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Work is underway on water company Severn Trent’s new food waste and green gas plant, located in Spondon, close to Derby, UK. Severn Trent is set to invest around £20 million in the facility, which will convert 50,000 tonnes of food waste a year into renewable gas that will be pumped into the distribution network. Jones Celtic BioEnergy, an engineering company, will build the new…
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The waste-to-energy plant and northern commercial greenhouse pilot project, announced as part of the government of Quebec’s 2017-2017 economic plan, will be established in Kuujjuaq - the largest northern village in Nunavik, Quebec. A sum of CAD$5 million (€3.3m), spread over three years, will serve to design and build a thermal waste-to-energy processing system then a commercial…
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UK-based Minister for the Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth, Jake Berry MP, has officially opened one of the flagship facilities of the Northern Powerhouse and Cheshire Science Corridor - the Energy Centre at Thornton Science Park. The Northern Powerhouse is a proposal to boost economic growth in the North of England by the 2010-15 coalition government…
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EnviTec Biogas Service UK has strengthened its offer across the UK under a landmark agreement with diesel engine specialist MAN Rollo. The new union sees EnviTec Biogas Service UK developing a service package for MAN Rollo – a global supplier of MAN engines. Signed at the UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017 in Birmingham recently, the agreement will lead to EnviTec Biogas Service…
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A combined solar and methane power plant is set to commence operations in southern Australia. The facility, built on a landfill site, is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia. The new project will generate approximately 2000 megawatt hours of renewable electricity each year, enough to power more than 345 homes in the local area. Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority (NAWMA), in…
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The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain. The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges. Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability at scale. The…
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New research claims that air pollution policy reduces the extent to which population growth in urban areas results in increased pollution emissions, without disrupting the economic growth resulting from this urbanisation. More than half of the world’s population currently lives in urban areas, and the United Nations predicts another 2.5 billion people will move to cities by 2050. However,…
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Former US Vice President Al Gore has arrived in the UK to address how the perils of climate change can be overcome as he promotes his new documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. The film is a follow-up to his blockbuster 2006 global warming film, An Inconvenient Truth. It was a massive box office hit. His new film hammers home the same message as his first film. He was Vice President…
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The Almond Alliance of California has called for increased funding from the Farm Bill in order to help develop bioenergy outlets for almond biomass and byproducts in the state. Kelly Covello, president of the Almond Alliance of California, explained to a Farm Bill listening session in Modesto that the legislation was important to the almond industry in the areas of trade, conservation, bioenergy,…
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Cenex, the UK’s ‘first’ centre of excellence for low carbon technologies, has announced its involvement in the UK’s largest trial of biomethane fuelled lorries. The ‘Dedicated to Gas’ trial will see large fleet operators including Kuehne + Nagel, Wincanton, ASDA, Brit European, Howard Tenens and Great Bear, trial the effectiveness of 81 dedicated gas-powered…
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A biomethane fuelled double-decker bus is set to hit Bristol’s roads from 21 August. The renewable, sustainable biomethane gas will be created from a feedstock of household food waste. Local bus operator First West of England will use the new biogas double-decker as a ‘pathfinder’ to assess how well the new bus copes with the demands of city-wide operations in Bristol and how it…
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Greenbelt Resources Corporation has received “Eco Friendly Technology” registration for its ECOsystem process. Greenbelt claims that the certification gives the company a greenlight to offer its waste-to-energy process as a solution available to address Indonesia’s food waste challenge. Indonesia is the world’s second biggest ‘food waster’ after Saudi…
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A company operating an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Plaistow, West Sussex has gone into administration, according to the West Sussex County Times. Crouchlands Biogas, based in Dunsfold, Surrey, will continue to trade the business and retain its 11 staff as it seeks new investment and ownership, administrators FRP Advisory told the West Sussex County Times. Since 2010, the AD plant in…
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The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain. The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges. Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability at scale. The…
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