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ARENA providing funding support for bio-energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... through the Port of Townsville." RDA intends to grow sugarcane and sweet sorghum for biofuel production and will process biomass waste, Frischknecht said. "A 'lignin' by-product would fuel a purpose built 32 megawatt co-generation power plant, with excess ...

ARENA allocates funds for biomass research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... provided AU$3 million to the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) to undertake a comprehensive biomass for bioenergy assessment. RIRDC will conduct the AU$6.2 million project, which is anticipated to uncover new opportunities ...

CEFC commits $100m to Australian Bioenergy Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... investments. The fund will invest in technologies including energy from waste, anaerobic digestion, sustainably sourced biomass-to-energy projects, landfill gas capture, wood pelletisation (where forestry plantation waste is converted into pellets that ...

Cities increasing uptake of renewable energy: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... cities responded to CDP's survey to their use of fossil fuel versus clean power sources, reporting coal, gas, oil, nuclear, biomass, geothermal, hydro, solar and wind. Aspen, Colorado, Santa Monica, California, San Francisco and Stockholm have all set ...

Climate Bond Standard releases draft bioenergy criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... reduction in emissions comparing with local baselines must be demonstrated for biofuel projects and at least 70% for solid biomass projects. Bioenergy is "renewable energy made available from materials derived from biological sources such as wood, manure ...

ARENA funds AU$5.2m for Renergi biofuel project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... gasification technology (photo courtesy ARENA) The pilot is intended to produce simple, cost effective renewable energy from biomass, said Ivor Frischknecht. ARENA CEO. The AU$12.9 million project is scheduled for completion in October 2017. Renergi ...

CEFC looks to increase investment in bioenergy projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... biogas, producing ethanol from bagasse and creating biofuels from feedstock such as sorghum, wood waste, or straw and waste biomass. The CEFC can also finance infrastructure investments such as cogeneration facilities, storage, processing, refining ...

Climate Friendly, Corporate Carbon Advisory in CFI project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Climate Friendly and Corporate Carbon Advisory have developed a biomass project for inclusion under the Carbon Farming Initiative, and are exploring new projects for inclusion under the proposed Direct Action Plan. Climate Friendly and Corporate Carbon ...

New Forests, CEFC agreement on bioenergy, biofuel finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... new jobs and investment in rural Australia," said David Brand, New Forests' managing director, in a statement. "We see biomass based energy and liquid fuels as an area of substantial potential for growth, and an opportunity that could rival the size ...

Australia ranked fourth on global renewable energy list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... large-scale solar PV could be cost competitive with new coal or gas plants by 2020, with other renewable technologies such as biomass and solar thermal following suit by 2030," the report said. Investment in Australian renewable energy projects is led ...