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Macclesfield, UK based Tidy Planet has unveiled what it dubs a ‘new intelligent boiler monitoring control system in Britain.’ It comes as part of the company’s collaboration with Valencian headquartered Sugimat, announced earlier this year, that has seen Tidy Planet become the sole distributor of the company’s boilers for the waste-to-energy sector. Now, it will also…
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The new offices of North Lincolnshire, UK’s Birch Solutions are powered 100% by renewable energy produced from onsite biogas plants, the company has announced. Founded in 1815, Singleton Birch has since diversified into a number of sectors while keeping the global supply of chalk and lime as its core business. Birch Solutions was formed after Singleton Birch bought a controlling share of…
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Four biogas plants, which will produce energy from more than half a million tonnes of food waste, are set to be built in Oman, local media are reporting. According to the Times of Oman, the cost of the project, is OMR50 million. Oman Environmental Holdings, also known as Be’ah, is building the biogas plants. The Times of Oman article notes that the country generates 560,000 tonnes of food…
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New Hampshire Public Radio reported that the Toxics Action Center (TAC) and the Energy Justice Network (EJN) have both come forward in their support of the Governor of New Hampshire Chris Sununu’s decision in June of this year to veto a bill designed to subsidise and encourage the development of biomass and solar energy across the state. The biomass bill, Senate Bill 365 (SB365),…
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UK based Water Company Severn Trent, is currently in the process of buying Agrivert Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries for an enterprise value of £120 million. This will also include a repayment of some £60 million debt. The water company already has two operating food waste AD plants to their name in East and West Birmingham. Both were developed by Agrivert, who have been producing…
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BayWa renewable energy (BayWa r.e.) announced in a press release that it had sold a biomethane plant in Mehrum, located in the Lower Saxony region of Germany to prominent France-based biogas operator Evergaz. In the press release, the biogas developer noted that the plant produces 700Nm³/h and 600kW of electricity (CHP) of total biomethane output. According to BayWa r.e., this deal is the…
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A press release from the American Biogas Council announced that the letter, signed and approved by 111 separate firms from the biomass and biogas industry, requested that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler include renewable electricity into the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). In 2007, Congress approved the RFS participation of using renewable…
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The Green Party’s spokesperson on agriculture, Pippa Hackett, announced, through a press release, the political party’s concerns over Gas Network Ireland’s proposal to build and develop a series of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants nationwide. The primary cause of concern is the current scarcity of resources in the agricultural sector. Hackett said in her statement, “While…
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California-based Bloom Energy has announced its intention to hold a preview outlining a high-efficiency solution for generating clean electricity from waste biogas. The preview will take place at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Climate Tech Marketplace, which is an affiliate event of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on September 13. According to the announcement, the…
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Vancouver based Pinnacle Renewable Holdings has acquired 70% of The Westervelt Co.’s industrial wood pellet production in Aliceville. Westervelt currently manages more than half a million acres of land, whilst Pinnacle produces sustainable fuel for renewable electricity generation in the form of industrial wood pellets. The facility in Aliceville has an annual production capacity of…
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A share of €8 million ($9.2 million) worth of funding has been awarded to a total of 45 innovative energy research projects in Ireland.  The money granted is due to the government’s ambition to develop solutions to help homes, businesses and communities deliver a cleaner energy future, and will vary from one to four years’ worth of funding. CEO of the Sustainable Energy…
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J Murphy & Sons announced that it had landed a contract to develop a new energy and recycling facility in Huddersfield for Yorkshire Water. The firm estimates the deal to be worth over €64 million ($74 million). The development will include new aerobic digesters; a new sludge reception plant; sludge thickening plant and storage; CHP and dual fuel boilers; sludge dewatering and lime…
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A total of 9 rural businesses in the state of Maine, in the United States, are to receive almost $432,000 (€371,807) for their energy efficiency projects. Republican Senate, Susan Collins and independent Angus King, say that the money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Energy for America Program will be used to purchased, construct and install solar panels or mechanisms to…
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As reported by local media outlet, New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR), New Hampshire legislators voted and subsequently overturned the vetoing of Senate Bill 365 (SB365), a bill which focused on the subsidisation of biomass plants across the state. The overturning occurred by a narrow margin of 226 to 113 (66.7%) legislators, which was the minimum number of votes needed for a majority. On…
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