Power plant specialist Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) will be delivering a high-efficiency biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Cramlington, UK. The construction of the 27.8MW plant is backed by solid UK green energy investors and is in line with the UK target of efficient and renewable energy. The Cramlington project will be yet another... [Read More]

Zebec Energy is set to start building an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Seacombe, UK, after the project was given the go-ahead by local authorities. Once built, the plant will have the capacity to process 36,000 tonnes of waste feedstock a year to produce enough biomethane to power more than 4,300 homes. Zebec also plans to construct a 1.4 mile pipeline to export surplus... [Read More]

Protesting residents in the village of Farnsfield, UK, have stopped the construction of an anaerobic digestion plant over fears of potential smell. Hundreds of protesters, under the slogan ‘Stop the Stink’, campaigned against the AD plant Freshgro, a company set up by nearby farmers, had proposed build in Farnsfield. The plant, which would have used food and... [Read More]

Mixers and pumps made by Landia, a Danish processing equipment manufacturer, are contributing to the success of the Bygrave Lodge AD plant in Hertfordshire, UK, designed, built, and run by Biogen. Processing 45,000 tonnes of food waste each year from supermarkets, food processors, households, and the hospitality industry, the 2MW Bygrave Lodge plant uses a total of four... [Read More]

Viessmann, a German manufacturer of heating, industrial, and refrigeration systems, has begun marketing synthetic natural gas (SNG) produced from surplus renewable electricity by means of a biological power-to-gas method for the first time in the world. The first plant of its kind to produce this type of SNG went into operation at the beginning of March this year, and... [Read More]

EcoEnergy Scandinavia, a Swedish renewables developer, has signed a memorandum of understanding to construct a 100MW biofuels plant in Ukraine. The development and initial phase of construction will require an investment $120 million (€106.4 million), according to the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration (DRSA). The Investment Centre at the DRSA has proposed... [Read More]

The Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP), an industry-led initiative by major biomass energy producers, is asking interested parties to provide feedback on draft regional risk assessments (RRA) for the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. RRAs are a key part of SBP’s focus on identifying and mitigating any risks associated with sourcing feedstock... [Read More]

Turboden, part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and provider of organic rankine cycle (ORC) turbogenerators for distributed power generation employing renewable sources and waste heat, has signed an order with Starwood, producer of medium density fibreboard (MDF), for a new cogeneration plant in Bursa, Turkey. The Turboden ORC system will produce 5.5MW of electric... [Read More]

Greenlane Biogas, a global supplier of integrated biogas upgrading solutions, has received a contract to provide engineering services to CR&R Waste & Recycling for its biogas-to-renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Perris, California. Greenlance will detail a design solution to make the RNG produced at the CR&R facility conform to the Californian Rule 30... [Read More]

MBI, a US-based biotech company, has been granted a patent (patent no. 9,102,964) for its Afex biomass pre-treatment technology by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The Afex technology enables energy producers to utilise the nearly 2 billion tonnes of biomass left on the fields annually after the harvest of crops such as corn, wheat, and rice and turn it into feedstock... [Read More]

Mickram, a UK-based renewable energy company, is considering an investment of £3 million (€4 million) to construct a 9GW anaerobic digestion (AD) plant. Plans for the plant, which would be located in King’s Lynn, are set to be submitted to local authorities for consideration next year if the project moves forward. Mickram is currently operating a wind... [Read More]

Porvoo Energy aims to increase its production capacity for district heat at its site in Loviisa, Finland, with the construction of a new boiler plant. Work at the €7 million expansion to the plant, which will see the use of renewable fuels on energy production increase from 70% to 90%, has already begun. KPA Unicon will supply the site with a Biograte 10MWth biomass... [Read More]

Construction of North America’s first closed-loop fully-integrated organics waste management system is underway at the Orgaworld Surrey site in the city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. The construction began earlier this year on the biofuels processing facility, which will convert kitchen and yard waste into renewable natural gas to fuel Surrey’s rubbish... [Read More]

Biomass Energy Enhancement (BEE), a Utah, US-based biomass technology provider, has developed a new biomass fuel manufacturing process that could replace coal in power plants without the need for equipment upgrades. The new process, developed over the past seven years, enables biomass fuel to be utilised in traditional coal-fired power plants as a direct replacement for... [Read More]

A Leicester, UK, farm that invested in an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in 2012 has installed two additional tanks and more than doubled its energy output, with multi million pound funding support from Yorkshire Bank. The Shropshire family are third generation farmers based in Huncote, Leicester, with their business employing 55 people and specialising in livestock and... [Read More]

Western Energy Systems, GE’s distributed power business, and San Francisco-based Phoenix Energy have signed an agreement for GE to provide equipment for an integrated biomass gasification solution to power a bioenergy plant in North Fork, US. The North Fork facility is the next in a series of bioenergy plants that Phoenix Energy is building in California. GE’s... [Read More]