A group of Texas AgriLife Research scientists is studying the costs of getting potential bioenergy sources, such as mesquite, to the processed stage for delivery to potential wood-fired bioelectricity plants.
The Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development took place last week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The primary objective of the event is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development.
Financing a bioenergy project in the midst of today's Euro Zone market whirlwind and the continuing saga of another Moody's bank downgrade announcement highlights what has become a confusing, yet simple truth about renewable energy project finance.
I recently came across a report by GlobalData discussing India's extreme dependence on coal, and how the Indian government's move to try to rectify a shortage in the country won't work in short term.
Smurfit Kappa Group plc has announced the startup of a 21.4 MW steam cogeneration plant at its paper mill in Nervion, Spain. According to the company, the cogeneration plant is part of a €20 million ($25 million) biomass energy investment.
The second straw-fired power plant in the U.K. is under development in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, in eastern England. North Midland Construction plc recently announced it has been awarded a $14.9 million contract for work on the 38 MW plant.
A gasification technology designed by Mechanicsburg, Pa-based Enginuity Energy that converts poultry litter and others wastes into energy may be headed to France after a recent visit by two French agriculture officials to the company's headquarters.
New Hampshire has become the first state to grant full credit to renewable thermal projects under a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) through S.B. 218.
A new European Biofuels Technology Platform report that addresses the potential to couple carbon capture and storage (CCS) with biofuel and biomass heat and power technologies. The report is titled “Biomass with CO2 Capture and Storage (Bio-CCS)."
Toronto-based nonprofit organization ZooShare Biogas Cooperative Inc. is working to develop a project that would convert zoo manure and other locally-sourced waste biomass materials into renewable electricity and fertilizer.
North Carolina Natural Energy Inc. has issued a letter of intent to purchase a 40 percent stake in the Construction Management Institute, an investment that will net North Carolina Natural Energy Inc. $984,000 per year for the next three years.
The Senate has finished voting on 73 amendments proposed for the 2012 Farm Bill and passed it on to the House, leaving the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, Rural Energy for America Program and Biorefinery Assistance Program intact.
The American Council on Renewable Energy has launched a new website designed to address the imbalance in America's debate over clean and renewable energy. The Energy Fact Check website allows visitors to learn the truth about renewable energy.
A community outreach program spearheaded by Weston Solutions, an environmental consulting company, has moved a proposed biomass combined-heat-and-power (CHP) facility one giant step closer to completion in Springfield, Vermont.
By reverse engineering a seed, energy crop developer New Energy Farms says it has developed a unique system for establishing miscanthus that could potentially reduce farmer establishment costs by 50 percent or more.
Montreal-based La Coop federee has signed an ownership agreement with advanced biomass company Prairie Bio Energy Inc. Under the agreement, LCF assumes 50 percent ownership over the intellectual property held by the PBE Group.
Covanta Energy Inc. has commissioned a new metal recovery system at its 80 MW waste-to-energy plant in Fairfax County, Va., a system that is specially designed to recover very small particles of non-ferrous metal from three-eighths of an inch.
Opcon, the energy and environmental technology group, has received yet another order for equipment that recycles waste heat, this time within the bioenergy sector in the Czech Republic.
A Brazilian subsidiary of Japan-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. recently received an order for a high-capacity, high-performance biomass-fired boiler from Brazil's largest pulp maker.
The California Energy Commission has selected Clean World Partners LLC to receive a $6 million grant to support a biogas and bioenergy project. The funding will enable the expansion of the company's Sacramento project.
Norfolk, U.K.-based renewable energy developer Iceni Energy Ltd. has announced the successful approval of its planning application for a straw-fuelled biomass plant near Snetterton. The plant will burn primarily cereal and oilseed rape straw.
Legislation allocates mandatory funding to the 2012 Energy Title
How to reduce costs or lessen responsibility to the customer
The U.K. biomass industry is waiting for regulatory clarity
The 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo in the Mile High City drew attendees from around the world, eager to learn and meet others who share their passion
Bioenergy from farm waste can help solve well-known runoff issues in the Chesapeake Bay
Massachusetts' final RPS regulations could quash biomass energy in the state
Keynote speaker Carlton Owen said the traditional hurdles aren't the big ones
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