Wood Energy

Enviva buys wood pellet plant in US from Portuguese company

Enviva Holdings announced that it has completed the acquisition of a wood pellet production plant in Greenwood, South Carolina and [...]

Record Russian wood pellets export sales in 2017

Wood pellet manufacturers in Russia have recorded record export sales in 2017. For the full year, the country exported 1 [...]
February 13, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Russia

Record wood pellet production for Germany in 2017

For the whole year 2017, Germany has produced 2,25 million tonnes of wood pellet, more than ever before. The [...]
February 13, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe

Global wood industry market predictions for 2018

In 2018, the US lumber producers will supply most of the 1.5bbf production gap in British Columbia, while the [...]

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

Companies in Japan changed to wood pellets to clean-up coal power

    Companies in Japan are currently developing some biofuels which can be burned together with coal, as [...]

Belarus organizes 3 joint ventures with EU wood pellet producing companies

Belarus wants to organize three joint ventures with European companies, as to manufacture wood pellets together.     [...]
February 8, 2018 Market Analysis / Wood Energy / ...Europe

Enviva will acquire 500,000t of wood pellets annually from Portuguese company

    Navigator, the Portugese forest industrial company, will sell its pellets business, together with the 500,000 [...]

Austria: wood pellets price up by 5% in January

The average price of wood pellets in Austria has reached 241 € per tonne of wood pellets or 4.92 Cent [...]

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 [...]