Sep 15, 2015
MBI receives biomass pre-treatment technology patent
Biogas News
Sep 15, 2015
Mickram, a UK-based renewable energy company, is considering an investment of £3 million (€4 million) to construct a 9GW anaerobic digestion (AD) plant.
Plans for the plant, which would be located in King’s Lynn, are set to be submitted to local authorities for consideration next year if the project moves forward.
Mickram is currently operating a wind... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 14, 2015
Porvoo Energy aims to increase its production capacity for district heat at its site in Loviisa, Finland, with the construction of a new boiler plant.
Work at the €7 million expansion to the plant, which will see the use of renewable fuels on energy production increase from 70% to 90%, has already begun.
KPA Unicon will supply the site with a Biograte 10MWth biomass... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 14, 2015
Construction of North America’s first closed-loop fully-integrated organics waste management system is underway at the Orgaworld Surrey site in the city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
The construction began earlier this year on the biofuels processing facility, which will convert kitchen and yard waste into renewable natural gas to fuel Surrey’s rubbish... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 14, 2015
Biomass Energy Enhancement (BEE), a Utah, US-based biomass technology provider, has developed a new biomass fuel manufacturing process that could replace coal in power plants without the need for equipment upgrades.
The new process, developed over the past seven years, enables biomass fuel to be utilised in traditional coal-fired power plants as a direct replacement for... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 11, 2015
A Leicester, UK, farm that invested in an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in 2012 has installed two additional tanks and more than doubled its energy output, with multi million pound funding support from Yorkshire Bank.
The Shropshire family are third generation farmers based in Huncote, Leicester, with their business employing 55 people and specialising in livestock and... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 10, 2015
Western Energy Systems, GE’s distributed power business, and San Francisco-based Phoenix Energy have signed an agreement for GE to provide equipment for an integrated biomass gasification solution to power a bioenergy plant in North Fork, US.
The North Fork facility is the next in a series of bioenergy plants that Phoenix Energy is building in California.
GE’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2015
Metrogas, a natural gas developer from Chile, is working on a project to process street market waste into biogas for vehicles in two years.
The company has completed research tests and will install a pilot anaerobic digestion plant in 2016 by investing up to $350,000 (€313,000).
This investment is expected to be followed by an industrial plant in the next years.
Chile’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2015
Air Products' Prism membranes division in St. Louis, US, has received Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) certification from DNV GL Business Assurance Italia for its newest line of biogas membrane separators.
‘This certification confirms that our biogas separation product meets the European standards for design, manufacture, and safe operation of pressurised... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 8, 2015
A consortium of UK companies, led by the advanced waste to energy and fuels company Advanced Plasma Power (APP), has been awarded £11 million (€15 million) in government funding to develop a unique biogas plant.
The funds will be used to develop and build the first plant of its kind to turn waste from local homes and businesses into a sustainable fuel to power... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 8, 2015
Yokogawa America do Sul, a subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corp., has received an order from Areva Renewables Brazil, a subsidiary of France-based Areva, to deliver a control system for a biomass power plant that will be the largest facility of its type in Brazil.
The plant is being constructed by Bolt Energias in Sao Désiderio, Bahia, in the north eastern part... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 8, 2015
The 2,000MW coal-fired Eggborough power plant in North Yorkshire, UK, may cease production and close for good in March 2016. Attempts to gain government support in order to convert the station to firing biomass failed.
According to a statement released by Eggborough Power, the facility would need around £200 million (€179 million) in funding over the next three... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 7, 2015
Bettaland Products, a composting company part of Organic Recycling, is set to complete an anaerobic digestion plant in Crowland, UK by the end of 2015.
Once completed, the plant l, located at Decoy Farm, will provide power to more than 1,400 homes through the conversion of crops and waste.
Plans for the plant were greenlit last August, with the original intention of building... [Read More]
Other News
Sep 4, 2015
The UK government is being taken to court by two energy companies, who accuse the government of not providing adequate notice before announcing the removal of the climate change levy (CCL) exemption this August.
The companies, Infinis and Drax, claim the 24-day notice period given by the Department of Treasury was not sufficient for them to adapt their businesses accordingly.
Drax,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 4, 2015
Brazil’s biomass power production has increased 15% year-on-year to 1,860 average megawatts (MWa) in the first half of 2015, says Brazil’s Power Trading Chamber (CCEE).
Installed biomass power capacity hit 10,793MW in June 2015, totalling at about 7.7% of the total power generation in Brazil for the period, a 9.4% expansion over the same period last year.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 3, 2015
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has begun enrolment for farmers and forest landowners seeking financial assistance to grow new sources of biomass for energy production and biobased products.
According to Val Dolcini, Farm Service Agency administrator, funding is available from the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) which was reinstated in the 2014 Farm Bill.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 2, 2015
Long Island Compost (LIC) and its American Organic Energy (AOE) affiliate are moving forward with a plan to build a $40 million (€35.6 million) facility to turn food waste into natural gas.
After delays, AOE is planning to begin construction of an anaerobic digester in Yaphank, New York state by early next year.
Accepting and separating 180,000 tonnes of food waste... [Read More]
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