Biomass company Enviva is to supply wood pellets to utility owner E.ON under a 240,000 tonne per year agreement which will operate for a number of years.

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Algae producer Aquaviridis has joined forces with OriginOil to develop a new technology that extracts oil from the algae and will develop this multi-phase production...
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The Green Investment Bank (GIB), a world first initiative to encourage private investment into green energy projects, has received 32 bids from cities in the UK...
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Novozymes has formed a joint venture with Sea6 Energy, an Indian company, to develop a method of turning seaweed into biofuels. Through the research, enzymes will be...
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Helius Energy has released its results for the 2010-2011 financial year and says its profit before tax was just £7,200 (€8,664) although it had a cash...
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Finnish paper producer UPM is to build a biorefinery that will produce biofuels from crude tall oil derived from pulp in Lappeenranta, Finland.

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Yorkshire Water in the UK is working with Esholt sewage works to build a biothelys sludge treatment plant that will create energy from human waste.

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Tampere Energy is building a pellet heating plant following the signing of an agreement with MW of Power.

As the largest pellet plant in Finland, the facility...
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Over last year, more than one billion gallons of biodiesel was produced in the US, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says.

A total of 1.1 billion...
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A new technology has been developed at the University of Sheffield in the UK which uses microbubbles to harvest and remove water from algae for biofuel...
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VTT, a company working at developing Vietnam’s solid biomass fuel resources on an industrial level as part of the Energy and Environment Partnership Programme...
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Scientists from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Sustainable Bioenergy Centre (BSBEC) have uncovered a series of genes which could...
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Bioenergy company ZeaChem has been awarded a $232.5 million (€176 million) loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build a...
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An African renewable energy company has secured $5 million (€3.8 million) in fundraising to develop its first biomass energy project on the...
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A Californian county has decided to produce 100% renewable energy for county facilities.

Sonoma County has signed a year-long agreement with 3 Phases...
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The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has provided bioenergy company Vaskiluodon Voima Oy with €18 million to build a gasification plant in Vaasa, Finland. The total...
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A new plant in Plymouth, UK is to open, converting 40,000 tonnes of wood waste into renewable heat and electricity annually, which should reduce CO₂ emissions by...
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Construction has begun on the Hairy Hill biorefinery in Canada which is to turn farmers’ grain into ethanol whilst at the same time producing power for the...
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True Green Energy says it is going to produce pellets as part of its rubbish to energy production process.

At the moment it turns municipal solid waste (MSW)...
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DSM and POET have joined forces to convert  a facility into its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the US, which will be based in Emmetsburg,...
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Italy plans to cut incentives for renewable energy, including biomass, in a new measure which might prevent it from reaching its 2020 targets.

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A brewery based in Cornwall, UK, is expanding its facility to install an anaerobic digestion system which includes an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket which will...
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has formed a $25 million (€19 million) partnership with Fiberight, money which will be put towards building a new...
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The founder of Bioenergy Solutions has filed for bankruptcy which means hundreds of people will lose their jobs.

David Albers’ business went into the...
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Green Biologics Limited (GBL), a UK-based industrial biotechnology company has merged with butylfuel, a US-based renewable chemicals and biofuels...
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The province of Manitoba in Canada has introduced a new programme that will give $400,000 (€308,000) in grants to coal companies that switch to biomass energy...
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Cool Planet BioFuels has been granted approval from the California Air Resources Board to test its negative carbon petrol.

The technology converts biomass,...
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Despite receiving hundreds of objections, Hertfordshire County councillors have voted unanimously to allow Cattlegate Farm in the UK to build an anaerobic digestion...
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Australian company Algae.Tec has signed a 50/50 joint venture (JV) with Chinese company Shandong Kerui.

 Working together, the companies will build a...
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Bioenergy crop company SG Biofuels has closed a $17 million (€13 million) round of fundraising to go towards further developments of its hybrid jatropha seeds...
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German Pellets is to build and operate a combined heat and power (CHP) plant in northern Italy in a joint venture with a local company.

German Pellets says...
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The Namibia city of Windhoek plans to upgrade the main sludge treatment system at a local water works, installing new gas engines and improving the existing...
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UK-based Malaby Biogas has received a loan from an anaerobic digestion (AD) fund, Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), which will go towards building a new...
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PDM says it wants to invest a further £40 million (€48 million) into increasing its network of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants throughout...
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Biomass power generation capacity is predicted to grow by more than 86GW by 2021, a rise from the current 58GW, and representing a total investment of more than $100...
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Verso Paper has finished the construction of a $45 million (€35.5 million) renewable energy upgrade at its pulp and paper mill in Michigan, US.

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The demand for woody biomass in the US over the past three year has decreased because fossil fuel prices have stayed ‘relatively low’, say a report from...
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Boeing and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have joined forces to examine the potential for aviation...
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Science Applications International (SAI) and the Carlyle Energy Mezzanine Opportunities are to fund the construction of a new $225 million (€176 million)...
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A biomass plant planned for Munford Road in Thetford, UK, has been opposed by the local council, which says the facility would have a visual impact on the surrounding...
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A farm in Kirkton, Ontario, has begun to produce electricity and thermal energy through the use of waste streams such as manure and organic material.

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Kenyan electricity provider Tower Power is to build two biomass power plants in the country.

One facility will provide 30MW of power and will be built at...
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BioDiesel International (BDI) has secured a contract to build a multi-feedstock biogas plant in northern France for €4.45 million.

The plant was...
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The Nigerian government has signed a deal with Global Biofuels, a local biofuel producer, to build 15 biofuel plants in the country, costing about N414 billion...
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Florida-based company BioTork has converted papayas into fatty acids which it says can be refined into biofuels.

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World Health Energy Holdings (WHEH), a public holding company that works on forming joint ventures with algae companies for the production of biodiesel and fish food,...
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German chemical company BASF has participated in a $50 million (€38 million) funding round with an investment of $30 million into biofuel producer...
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The Indian government says last year it intensified its bioenergy power generation across the country and now 30 villages in total have had biomass gasifiers...
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A prison in the US is to install a thermophilic anaerobic digester covering 3-4 acres which will produce about 1MW of electricity each year, with the electricity...
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