Anglesey to get biomass power station

The prospective buyers of the Anglesey Aluminium site are planning to build a biomass power station and a fish farm which they say could create up to 400 jobs. The company Lateral Power are also planning to use soiled from the fish farm and CO2 from the power station will feed greenhouses for food to be grown. A spokesman believed the plant at Holyhead would be "one of the largest biomass power stations and the largest combined aquaculture facility in the world". Read more ...

The next generation of Biofuels are the benefits worth it

A recent study carried out by the research council an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, warns that producing the future biofuels may cause problems, such as competition for farm land and they may not do as much to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as was first thought. The study also showed that hitting these targets that was set in 2007 that refiners use more biofuels can not be met with out significant improvements in the technology. Read more ...

Heating biomass give us a cheap sugar for biofuel

At Iowa State University a group of engineers have developed a way to make low cost sugars from biomass, this discovery has the potential to reduce the cost of producing biofuels. This new method of extracting sugar from biomass involves quickly heating it up without oxygen to produce liquid or gas products. Professor Brown calls this new method pyrolysis. Read more ...

In Alaska wood biomass heat is growing popular

The growth of biomass heating systems in government buildings is growing, many business are moving over to the biomass wood burning system. Experts are saying the region is close to needing a pellet mill to be built if the demand continues to grow. At present the pellets are imported from Canada "There are a number of hurdles to cross, but I believe in the southern part of Southeast Alaska we’re pretty much getting close to a tipping point where we could supply the wood available off a roaded land base to a mill that could create a pellet that could be somewhat competitive in the market today," says, Tongass Forest Supervisor Forrest Cole. Read more ...

Canadian group plans $150 million biomass plant

The Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) plans to construct a CAN$150 million (€113.8 million) biomass power plant and has agreed to sell the green energy produced to SaskPower under a 25 year agreement. This project will create jobs and economic development for the region  "We're delighted. We are very excited about this," Ben Voss, CEO of MLTC Resource Development, said Monday. Read more ...

India looks to boast considerable biomass resources

India on paper looks to be in a good position when it comes to biomass energy, as they have considerable biomass resources. But a new market report from Infraline Energy shows that there are multiple challenges to over come. The issues of India's energy problems is the need to improve its industrial energy supply as well as its  rising urban and rural demand. Read more ...

Land grabbing could impact on beef industry capacity

With the ever increasing demand for forms of renewable energy worldwide, wood could drive more foreign acquisition of land, especially in developing countries. The Institute for Environment and development is warning that there needs to be more debates on the subject and greater public awareness in a recent briefing paper. "All eyes are turned to food and biofuels, but tree plantations for biomass energy may soon become an important driver in the global land rush," said one of the report’s co-authors, Dr Lorenzo Cotula. Read more ...

The cashew nut supply chain could be cracked by biomass

The demand for cashew nuts has grown in the past two decades, and it is expected to grow more as the economies of China and India increase. with this increase in growth the leading food processors are looking for alternative power sources that are capable of turning waste byproducts into power. Rajkumar Impex the worlds number two cashew nut processor revealed its plans to open its first new factory in West Africa, that will ultimately be powered by biomass plant. Read more ...