Mar 17, 2015
Balfour Beatty Investments consortium reaches financial close on UK biomass plant
Biomass News
Mar 17, 2015
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... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 13, 2015
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... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 13, 2015
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... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 13, 2015
The Wood Pellet Association of Canada (WPAC) has announced the resignation of Brad Bennett as president and director.
Michele Rebiere will succeed Bennett and president and director. Rene Landry has been appointed VP and director, and Wayne Young appointed as director.
Bennett is said to have stepped down for 'personal reasons'. The WPAC board of directors thanks Bennett... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 13, 2015
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... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 10, 2015
Drax has acquired Billington Bioenergy (BBE), the UK's second largest wood pellet distributor. The move signals the power generator's intention to enter the country's growing biomass heat sector.
Drax is now the UK's largest renewable power generator by replacing much of its coal capacity with biomass, and is also a world leader in sourcing sustainable biomass through... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 9, 2015
Viridis Merchants (VM), an aggregation and trading service of wood pellets and wholly owned subsidiary of wood pellet manufacturer Viridis Energy, has secured a contract with an existing supplier, for exclusive distribution of up to 18,000 tonnes of 100% Douglas fir pellets.
The contract value is over C$6 million (€4.4 million) during 2015.
VM launched its Okanagan... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 9, 2015
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... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 9, 2015
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... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 5, 2015
PHG Energy (PHGE), an installer of industrial- grade downdraft gasification systems, and the city of Lebanon in Tennessee, US have signed a contract that will provide an environmentally sustainable method of waste disposal and produce green power in the process.
The waste-to-energy technology, which will go on line early next year, is a downdraft gasification plant that... [Read More]
Other News
Mar 4, 2015
Cellulosic sugars company Renmatix has announced an investment by the New Energies Division of Total, and the signature of a joint development agreement (JDA) between Total and Renmatix. Under the agreement, Renmatix and Total will utilise Renmatix's proprietary Plantrose process with specific feedstocks to extract sugar for use in production of biobased products of interest... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 3, 2015
Sia Broceni Pellets, a subsidiary of Estonia-based forestry company Graanul Invest, has acquired 16 hectares of land in Latvia on which it will build a wood pellet plant.
The facility will be able to produce around 150,000 tonnes a year of pellets when it comes online in the beginning of 2016.
The company has already secured long-term supply contracts for the raw materials... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 2, 2015
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.... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 2, 2015
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... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 2, 2015
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... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 2, 2015
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... [Read More]
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