Keyword: biomass

Finnish electricity company opens 92MW wood pellet plant

Finnish electricity company Helen, has opened a new 92MW biomass plant in Helsinki. The plant is the largest pellet-fired [...]

German RWE to convert coal plant in the Netherlands to wood pellets this year

    German utilities company, RWE AG, expects to start co-firing biomass at its 600 MW coal [...]
February 12, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe

Japan adjusts biomass subsidies due to increased demand

Japanese regulators announced at the end of 2017 about plans to stop the issuance of set price Feed-in-Tariff [...]

Drax wants to finnish 4th biomass plant conversion by 2nd half of 2018

Drax, UK's power producer, announced on the 17th of January that it wanted to complete the conversion of its [...]

Andritz delivers biomass boiler to new Japan wood pellet plant

    Austrian woodworking technology company Andritz has received an order from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd [...]

Drax drops 17% in earnings, but its renewable energy generation booms

UK's power giant Drax dropped 17% in earnings, reaching £140 million. Yet, the renewable energy amount it has generated [...]

General Electric selected to build the largest commercial biomass-fired plant

General Electric (GE) has been selected by Mechelen-based Belgian Eco Energy (BEE) to build the largest greenfield, 100 percent [...]

Kronospan believes that biomass expansion is causing higher timber prices

Austrian wood panel company, Kronospan, has launched a warning over the future of its business in the United Kingdom, with [...]

Global wood pellets market is forecast to double by 2020

The global wood pellets market will reach US$ 9 billion from a current US$ 4 billion, in the next seven [...]

Eneco inaugurates huge biomass plant in the Netherlands

At the beginning of February the Dutch Utility company Eneco has inaugurated its Bio Golden Raand biomass power plant, located [...]