May 9, 2016
Guangdong Chant Group to construct 80MW biomass plant in China
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May 4, 2016
Ingenio Montelimar, a Nicaragua-based renewable energy firm, officially launched a 38-MW biomass plant in San Rafael del Sur city, according to media reports.
The facility is named ‘Green Power’. It will use bagasse as raw material. Bagasse is the fibrous matter that remains after sugarcane or sorghum stalks are crushed to extract their juice.
The... [Read More]
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May 3, 2016
The global biomass power market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 6.5% until 2022 due to government support, according to a new report by Transparency Market Research.
The market research agency published a study entitled Biomass power generation.
According to the report, the biomass power generation market will increase from a valuation... [Read More]
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Apr 29, 2016
Covanta, a US waste management firm, has announced that the company’s biomass assets have been idled and this has negatively impacted on its first quarter revenue results for its energy division.
In a statement, Covanta said: “Energy revenue from non-energy-from-waste (EfW) operations decreased by $13 million, primarily driven by an $11 million decrease... [Read More]
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Apr 28, 2016
The government of the Dominican Republic has inaugurated a 30MW biomass plant, the first one connected to the country’s National Interconnected Electric System (SENI).
The San Pedro BioEnergy co-generation plant uses sugarcane bagasse as feedstock, and its construction was carried out by Spain's Cobra Group over a period of two years.
Empresa... [Read More]
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Apr 25, 2016
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) said it lent more than £1 billion to support UK customers’ sustainable energy projects in 2015, more than doubling lending from 2014 in a third consecutive year of growth for the sector.
The record £1bn confirms RBS’s position as the largest lender to the UK renewable energy sector and comes as the bank ramps up... [Read More]
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Apr 19, 2016
A cross-party group of MPs has said that the UK government would probably abandon the EU’s biomass land policy if it was not committed to it by EU law.
The group, part of the Environmental Audit Committee based in the UK, published its views in a House of Commons report entitled ‘EU and UK Environmental Policy’.
The report comes as the UK prepares for... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2016
The Philippines is pushing ahead with its biomass production and now has a total of 18 biomass plants, according to an ex-government official.
According to local news website, InterAksyon.com, the Philippines has the ability to use enough biomass power plants to provide energy to more than 300,000 homes.
According to the news channel, former Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2016
The Nova Scotia government is ending a legal requirement to operate a biomass plant based in Port Hawkesbury as a must-run facility.
In a statement, the Nova Scotia government said it introduced the new rules due to concerns expressed from the local community about the "use of primary forest biomass for electricity".
Under the terms of these new regulations, the number... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2016
The silent residents of the Arnos Vale cemetery in the UK may get a chance to put in some after-life work hours powering the graveyard’s new lighting system.
A research team from Columbia University (CU) in the US has won a competition, organised by the University of Bath’s (UoB) Centre for Death and Society, to reimagine the historic resting grounds, opened... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2016
Hale Construction has reaped the rewards from going green, with a £10,000 (€12,805) saving since installing biomass boilers to heat their Neath, UK, headquarters.
The family-run business, which incorporates Hale Construction, Hale Homes, and Seven Oaks Timberframe, has won awards for its sustainability credentials and environmentally-friendly building processes.
Hale... [Read More]
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Mar 14, 2016
The US Ambassador to Finland sees huge opportunities for developing renewable energy from forestry resources in the Arctic for Finland and Russia.
Ambassador Charles Adams Jr. sees the large forestry sectors of the Finnish Lapland and Russian Kola Peninsula as an increasingly attractive opportunity not only for the two countries’, but also the EU’s bioenergy... [Read More]
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Mar 11, 2016
Thousands of jobs for specialist contractors in the biomass industry could be unlocked as Denmark takes steps to improve the sustainability of its pig meat production, according to professional services consultancy Procorre.
The biomass industry, which has come under close scrutiny in recent times, is now being addressed by agricultural ministers across Europe who are... [Read More]
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Mar 10, 2016
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has joined efforts with Brazil’s largest paper producer Klabin to finance the construction of a new state-of-the-art green field pulp production mill.
The new facility will be located in the municipality of Ortigueira, one of the poorest cities on the state of Parana, Brazil.
Through an A/B Loan of $300 million (€270m),... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2016
Comet Biorefining, a Canadian cellulosic dextrose technology provider, is getting €7.4m (CA $10.8 million) in federal funding for a new sugar from biomass plant, to be built in Sarnia, Ontario.
The money is part of $206-million in funding for 36 clean energy projects across Canada. It is being provided by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) – a... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2016
Renewable energy firm HRS Energy is developing a UK-based multi-million pound waste wood biomass plant which will be located in an East Yorkshire village.
The site near Tansterne, located near Hull, will produce enough electricity to power 11,000 homes and is expected to open in 2017.
The 22MW facility will also have the capacity to process up to 175,000 tonnes of waste... [Read More]
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Mar 4, 2016
UK’s largest biomass power generation project has been quietly abandoned after having never run for more than 30 minutes.
The £10.5 million (€13.5m) plant, built in 2007 to reduce CO2 emissions at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, was intended to produce renewable electricity from woodchips.
The facility, which received a £1 million... [Read More]
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