waste-to-energy

A Southampton-based firm has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help bring reliable electricity and water to a remote village in India. SEaB Energy hopes to install its waste-to-energy technology, which converts food and organic waste into power, heat, water and fertiliser directly on site, at the village of Mori in Andhra Pradesh. It is looking […]

London currently sets fire to more than half of the waste it generates, with this volume now exceeding two million tonnes each year. That’s according to the London Assembly Environment Committee, which says this figure has more than doubled in the last decade. Currently, 53% of London’s waste ends up being incinerated in waste-to-energy facilities, […]

Severn Trent has invested £15 million in three new biomethane gas-to-grid plants. The water company, which serves eight million people across the Midlands and Wales, says the power generated will be enough to heat more than 8,000 homes for a year. However, it plans to use the biogas fermented from sewage sludge, contaminated energy crops […]

A biomass and waste-to-energy investor has bought a total of 20 new assets from the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB). The deal makes Bioenergy Infrastructure Group’s (BIG) portfolio one of the largest of its kind in the UK, with the four new biomass and waste-to-energy facilities, 15 anaerobic digestion plants and a materials recovery facility […]

An infrastructure investment manager has bought a 13MW portfolio of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants. Ancala Bioenergy hopes its acquisition of Biogen, owner and operator of AD plants in the UK, will provide an established platform for its expansion into the waste-to-energy sector. Biogen owns and operates a portfolio of seven anaerobic digestion plants in England and Wales that […]

New technology to convert waste heat into power could save California up to $385 million (£304.1m) per year. That’s according to researchers working on a new partnership project between the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and waste heat recovery firm Alphabet Energy. The scientists involved are developing a cost-effective thermoelectric recovery system to harvest exhaust heat from engines, furnaces and […]

A British firm is to supply California’s Energy Commission with its innovative waste-to-energy system. Southampton-based SEaB Energy has been awarded a contract to provide the department with its anaerobic digestion ‘FLEXIBUSTER’ product as part of a four-year research programme into sustainable energy generation from food waste. From October, it will be used to demonstrate the […]

E.ON is building a 25MW waste-to-energy plant in Sweden. The €250 million (£218.9m) thermal waste recycling facility in Stockholm will produce electricity, heat and biogas and is expected to significantly improve the sustainable development of the city. It will be made up of a combined heat and power (CHP) facility and a biogas plant, adjoined by […]

Businesses promoting waste to energy projects have a 30-year track record of “failures and unfulfilled promises”. That’s according to a new risk assessment from GAIA, which claims the vast majority of proposed plants were never built or were shut down “after decades of industry promising a solution that both manages waste and produces energy”. That […]

India plans to invest Rs 142 crore (£1.42bn) in biogas projects in 2016/17. Piyush Goyal, Minister for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines said the government is promoting the green technology under three schemes. National Biogas and Manure Management Programme caters to setting up “family-type” biogas plants for meeting energy needs for cooking […]