Biomass News

Renewable energy providers Procter & Gamble move forward with their biomass facility in Georgia, US. The $230 million (€178 million) biomass facility has got permission from local officials to continue with the build and have received some tax incentives to bring the plant to operation. The project has seven partners including Georgia Power, the Georgia Public Service Commission,…
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New Generation Power International, a global renewable energy company, will build three 11.5 MW wood biomass plants in Japan. In collaboration, Chicago-based New Generation Power International (NGPI) and wood and biomass power specialist Nippon Energy Solution (NES) will initiate a new wood-based biomass energy generation project. The project will include the construction of three separate…
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Irish renewable energy group Gaelectric has acquired Imperative Energy, a biomass energy provider. Brendan McGrath, CEO, Gaelectric Group, says: 'Just 2% of the 60 million TOE (tonnes of oil equivalent) UK heat market, with 28 million TOE in commercial and industrial buildings, is currently provided by biomass. The continuing focus on sustainability, energy security and costs, and the supportive…
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Energy company E.ON’s £120 million biomass power station in Blackburn Meadows, Sheffield nears completion. The 30MW facility in the Blackburn Meadows area is now in the final stages of construction and is due to be fully commissioned later this year. It will burn locally-sourced waste wood to create electricity. Once fully operational, it will utilise an additional 25MW of heat…
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JFE Holding's Engineering unit will build a 50MW biomass plant for Erex in Oita prefecture, southwestern Japan. The plant will use palm kernel shells and coal as fuel. Production at the facility is expected to begin late 2016.
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Glencane Bioenergia, a local sugar and ethanol producer, has gained permission to operate a 40-MW biomass plant in Junqueiropolis municipality as an independent power producer (IPP). Brazil's electricity regulator Aneel has authorised Glencane's Rio Vermelho 2 plant, which will use sugarcane bagasse and straw as fuel, to begin production later this year. The facility has one sole unit with a…
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Kuala Lumpur-based Fitters Diversified is investing RM 14 million (€3.4 million) in three biomass-gas generators to be opened early 2015 in Sabah and Negeri Sembilan. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary Future NRG, the company has teamed up with German-based AHT Services to update AHT's existing biomass gasification technology. As part of the agreement, AHT will outsource its re-designed…
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Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) Atikokan Generating Station (GS) in Canada is now operating on biomass, making it the largest power plant in North America fuelled by 100% biomass. OPG's president and CEO, Tom Mitchell, comments: 'Close to 100% of the electricity OPG producers is from sources that are virtually free of emissions that cause smog or contribute to climate change. Atikokan GS is a…
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Vega Biofuels' joint venture partner, Agri-Tech Producers (ATP) , has developed a new, patent-pending process that reduces the cost of some of the biomass feedstock for the company's pilot torrefaction plant in South Carolina, US. Vega recently entered into the joint venture to build and operate a pilot manufacturing plant in Allendale for the production of biocoal, among other torrefied…
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It has been reported that GDF Suez's Belgian subsidiary, Electrabel, has resumed operations at its Max Green Rodenhuize biomass-fired power plant in Ghent. According to Platts, operations restarted on 28 August after an agreement was reached with authorities and stakeholders over the renewal of green certificates. The Ghent plant is able to handle up to 850,000 tonnes a year of wood pellets for…
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Technology start-up company Algae Systems, along with Japan's IHI Corp, has completed the demonstration of a new biofuel production approach. Algae Systems is a group company of IHI Corp based on a joint venture partnership with Algae Systems' founders The process involved converting algae and wastewater into both energy and clean water. The demo plant, located in Daphne, Alabama in the US,…
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Engineering firm Spencer Group has delivered the first project as part of a £150 million (€190 million) investment in biomass handling operations at the Humber Ports, UK. The facility is the first to be completed to support a 15-year contract between port operator Associated British Ports (ABP) and Drax Power to enable sustainable biomass to be transported to Drax Power Station at…
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Construction on a $35 million (€26.5 million) 10MW biomass-fired power plant in Nadroga, Fiji has begun following the formation of a joint venture between Tropik Wood Industries Fiji and Korea-based Gimco. According to reports, the investment for the project will be sourced locally as well as through overseas funding. A timeframe of 28 months has been allocated, with completion slated for…
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The Speyside biomass power station in Moray, Scotland has been guaranteed £48 million (€60 million) of finance by the UK government, and a further £26 million from international infrastructure investor John Laing and the Green Investment Bank (GIB). The new woodchip combined heat and power (CHP) plant will supply 87.4GWh of renewable electricity per annum to the national grid. It…
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