Biomass

ANDRITZ to Supply Biomass Handling System to Brazil

Tuesday, 09 April 2019 REM ANDRITZ, a technology group based in Austria, has received an order from Eldorado Brasil to supply a biomass handling system for their new Onça Pintada plant in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. ...

New Lead Contractor Engaged at UK's Energy Works Hull

Friday, 05 April 2019 Dan McCue The UK’s Energy Works Hull has engaged the global engineering firm Black & Veatch as principal contractor to oversee the final stages of commissioning its combined heat and power gasification plant. ...

Andalusia Leads European Project to Analyze Quality of Biomass

Wednesday, 27 March 2019 Dan McCue Andalusia leads the European project BIOMASSTEP, co-funded by the European Commission through the Interreg-Poctep program, to develop a methodology enabling companies to evaluate the quality of biomass ...

Massachusetts Awards $2.8 Million for Renewable Heating Infrastructure, Including Biomass

Wednesday, 20 February 2019 Dan McCue The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has awarded five grants totaling $2,889,285 to Massachusetts businesses to fund infrastructure projects to increase the availability of low-carbon, ...

carbon Dioxide Being Captured in Innovative BECCS Pilot

Thursday, 14 February 2019 REM The first carbon dioxide has been captured at Drax Power Station in their innovative bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot. The demonstration plant at the power station, near Selby in North ...

Environmentalists Sue European Investment Bank Over Loan for Spanish Biomass Plant

Tuesday, 15 January 2019 Dan McCue A London-based environmental legal group, ClientEarth, sued the European Investment Bank last week over a $69 million loan for the development of a wood-fired power plant in La Coruna in Northern Spain. ...

New Composite Advances Lignin as a Renewable 3D Printing Material

Monday, 31 December 2018 REM Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a recipe for a renewable 3D printing feedstock that could spur a profitable new use for an intractable biorefinery ...

World’s first CO2 negative fuel to be presented at the UN Climate Summit

Monday, 26 November 2018 Robin Whitlock

NextFuel is introducing a completely new energy solution to climate change that is CO2 negative, cheap, profitable and massively scalable in the form of a briquette made from elephant grass.

UK countryside must be prepared for climate change so that it supports reduced emissions says CCC

Monday, 19 November 2018 Robin Whitlock The Committee on Climate Change, which advises the UK Government on climate change and clean energy, has published two linked reports finding that the British countryside is in need of substantial reform ...

ETI recommends an increase in UK biomass production

Monday, 05 November 2018 Robin Whitlock In a report released last week, the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has reviewed its 10 year bioenergy programme, recommending an increase in biomass production and the creation of the right environment ...