Biomass

Thyssenkrupp Signs Agreement with Babcock & Wilcox for Renewable Energy Technology

Wednesday, 27 February 2019 REM Thyssenkrupp Industries India has signed an exclusive license agreement with Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S (B&W Vølund), Denmark for B&W Enterprises Inc’s proven, European-designed, water-cooled ...

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 ...

Ecoprog Releases New Biomass to Power 2018/2019 Study

Thursday, 24 January 2019 REM A new market analysis from Germany-based ecoprog states biomass subsidization schemes have recently experienced positive amendments in Europe while Asian countries are currently reducing this kind of support ...

N.C. Bioenergy Research and New and Emerging Crops Initiative Awards Nearly $1 Million in Grants

Wednesday, 16 January 2019 REM The North Carolina Bioenergy Research and New and Emerging Crops Initiative recently awarded nearly $1 million in grants for nine projects to boost bioenergy opportunities and crop production in the state. ...

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 ...

Japan

27th EUBCE to collaborate with JIE on biomass energy

Thursday, 06 December 2018 Robin Whitlock The 27th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition (EUBCE) has signed an agreement with the Japan Institute of Energy (JIE) with the aim to co-organise two events in the field of biomass gasification ...

NREL algae testbed experiment yields data useful for future projects

Wednesday, 28 November 2018 Robin Whitlock A unique experiment that explored how well algae grows in specific regions of the United States yielded data that could prove useful as the industry moves forward, according to research from the US Department ...

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.