European biopower capacity to double by 2035
Tuesday, 15 May 2012 REM Biopower, which uses biomass for electricity generation, is a niche market but one that is expected to grow rapidly in Europe as utilities turn to the technology as a source of reliable and cost-compe...
Africa
Joint UNIDO and Kenya biomass project to begin in June
Wednesday, 09 May 2012 Toby Price According to a report by the news agency Xinhua, the joint UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has joined forces with Kenya to implement a five-year biomass project, which will kick off in ...
United States
New case study investigates commercial viability and funding for anaerobic digestion and biogas
Tuesday, 08 May 2012 REM Zero Waste Energy and Harvest Power are just two of the innovators taking advantage of anaerobic digestion as a means of recovering value from waste. These companies are amongst a recent batch of well...
Turboden enters UK market with organic biomass plants at Heathrow and BSkyB
Thursday, 03 May 2012 REM Italy's Turboden, a subsidiary of US-based Pratt & Whitney, has secured awards for two biomass-fueled Combined Cooling, Heat and Power plants for two of Great Britain's most well known institution...
Pratt & Whitney Power Systems to deliver biomass plant in British Columbia
Thursday, 03 May 2012 REMPratt & Whitney Power Systems has been awarded a contract to deliver a 13 MW biomass heat recovery power plant for West Fraser Timber Company in British Columbia, Canada.
The Netherlands
Offshore wind farms = seaweed = biofuel
Thursday, 03 May 2012 REM Ecofys has started a trial to cultivate seaweed on offshore wind farms which could then be used to produce biofuels. It has developed a cultivation module, which was towed out of the NIOZ harbour on t...
Researchers say they've found method to make plastics from biomass
Tuesday, 01 May 2012 REMA team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Delaware has discovered a new way to make plastic bottles from biomass rather than petroleum.
United Kingdom
Bioenergy could employ 50,000 in UK by 2020
Thursday, 26 April 2012 Toby Price A new report by bioeconomy consultants NNFCC (the UK’s National Centre for Biorenewable Energy, Fuels and Materials) for the UK Government, suggests that heat and power from biomass could deliver up...
Africa
Mali plays host to bioenergy forum
Thursday, 26 April 2012 REM A three-day Bioenergy Forum for the ECOWAS Region was held at the end of last month in Bamako, the capital of the African country Mali. The event formed part of efforts to support the development of r...
ENER-G powers green Nissan in Mexico's first landfill gas capture project
Tuesday, 24 April 2012 REM ENER-G Natural Power and its sister company Biogas Technology are generating clean electrical energy from biogas for use by Nissan at its manufacturing site in Aguascalientes. The power generated is b...
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