Denmark
New energy agreement applauded, sets 50% wind target for 2020
Thursday, 29 March 2012 Toby Price Denmark is continuing to make use of its EU presidency to lead by example in the clean energy space. It has just announced an ambitious energy agreement, taking it a decisive step closer towards a soc...
Malaysia
Malaysia looking to exploit its own palm oil biomass
Wednesday, 21 March 2012 Toby Price The Malaysian government has incorporated the Malaysian Biomass Initiative under the Global Science and Innovation Advisory Council to spur the development of the country’s palm oil biomass industry...
Six site visits planned for European bioenergy conference
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 Toby Price June will see bioenergy experts converging on Brussels to share knowledge and identify new business opportunities at AEBIOM European Bioenergy Conference 2012, one of the leading bioenergy conferences...
Europe
EU wind market grows, but slowed by flagging onshore segment
Thursday, 08 March 2012 Toby Price EurObserv’ER has released its latest wind power barometer showing that cumulative wind power capacity in the European Union (EU) at the end of 2011: 94.1 GW, up on the figure of 85.0 GW registered a...
Australia
Pig farms become less stinky down under
Friday, 02 March 2012 Toby Price Smelling a pig farm long before seeing it may become a thing of the past in Australia, as farmers turn to biogas production to generate additional revenues and produce clean energy. They are being hel...
Cuba
Experts sees future in biogas
Monday, 27 February 2012 Toby Price During an event organised by the Cuban Society for the Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Respect last week, experts concurred that biogas obtained from the anaerobic digestion of...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 17/02/2012
Friday, 17 February 2012 REM • Vattenfall Charges Hamburg Buses With Hydrogen From Renewables Bloomberg • Islands on land could make towns tsunami-proof New Scientist • Mustus, Lockheed to build biomass plant Edmunton Jo...
Fraunhofer turns brown bananas and squashed tomatoes into useful biogas
Thursday, 16 February 2012 REM Mushy tomatoes, brown bananas and overripe cherries – to date, waste from wholesale markets has ended up on the compost heap at best. However, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial...
Spain
AORA unveils Europe’s first hybrid micro CSP demonstration project
Monday, 13 February 2012 REM Israel’s AORA Solar has launched a demonstration – its first in Europe – of its “Tulip System” hybrid micro CSP technology. The demonstration is located at just outside the southern Spanish ...
United States
USDA announces new bioenergy funding
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 REM The US’s Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, has announced the availability of funds for Fiscal Year 2012 for two key programs to encourage the use of renewable biomass and production of advanced bi...