BE-Sustainable Magazine January 2014 In this issue: Perennial energy crops no longer “a should” but “a must” to achieve renewable energy targets Biogas…
Category: energy crops
Bioenergy zones for renewable energy in Haiti
Haiti based Sonamar S.A. and Bangalore based VayuGrid have signed a joint venture agreement for developing BioEnergy Zones across Haiti. The zones will be located in non-arable land across Haiti to supply…
Chemtex and Murphy-Brown sign agreement for biomass supply at Project Alpha cellulosic ethanol facility
Chemtex International, Inc. and Murphy Brown LLC signed today a long-term agreement for the supply of purpose grown energy crops and residues to be used as cellulosic feedstock in Project…
Enel Green Power and Maccaferri Group team up to reconvert former sugar refineries to biomass
Rome 26 March 2013 – Enel Green Power and SECI Energia (a company owned by Maccaferri Group) signed the definitive agreement whereby EGP, purchases 50% of Powercrop, the Maccaferri Group…
Standardkessel to build 7.5MWe biomass plant in Hawaii
Standardkessel, the long established German power plant technology company, has just closed it’s first US based dedicated biomass project. The plant is situated on the fourth largest Hawaiian island of…
New publication outlines myths and facts about bioenergy in Africa
PANGEA (Partners for Euro African Green Energy) launched today a booklet outlining Myths and Facts about Bioenergy in Africa. The publication presents real facts about bioenergy in sub-Saharan Africa while…
BiomassTradeCentreII – online resources for the mobilization of woody biomass
The BiomassTradeCentreII project aims at increasing the production and the use of energy from wood biomass by organising motivation events that will engage identified target groups to invest in biomass…
Unstable support measures causing drop in new planting of energy crops in UK
According to Lucy Hopwood of the York based NNFCC, speaking at the Energy Now Expo in Telford, the inconsistency of UK’s government in offering support payments for energy crops had…
Sweet sorghum seen as a strategic crop for bioethanol in Brasil
One of the world’s leading companies in agro-industry, Syngenta, and the energy crop company Ceres will work together to support the introduction of sweet sorghum as a source of fermentable…
EuroBioRef – designing the next generation of European biorefineries
With the depletion of the fossil and natural resources and the need to shift to resource efficiency in developing a sustainable bio-economy is a key strategic priority for Europe.…