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CBI: Carbon floor price could "push industry over the edge"
Added: 14 Jun 2011
London – UK energy and tax policies are putting too much cost pressure on energy-intensive sectors,…

Metso to build the world's largest biomass gasification plant
Added: 8 Jun 2011
Vaasa, Finland – Metso will supply a 140MW bio-gasification plant to Vaskiluodon Voima Oy in Vaasa.…

UK green light for shale gas
Added: 3 Jun 2011
London – Shale gas drilling in the UK has been given the go-ahead by MPs in a new report looking at…

Imtech technology for Plymouth waste-to-energy plant
Added: 20 May 2011
Plyµouth, UK – German group MVV Energie AG has awarded a Euro30m contract to Imtech NV to provide t…

Biomass/CCS power plant could cut CO2 emissions
Added: 20 May 2011
London – The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has unveiled plans for a power plant combining bio…

Oxford Catalysts for Brazil biofuels plant
Added: 18 May 2011
Oxford, UK – Oxford Catalysts Group’s microchannel reactor technology is now set to be deployed in…

Metso, Fortum make headway with oxyfuel combustion
Added: 16 May 2011
Tampere, Finland – Metso Corp. and Fortum claim to have made significant progress in a joint R&D pr…

UK submits 12 energy projects for Euro4.5bn fund
Added: 11 May 2011
London – The UK government has submitted 12 UK-based projects to the European Investment Bank (EIB)…

Linde, Sapphire in algae fuel production deal
Added: 11 May 2011
Munich, Germany – Linde Group and Sapphire Energy, Inc. thave signed a multi-year agreement to co-d…

Metso to convert Polish coal-fired plant to biomass
Added: 26 Apr 2011
London – Metso has received a Euro20m order to convert a coal-fired CFB boiler to a biomass-fired b…

Helius Energy awards Scottish biomass CHP contracts
Added: 19 Apr 2011
?London – Helius CoRDe Ltd – a JV between Helius Energy plc, Rabo Project Equity BV and The Combina…

Vivergo workers target BP AGM over "lock out"
Added: 11 Apr 2011
London – Unions are to stage a protest at the BP AGM on 14 April over the plight of 430 workers who…

Almost half of businesses want the CRC tax/scheme binned
Added: 1 Apr 2011
London – On the first anniversary of its implementation – perhaps tellingly 1 April – UK businesses…

UK slips down global 'green' projects league
Added: 31 Mar 2011
Philadelphia – UK-based investment in ’green’ energy projects slumped to $3.3 billion (around £2 bi…

Power from small amounts of waste process gas
Added: 31 Mar 2011
Amberg, Germany – Generating energy from process gasses that currently escape into the atmosphere i…

Dealing with an odour problem
Added: 30 Mar 2011
Ensus is continuing to battle an odour problem that has been affecting people living near its bioet…

CO2 or Caesium-137?
Added: 24 Mar 2011
Spare a thought for our redoubtable green lobby groups, who have spent the last two decades warning…

Polymers from CO2
Added: 22 Mar 2011
Bayer has started up a pilot plant at its Chempark Leverkusen site to turn CO2 emissions into feeds…

Worst case scenarios
Added: 18 Mar 2011
London – The UK government has asked Dr Mike Weightman, the UK’s chief nuclear inspector to report …

Carbon pricing policy could 'floor' industry
Added: 15 Mar 2011
The UK government has been warned that its ’Floor Price’ policy for carbon - intended to accelerate…