Today, Europe´s energy sector is facing rising demand, volatile prices and disruption to supply, all in the frame of great concern to reduce the environmental impact of energy production. To…
Category: forest biomass
Forest residues for bioenergy with CCS – a tool for global cooling?
Biomass from forestry residues such as thinning and harvest operations is often cited as an underutilized resource that could be mobilized for energy production. In many cases the residues of…
New conditioning process developed for cost efficient production of ethanol from conifers
Bio4Energy researchers together with industrial partners have invented a cost-efficient method designed to facilitate the production of fermentation products such as ethanol from cellulose from wood or woody residue from…
New report: solid biomass achieves significant GHG savings and provides an immediate contribution to climate change mitigation
The use of solid biomass for power generation achieves significant carbon savings and an immediate or very rapid contribution to climate change mitigation can be observed, when assumptions and real…
Stump to Pump project to investigate liquid biofuels from forestry waste in New Zealand
In New Zealand the Stump to Pump innovation program has received a co-funding of $6.75 million by the Ministry of Primary industries to develop liquid biofuels from forestry waste, while…
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…
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…
New fact sheet on carbon neutrality of sustainable biomass released by WBA
A the recent COP 18 in Doha the World Bioenergy Association published its third fact sheet titled “The carbon neutrality of biomass from forest,” highlighting WBA’s position on the theories…
Sustainable biomass supply in EU
Over 50% of the targets for renewable energy use in 2020 as specified in the National Renewable Energy Action Plans (NREAPs) will need to come from bioenergy. As a…