An economic and environmental benefit analysis have been performed using data from the field monitoring of a 25-kW wood pellet boiler heating system with thermal energy storage (TES) tanks installed in a home using a low temperature heat distribution system...

WHEN IT COMES TO COOKING...  biomass remains the main fuel source for ~3 billion people across developing countries. To support roll-out of cleaner cooking options, EnAct proposes a new model of energy reporting. Meet the effort of this group to support the...

Paltry sums of international funding are being allocated to help poor families cook with modern, clean methods, exposing them to deadly household air pollution By Megan Rowling BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments, development banks and businesses are...

In these 3 years since its formalization in November 2016, the Solid Biofuels Cluster (SBF) has established itself as the reference research group on this subject in Mexico. The work of the Cluster has strengthened the working groups in the state and national public...

As a reminder of the remembrance activities of the 3rd anniversary of the BCS Cluster, we invite you to know that in 2018 the Ecotechnology and Bioenergy Innovation Building was inaugurated, which houses the ClusterBCS and the Ecotechnology Unit. With an investment of...

The whole month of November we celebrate 3 years of the BCS Cluster! We invite you to follow closely the achievements and news that we will be sharing in our social networks with the hashtag # 3YearsSBFCluster.

Smoke pollution kills an estimated 4 million people every year and Max Chinnah, a 26-year-old Nigerian has invented a smokeless stove ‘The Genesys Cooker’ to fix that. He’s also co-founded Terraoak Inc. to produce and sell his cookstoves to eliminate smoke pollution...

The California Council on Science & Technology hosted an expert briefing at the California State Capitol Sept. 19 focused on the beneficial uses of wood biomass from wildfire mitigation. The briefing was the fourth in a series on wildfires hosted by CCST. The...

Active forest management has helped to expand Sweden’s forested areas and thereby boost the country’s wood and bioenergy resource base. While about three-quarters of annual growth is harvested, those areas are replanted. The other quarter of each year’s growth is left...

BY ARYN BAKER FOR TIME It’s just after 7 in the morning in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad, and donkey-cart driver Ahsan Khosoo is already drenched in sweat. For the past two hours, the 24-year-old laborer has been hauling jugs of drinking water to local residences....

We’re uniting organizations across the country that support bioenergy. On October 23, 2019, participating organizations will open their doors to their communities to demonstrate the many benefits that bioenergy provides on the local level. Learn more: NBD

CHANDIGARH: Despite various schemes, including the Centre’s Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY), solid biomass fuel (SBF) like cow dung continues to be used heavily in Punjab. A study conducted by the PGIMER, Chandigarh, and the Panjab University has found 67%...

The Biomasstep project seeks to develop a technology that allows analyzing the parameters necessary to know the quality of the biomass at the time. To this end, the BIOSAHE (Biofuels and Energy Saving Systems) research group of the University of Córdoba, led by...

Two Limerick brothers are paving the way in this country for the introduction of biomass centres and putting firewood at the heart of the decarbonising effort while they are at it. Jack (21) and Nick Jr. (18) operate Cotter Bros Firewood – a local farm business that...

Charcoal making as a driver of oak forests degradation in Mexico: beyond changes in aboveground biomass. The proposed research project integrates forestry, genetics, and archival science, and could throw new light on environmental impacts of traditional charcoal...

In the U.S., coal plants are closing, but carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere continues to rise. Pivoting toward renewable energy sources like wind, solar and biofuels is a necessary step toward halting the worst effects of climate change. Forest biomass is...

Dr. Víctor Berrueta, Coordinator of the Rural Technology Innovation Laboratory (LITR) and Dr. Alberto Beltrán Coordinator of the Design, Simulation and Modeling Laboratory (LDSM) of the Solid Biofuels Cluster, visited last September 27th,  the  Fuego Limpio's plant, ...

The Clean Cooking Alliance and the Kenya Ministry of Energy will co-host the Clean Cooking Forum 2019, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from November 5-7. With the theme of "Investment. Innovation. Impact," the sector’s flagship event will bring together hundreds of...

The World Bank’s planned $500 million Clean Cooking Fund under ESMAP aims to fast-track progress towards universal access to clean cooking by 2030. Why is this important? Because three billion people, particularly women and children, still cook with polluting fuels...

On September 25, the Expobiomasa 2019 fair will host the celebration of the first edition of the CIMEP (International Conference on the domestic pellet market) organized by AVEBIOM, a business association that brings together companies in the biomass sector. The event...

World Bioenergy Association is pleased to announce the publication of our latest BIOENERGY magazine Issue nr. 8 – 2019. The magazine with the theme ‘Bioenergy sector at the leading edge of the transformation and innovation’ has exciting new feature articles on...

Half of our total energy consumption globally is used for the production of heat - for our homes, industrial purposes other applications. Most of this heat comes from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, and is responsible for a significant proportion of world...

Access to energy for cooking, lighting, powering, communications, and other uses is increasingly being recognized as a basic need, not a luxury.  While the humanitarian system has long struggled to bring energy assistance up to par with food, medicine, sanitation, and...

The European Biomass Conference and Exhibition has grown from a small research community biomass conference more than 30 years ago to a well-established international conference, tackling challenges ranging from biomass growth and biomass conversion to bioenergy,...

Since 2017, the government of Canada has been developing the Clean Fuel Standard (CFS), a low carbon fuel standard-type policy, to reduce the lifecycle carbon intensity of fuels and energy used in Canada. The CFS aims to achieve 30 million tonnes CO2e (carbon dioxide...

Large-scale utilization of bioenergy is attractive as a potential alternative to fossil fuels only if the production and processing of bioenergy feedstocks is sustainable from economic, environmental, and social standpoints. Research into bioenergy sustainability will...

The World Biogas Association (WBA) and the UK Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ABDA) have welcomed recommended actions outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report. The Climate Change and Land report, which was...

Wels, Austria, March 4-5, 2020 With more than 450 participants from over 50 countries each year, it is the largest annual pellet event worldwide. For more information, please visit: EPC2020

Burlington, Vermont, October 10-11, 2019 Renewable Energy Vermont's annual forum brings together business leaders, system operators, architects, builders, manufacturers, engineers, scientists, policy makers, and regulators. Fore More information, please visit:...

Today, the Organising Committee of the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games is pleased to announce that its Olympic cauldron, whose construction began on June 17th, 2019, will be powered for the first time in the history of the Games by an eco-responsible fuel. This...

A concept for the transition of a coal boiler to biomass has been accepted by major Polish energy firm, ZE PAK. The plan, which was approved by the firm’s supervisory board, will see the existing K7 coal boiler at Konin power plant transformed into a biomass-fired...

The EPA just updated its wood heater database to add columns showing which stoves were newly certified and added to list, and the size of the firebox. AGH and others had urged them to include additional info on their database to make it more consumer friendly. We...