A 46-megawatt (MW) biomass power plant under development by Ence Energía y Celulosa S.A. in Huelva, Spain, has begun the final testing phase of its equipment. Commercial startup is expected later this year. The company noted the project recently hit an important...

The Danish stove industry is known for sleek, vertical, expensive stoves. There is a joke that they are made to look like high end furniture that happens to hold a fire. But amidst this new wave of modern design is an industry that embraces innovation, competes...

The second cycle of Pathways to Clean Cooking 2050 conferences was held last week in Wexford, Ireland, organized in conjunction with the BCS Cluster. We are a global network of actors and experts concerned about the present situation of the global poor . We are...

This week, the EPA released its long-awaited searchable stove and central heater database, overhauling a decades-old practice of using basic excel sheet lists. The EPA said the new database was designed to“improve accessibility and usefulness” by allowing users to...

2.8 billion people, predominantly in low-income countries, still rely on solid fuels (wood, dung, crop wastes, charcoal, coal, etc.) and traditional fires or simple stoves for cooking and heating. 1.2 billion light their homes with simple kerosene lamps and candles....

From May 20 to 23 of this year, the Course "Processes of Production of Agricultural and Forest Biomass for Energy Use" was organized by the Mexican Bioenergy Network and the Cluster of Solid Biofuels. Taught by Dr. Borja Velázquez Marti of the Polytechnic University...

29 - 31 May, 2019 Wexford, Ireland. With only 10 years left to reach Sustainable Development Goal 7, which calls for ensuring “access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all”, including universal access to clean cooking, an estimated two billion...

Cuitzeo Basin, Michoacán, April 2019 PhD. Tuyeni Heita Mwampamba, Line 4: Public Policies and Sustainability Last April, members of Line 4: "Public Policies and Sustainability" (Tuyeni Heita Mwampamba, Karla Guadalupe Perez Zarco, César Rodrigo Ruiz Camou)...

In our country, firewood is the solid fuel most used to perform specific tasks such as cooking food and heating, therefore, in order to perform detailed analysis of life cycle (LCA) of the use of firewood in the sector Rural in Mexico, under the direction of the...

Last April, members of the Innovation Area: "Public Policies and Sustainability" had the collaboration and advice of a pioneer company at the national level in the production of pellets, in which sawdust waste is used to generate This type of solid biofuels. The...

Last March, members of Line 4, of the ENES-Morelia and of the ALTEX-CITREX group, both members of the Solid Biofuels Cluster met at the facilities of Martínez de la Torre, Veracruz, in order to follow up to the collection of data that will serve for the evaluation of...

Today, the main headquarters of the Cluster of Solid Biofuels in the Institute of Research in Ecosystems and Sustainability of the UNAM, Campus Morelia, received the visit of Dr. Enrique Graue Wiechers, rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, to whom...

Last month, the Latin American and Caribbean Clean Kitchen Network (RLCCL) collaborated with the 3rd Regional Forum at the Universidad del Zamorano, Honduras.   With a keynote address, Dr. Omar Masera Cerutti, Technical Manager of the Cluster of Solid Biofuels,...

Within the framework of the activities of the BCS Cluster Innovation Area corresponding to the Characterization and Standardization of BCS, a team visit to the Bioenergy Laboratory of the State University of Bolívar, in Ecuador, is taking place today. The purpose of...

Broadening horizons on the growing Biomass Power industry for almost a decade at the sell-out Biomass to Power conference in Europe, ACI is thrilled to announce the expansion of its Energy portfolio of events across the Atlantic with the release of Biomass to Power...