Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 11 January 2020 — The 10th Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) got underway this morning, bringing together decision makers from 150 countries.…
Category: energy crops
Design the penetration of Non-food Crops (NFC) into European agriculture: PANACEA Project
The Horizon 2020 PANACEA project aims to set up a thematic network to foster the effective exchange between research, industry and the farming community in order to design the penetration…
Growing lupin on marginal lands for the bioeconomy
LIBBIO (Lupin Bioeconomy Development) is a four years R&D project for increasing biomass production and strengthening European bio-economy. It is supported by the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking-BBI JU, a…
The role of woody biomass in contributing to EU 2020 renewable energy target
The European Union has set ambitious targets of raising the share of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources from 20% by 2020 to 27% by 2030. A study by…
Italian Biogasdoneright® a replicable and exportable model
The Italian model for agricultural biogas based on the principles of Biogasdoneright® is becoming an international case study. The state of play of the Italian biogas sector was presented last week…
Computational modelling for enhancing the soil carbon storage
To help stakeholders in government and business make smart decisions about the best types of land and local climates for planting bioenergy crops, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s…
Best regions for growing bioenergy crops in the US
A new research of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has identified the most suitable regions in the United States where bioenergy crops would grow best, while minimizing effects on…
Biobased economy and resource efficient agriculture: a sinergy against climate change
Prof. André P.C. Faaij is Conference General Chairman of the European Biomass Conference and Exhibition 2016. In his message to the conference he explains why we definitely need to deploy sustainable biomass to…
Resources for short rotation plantations – Rokwood close out and future initiatives
Short Rotation Plantations (SRPs) have a high CO2 emissions reduction potential, they protect biodiversity in rural areas and increase the soil organic carbon content. In addition they can be used…
Short rotation plantations are a sustainable biomass resource
Thanks to a unique set of attributes, short rotation plantations (SRPs) are considered as one of the most sustainable and environmental friendly way to satisfy the woody biomass demand and…