April 1, 2015
BY Katie Fletcher
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Drax on Sept. 30 introduced a new interactive map feature for its Biomass Tracker tool that visualizes the journey that sustainably sourced woody biomass takes through the company’s global supply chain.
Verbio on Oct. 6 commissioned the world’s first large-scale ethenolysis plant based on rapeseed methyl ester at its Bitterfeld site. The new plant is capable of producing up to 60,000 metric tons of biobased chemicals annually.
Drax Group plc on Sept. 17 released a half-year trading update, noting the company has now substantively contracted all external volumes of biomass fuel required for Drax Power Station during the period of its new low-carbon CfD agreement.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office on Sept. 4 announced up to $58 million in funding to advance novel, high-impact chemical technologies that use domestically sourced alternative and waste feedstocks.
A U.K. official on Sept. 1 confirmed that the U.K. government does not intend to introduce replacement subsidies for small-scale biomass generators when the current Renewables Obligation (RO) support scheme expires in April 2027.