This study assesses the potential for bioenergy production using various feedstocks such as sugarcane, oil palm, and municipal solid waste in six Caribbean small island developing states – Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana.
KISERIAN, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Maasai pastoralists have found an innovative way to generate biogas: using animal blood and waste from the Keekonyokie slaughterhouse. The facility in Kenya’s Kajiado County uses the gas it produces to generate electricity that powers the meat cold room and processing equipment. It also …
The Ministry of Water, Irrigation & Energy (MoWIE), through its Rural Electrification Fund (REF), has procured 11,488 solar home systems (SHS) from the Chinese Company Cecep Oasis New Energy Company, which are expected to be delivered within three weeks. The IDA provided the financing, a total of 2.8 million dollars, …
The state minister for power and energy Nasrul Hamid has said Bangladesh will replace 30 million conventional stoves with environment-friendly bio-gas run cooking stoves by 2030. He said a country action plan has been prepared to introduce the clean cookshoves across the country. The minister disclosed the plan while addressing …
A cap on French nuclear power production at the current level, approved last week, was the main point of contention in the bill defended by Energy Minister Segolene Royal. In a key victory for Royal, President Francois Hollande's ex-partner and his fourth energy minister in three years, Green party MPs …
Chief Minister to launch plastic collection drive on October 2. The State government will launch a drive to collect plastic waste in urban local bodies on October 2, Manjalamkuzhi Ali, Minister for Urban Affairs and Minority Welfare, has said. Mr. Ali told reporters here on Monday that it had been …
Marks & Spencer (M&S;) has agreed a landmark deal with a major biogas plant operator for the purchase of biomethane certificates which will reduce the retailer's carbon footprint by more than 6,400 tonnes. The deal, struck today (8 September) with Future Biogas, sees M&S; purchase 35,000 Mega-Watt hours (Mwh) of …
Biomass has an auspicious future in the world’s supply of renewable energy. REmap 2030, the global roadmap developed by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), foresees a major role for modern, sustainable biomass technologies in efforts to double the share of renewables in the energy mix. This working paper, Global …
In an effort to decentralise management of waste in the city, the BMC, with technical support from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), will soon set up a 20-metric tonne biogas plant at Deonar Abattoir by year-end. The new plant will replace the current dysfunctional four-metric tonne plant and will …
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has embarked on a new project to construct a bio-gas plant in Matara expanding the scope of its “Pilisaru” national solid waste management program. The plant is a joint venture by the CEA, Matara Municipal Council and the Bio Green Company. The project envisaged to …
Household air pollution remains a dominant health risk, particularly in South Asia. Increasing international attention has focused on improved cookstoves (ICS) as a vehicle for reducing household air pollution, regional environmental and climate impacts. Biogas plants are a type of improved cooking technology. However, dissemination programs for ICS (including biogas) …
These regulations may be called the Assam Electricity Regulatory Commission (Co-generation and Generation of Electricity from Renewable Sources of Energy) Regulations, 2014. These regulations shall extend to the whole of the state of Assam.
AMRITSAR: Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has successfully implemented Biogas Development & Solar Water Heating Programme under which 1.6 lakh biogas plants and 29 lakh liter per day solar water heating systems have been installed in the state, informed chief parliamentary secretary Desraj Singh Dhugga here on Tuesday. He also …
A leading orthopaedic surgeon in city has launched one of country's largest biogas plant in Sundarpura, Anand — a mean waste guzzler that will digest 64 tonnes of domestic and farmland waste to produce 7,000 kg of biogas daily. Feeding of waste into the project set up at cost of …
Seventy-five per cent of the houses in the country still use the traditional fuels like firewood and sun-baked cow dung for cooking food. The traditional bio-fuels are also used at hotels, schools, army barracks and religious organisations as primary fuel for cooking purposes, according to a statistics. This information was …
The city corporation has taken steps to popularise biogas plants within its limit. The move was taken in the wake of lukewarm response received from the public. The civic body will provide 50% subsidy to set up biogas plants while those who have opted for vermicompost and pipe composting have …
VARANASI: Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi use the expertise of Sulabh International, a pioneer organization working in the field of biogas generation from human excreta, to save Ganga from sewage pollution? Sulabh has offered its services in cleaning the Ganga with the help of its indigenously developed technology. "It is …
GURGAON: In a city that is perpetually faced with a power crisis, turning to renewable sources of energy may seem like an obvious choice. But a scant few opt for it. A farmhouse on Old Delhi road, Gurgaon railway station and a retreat centre near Bilaspur Chowk have set a …
Babiyachour (Myagdi), June 30: A biogas has been produced at District Jail, Myagdi, from waste. The biogas produced by using kitchen waste and toilet waste has been used to cook food. Chief at the District Jail, Khagaraj Sharma, said that the biogas plant was constructed with the objective of deceasing …
KATHMANDU: Approximately 69.8 per cent of households in urban areas use Liquefied Petroleum Gas compared to 11.4 per cent of their rural counterparts as main source of fuel for cooking. According to the Annual Household Survey 2012-13 under the heading of ‘Percentage Distribution of Households by Main Fuel Used for …
