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Raisio, a Finland-based food group, will build a bioenergy plant in the town it shares its name with in southwest Finland. The 9.5MW plant, worth around €8m, will be powered by locally-produced wood chips. The facility will produce steam and heating for the company's operations and for businesses in the Raisio area. In a statement, Raisio said the construction of own bioenergy plant is part…
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A UK-based equestrian training centre has installed two new wood pellet boilers from Sweden-based biofuel heating manufacturer Ariterm. The boilers provide energy and heat to several of the Yorkshire Riding Centre's (YRC) buildings, including a guest house, lodges and chalets. They are connected to a 2400L pre-insulated thermal accumulator vessel to provide a central heat store. According to…
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A group of US states opposing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan have gone into court to delay the enforcement of the new regulations. Led by West Virginia and Texas, 25 states have asked the Supreme Court to stop the greenhouse gas reduction rulings from taking effect until after the states’ legal challenge is resolved. The call came after a Washington appeals court denied a…
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The European Commission (EC) has opened a formal investigation procedure related to the planned UK subsidy contract for a 645MW biomass-fired power unit of Drax. Drax is working to convert to biomass three of the six coal-powered generators at the Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire. The third unit is planned to receive a Contract for Difference (CfD), which means the UK government will…
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Asia Biogas, an Irish-Singaporean-owned bioenergy developer, has begun commercial operation at 12,300MWh per year biogas plant in Thailand. Krabi Waste to Energy Co., a subsidiary of Asia Biogas, will operate first phase the plant, which is located in the tourist region of Krabi. The project generates electricity using two CAT CG170-12 engines, supplied by Metro Machinery, which run on biogas…
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Ua Withya, a Thailand-based transmission line tower manufacturer, has approved the acquisition of two biomass power plants in the Buriram province for around $25.46m. According to local news website Deal Street Asia, the power plants, Advance Bio Power and Satuk Biomass, have a combined generating capacity of 17.4MW, which will enhance UWC's total capacity to 48MW. UWC managing director Peratus…
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The Government of Tanzania is working with the Norwegian Embassy and the Netherland Government to fund a two-year drive to promote the use of domestic biogas in rural Tanzania. According to news website The Daily News, the East African country will implement the plan via its Government-run Rural Energy Agency - a body which aims to support the use of modern energy. The drive, which will…
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French recycling and recovery group Suez has bought a 52% stake in Meta Bio Energies' waste recycling centre in a bid to strengthen its biowaste-to-energy activities. France-based Meta Bio Energies, owned by French firm Chazé Environment Group, specialises in biowaste-to-energy recovery by methanation and the production of organic soil conditioners. Strategically located in Combrée,…
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US-based waste-to-energy firm Covanta Holding Corp. has acquired Wisconsin environmental services company Chief Industrial Services. Chief Industrial specialises in custom non-hazardous waste management and cleaning services for industrial and commercial customers in the Midwest. Covanta's subsidiary, Covanta Environmental Solutions, purchased the privately held Chief Industrial for an…
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The UK Government has pledged to do more to increase the proportion of renewable energy used to heat the nation's buildings and fuel its cars, trucks and trains as it aims to meet binding EU targets by 2020. The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) made the pledge in its recently published report entitled Third progress report on the promotion and use of energy from renewable sources…
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A 5MW farmer-owned anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Suffolk, UK, has selected HRS Heat Exchangers to supply a new system to pasteurise its digestate — the organic biofertiliser produced by the process. Agri-Gen, which is based near Woodbridge in Suffolk, is owned by a consortium of six local farmers who locally grow some 22,000 acres of arable and root crops, such as potatoes, carrots,…
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UK-based renewable energy firm Ecotricity has submitted a planning application for a proposed anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Winchester, UK. The plant will be located at Sparshot College in Hampshire and is expected to be the firm's first AD facility located in the UK. In a statement, the company said the partnership will inject  around £60m into the local economy.  The…
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Japan-based heavy equipment maker IHI Corp. is promoting a method to increase the ratio of woody biomass that's able to be burned at coal-fired power plants amid increasing pressure to curb the carbon dioxide emissions that result from power generation. By retrofitting the mills that grind coal in preparation for burning so that they're also able to use more wood pellets in the fuel mix,…
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The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-consortium supported by Etihad Airways, Boeing and Honeywell UOP, claims that it will soon launch the world's first bioenergy research facility using desert land, irrigated by seawater, to produce both food and aviation fuels in Abu Dhabi. The facility will be launched in March and is located on a two-hectare site at Masdar City —…
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