In the UK, the Environment Agency has opened a consultation into its draft decision to grant a permit variation to Drax Power Limited in Yorkshire. The company applied to vary its environment permit to incorporate carbon capture at its bioenergy plant near Selby. After reviewing comments and evidence from two previous public consultations, the Environment […]
In Ireland, a large-scale study has identified an effective way in which wood can be used to help achieve long-term climate targets. Led by researchers from the University of Galway in Ireland and experts from IEA Bioenergy, the study investigated how residual and waste wood can contribute to the permanent removal of carbon from the […]
In Canada, Svante Technologies Inc. says its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project at a paper mill in the Southeast U.S. has progressed to the feasibility study phase. The project is being developed in partnership with an integrated sustainable packaging company, following an extensive screening and pre-feasibility study conducted across several of the […]
In Sweden, according to the climate policy goals, Sweden must have net zero emissions by 2045 and then negative emissions of greenhouse gases. In order to achieve negative emissions, additional measures are also required. One way is to separate carbon dioxide from biogenic origin, so-called bio-CCS, from, for example, various industrial processes or combustion plants […]
In Wyoming, the most direct route to carbon-negative electricity may lie in smokestacks we have already built. A sweeping review by researchers from the University of Wyoming published in the Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts argues that retrofitting relatively young coal plants to co-fire biomass and capture up to 99 % of resulting CO2 could […]
In Japan, Marubeni Corporation and Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. have entered into a joint study agreement with PT Pertamina, an Indonesian state-owned enterprise engaged in integrated energy, and its subsidiary PT Pertamina Hulu Energi to conduct a feasibility assessment on BECCS at a pulp mill and nearby oil field area in South Sumatra Province, […]
In the UK, DNV has validated a new methodology for the certification of net carbon dioxide removals delivered using bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). DNV’s endorsement of the methodology developed by Drax and Stockholm Exergi, is an important milestone, which will support and enable the deployment of BECCS, a vital climate saving technology […]
In Ohio, Babcock & Wilcox has been granted a limited notice to proceed (LNTP) by NorthStar Clean Energy to begin work on a Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) conversion of a former coal-fired power plant in Filer City, Mich., using B&W’s biomass SolveBright™ post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology. B&W is working with […]
In Brazil, FS, a producer of ethanol and animal nutrition said it has just completed technical studies that prove suitable geological conditions for injecting carbon dioxide (CO2), emitted in the fermentation phase of biofuel production, in the subsoil. The firm said it could become the world’s first ethanol producer with a negative carbon footprint and […]
In Brazil, FS has just completed technical studies that prove suitable geological conditions for injecting carbon dioxide (CO2), emitted in the fermentation phase of biofuel production, in the subsoil. Hence, the company can become the world’s first ethanol producer with a negative carbon footprint and the first to develop BECCS technology (acronym in English for […]
