Apr 5, 2017
Powerday inks new RDF contract with Geminor
Biogas News
Apr 5, 2017
UK anaerobic digestion (AD) company Agrivert has supported a group of tiny bananas that took over Oxfordshire-based Blenheim Palace in a bid to raise awareness about how local food waste is being turned into renewable energy and biofertiliser.
Pupils from an Oxfordshire Primary School donned banana costumes and roamed the Palace grounds, learning how UK households... [Read More]
Pellets News
Apr 4, 2017
Wood pellet manufacturing company Drax Biomass has won the bidding battle for the acquisition of the bankrupt Louisiana Pellets.
Drax Biomass operates two huge white pellet storage domes at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, as well as two other pellet production facilities in the area.
Urania based Louisiana Pellets filed for bankruptcy in early 2016, and recently... [Read More]
Other News
Apr 3, 2017
Uniting bioenergy markets will be the focus for the Bioenergy Insight Conference & Expo 2017.
The two-day event will take place from 4th-5th October in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The unmissable event will be co-located with the Biofuels International Conference and Expo, now in its 10th year.
Bioenergy markets are growing and commercial opportunities exist for organisations... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 3, 2017
A company in Kolkata, India, has launched a new bus that runs on biogas produced from cow dung.
Phoenix India Research (PIR), the company behind the new bus, claims it’s the first biogas fuelled bus to be launched in south-east Asia. Four more biogas buses are set to enter service in Kolkata over the next month, with a further ten planned by the end of the year.
The... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 31, 2017
The equipment and machinery used for the high load and high pressure production of wood pellets is facing a reduced lifespan because of the inadequacy of existing industrial grease products, according to a new case study by NCH Europe.
Globally, the market for wood pellets is booming thanks to a growing demand for pellets as biofuel in both residential heating and industrial... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 31, 2017
The UK’s Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has launched a new project to investigate how removing impurities from sustainable biomass feedstocks can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of biomass energy.
Biomass feedstocks specialist Forest Fuels and energy company Uniper Technologies will work with the ETI in a £2.2 million (EUR 2.6 million) project... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 31, 2017
Europe is receiving biomethane from the UK for the first time, green gas shipper Barrow Green Gas announced.
It is being sent from the UK to Europe via the interconnector pipeline to Essent in the Netherlands.
Essent, the largest energy company in the Netherlands, is importing green gas to meet growing demand in the Netherlands which cannot all be met locally.
The green,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 30, 2017
Malaysia-headquarted renewable energy group Green & Smart Holding saw a 181% increase in net profit for the year ended 30 September 2016, helped by the group maintaining and increasing its biogas contracts.
Net profit increased 181% to RM9.9m (€2.08m) last year, compared to RM3.5m the year before.
Revenue increased 260% to RM67.38m, compared to RM18.70m the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 30, 2017
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 28MW combined heat and power (CHP) plant to the Meliadine Gold Mine project in Canada, owned by Agnico Eagle Mines.
The order includes five Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel engines running on light fuel oil (LFO) or natural gas. Wärtsilä's scope includes the power generation and CHP equipment supply,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 30, 2017
US based landfill gas industry O & M contractor and engineering company ENERGYneering Solutions Inc. (ESI) have signed a supply and service contract for Topsoe’s proprietary HiPerFuel landfill gas conditioning solutions. The HiPerFuel unit will deliver high-purity fuel gas for an ESI landfill gas power plant in Washington State.
The contract is the first deal... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 30, 2017
BioHiTech Global, a US waste management technology company, has announced that it acquired a 17.2% equity interest in the nation's first resource recovery facility utilising a proprietary mechanical biological treatment (MBT) technology for the disposal and recycling of mixed municipal solid waste (MSW).
BioHiTech, through its interest in Apple Valley Waste Conversions,... [Read More]
Other News
Mar 30, 2017
Brexit is generating inertia and squeezing the growth of the renewable energy sector, according to Rachel Nutt, Tax Partner and head of Renewable Sustainable Energy at business advisors’ MHA MacIntyre Hudson.
Nutt believes Brexit is creating a challenging and uncertain time for renewable businesses. “Brexit, and the resulting lack of announcements about future... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 29, 2017
A stalled attempt to revive a biomass project in Vermont has seen the developer take his case to the state’s Supreme Court.
In 2010 a bid was launched to build a wood-chip burning power plant close to the border between Connecticut and New York. The project had to be put on hold in 2014 following the withdrawal of one of its major financers.
Ted Verrill, owner of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 29, 2017
A new research project has been set up to investigate how Germany’s biogas plants will operate after 2030, when the majority of the country’s 9,000 facilities are going to stop receiving state subsidies.
Germany’s federal environment agency has commissioned the German biomass research centre (DBFZ) to carry out the research. DBFZ claims that Germany’s... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 28, 2017
A proposed new biomass plant in the South West of England has caused controversy in the village where it is set to be built.
Residents of Woolavington, Somerset, have voiced their opposition and concerns about the new wood chip fuelled biomass plant. In particular, they argue that they have not received enough information about the new development. The proposal, by SHAL... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 28, 2017
Waste to energy firm Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) will build a 33,000 tonne per year dry anaerobic digestion facility in San Luis Obispo, California. The project is being financed by a Design, Build, Finance, Own Operate deal from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
HZI say that the new plant is set to be the first Kompogas project in the US. It will be completed... [Read More]
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