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As part of our launch event at the recent Low Carbon Agriculture show Jeanette Whittaker of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and the Project Manager of Biomass Connect gave a presentation outlining the project and telling a packed audience what to expect in the years to come.

Calling all agricultural students! Are you interested in the Net Zero challenge and the role that biomass crops have in meeting these targets? If so, then read on. Envirocrops is […]

We’ve now had a week to recover from a busy couple of days at the Low Carbon Agriculture Show! What an amazing show it was. Not only did Biomass Connect […]

DEFRA recently published an update on how government will pay for land-based environmental and climate goods and services under its Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. The update, published last week (26th January 2023) currently applying only to England, specified that perennial biomass crops such as miscanthus, reed canary grass and tree species grown as short-rotation coppice are all included under the ‘permanent crops’ category within the ELM schemes.

On the 12th of January 2023 the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology published a brief review (POST Note) on the status and role of Biomass in UK energy generation. […]

‘Mission Zero’ – the Independent Review of Net Zero was published on Friday 3rd January 2023 by MP Chris Skidmore. The 340-page report makes calls for 25 key actions by […]

The Biomass Connect project has been given the opportunity to proceed with a willow Short Rotation Coppice (SRC) harvest at a trial site at Easton College in Norfolk. There are […]

The global hydrogen project is an ambitious endeavour to revolutionise how we generate, store, and use energy. This project will involve the development of a network of hydrogen production and […]

Biomass Connect has now collated the December updates from all 8 of our Hub Sites. We have published these within the Hub Site Updates and they can also be accessed […]