and businesses, according to media reports. According to Renewable Energy World, in recent letters to US Senate appropriators, Wyden highlighted the important role of biomass programs at the US Forest Service and the US Department... [Read More]

Food businesses producing more than 50kg of food waste per week in Northern Ireland have to separate and recycle waste under a new law that came into effect on 1 April, 2016. Published guidance describe a “food business” as being “an undertaking, whether carried on for profit or not, and whether public or private, carrying out any activity related to... [Read More]

UK-based food waste recycler ReFood has started construction work on its £32m (€39m) anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Dagenham, south east London. Once complete, the facility, which will be located at the London Sustainable Industries Park (SIP) in Dagenham Dock, will be the company's third UK plant adding to its existing sites in Doncaster and Widnes. Being... [Read More]

Tennessee, US-based Astec Industries has received a $122.5 million (€108.3m) order to supply equipment for a Highland Pellets pellet plant, along with a related deposit on the order. Astec previously announced receipt of the initial $30 million order on August 20, 2015. The company plans to build and deliver the equipment in the additional order during 2016 and... [Read More]

Nearly 569,000 people work in clean energy throughout the US Midwest, according to an analysis released by Chicago-based Clean Energy Trust (CET) and the business group Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). Clean energy jobs throughout the region are expected to grow by more than 4% over the next year, with the possibility for even more growth with the right policies in place,... [Read More]

Amec Foster Wheeler, a UK engineering company, has been awarded a contract to supply a biomass dust combustion plant for Finnish utility company Seinäjoen Energia. The plant will be operated as back-up for a peak load district heating plant and increase capacity to 120MWth. Heavy fuel oil combustion will be replaced with biomass based fuels, including wood pellets,... [Read More]

The global biomass pellet market was valued at $6.9 billion (€6.17bn) in 2014 and it is expected to grow with a CAGR of 11.1% during the 2015-2020 period, a study published by P&S Market Research says. The increased level of investments in the biomass industry has propelled the technological advancement, and there has been a recent upsurge... [Read More]

California’s energy policy and planning agency, California Energy Commission, has approved $4.3 million in grants for projects to increase the efficiency of natural gas technology used in industrial, agriculture and water processes. The Gas Technology Institute, a US-based research and development organisation that focuses on natural gas, received... [Read More]

The UK-based Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has called for greater emphasis on progressing carbon capture and storage (CCS) and building a UK bioenergy sector in the next 15 years. ETI says increased attention in these areas is necessary if the UK is to meet its targets for decarbonising its energy system in the most cost effective way. The call was made by the organisation’s... [Read More]

North Carolina, US-based Duke Energy will buy swine and poultry waste output to use as feedstock for a planned biogas facility to generate renewable electricity at four power stations. Carbon Cycle Energy will build and own the plant whose location has not been announced, but is expected to be in eastern North Carolina. "It is encouraging to see the technological... [Read More]

The silent residents of the Arnos Vale cemetery in the UK may get a chance to put in some after-life work hours powering the graveyard’s new lighting system. A research team from Columbia University (CU) in the US has won a competition, organised by the University of Bath’s (UoB) Centre for Death and Society, to reimagine the historic resting grounds, opened... [Read More]