The global transition to clean energy will deliver enormous opportunities and benefits for our communities, workers and industry. The many types of clean energy will be critical in helping us emerge from the triple global crises of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and an energy security crisis where we have weaponized energy. The…
Biobased raw materials are already available, and they are increasing. Especially in construction, it is no longer necessary to work with fossil, environmentally harmful materials that are also starting to become scarce. They know this better than anyone at the Biobased Innovation Garden in Colijnsplaat (Zeeland). Since 2014, we have been working on the cultivation…
Everyone has their creative side. Everyone is confronted with the bioeconomy in their daily lives. Every vision on the bioeconomy is unique. Are you a creative person between the ages of 14 and 35, do you live legally in the EU or Ukraine and are you interested in bioeconomy and/or bioeconomy related areas (food systems, forestry, climate change, rural development, blue bioeconomy… )? Carry…
Today's society could not exist without plastic, from cheap mass-produced products to specialized high-tech materials. However, the use of plastics also has disadvantages. These include the consumption of fossil fuels and increasing amounts of waste. Making high-quality plastics from biomass that can be broken down into reusable components could be a new strategy to…
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy is currently working out how ETS companies can demonstrate as of January 1, 2023 that the biomass they burn meets European sustainability requirements. The NEa facilitates the ministry's communication with the ETS companies involved on this subject. Below you can read the message from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy: From January 1, 2023…
Ivan Camilo Vera Concha examined the sustainability assessments of existing and new bio-based value chains in bio-based materials, electricity and advanced fuels, under context-specific conditions. He notes that the impact it has on land use is particularly important in the assessment. He received his PhD from Utrecht University on Friday 8 July. Biomass for the production…
Bioenergy Europe welcomes the adoption of the report on the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) delivered at the meeting of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) in the European Parliament. The ITRE report on the RED revision shows clear improvements compared to the Commission proposal and…
Assessment of requirements and opportunities for biomass lignocellulosic feedstocks In 2018, IEA Bioenergy Task 43 (Biomass Supply) launched an initiative to identify successful examples of biomass logistics and distribution points for bioenergy and the bioeconomy: bio-hubs. Pretreatments and densification at these bio-hubs make it possible to convert raw material flows from raw biomass into commodities…
Come to the Open Energy Day on Saturday, September 17! You can take a look at sustainable energy projects at dozens of locations. Are you also curious about the world behind your socket and thermostat? Last year, almost fifty sustainable energy projects opened their doors during the first Open Energy Day to introduce people to their...
Behind the geraniums instead of in the meadow or stable? The future for Dutch farmers is turning pitch black due to the lack of creativity in the nitrogen plans of the Dutch cabinet. They are aimed at stopping, if necessary forced. While the construction sector and increasingly also the chemical industry is eager for bio raw materials. “Many farmers are not…
Staatsbosbeheer, construction company BAM Wonen, IBI2, Pontmeyer and Jongeneel have signed an agreement for the joint production, processing and processing of 75.000 square meters of 100% biobased and recycled sheet material for residential construction. The raw material for this is residual wood from Dutch forests and from the construction site. Staatsbosbeheer wants to recycle residual flows from Dutch nature reserves, such as clippings and branches and…
The share of renewable sources in electricity production increased from 2022 to 33 percent in the first half of 41 compared to the first half of 2021. This significant jump meant that gas-fired power stations in the Netherlands in particular did not have to run as fast. That saved one billion cubic meters of natural gas,…
It is becoming increasingly clear that both divesting from fossil fuels and avoiding the build-up of plastic in the environment are essential to meeting the challenges of climate change. To this end, significant efforts are being made to develop degradable or recyclable polymers made from non-edible plant material, referred to as “lignocellulosic biomass”. Producing…
Commodities based on lignocellulosic raw materials are needed to connect biomass with the market, reduce costs and achieve security of supply. Without transportable and marketable lignocellulosic comodities, the potential of the biobased economy will not be realized. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research have assessed and described what a real lignocellulose commodity should…
The share of renewable energy in total energy consumption in the Netherlands fell last year. The main reason is a change in the European guidelines on biomass that counts as sustainable. The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reports this based on provisional figures. The consumption of solar and wind energy did increase in 2021…
RTL Nieuws answered the question of whether biomass as an energy source saves CO2. When biomass is harvested from forests or other sources that are managed in a sustainable way that maintains carbon stocks in plants, trees and soil, it contributes to reducing CO₂ emissions. Biomass is – after nuclear energy…
The biomass annual report for 30 was presented and handed over on Thursday, June 2021, during the Business Meeting of Platform Bio-Economie. Jos Keurentjes, chairman of the Bio-Economie Platform, presented the first edition to Julie Fraiture, Economic Affairs & Climate, who received it on behalf of our client, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. Both emphasized the importance of factual figures to…
