Jan 25, 2016
Tanzania backs biogas
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Jan 22, 2016
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... [Read More]
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Jan 22, 2016
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... [Read More]
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Jan 22, 2016
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... [Read More]
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Jan 22, 2016
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... [Read More]
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Jan 21, 2016
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... [Read More]
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Jan 20, 2016
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... [Read More]
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Jan 20, 2016
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... [Read More]
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Jan 19, 2016
UK-based recycling and renewable energy firm Viridor has completed its state-of-the-art energy recovery facility (ERF) in Peterborough.
The plant, which is operated by Viridor, is now operational on the city's Fengate industrial estate.
Making a significant step towards its zero waste ambitions, Peterborough City Council is now able to divert up to 95% of its non-recyclable... [Read More]
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Jan 19, 2016
Bioenergy could be deployed to meet around 10% of the UK's future energy demand and should be beefed-up, according to a new report from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).
The research, Delivering Greenhouse Gas Emission Savings through UK Bioenergy Value Chains, highlighted the technology's importance as a development priority, following recent policy announcements.
The... [Read More]
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Jan 18, 2016
Energy-from-waste firm Covanta Energy Corp. has announced that it will soon close two of its seven US wood-fired biomass power plants.
The plants are located in West Enfield and Jonesboro, Maine, towns that are roughly 110 miles apart.
Covanta plans to take the facilities offline by the end of March due to lower fossil fuel prices that have weakened demand for biomass... [Read More]
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Jan 18, 2016
UK venture capital firm Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has set up a £9m investment fund for UK-based low-carbon heat projects.
The heat project fund will be called Ardor Energy and will be overseen by SEP's Environmental Capital Fund.
Ardor will fund a pipeline of diversified, small–scale heat and combined heat and power (CHP) projects across the UK over the... [Read More]
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Jan 15, 2016
Ceres, a California-based agricultural biotechnology company focused on forage crops, said its revenue for the quarter ended 30 November, 2015, increased by 140% to $942,000, compared to $400,000 the same period last year, owing to a strengthened balance sheet and a strategy to focus on commercialising its forage products.
The company also reported that it narrowed its... [Read More]
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Jan 15, 2016
BioHiTech America, a US-based technology company which develops data driven solutions for food waste disposal, has partnered with New Jersey-headquartered water management specialist Natural Systems Utilities to convert commercial food waste to energy.
The firms will also be working with New Jersey-based utility specialist Ridgewood Green RME and the village of Ridgewood.... [Read More]
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Jan 14, 2016
The US-based Florida Keys islands may use gasification technology to convert waste into electricity, according to media reports.
According to news website Waste360, Monroe County, which encompasses Key West and about 95% of the rest of the Keys islands, is finalising a contract with Annapolis, Maryland-based Energy3 LLC to build a gasification plant capable of processing... [Read More]
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Jan 14, 2016
Waste management specialist China Everbright International has signed a supplementary agreement for phase three of a household waste to energy project with Jiangyin Public Utility Management Bureau, Jiangsu Province, as well as a contract to build and operate the Jiangsu Suqian Food Waste Treatment Project.
The company explained that the Jiangyin Project phase three will... [Read More]
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Jan 13, 2016
Wyke Farms, a UK-based independent cheese and milk producer, has signed major new deal with supermarket giant Sainsbury's to supply the retailer with green gas generated at its dairy farm in Somerset.
The milk producer will supply Sainsbury's with biogas from its anaerobic digestion (AD) plant alongside its cheese and butter products.
The company said the deal would see... [Read More]
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USTC chief executive and co-owner Nina Østergaard Borris said the acquisition reinforces the group’s long-term strategy of diversifying into sustainable energy markets
Formerly known as firmus energy networks, the company announced its rebrand during its annual stakeholder briefing
Aston University has officially opened the Wolfson Centre for Low Carbon Hydrogen, the UK’s first fully integrated facility dedicated to converting biomass into low-carbon hydrogen and electricity under real-world industrial conditions
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