Latest Biofuels and bio-energy product news
The Oil Firing Technical Association (OFTEC) have tested fuels which blended either 30% or 50% of the bio element, fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) with either kerosene or gas-oil. The FAME was derived from used cooking oil.
The fuel that blends 30% FAME with 70% kerosene (B30K) has been accepted by the Government as eligible for the proposed Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). If this is introduced households converting to the fuel will receive a substantial annual payment.
Field trials for the... [more]
It is now more than ten years since the EU Landfill Directive set mandatory targets for the UK to cut landfill volumes or face hefty fines, and while some people face the deadlines with optimism, there is concern elsewhere that the UK’s overall approach to waste management is trailing behind continental Europe.
There was a time when the market for industrial waste shredding systems was limited to a specific range of companies with largely heavy duty waste disposal requirements. Technological... [more]
There is currently a golden window of opportunity in which consumers purchasing renewable energy systems can benefit from both capital grants for the purchase of equipment, and additional incentive payments for every unit of heat or electricity produced.
This ‘double-whammy’ will be short lived as the current grant system towards the purchase of systems will be phased out and replaced by a pay per unit system. From April 2010, the government strategy of ‘Feed-In tariffs’, and from April 2011 ... [more]
SRE, a subsidiary of Opcon AB, has received an additional order for a flue gas condensation from a bioenergy plant in Switzerland. The customer is the district heating plant owned by the municipality in Winterthur, which by using Opcon’s technology for waste heat recovery will increase its energy efficiency by around 25-30% while significantly reducing emissions of particles.
Together with a new extra order from Enerbois this means new orders totalling SEK 7 million within bioenergy from Swit... [more]
Renewable energy credits, also called "green tags", are tradable environmental commodities issued by an appropriate oversight entity to represent a set amount of energy produced (typically 1,000 kilowatt hours) from renewable natural resources, such as solar, wind and biomass.
Phoenix Partners Group has introduced an electronic trading platform for renewable energy credits, the first of its kind within the environmental brokerage community.
The web-based platform provides a real-time foru... [more]
The 90-Billion Gallon Biofuel Deployment Study is a new report by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corp. that investigates the challenges and feasibility of increasing biofuel production targets to 90 billion gallons.
Large-scale production of advanced biofuels beyond the level of the Renewable Fuel Standard is achievable and sustainable by 2030, with accelerated development of biofuel and agricultural technology.
Brent Erickson, executive vice president of Biotechnology In... [more]
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