biomass heating system News
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NREL Receives Recognition for Renewable Biomass Heating System at Golden, CO Headquarters
Today, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) became the latest participant in the Biomass Green Heat Registered Site Program in recognition of the lab's wood chip heating systems. The initiative is part of the national non-profit Biomass Thermal Energy Council's (BTEC) ongoing acknowledgement of biomass heating systems. The recognition award plaque is located in NREL's lobby. "The ...
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Commercial Buildings, Huge Energy Savings with Wood Heat Focus of 2012 Northeast Biomass Heating Expo
Fourth annual Northeast Biomass Heating Expo 2012 to feature two dedicated technical and economic development tracks Saratoga Springs, NY (March 21-23, 2012) – The fourth annual Northeast Biomass Heating Expo 2012 (nebiomassheat.com) will feature two dedicated technical and economic development tracks for its March 21-23 conference and expo in Saratoga Springs, NY. Through an expanded ...
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Kake Receives Final Plans for Biomass District Heating System
Working Together for Wood Heat Energy In June, Kake took one giant step toward energy independence with the delivery of the final engineering plans and financial analysis for a biomass district heating system designed by the Oregon firm, Wisewood Energy – a firm with deep experience in Southeast and many operational plants across the region. Like most remote Southeast villages, Kake ...
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BTEC Unveils Biomass Recognition Program, Calls Attention to 'Often Invisible' Green Heating Option
Today, the Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) unveiled a recognition program for home and business heating systems using local, renewable biomass in place of fossil fuels like heating oil. The Biomass Green Heat Registered Site plaque will allow residential, business, and facility owners to proudly showcase their biomass thermal appliances to colleagues and neighbors, who would otherwise be ...
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Carbon Trust calls for massive switch to biomass heating
Businesses and public sector organisations could benefit by switching from oil, gas and electric heating to biomass, according to Biomass Heating, A Practical Guide, published today by the Carbon Trust. Financial pressures and the coldest start to a winter in over 30 years make reducing heating bills a priority. However, by working with biomass heating projects across the UK, the Carbon Trust ...
By Carbon Trust
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Businesses investing in renewable energy could generate returns of over 10%
Carbon Trust Advisory quantifies financial benefits for businesses generating their own renewable energy Carbon Trust Advisory analysis has found that businesses which invest in renewable energy could make average returns of 11-12%, with the potential for returns in excess of 20%. According to the findings, new financial incentives, energy market trends and building regulations are combining ...
By Carbon Trust
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Scituate R.I. High School Teacher Recognized by President Obama and EPA; Yarmouth, Maine teacher received honorable mention
A teacher at the Ponaganset High School in Scituate, R.I., was recognized by the federal government for his work that has energized environmental education for students, as well as the school system and community. Teacher Ross McCurdy received the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators given out by the US Environmental Protection Agency at a recent White House ceremony. ...
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EcoPhi receives RES funding to commercialize its innovative digitalization solutions for renewable energy projects in Kenya
For the development of the Kenyan market, EcoPhi was selected as a participant in the RES program of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action within the framework of the Export Initiative Energy. Renewable energies play a very important role in the expansion of energy supply in rural regions worldwide – also in Kenya. They are a driver for sustainable economic ...
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Austria makes commendable progress on R&D and developing renewables
Recovery Processes“Austria has made good progress in bringing renewable energy technologies forward and is a leader in sustainable energy technology research”, said the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Nobuo Tanaka, today in Vienna. During the presentation of the publication Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Austria 2007 Review, Mr. Tanaka also praised the ...
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Austria has made progress on R&D and renewables, but needs to act on energy efficiency and market competition, says IEA
“Austria has made good progress in bringing renewable energy technologies forward and is a leader in sustainable energy technology research”, said the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Nobuo Tanaka, today in Vienna. During the presentation of the publication Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Austria 2007 Review, Mr. Tanaka also praised the government’s 2007 revision of ...
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Opening session of IBSCE confirms large interest in bioenergy development and opportunities for international cooperation in Asia.
This morning in Shanghai 300 participants from over 30 countries attended the opening session of the first Asian Bionergy Conference and International Bioenergy (Shanghai) Exhibition. Co-chaired by prof. Zhenhong Yuan, Director of Biomass Energy Committee P.R. China and by Giovanni De Santi, Director Institute for Energy and Transport, Joint Research Centre European Commission, the opening ...
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Meet 533 companies and organisations
World Bioenergy will, once again, be the meeting point for everyone who wants to meet bioenergy professionals from all corners of the world. As of today 533 companies and organizations from 52 countries have registered one or more persons to attend the event in Jönköping, Sweden 29-31 May. Welcome to take part in trade fair, conference, matchmaking, study visits and side events on ...
By Elmia AB
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Convert Heating Systems to Biomass
Lakson awarded via Bio-Énergie Nord Inc. (BEN) with a project to convert heating systems to biomass at the CEN research station (and other commercial buildings to follow) in the greater northern Quebec region. The facility will use innovative technology developed by Lakson to use biomass for fully automated, fully integrated, unattended, and highly efficient heating of the center including ...
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New report by NNFCC highlights the importance of biomass in power production
A new briefing report by bioeconomy consultants NNFCC says biomass can deliver cost-effective, low-carbon energy that delivers real and meaningful environmental and economic benefits, but warns that the way we calculate these benefits needs to be more transparent and robust. By the end of the decade 15 per cent of the energy supplied in the UK must come from renewable sources. Biomass is ...
By NNFCC Ltd.
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EU Clean Energy Package: Energy efficiency first approach a step in the right direction
COGEN Europe welcomes the renewed commitment to the “energy efficiency first” principle in the European Commission’s “Clean Energy for All Europeans” package released today. To unlock the potential of high efficiency cogeneration, the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle should be consistently applied across all the legislative proposals in the Package, ...
By COGEN Europe
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Bioenergy now the Main Heat Source for Swedish Houses
Bioenergy is now the main source of heat for semi-detached and detached houses in Sweden. In 2008 more than half the energy used for heating and hot water came from bioenergy. In total 31.5 TWh were used to provide heating and hot water in detached and semi-detached houses in Sweden in 2008. 51% of these homes had bioenergy as their primary energy source and 49% had other primary energy sources ...
By Elmia AB
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A new Stakeholder platform on cogeneration from biomass
EUBIA is partner of the BLAZE project, aiming to develop a low cost and advanced cogeneration plant combining Fuel Cells and fueled by biomass waste and residues. Recently, the BLAZE project has joined forces with the Smart CHP project to launch the Stakeholder platform “BIOCOGEN 2030“. BIOCOGEN 2030 is a stakeholder community dedicated to biomass-based combined heat and power (CHP) ...
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EUBIA promotes the platform BIOCOGEN 2030
Since last year, EUBIA has joined the consortium of the BLAZE project, aiming to realize a Biomass CHP system featuring low costs, low emissions and combining gassification and SOFC. As part of the dissemination and communication activities carried out for BLAZE, EUBIA has joined forces with Greenovate Europe (from the project Smart CHP) and has launched the stakeholder platform BIOCOGEN 2030. ...
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Germany Writes Big Cheque for Renewable Heating
At this year's Ecobuild, Germany Trade & Invest presents opportunities in Europe's largest market With the 20 percent renewable electricity mark already achieved, Germany is now targeting sustainable heating. EUR 500 million were provided in 2011 towards Germany's renewable heating goal - 14 percent by 2020. This commitment to renewable energy has made Germany a testing ground for ...
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Medium combustion plants: New rules on emissions adopted
On 10 November 2015, the Council adopted a new directive to limit the emissions from combustion plants of medium size. These new rules are part of the clean air legislative package, which aims at improving air quality in the EU. The new directive sets emission limit values for certain pollutants. These limits will be applied for new and existing combustion plants of medium size (between 1 ...
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