Saxlund International, a fully-owned subsidiary of the energy and environmental technology group Opcon, has received an order for the delivery of a biomass handling system. The system will be delivered for Babcock & Wilcox Vølund, Denmark, for a green energy project in Margam – Port Talbot, between Swansea and Cardiff in South Wales, UK. The scope of the... [Read More]

Brazilian biomass plants have produced an average of 1,449 MW in the first five months of 2015, Brazil’s Power Commercialisation Chamber (CCEE) reports. InfoMercade Mensal, a CCEE newsletter, reports the amount is up 17.5% from last year’s. In May Brazil’s calculated biomass power capacity was 10.7 GW, which is up by 9.6%. The state of Sao Paulo is the... [Read More]

UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) and Equitix have announced a commitment to fund the construction of a £30 million (€43 million) energy facility in Sheffield. The Equitix managed fund Energy Savings Investments (ESI), in which GIB is a cornerstone investor, is investing £14.6 million in the project. An additional £15 million of private capital has... [Read More]

In the US, the California Department of Food and Agriculture has announced that the AgPower Visalia project in Tulare County has been awarded a $3 million (€2.7 million) dairy digester R&D grant. The project, developed by Camco Clean Energy, will be built by Regenis at the Moonlight Dairy in Visalia, the heart of California's largest in the nation dairy industry,... [Read More]

Norske Skog is planning to build a biogas plant at the site of one of its mills in Norway, which will use bio-waste from the paper production process as feedstock. The company will invest NOK150 million (€17 million) in the project. 'We are planning to commercialise bio-waste from raw material into gas at our mills. Despite challenging markets, we believe that our... [Read More]

HoSt, a specialist in bioenergy systems, has received an order from Ataro Clima to construct a 1.5MWe biogas plant in Tsalapitsa, Bulgaria. This is the third such plant which HoSt will build in Bulgaria, and the second which will be able to handle large amounts of straw due to the addition of a straw input line. The need to digest these large amounts of straw instead of... [Read More]

The world's largest ever single shipment of biomass has been discharged on the quayside at Associated British Ports' (ABP) Humber International Terminal (HIT) at the Port of Immingham ready for onward transit to Drax power station. Almost 60,000 tonnes of wood pellets were unloaded from the POPI S – the first time such cargo has been carried by a Panamax-class vessel.... [Read More]

Vecoplan has executed a fixed-price contract with Fulcrum BioEnergy, to design, engineer, install and commission a municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstock processing system for Fulcrum's Sierra BioFuels Plant. Fulcrum has developed a reliable and efficient process for converting MSW, or household garbage that would otherwise be landfilled, into low-cost, low-carbon renewable... [Read More]

Boeing and Japanese aviation industry stakeholders have charted a course to develop sustainable aviation biofuel for flights during the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, when millions of people are expected to visit Japan. The Initiatives for Next Generation Aviation Fuels (INAF) – a consortium of 46 organisations including Boeing, All Nippon Airways (ANA),... [Read More]

On 10 July Mr Haris Basit became the new CEO of clean energy company Viaspace and was also appointed to the Viaspace board of directors. Basit comes to Viaspace with a proven and successful track record as a senior executive and technology entrepreneur. He has worked as a staff engineer at IBM, a manager at Rockwell International, a manager at Bell Labs, VP of business... [Read More]

Since it was launched one year ago, the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) has already launched over €250 million in calls for research proposals. The BBI JU is a €3.7 billion public-private partnership between the European Commission and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC). It is expected to help make the EU's economy more resource-efficient... [Read More]

Amber Infrastructure, a sponsor and manager of social and economic infrastructure projects, has announced the official start of construction on a £25 million (€35 million) green energy centre at Guardbridge in Fife, a project being developed by St. Andrews University which is part-financed by Amber's Scottish Partnership for Regeneration in Urban Centres fund... [Read More]

Macquarie has signed an agreement to support MGT Power in the financing of the 299MWe Teesside Renewable Energy Plant, which has received a UK Government-supported contract for difference (CFD). The Teesside plant will be fuelled by wood pellets and chips from certified sustainable forestry sources in the United States and Europe, with regular audits to ensure compliance... [Read More]

The University of Louisville Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research has formed a partnership with a South Carolina company to accelerate the commercialisation of a coal-like product made from wood and biomass materials. Greenville, South Carolina-based Integro Earth Fuels is the developer of NuCoal, a product made from sustainable wood waste that can be burned with... [Read More]

The University of Aarhus has revealed findings from an extensive study into the performance of Landia's externally-mounted GasMix system, showing that it increases methane production by almost 11% in a digester treating agricultural residues. The study also showed that viscosity was decreased by more than 31% when Landia's GasMix was used in a heat exchange tank treating... [Read More]

UK-based Clearfleau, a provider of on-site AD-based treatment solutions for the food and beverage sector, has finished the first stage in a major sustainability project for First Milk, at one of the UK's largest cheese creameries. Once operational, the plant will feed biomethane into the gas grid – the first dairy processing site in Europe to do so. Lake District... [Read More]