Pellet Mill Press - October 20, 2015

Eon to sell Belgian coal-fired power plant to German Pellets The sale of German utility Eon’s Belgium 556-MW Langerlo coal-fired power plant to wood pellet producer German Pellets is expected to close this year. Eon has signed a share sale and purchase agreement with German Pellets. READ MORE SHARE
New report shows UK needs to do more to meet energy targets Last week, Carbon Connect released the report “Policy for Heat: Transforming the System," which is part two of the Future Heat Series, a series of two independent inquiries considering both the supply and demand of heat in U.K. buildings. READ MORE SHARE
	USDA seeks applications for REAP loans, grants USDA under secretary Lisa Mensah recently encouraged rural small businesses to apply for loans and grants to support renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. READ MORE SHARE
Report: renewable heat on the rise in Scotland Scotland is making quick progress toward its goal of achieving 11 percent of its nonelectric heat demand to come from renewables by 2020, increasing its renewable heat capacity by 42 percent from 2013 to 2014. READ MORE SHARE
EIA short-term winter outlook forecasts renewables The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released the winter edition of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, predicting total renewables used in the electric power sector to decrease by 2.7 percent in 2015. READ MORE SHARE
Waste to Wisdom project shows biomass energy potential Foresters and researchers are innovating unique ways to make use of forest residues—low quality trees, tree tops, limbs, and chunks that formerly would have been left in slash piles and burned, or worse, left to rot. READ MORE SHARE
Volkswagen Scandal and Wood Heat Technology The Volkswagen scandal should be a wake-up call to everyone who makes appliances that have to be tested for emissions and efficiency. READ MORE SHARE
Army Green: More Than Just a Color The U.S. Army relies on renewable energy and biomass power to become more energy-secure and resilient, while meeting its congressional mandates. READ MORE SHARE
ETI report provides outlook on meeting UK climate change targets A recent report released by the Energy Technologies Institute states that biomass combined with carbon capture and storage (CCS) remains the only credible route to deliver negative emissions to help meet the U.K.’s 2050 climate change targets. READ MORE SHARE
GSA, DOE seek technologies to improve building performance The U.S. General Services Administration and U.S. Department of Energy jointly issued a request for information this week for innovative, transformational green building technologies in support of their respective GPG and HIT Catalyst programs. READ MORE SHARE