SECTIONS

HomeArticlesPodcastsJobs

Covanta sells 2 EfW plants, reaches financial close on UK plant

Article image

By Erin Krueger

April 29, 2019

Power UK 

Covanta Holding Corp. has shut down an energy-from-waste (EfW) plant in New Jersey, and announced plans to sell two other EfW facilities. The company also reached financial close on its U.K-based Rookery EfW project in late March.

Read More

The North Carolina Department of Commerce recently awarded U.K.-based Active Energy Group plc a $500,000 grant to support the development of its CoalSwitch manufacturing site in Lumberton, North Carolina.

Read More

The Canadian government recently awarded more than $4 million to two projects that aim to create value from forest products. One project focuses on the production of RNG, while the other aims to improve the competitiveness of Indigenous businesses.

Read More

National Grid is on the verge of filing proposals for the future of heat with the New York State Public Service Commission to help provide a greater platform to combat climate change by decarbonizing the gas network. RNG is part of that plan.

Read More

The BPA partnered with six renewable energy trade groups April 25 to send a letter to Congress opposing deep cuts in FY 2020 funding proposed by the Trump Administration for the Department of Energy's EERE, ARPA-E and NREL.

Read More

Georgia Renewable Power is commissioning two new 58-MW biomass power facilities in Georgia while planning a redesign at its flagship plant in North Carolina.

Read More

The 12th annual International Biomass Conference & Expo drew nearly 900 attendees to Savannah, Georgia.

Read More

Valmet has received an order from Biomasse Energie d'Alizay to convert a recovery boiler into a biomass boiler utilizing bubbling fluidized bed combustion technology (BFB) at DA Alizay mill in France.

Read More

Smithfield Foods Inc. and Roeslein Alternative Energy have formed a joint venture called Monarch Bioenergy to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) across Smithfield's hog farms in Missouri using manure feedstock.

Read More

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the third annual solicitation for large-scale renewable energy projects under the state's Clean Energy Standard on April 23. Bioenergy projects are among those eligible to apply.

Read More

Opportunities for Biomass Utilization in the Last Frontier

Article image

By Zackery Wright, Daisy Huang and David Nicholls

April 23, 2019

For the first time in more than 30 years, cofiring tests were performed at a utility-scale power plant in Alaska.

Read More

FortisBC announced it has received approval in principle from local authorities to purchase landfill gas from a landfill near Prince George, British Columbia, to purify and inject the gas into its natural gas distribution system as RNG.

Read More

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed Senate Bill 358 into law April 22 raising the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS) to 50 percent by 2030, up from the previous requirement of 25 percent by 2025.

Read More

Austin Energy announced April 18 that it has reached an agreement to acquire the Nacogdoches Generating Facility from Southern Power for $460 million. The 115-megawatt facility, located in Sacul, Texas, is fueled with waste wood.

Read More

More than 50 federal lawmakers have spoken out to encourage members of the Senate and House appropriations committees to provide robust fiscal year 2020 funding for Farm Bill energy title programs.

Read More

On April 17, California Ethanol & Power LLC (CE&P) announced that it was awarded a $10 million income tax credit as part of the California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) California Competes program.

Read More

The European Commission announced April 15 that it has approved state aid for an Irish scheme for renewable heat generation and for a waste-to-energy (WtE) cogeneration plant under development in Poland.

Read More

Increases in biomass power generation stop after decade of growth

Article image

By U.S. Energy Information Administration

April 15, 2019

Expansion in electricity generation from biomass and waste has ended in recent years, after growing from 2004 through 2014, and in 2018 was 2 percent below its peak generation of 71.7 million MWh in 2014, according to the EIA.

Read More

The Forest Service has released eligibility criteria for Indian tribes and Alaska tribal organizations that want to develop demonstration projects to promote biomass energy production under amendments made to the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004.

Read More

Royal DSM is reducing carbon dioxide emissions at its vitamin production facility in Sisseln, Switzerland, through a new biomass combined-heat-and-power (CHP) plant on the site. The new CHP plant opened April 9.

Read More

International technology Group Andritz has received an order from Eldorado Brasil to supply a biomass handling system for its new Onça Pintada plant in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Start-up is scheduled for the third quarter of 2020.

Read More

U.S. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler recently informed federal lawmakers that the agency is working on a rulemaking that will define biomass as carbon neutral. A proposed rule is expected to be released this summer.

Read More

The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently released data showing U.S. manufacturers produced approximately 710,000 tons of densified biomass fuel in December, with sales reaching 790,000 metric tons.

Read More

The DOE has announced a compendium of new research that explores how grinding, sifting, drying, pelletizing and chemically treating biomass before it reaches the biorefinery could help solve big challenges plaguing today's bioenergy industry.

Read More

Roeslein Alternative Energy acquires AERG

Article image

By Roeslein Alternative Energy

April 04, 2019

As of April 1, Roeslein Alternative Energy has acquired Alternate Energy Resources Group, an environmental engineering and construction firm, located in Texas. The two companies have been collaborating for several years on multiple projects.

Read More

The Japanese government is reportedly considering enacting a policy that would require palm kernel shells (PKS) to be meet sustainability criteria. A new FutureMetrics whitepaper predicts the policy could increase demand for wood pellets.

Read More

The U.K. government has released new energy data, reporting that renewables accounted for a record 33.3 percent of electricity generation last year. Bioenergy generation increased 12 percent when compared to 2017.

Read More

On March 27, the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service released updated export data that indicates the U.S. exported 386,778.7 metric tons of wood pellets in January, up from the 374,531.2 tons exported in January 2018.

Read More

A recent letter authored by the chair of the U.S. EPA's SAB and addressed to Administrator Wheeler outlines the SAB's findings with regard to its review of the EPA's 2014 Framework for Assessing Biogenic CO2 Emissions from Stationary Sources.

Read More

UK's largest waste wood gasifier becomes operational

Article image

By Bioenergy Infrastructure Group

March 27, 2019

Bioenergy Infrastructure Group has announced its U.K.-based Ince Bio Power facility is now fully operational. The 21.5 MW facility uses advanced thermal treatment technology, or gasification, to generate energy from wood.

Read More

< Previous PageNext Page >

Advertisement

Sign up for our e-newsletter!
BBI International Logo

@ Copyright 2025 - BBI International - All rights reserved.