Latest Biofuels and bio-energy company news
Last week, the British Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced that UK householders across the country could get up to £1,250 of Government funding to help towards the cost of installing renewable heating systems such as biomass boilers, air and ground source heat pumps and solar thermal panels.
Aimed mainly at the 4 million households that are off mains gas supplies and rely on more carbon intensive technologies such as heating oil and electric fires, the Government’s new £... [more]
The Dow Chemical Company has announced that its largest manufacturing facility in Brazil, the Aratu Complex, will add biomass to its portfolio of clean energy sources by the end of 2012. Upon project completion in December 2012, Aratu will be more than 75 percent sourced for power and steam through hydropower and eucalyptus cogeneration.
Eucalyptus wood biomass will be used to produce steam for the site’s chlor-alkali and chlorohydrin production processes. Dow has signed a supply agreement wi... [more]
Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) has been designed by Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to evaluate microgeneration products and installers to ensure they meet robust criteria. The aims of the scheme are to help establish the quality and reliability of the burgeoning microgeneration industry, to provide consumer confidence that both products and installers reach the exacting standards required and make a substantial contribution towards cutting the UK’s dependency on foss... [more]
OFTEC was instrumental in the successful campaign to include the option of using blends of bio liquids to heat buildings in the consultation paper for the proposed Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), which was issued by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) earlier this month.
Under the proposed RHI, homes and other buildings using renewable heat technologies will qualify for regular incentive payments from OFGEM for up to 20 years after installation. For some technologies payments c... [more]
Community Renewable Energy (CoRE) in Northumberland is a co-operative that helps voluntary and community groups set up community-owned renewable energy plants that generate a sustainable income. It also aims to promote, develop, manage and grow community owned profitable renewable energy systems in partnership with community based organisations.
Energy and Climate Change Minister, Joan Ruddock, visited CoRE this week, to help support and highlight the importance of community-based approaches ... [more]
DuPont expects to nearly triple its annual photovoltaic sales to more than $1 billion in 2012.
DuPont has opened a photovoltaic (PV) technical center at its China global R&D Center in Shanghai to support material developments for the fast growing crystalline silicon photovoltaic solar energy market.
This newly established facility contains three labs that focus on processes including cell to module manufacturing, PV metallization and PV module and reliability testing. The new PV technolog... [more]
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