Foreword
The UK government’s Department
for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has announced the second
wave of updates to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, following the
consultation into the scheme, which ran from December last year to March this
year. The CfD is one of the most important support schemes for larger-scale
renewables generators, including bioenergy. Currently, over half of the
projects supported by the scheme are either bioenergy or advanced conversion
projects. However, the express objective of the CfD scheme is to promote
low-carbon energy, and the reforms very heavily favour renewable energy options
with the lowest emissions. Duly, generators utilising biomass or biogas are
subject to stringent sustainability requirements, focused chiefly on greenhouse
gas emissions reductions across the whole life-cycle. These greenhouse gas emission
reductions are set to become.........
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- UK government's second wave of amendments to
Contracts for Difference scheme
- Negative response from biomass sector to CfD
reforms
- California senate approves
biogas bills
Markets
- 2017 UK bioenergy statistics released
- Indian biomass power greatly exceeds target
- "Bioenergy Day" marks increase in
European bioenergy capacity
- Strong growth for Novozymes Bioenergy
segment
Research & Development
- Increasing biogas production with microwaves
- Analysis of Swedish willow for bioenergy
Biomass Heat and Power
- Irish bioenergy sector needs more formal
biomass trading
- Controversy over burning biomass at peat
power plant
- Japan's newest biomass plant to be among
world's largest
- Architechture award nominations for
Stockholm biomass plant
- Finnish biomass plant given green light by
government
Biogas
- Denmark leads the way in European Biogas
- $250m biogas plant for Washington waste
water facility
Events
ROC Prices