Biomass
Drax completes conversion of fourth biomass unit
Power giant now has four units generating electricity using biomass, leaving just two units burning coal at the Selby plant
SIMEC Atlantis Energy plans pellet fuel conversion for overseas coal power plants
Firm is already in talks with coal plants in Europe, Australia, Asia, and the USA about switching sites to run on waste-based biomass pellets
Cheers to that: Drax in talks with beer industry over CCS solution to CO2 shortage
Energy firm in talks with British Beer & Pub Association over upcoming CCS trial link up after CO2 shortages for UK industry this summer
Report: By April next year, England will be burning more waste than it recycles
New Green Party report warns surge in waste incineration levels mean valuable materials are going up in flames
Report: London's lost rivers could provide green heat source
Campaign group 10:10 publishes new research suggesting underground rivers could prove a valuable source of green heat for the capital
Vegan power row: Biogas industry defends sector's use of animal waste
Anaerobic digestion is a solution for, not the cause of, agricultural waste, insists ADBA following Ecotricity claims energy users are unwittingly supporting factory farming
Ecotricity launches world's first 'vegan electricity' offer
Green energy specialist promises to take on industry's dirty secret and deliver power that avoids all animal by-products
'Government must provide more certainty': Drax, biomass CCS, and the end of coal
Drax Power CEO Andy Koss talks to BusinessGreen about the firm's new carbon capture project and why new gas is needed to balance the ever cleaner power grid
Atlantis proposes £20m share issue in support of expansion plans
Renewables developer to raise funds in support of waste to energy and marine energy expansion plans
NAO: Locking bigger biomass plants out of clean energy contracts to cost consumers £100m a year
Government hints cap on power plants to be dropped, as analysis of CfD auctions concludes rule changes for 'fuelled technologies' drove up costs
Fir things first: A route to truly sustainable biomass
Labour's Alex Sobel suggests a course of action that might help policymakers and biomass power firms see the wood for the trees
When will the biomass bubble burst?
The sustainability myth of burning wood for energy is perched on a thin branch, argues ClientEarth's Caroline Haywood
Can sustainable bioeconomy be a driver of Green Growth?
Dr. Frank Rijsberman of the Global Green Growth Institute reflects on the challenges and opportunities faced by the revolution underway in the bioeconomy
Bristol Energy taps 'poo bus' creators to run city on sewage
Bristol-based utility teams up with GENeco, the company behind the 'poo bus', to roll out green gas produced from toilet waste
Network problems: The peculiar case of home heating in Northern Ireland
The recent cold snap - and the ensuing spike in home heating oil prices - underscores the decarbonisation challenge in Northern Ireland, argues Policy Exchange's Matt Rooney
German water treatment company EnviroChemie acquires cheese waste start-up Clearfleau
British start-up turns cheese waste into green gas
Renewables meet equivalent of entire British electricity demand - in 1958
Sixty years ago annual electricity demand hit 91TWh - in 2017 the UK produced 96TWh from renewables alone
Drax to proceed with new coal to biomass conversion following government subsidy reforms
Government response to consultation on controlling biomass ROC subsidy costs opens path for energy giant to convert a fourth biomass unit
Home biogas: turning food waste into renewable energy
Australians love cooking with gas, but what if you could make your own supply, using leftover food waste? It may be time for more households to embrace home biogas - and stop paying gas bills
Where there's muck, there's biocoal
A UK firm is planning to this year deliver the first facility in Europe capable of turning a wastewater plant's sewage into a source of 'carbon neutral', clean burning biocoal
Mayor Sadiq urges government to give him the tools to tackle construction pollution
Mayor claims new powers needed to tackle the 50 per cent of London air pollution that is not generated by road transport
UK energy supply needs biomass to help eliminate coal and aid rise of renewables
Drax's Matthew Rivers hits back at biomass criticism, arguing the technology acts as a guarantee of reliable supply as the UK grid goes low-carbon
The new UK government needs an immediate exit strategy from bioenergy
Sasha Stashwick of the Natural Resources Defense Council argues biomass is a false hope for cutting carbon emissions
Frozen grocer Greenyard cooks up clean energy with old veg boxes
Greenyard Frozen is set to power its frozen vegetable business with new biomass boilers fuelled by discarded vegetable boxes
