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,”…
Borregaard wins NOK 30 million grant for research on wood processing
The Borregaard biorefinery received a grant of NOK 30 million from the Research Council of Norway’s for research on wood processing. Funding comes from…
E.ON France gets approval to convert a coal plant into a biomass unit in Provence
E.ON is going to convert its “Provence 4” power plant in Bouches-du-Rhône from coal into a biomass operating unit. The project was approved by…
EurObserv’ER consortium publishes EU biomass and biogas barometers for 2011
The EurObserv’ER consortium has published its annual barometers for solid biomass and biogas in the 27 European Member States for 2011. Biomass heating decreases…
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…
First biomethane grid injection project opened in UK
In UK a facility owned and operated by J V Energen (a joint venture between local farmers and the Duchy of Cornwall) opened the…
Biomethane from waste to be used as fuel for Carrefour lorries
Carrefour is developing a pilot project in the Lille region (France) to test lorries running on biomethane fuel produced from recycling biowaste from its…
GBEP and IRENA cooperating on the development of a Global Bioenergy Atlas
On the occasion of the 14th Steering Committee of the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) held at FAO headquartes in Rome, under the reconfirmed chairmanship…
Rules for biomethane injection introduced by Flemish technical regulations for gas distribution
In Belgium, a recent amendment to the Technical Regulations Distribution Gas and Electricity by VREG, the Flemish Energy Market Regulator, introduced rules for the…
Large-scale biogas plant planned in Pakistan’s dairy area with support by IFC
On 14 November the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank (IFC) announced its support to the development of a waste to energy biogas…
