Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have discovered that a certain bed material improves the combustion efficiency of waste and biomass while decreasing operating and maintenance costs significantly.
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.
The European Bioenergy Research Institute at Aston University has released a guide that reports United Kingdom capabilities and progress in fast, intermediate and slow pyrolysis, as well as torrefaction.
Fortistar recently announced that it acquired two landfill-gas-to-energy projects, expanding its landfill gas portfolio by 11 MW. The acquisitions from Green Gas Americas follow the closing last week of $150 million in financing for its LFGTE work.
The African continent could generate nearly a quarter of its energy needs through the use of indigenous, clean, renewable energy by 2030, according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency.
The International Energy Agency recently released its annual Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report at a Group of 20 leaders' meeting in Turkey. The report forecasts global market trends and developments for renewable energy and biofuels to 2020.
Aberystwyth University scientists are playing a pivotal role in a £1.8 million ($2 million) project to develop the technology required to plant the energy crop miscanthus from seed.
A group of companies in Kansas created Konza Renewable Fuels to focus on commercializing wood torrefaction technology five years ago and are now in the process of fabricating the equipment for their first sale.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a story about the 2,000-MW Eggborough Power Station in North Yorkshire, England, and how it had officially decided that it would close, and not convert to biomass, which was once quite a viable option.
Sumitomo Corp. has made public plans to construct a 50-MW wood biomass power plant in Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture through its wholly owned subsidiary Summit Energy Corp.
The U.S. DOE is proposing a new initiative to significantly accelerate adoption of sustainable clean and energy efficiency strategies in remote rural Alaskan communities.
This month, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced a roadmap in support of President Obama's goal to double U.S. energy productivity by 2030. The report lays out a path businesses, state and local governments, consumers and others can use.
A recent Rutgers University assessment on bioenergy potential in New Jersey found that the state producers over 7 million dry tons of biomass annually, over 4 million of which could be recovered and used to generate power, heat or vehicle fuel.
Each year, during the production of the on-site and small-scale issue of Biomass Magazine, a theme we hadn't anticipated emerges.
This month, the U.S. DOE released its second Quadrennial Technology Review. The report examines the current status of clean energy technologies, identifying clean energy research opportunities for the power sector.
After years of regulatory uncertainty, in August the U.S. EPA took two actions that could have a big impact on the biomass industry
Westervelt Renewable Energy has achieved Sustainable Biomass Partnership certification from NSF Sustainability, a division of global public health organization NSF International.
Although biogas projects have multiple configurations that present some challenges in resource scale up, the flexible feedstock sources and end-use utilization make them a worthwhile pursuit.
More and more big-name companies are installing fuel cells, some powered by biogas and some marketed as such, for on-site power production.
Building on the U.S. DOE's Quadrennial Energy Review installment released earlier this year, U.S. Senate democrats released a tax reform proposal that aims to early on address U.S. energy challenges predicted in the report.
Pellet Mill Magazine Executive Editor Tim Portz doubles back to his USIPA conference preview to see if his questions were answered and what he learned.
The Sustainable Biomass Partnership has today announced that NSF International has become an “SBP-approved” certification body.
USIPA's 5th Annual Exporting Pellets Conference opened in Miami with a cautious eye on the first conservative majority in the United Kingdom in nearly 20 years, and the potential implications for the industrial wood pellet industry.
The UK Green Investment Bank plc and John Laing Group plc have committed £48m ($74.4 million) of equity to a new £138m renewable energy facility in North East England, developed by Estover Energy.
Upcoming U.S. Industrial Pellet Association 5th Annual Exporting Conference occurring during an exciting time for the industry. Seth Ginther says it's critical the industry remain flexible as it heads into a period of expansion and diversification.
Michigan State University and PHYCO2 have entered into a partnership to develop algae technologies produced from PHYCO2's patented concept that promotes algae growth and sequesters, or captures, carbon dioxide from power plant emissions.
As the consumption of wood pellets in European power stations matures, shipping efficiency is maximized by utilizing the largest vessels available.
Turboden, a provider of Organic Rankine Cycle turbogenerators for distributed power generation employing renewable sources and waste heat, signed an order with Starwood for a new 5.5-MW cogeneration plant in Bursa, Turkey.
Active Energy Group plc and Biomass for Energy have announced a joint venture with Utah-based Biomass Energy Enhancements LLC to commercialize a pretreatment technology that BEE says enables biomass to be utilized as a direct replacement for coal.
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