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Biomass

SIMEC Atlantis Energy plans pellet fuel conversion for overseas coal power plants
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

  • Biomass
  • 13 August 2018
Cheers to that: Drax in talks with beer industry over CCS solution to CO2 shortage
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

  • Biomass
  • 13 August 2018
Report: By April next year, England will be burning more waste than it recycles
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

  • Biomass
  • 16 July 2018
Report: London's lost rivers could provide green heat source
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

  • Biomass
  • 09 July 2018
Vegan power row: Biogas industry defends sector's use of animal waste
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

  • Biomass
  • 06 July 2018
Ecotricity launches world's first 'vegan electricity' offer
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

  • Energy
  • 04 July 2018
'Government must provide more certainty': Drax, biomass CCS, and the end of coal
'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

  • Biomass
  • 19 June 2018
Atlantis proposes £20m share issue in support of expansion plans
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

  • Investment
  • 21 May 2018
NAO: Locking bigger biomass plants out of clean energy contracts to cost consumers £100m a year
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

  • Policy
  • 16 May 2018
Fir things first: A route to truly sustainable biomass
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

  • Biomass
  • 15 May 2018
When will the biomass bubble burst?
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

  • Biomass
  • 08 May 2018
Can sustainable bioeconomy be a driver of Green Growth?
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

  • Biomass
  • 24 April 2018
Bristol Energy taps 'poo bus' creators to run city on sewage
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

  • Biomass
  • 18 April 2018
Network problems: The peculiar case of home heating in Northern Ireland
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

  • Biomass
  • 12 April 2018
German water treatment company EnviroChemie acquires cheese waste start-up Clearfleau
German water treatment company EnviroChemie acquires cheese waste start-up Clearfleau

British start-up turns cheese waste into green gas

  • Biomass
  • 05 April 2018
Renewables meet equivalent of entire British electricity demand - in 1958
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

  • Biomass
  • 21 February 2018
Drax to proceed with new coal to biomass conversion following government subsidy reforms
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

  • Biomass
  • 17 January 2018
Home biogas: turning food waste into renewable energy
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

  • Biomass
  • 15 January 2018
Where there's muck, there's biocoal
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

  • Waste
  • 04 January 2018
Mayor Sadiq urges government to give him the tools to tackle construction pollution
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

  • Policy
  • 29 September 2017
UK energy supply needs biomass to help eliminate coal and aid rise of renewables
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

  • Biomass
  • 30 August 2017
The new UK government needs an immediate exit strategy from bioenergy
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

  • Biomass
  • 29 August 2017
Frozen grocer Greenyard cooks up clean energy with old veg boxes
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

  • Biomass
  • 18 August 2017
Could bioenergy crops offer British farmers a post-Brexit boost?
Could bioenergy crops offer British farmers a post-Brexit boost?

ETI report argues investing in second generation bioenergy crops could cut emissions and aid rural job creation

  • Biomass
  • 11 August 2017
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