UK: Trade association had hinted at legal action if regulators reclassified certain waste wood streams, meaning they would only be allowed to go to biomass-fired plants
UK: Company has confirmed it has submitted an application to expand a previously consented biogas project to also process RDF, which would challenge the Welsh government’s moratorium
UK: Rule had been labelled “misconceived” and has been relabelled as an ‘appropriate measure’
Finland: Work is due to be carried out next year and includes a boiler upgrade and new flue gas cleaning system
UK: Running vehicles on GreenD+-branded HVO has made the development more sustainable
ENDS looks at upcoming proposals from the European Commission to protect Europe’s forests, and what they could mean for the booming bioenergy sector
France: Six-years of investment in the Ecocombust project has been scrapped due to cost and an industrial partner pulling out of the project
Austria: Facility is due to be operational in 2023 and will have capacities of about 4MWe and 17MWth
Denmark: Unique Skyclean technology combines biofuel production and carbon capture and storage
France: Firms to develop CO2-based microalgae cultivation to produce biofuels
UK: Power station’s head of sustainability and member of the CCC is moving to utility Ovo this summer
World’s largest purpose built biomass-fired plant will be more than three-years late, should it ever start operating
Growth of both energy recovery and recycling in Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the UK
UK: Company says Covid-related problems have delayed the first in a series of planned production facilities that was due to be operational last month
Neles had initially rejected an approach from Valmet in October after the company took a shareholding in the firm last summer
Austria-based company has increased its presence in the air quality sector
75,000t/yr facility will be the “largest designed in the world on an industrial scale”, according to the companies behind it
UK currently produces about 4.5Mt/yr of waste wood a year, nearly three quarters of which is only suitable for energy recovery
This month: UK planning systems adds 1Mt/yr of new capacity, a judicial review against the UK government’s decision to exclude EfW from its ETS was dismissed, CNIM struck no EPC deals in the first three months of this year and a full facilities round up
Denmark: Contract to build the facility itself was confirmed in January