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BiogasWorld Weekly Vol 26
UK Clean Growth Strategy Welcomed by ADBA – But Food Waste Collections Needed
October 12, 2017 – UK Trade body, the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) has welcomed the Clean Growth Strategy published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. According to ADBA anaerobic digestion and biogas from wastes can play an underpinning role in meeting the strategy’s goals. The organisation’s Chief Executive, Charlotte Morton said: “The multi-faceted nature of AD means that, with the right support, it can play a central role in decarbonising heat, electricity, transport, and farming, as well as recycling organic wastes, increasing energy and food security, and restoring the UK’s degraded soils. No other technology can make such a key contribution to so many different areas of the Clean Growth Strategy.
Read more on Waste Management World
Bioenergy and biofuels highlighted in UK’s Clean Growth Strategy
October 12, 2017 – A plan for cutting carbon emissions while growing the economy has been released by the UK government. ‘The Clean Growth Strategy: Leading the way to a low carbon future’ has been published by Greg Clark, the UK’s Business and Energy Secretary. It highlights progress already made in the UK towards a low carbon economy, while also setting out how the ‘whole country’ can benefit from low carbon economic sources in the future. According to a statement from the department, carbon emissions have fallen and national income risen faster and further in the UK than any other nation in the G7 since 1990.
Read more on Bioenergy Insight
Wallonia abandons support for large-scale biomass plant
October 13, 2017 – The Walloon government has decided to cancel its call for tenders for a biomass power plant in Wallonia, Belgium. The Walloon government is the executive branch of Wallonia, and it is part of one of the six main governments of Belgium. In May 2016, the Walloon government announced plans to support a 200MW biomass plant and launched a call for tenders. However, on 12 October, 2017, L’Echo announced that the new MR cdH executive decided to stop the procedure.
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World of bioenergy reacts to UK’s Clean Growth Strategy
October 13, 2017 – A number of important figures surrounding the bioenergy industry have reacted to the UK government’s new Clean Growth Strategy. Greg Clark, the UK’s Business and Energy Secretary, published ‘The Clean Growth Strategy: Leading the way to a low carbon future’ on 12 October. Highlighting the current state of play in UK energy sector, the strategy also lays out a plan for cutting carbon emissions while growing the country’s economy. The UK Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) welcomed the plans set out in the strategy, and argued that ‘the multifaceted nature’ of anaerobic digestion (AD) means it could make a ‘key’ contribution to meeting the strategy’s goal.
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Grass-clover as a feedstock for biogas plants
October 13, 2017 – Adding grass-clover to traditional crop rotation brings many advantages in terms of profitability, lower fertilizer use and greater protection for crops. It is clearly of fundamental importance to then be able to sell or reuse this grass, for example as animal feed or for use in biogas plants.
See the video on Biogas Channel
First US Biomethanation Reactor System for Power-to-Gas Testing Installed in Colorado
October 13, 2017 – Researchers at NREL’s Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) partnered with Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) to install a novel bioreactor system designed to test power-to-gas technology at the facility in Golden, Colorado.. The 25-foot tall bioreactor system installed at the site is the first of its kind in the United States. It will be used to produce renewable natural gas from excess renewable electricity using microorganisms that consume hydrogen and carbon dioxide and emit methane.
Read more on Renewable Energy Magazine
China Everbright secures another waste-to-energy contract
October 16, 2017 – Hong-Kong based China Everbright International has signed a supplementary concession agreement with the Public Utility Management Bureau of Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, to invest in and construct a waste-to-energy plant worth around RMB780 million (€100m). The development, entitled Yixing waste-to-energy project phase II, will be constructed on a build-operate-transfer basis with a concession period of 30 years. It will process 1,700 tonnes of household waste per day and is expected to generate around 170 million kWh of electricity per year.
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Bioenergy among most cost-effective options in Europe’s energy transition
October 17, 2017 – Findings from AEBIOM, the European biomass association, confirm that bioenergy is among the most effective options to achieve Europe’s clean energy transition. AEBIOM published its 2017 Statistical Report on 17 October, shortly before the European Parliament’s ENVI Committee is set to vote on sustainability criteria for bioenergy. According to a statement from AEBIOM, the report brings “clarity to a debate that has been highly misrepresented.” The association argues that debates in ENVI have revived misleading arguments and statements “which run counter to the evidence.”
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Guerrilla marketing and TV programmes to engage people on biogas related issues
October 17, 2017 – It is rare to read articles on biogas outside the specialised press, if not as news reporting discontent on the part of local communities. To change this perception it is necessary to draw attention, engage people and speak about biogas in a simple but creative manner. Chris Noyce from the ADBA association provides us with two examples: the guerrilla marketing strategy used by biomethane buses in Bristol and chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s TV programme.
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UK’s ‘first’ vehicle to collect and run on commercial food waste – floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee
October 18, 2017 – Resource management company GENeco has launched a vehicle called the Bio-Bee that collects commercial food waste and runs on the same material in Bristol, UK. With Bristol among 40 places in the UK that consistently exceeds air quality limits for nitrogen dioxide, the Bio-Bee demonstrates a real alternative to diesel RCVs and HGVs by running on clean biomethane, according to GENeco. In a statement, GENeco said: “It also offers a cost-effective and more sustainable way for food waste to be collected and recycled, and it follows in the footsteps of the Bio-Bus – or ‘poo bus’ – which ran on human waste and was trialed in Bristol in 2015.”