biomass

SIMEC Subcoal Fuels will distribute a Subcoal fuel pellet, containing around 50% biomass content

A group of environmental organisations and businesses say this can distort markets and damage the environment

The Energy Centre is located at the Berkshire College of Agriculture

A 21.5MW biomass unit has started operating at the site

Protestors claim biomass can be as bad as or worse for the environment than coal and say it shouldn’t be classed as renewable energy

Biomass users could gain up to double their Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) income by adding steam to their processes.

Plans to build a £10 million pellet plant in East Yorkshire have been announced. Believed to be the first of its kind in the UK, Y Pellets expects the facility to “revolutionise supply” to the nation’s biomass energy market. Once up and running next year, the plant to be developed at Goole 36 in East […]

Medical waste such as bandages, blood products and nappies could soon be turned into clean energy. That’s according to Sussex businessman Michael Burns, who says he has developed a new technology to create renewable energy from a specific combination of plastic and biomass waste. Rather than burning the waste in a traditional incinerator, his company […]

Drax has said the government’s decision to continue supporting biomass technologies means it will convert a fourth unit at its power plant from coal to wood chip-fired generation. The energy giant had feared government proposals to cap levels of support available through the Renewables Obligation Certificate (ROC) scheme could scupper its expansion plans. The firm […]

A planned facility in North Lincolnshire will be able to convert high-moisture biomass such as food waste into coal-like solid fuels. Fuel manufacturer CPL Industries aims to install what it says will be the UK’s first commercial-scale hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) unit at an existing facility in Immingham. The plant, which is scheduled to begin production […]