Drax starts construction on second satellite wood pellet plant
Drax Group has started construction on the second of three satellite wood pellet plants in Arkansas. [...]
September 20, 2021
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Brussels aims to tighten rules on burning wood pellets, leaked document reveals
Brussels wants to tighten rules to prevent some forms of wood-burning energy from counting towards the EU’s green [...]
June 18, 2021
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Drax to build three new pellet plants in Arkansas
Drax Group will begin constructing the first of three new ‘satellite’ pellet plants in Arkansas. The [...]
May 10, 2021
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Drax completes acquisition of Pinnacle Renewable Energy
British energy company Drax, which owns the world’s largest biomass power station, located in the United Kingdom and wood [...]
April 15, 2021
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Russia: Luzales to build a large wood pellet plant; production exported to Europe
Russian company LLC Luzales plans a second plant for the production of wood fuel pellets. The plant is being built [...]
March 23, 2021
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The Netherlands to limit wood pellet subsidies, possibly signaling EU change
In a speedbump for the accelerating biomass industry in the European Union, the Dutch Parliament on February 25 voted to [...]
March 11, 2021
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2020 EU imports of energy wood fall for the first time in 20 years
After nearly 20 years of almost continuous growth, the value of energy wood imported to the EU and the UK [...]
March 11, 2021
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Current trends in Russia’s wood pellet market and overview of pellet prices evolution
About 3 million tons of wood pellets were produced in Russia in 2020. The output growth was about [...]
February 25, 2021
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Germany: Record pellet production in 2020
Pellet production in Germany in 2020 increased by 10.2% over the previous year to a new record of about [...]
February 16, 2021
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UK’s Drax to acquire Canadian wood pellet producer Pinnacle
UK utility Drax has signed an agreement to acquire Canadian wood pellet producer Pinnacle Renewable Energy for C$385mn (£226mn [...]
February 9, 2021
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