by | Feb 8, 2024 | Air Pollution, Bioenergy, Biofuels, Biomass for Commercial Heating, Biomass for Industrial Heating, Biomass Power Plants, Innovation Insights, Thermochemical Pathways
UK government approves $2.5B project for ‘carbon negative’ power plant in Drax Power station in North Yorkshire, in the north of England. Drax, the power station in Yorkshire, which produces around 4% of the UK’s power, mostly burns biomass imported from North...
by | Feb 8, 2024 | Air Pollution, Bio Based Pathways, Bioenergy, Biofuels, Biogas & CBG, Microbial Pathways, Thermochemical Pathways
Bio Energy, a German company that provides technology and engineering design for biomass-based gas plants, has entered the Indian market in partnership with a Noida-based start-up, Gruner Renewable Energy. Gruner Renewable will build customized biogas plants for...
by | Feb 8, 2024 | Bio Based Cleaning Products, Bio Products, Bio Surfactant, Chemical Pathways, Environmental Solutions, Microbial Pathways, Thermochemical Pathways, Water Pollution
Evonik, a Slovakian company manufactures first product from world’s first industrial scale rhamnolipid biosurfactant plant. Surfactants – surface active agents – are amphiphilic molecules, which tend to accumulate at the interface between polar and...
by | Feb 8, 2024 | Biofuels, Biogas & CBG, India Updates, Land Pollution, Microbial Pathways, Thermochemical Pathways
India bio-economy updates from BioBiz January 2024 Gail India and Trualt Bioenergy, two state-owned companies, have announced a joint venture to set up ten compressed biogas (CBG) plants in India with an investment of more than $72 million. The CBG plants will process...
by | Feb 8, 2024 | Air Pollution, Biofuels, Biogas & CBG, Thermochemical Pathways
July 2023 The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has launched a $1.4 billion fund to support sustainable projects in 88 countries, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). India’s bioenergy sector is one of the beneficiaries of the fund,...
by | Dec 7, 2023 | Biofuels, Biogas & CBG, India Updates, Land Pollution, Microbial Pathways, Thermochemical Pathways
December 2023 Reliance Industries (RIL) is in talks with sugar mill operators to source sugarcane press mud, a key raw material for producing compressed biogas (CBG). RIL plans to set up 100 CBG plants in the next five years, using 5.5 million tonnes of agricultural...
