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Wood Mackenzie e-fuels report

Insight

E-fuels – the challenges and opportunities in e-fuels

...to the margin against the next low-carbon fuel alternative of e-fuels. Biomass power generators: globally, there is 73 GW of biomass generation capacity online today across more than 2,200 projects,...

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Welsh distributor goes with the wind

...coal, biomass and wind; a new turbine was recently erected beside the company’s Ammanford depot. The company’s first turbine was erected in December 2014 and now supplies power to 400...
Ken Cronin CEO UKIFDA

Insight

Ken’s Corner: Unintended consequences

...treat bioenergy “it is important to acknowledge that how we consider the emissions and treatment of bioenergy has evolved. While combustion of biomass does physically produce CO2 emissions at the...
Data: the UKIFDA databank

Knowledge

Data: the UKIFDA databank

...in limited circumstances, a biomass boiler. Grants available at launch were £5,000 for an ASHP or biomass boiler, and £6,000 for a GSHP. Recently, the Prime Minister announced an increase...

Further Reading

Opinion

Call for certainty on renewable liquid fuel

...OFTEC, have welcomed the publication of the Biomass Policy Statement (BPS) which reaffirms the role of renewable liquid fuels in decarbonising the off-grid sector but call for greater certainty in...

News

DECC proposes excluding biofuels from domestic RHI

...tariff of 4.1p/kWh – the same rate as for approved, solid biomass fuels. Although the expected timeframe for its introduction remains unchanged (summer 2013), proposed levels of financial support for...

News

Phasing out fossil fuel in home heating

...as solid biomass boilers, high temperature heat pumps, and potentially liquid biofuels) may offer an alternative in these cases but also indicates that aviation remains its preferred use of biofuels...

News

Raw deal for rural renewables

...using oil for heating and hot water. If an existing oil-fired boiler was replaced with a biomass model then fuel bills would actually rise by £430 per year. Ground source...