biomass-to-electricity News
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Turning over a new leaf for future energy supplies
A global energy supply based on biomass grown to generate electricity and produce fuel is a real possibility. According to Prof. Jürgen O. Metzger from Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany and Prof. Aloys Huettermann from the University of Goettingen in Germany, it is both a sustainable and economical scenario, contrary to current thinking which suggests it is unrealistic. Their ...
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Covanta completes the acquisition of two biomass energy facilities in Maine
Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA), a world leader in development, operation and ownership of Energy-from-Waste and renewable energy projects, today announced that its purchase of two biomass energy facilities from co-owners Ridgewood Maine, L.L.C. and Indeck Energy Services, Inc. has been completed. Covanta acquired the two nearly identical facilities, located in West Enfield and Jonesboro ...
By Covanta
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TAIM WESER to unveil high-efficiency biomass gasification plant at Expobioenergía 2009
TAIM WESER will unveil its latest biomass gasification plant at Expobionergía 09. This is an innovative green cogeneration system that the company has developed and marketed itself. The high-energy efficiency plant uses biomass to produce electricity and heat. Due to its compact size and modular design it can be installed wherever the biomass product is created. The fourth Expobioenergía 09 is ...
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TAIM WESER to unveil high-efficiency biomass gasification plant
TAIM WESER will unveil its latest biomass gasification plant at Expobionergía 09. This is an innovative green cogeneration system that the company has developed and marketed itself. The high-energy efficiency plant uses biomass to produce electricity and heat. Due to its compact size and modular design it can be installed wherever the biomass product is created. The fourth Expobioenergía 09 is ...
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National action plan for biomass submitted to Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, says REEEP
The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Engineering (CAAE) and Environmental and Energy Development Consulting Ltd. (EED) have released a REEEP-funded report “National Action Plan for Rural Biomass Renewable Energy Development in China”, which provides detailed measures to enable China to achieve its biomass development target in the medium and long term. The REEEP supported report and a proposed ...
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The 18th European biomass conference and exhibition is focusing on strategies to combat climate change and offers the perfect business platform for bioenergy technology & application
The 18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition will take place in Lyon, France, from 3 to 7 May 2010. The Conference subjects cover the entire range of bioenergy issues: Resource availability, conversion technologies, demonstration projects, integration in the energy system, environmental impact and market deployment as well as the need for policy actions. The Conference will be chaired by ...
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NH Adopts Full Thermal Incentive for Renewable Portfolio Standard
The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today applauded New Hampshire Governor John Lynch and the state's Senate and House of Representatives for their passage of legislation (NH Senate Bill 218), a bill that adds thermal renewable energy to the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS). RPS programs have been adopted in some 29 states and the District of Columbia to provide incentives to ...
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Integrated Gasified Biomass Power Plant Will Use GE Gas Engine Technology to Help Bulgaria Achieve Greater Energy Independence
Karlovo Power Plant Will Turn Syngas Derived from Straw and Wood Wastes into Cleaner, More Reliable and Economic Electricity Couples GE’s Fuel-Friendlier, High-Efficiency Jenbacher Gas Engines with Biomass Gasifier from EQTEC Iberia Power from Renewable Domestic Organic Waste Will Help Wean Bulgaria from Imported Natural Gas To reduce Bulgaria’s heavy dependence on imported ...
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18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
Conference Programme with 264 Plenary & Oral Presentations as well as 542 Visual Presentations Unique Conference Programme Covering all Areas of Biomass The Conference Programme for the 18th European Biomass Conference (May 3-7, 2010) and Exhibition (May 3-6, 2010) is available. A total of 872 abstracts have been received for the 18th EU BC&E. Following the conclusions of the abstract ...
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Schneider Electric to Help Enable Energy Resiliency at USMC Logisitics Base
Schneider Electric recently announced it has been awarded a subcontract from Constellation, a subsidiary of Exelon Corp., to support the development of smart controls as part of an energy savings performance contract at the U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) in Albany, Georgia. Energy security and resiliency is a priority for military installations tasked with keeping personnel safe through ...
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Waste-to-energy plants for rural villages in India
Mr. Kemal Derviş, UNDP Administrator and UN Under Secretary General has commissioned a biomass gasifier plant, which uses carbon neutral biomass to produce electricity for rural villages, in Boregunte village in Karnataka. The project is supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF)/UNDP, India Canada Environment Facility (ICEF), and the Government of Karnataka and managed and run by ...
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AEBIOM and EBA publishes a position paper on sustainability of solid and gaseous biomass
AEBIOM and EBA publishes a position paper on sustainability of solid and gaseous biomass. The two associations support the introduction of sustainability scheme for solid and gaseous biomass if such criteria ensures a harmonised framework in the EU, flexibility by taking into account the existing schemes, cost effectiveness by diminishing administrative burden and equal level playing field. ...
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DECC to review its policy on grandfathering for biomass
The government has said it will “look again” at its support for biomass electricity under the Renewables Obligation following significant concerns about investment. As reported in MRW, the renewable energy industry has expressed worry over the absence of the ‘grandfathering’ principle for Renewable Obligation Certificates in relation to biomass facilities. Without grandfathering financiers are ...
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World Bioenergy Association Fossil Exit Strategy
AFTER COP 21 (PARIS): FOSSIL EXIT STRATEGY 2030 One year after the conference in Paris, the world is moving away from the targets of COP21. The most embarrassing fact is the ongoing increase of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. This concentration reached 400ppm in 2014 for the first time in the human history. A value of 420 ppm is usually regarded as upper limit to keep a temperature ...
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New insights into carbon emissions in China
Original story at MIT News New research takes a look at whether policies can curtail the growth of harmful greenhouse gases. Researchers from MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing are collaborating to bring new insights into how China — now the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) — can reverse the rising trajectory of its CO2 emissions within two decades. They use ...
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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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2011 Southeast Biomass Conference & Trade Show Announces Powerful Agenda
With an exclusive focus on biomass utilization in the Southeast -- from the Virginias to the Gulf Coast -- the Southeast Biomass Conference & Trade Show is a dynamic regional offshoot of Biorefining Magazine and Biomass Power & Thermal's International Biomass Conference & Expo, the largest event of its kind in the world. Taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, November 1-3, 2011, the ...
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BBI International Announces Updated Agenda at the 2011 Northeast Biomass Conference & Trade Show
Taking place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 11-13, 2011, the Northeast Biomass Conference & Trade Show will connect the area's current and future producers of biomass-derived electricity, industrial heat and power, and advanced biofuels, with waste generators, aggregators, growers, municipal leaders, utility executives, technology providers, equipment manufacturers, investors and policy ...
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Proposals to Protect Consumers Whilst Guaranteeing Payments For Households With Solar By Unlocking Smarter Energy System
Households and businesses installing new solar panels will be guaranteed payment for power provided back to the grid under government proposals set out recently (1/8) to unlock the smart energy systems of the future - an important upgrade to the current Feed-in Tariffs scheme. The proposed ‘Smart Export Guarantee’ (SEG) would replace the existing ‘Feed-in Tariff’ scheme ...
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Biomass Gasifier Fuels Electricity Generation, Sells Renewable Power to Grid
ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc. (ZeroPoint) today announced the completion of phase one of the field commissioning of its ZeroPoint Renewable CHP Solution™ at a project site in Schwarze Pumpe, Germany. The field commissioning included operation of a reciprocating gas engine fueled by synthesis gas and synchronization of the generator with the local distribution grid, securing a 20-year power ...
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