Netherlands: Facility will process locally sourced biomass and is being built at one of the world’s largest mushroom farms
Combined Veolia-led business will have revenues of “around €37bn” a year
Carbon capture technology could save “around £4.5bn” of the additional costs needed for the UK to meet its fifth carbon budget, which runs from 2028 to 2032
UK: First three rounds have backed several waste and biomass-fired plants, but only one new build project has so far been completed
UK: World’s first coal-to-waste conversion has made progress, but faces political issues on two fronts
Scottish environmental watchdog might not be fully operational for two more years after a cyber attack last December
UK/Canada: Power station has secured all the approvals needed for the deal to takeover the biomass producer and supplier
UK-based company was meant to be shipping biomass to Sweden, where Vattenfall wanted to process it for energy recovery
Norway: New database will help analyse the quality of waste for material recycling and energy recovery
Denmark: Work involves Aker and Microsoft and covers technological, regulatory, and commercial challenges and opportunities
This month: Welsh government brings in immediate moratorium on 10MWe+ EfW capacity, RDF sector questions Eunomia’s support after it releases another anti-EfW report and a full facilities round up
Vessel could reduce the environmental impact of transporting wood pellets by harnessing wind energy
Changes include those for biogas-producing plants to improve secondary containment measures and additional requirements for monitoring and controlling of key waste and process parameters
Germany: Tender is part of a vast facility incorporating EfW, biomass-to-energy and biogas production
Toward the end of last year the energy company completed a global first by producing SNG from waste feedstock at a test facility in France
Vast amount of new capacity has been announced but a number of projects have also run into trouble
Denmark/Austria: Facility is due to be operational within two years
Denmark/Germany: Work focuses on the plant’s wood pellet-fired unit which was converted from coal in 2016
UK: Facility is the world’s largest purpose-built biomass-fired plant and was due to start operating yesterday
Biomass-fired plant is the first in the UK to have a fully automatic air-cooled condenser installed by JNW