Biomass News

UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) and Irish electricity utility Electricity Supply Board (ESB) have made a combined commitment to invest £70 million (€95 million) in a new £190 million renewable power facility at the Port of Tilbury, Essex. GIB and ESB are each committing £35 million in a combination of equity and shareholder loans, with an additional £2 million…
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The Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP) has launched the SBP Framework to representatives of the EU Institutions at an event in Brussels. The Framework consists of standards and independent certification procedures which together provide a tool enabling users of woody biomass for energy production to demonstrate the legal and sustainable sourcing of its feedstock material in compliance with…
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Alstom has signed two contracts with Danish power plant company Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) for Geared Reaction steam turbines (GRT) to be used in two UK biomass projects. The first contract uses a 23MW GRT for a waste wood combined heat and power (CHP) biomass plant in Widnes, Merseyside that is being developed by BWSC and UK logistics company Stobart Group. The second…
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Balfour Beatty Investments has reached financial close on a £51.6 million (€72 million) advanced conversion technology waste wood power station located in Northamptonshire, UK. Balfour Beatty will invest £17.2 million, as will each of its two consortium investment partners, Noy Infrastructure & Energy Investment Fund and Equitix. The 26 month construction programme will start…
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Some of the leading players in the UK's biomass industry have joined forces to develop a skills standard under the government's Apprenticeship Trailblazers programme. The programme sees groups of employers pool their expertise to develop apprenticeship standards in their own sector with the aim of ensuring young people develop world class skills to take into industry. The Biomass Installation…
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ICM and JUM Global, a waste solution developer contracted with the City of San José, California, have signed a contract for a gasification demonstration unit using ICM's proprietary technology. This gasification demonstration unit will be operated at the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, which will process up to 10 tonnes per day of urban waste biomass from the San…
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Valmet has announced that it will deliver a biomass boiler plant to Nokianvirran Energia in Finland. A letter of intent for delivery was signed in November 2014. The delivery will include a HYBEX boiler with a steam power of 68MW that employs the fluidszed bed technology, flue gas purification equipment, and the plant's electrification and automation system. The boiler plant will be delivered for…
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A joint venture between Interserve, the international support services and construction group, and Babcock & Wilcox Vølund has been awarded a £150 million (€210 million) contract by the Brite Partnership North East to build a biomass-fired power plant in Rotherham, UK. Based in Templeborough, the 'Brite' power plant will be fired with locally sourced waste wood and have a…
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Law firm Eversheds advised Eco2 and Iceni Energy on the sale of the 44.2MW straw-powered biomass project in Snetterton, East Anglia. The £160 million (€223 million) Snetterton Renewable Energy plant will be primarily fuelled using locally sourced straw and will generate enough electricity to meet the needs of approximately 82,000 homes. It will also result in an annual CO2 emissions…
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In Glenrothes, Fife, RWE's £160 million (€223 million) Markinch biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant has been officially opened by Fergus Ewing, minister for business, energy and tourism. Constructed and operated by European renewables operator RWE, the plant replaces the former 1950's coal and gas fired CHP power station on the site of premium paper and board manufacturer…
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Foresight Group and the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) have announced a £30 million (€41 million) investment in the construction of a new £60 million waste-to-energy gasification facility in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. The plant will be the first commercial-scale, refuse derived fuel (RDF) gasification plant to be construction financed by third party investors. The gasification…
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Brazil-based ethanol producer USJ Acucar e Alcool SA will expand its 12MW biomass plant in Sao Joao after receiving a permit from Brazilian regulator Aneel. The facility, in Sao Paolo state, will have its capacity increased to 40MW. USJ will install an additional 28.75 MW unit to operate alongside the four 3MW bagasse-fuelled units currently on site. The permit also allows USJ to become an…
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Japanese trading firm Marubeni Corp. is reportedly set to build a 37MW biomass power station in Fukui prefecture, western Japan. Work is expected to begin on the facility in November 2015 with the scope to have it completed and running in summer 2017. According to a statement from the company earlier this month, the plant will run on wood chips and will have the capacity to generate enough power…
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Delipapier Frouard's new biomass plant is now operational. The overall investment for the plant was approximately €6.5 million. The works are part of the BCIAT 2011 project (Biomasse Chaleur Industrie, Agriculture et Tertiaire) launched by ADEME (Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie) to encourage the industry to produce thermal energy using biomass. The plant is…
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