Jan 7, 2015
Clean Energy sells interest in biomethane plant
Biomass News
Jan 6, 2015
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a loan of up to €7 million for the construction of a new biomass boiler plant in Prijedor, a municipality in the north west of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This will be EBRD's first investment in renewable energy in the region.
The operator of the plant is Toplana AD Prijedor, the majority of which... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 5, 2015
The Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP) has announced that five certification bodies have been accepted as applicants and are now able to progress towards achieving SBP-approved status. These applicant certification bodies are BM Trada, Bureau Veritas Latvia, Control Union, NEPCon and NSF.
The SBP framework of standards and processes enables producers of woody biomass... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 5, 2015
UK-based anaerobic digestion (AD) specialist Clearfleau has revealed its energy output results for the plant it built for global food and beverage supplier Nestlé, one year after commissioning.
Clearfleau designed and built the onsite bioenergy plant for Nestlé's Fawdon confectionary factory, near Newcastle, which is helping Nestlé develop environmentally... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 5, 2015
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, with help from Waste Services of the Bluegrass, is converting methane from a local landfill into renewable electricity to power Toyota's Georgetown assembly plant.
Scheduled for completion in early 2015, the project will provide enough power to produce 10,000 vehicles annually, but it will also lead to improved air quality, reducing... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 5, 2015
Wheelabrator Technologies has announced the close of its $1.94 billion (€1.6 billion) acquisition by Energy Capital Partners from Waste Management. A definitive agreement for the sale was previously announced in July 2014.
Wheelabrator creates clean, renewable energy from everyday residential and business wastes, and will operate as a standalone company. Wheelabrator... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 19, 2014
Vencor International has entered into an agreement to produce torrefied wood pellets, or bio-coal.
The agreement follows the company's recent announcement that testing performed on its torrefied wood pellets exceeded the strict requirements of its international client.
The five-year agreement is with Vega Biofuels, and will see Vencor provide bio-coal to Vega for shipment... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 18, 2014
The European Biogas Association (EBA) has released its Biogas Report 2014, which found there are now more than 14,500 biogas plants in Europe and this figure is still growing.
In central Europe, countries such as Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic experienced an 18% increase in the number of biogas plants. Other key producing countries included the UK, France... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 18, 2014
GoBiGas, the world's first demonstration plant for large-scale production of biogas through the gasification of forest residues, is now operational.
The plant has been supplying biogas to the Swedish natural gas grid since 15 December.
'After intensive work with the commissioning of the plant over the past year, we have now reached an important milestone,' says project... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 16, 2014
Hungarian energy firm Ormánsági Zöldenergia is reported to be investing HUF950 million (€3 million) into a new biogas plant in Vajszló in the southwest of the country.
Using waste products sourced from nearby farms, the plant will have a capacity to generate 4.5GWh of electricity when it comes online in Q2 2015.
In addition to Ormánsági... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 16, 2014
Portucel S.A, a Portuguese pulp and paper company, will build a wood pellet production plant in South Carolina, US, according to reports.
With an annual production capacity of around 460,000 tonnes and costing in the region of $110 million (€88 million) to build, construction on the facility is due to begin next year. It is slated to be up and running towards the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 16, 2014
Via its subsidiary Sita, Suez Environment has been awarded a €150 million operating contract for the Amétyst anaerobic digestion plant in Montpellier, France, for a period of 10 years.
Sita has operated the Amétyst plant since 2008, which will benefit from a €10 million investment programme funded by Sita. This investment will increase its electricity... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 16, 2014
Shepherd Construction, a nationally operating contractor, has achieved handover at the UK's largest power station, Drax, following completion of new biomass facilities.
Now independently operating and burning up to 14,000 tonnes of biomass daily, new facilities designed, built and engineered by Shepherd are enabling Drax to generate up to 1,260MW of renewable electricity... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 15, 2014
Roxas Holdings, a large integrated sugar business in the Philippines, and Global Business Power (GBPC), a power producer in the Visayas and power generation component company of GT Capital Holdings, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to undertake a front-end engineering design (FEED) study and other pre-development activities for a 40MW cogeneration facility... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 15, 2014
In the US, biomass supply company Genera Energy has received a strategic financing commitment from WindSail Capital Group, an investment firm that provides growth financing to companies advancing energy innovation and sustainability.
The investment will provide Genera with the resources to continue expanding by helping scale its energy crop production and supply chain... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 15, 2014
CHE Group has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Full Advantage to build a number of biomass-fired power plants across the Philippines.
Under the $480 million (€386 million) contract, the companies will develop 16 biomass plants totalling 191MW constructed in strategic locations in the Philippines. The facilities will be built over the next five... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 10, 2014
Enviva Holdings and John Hancock Life Insurance Company have partnered to develop industrial wood pellet production plants and marine export terminals in the southeastern US.
Through their affiliates, Enviva Development Holdings, (Enviva) and Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG), the companies have committed to invest up to an aggregate of $320 million (€258 million)... [Read More]
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Proceeds from the bond sale have been used to refinance $40 million of Gevo RNG’s outstanding 2021 green bonds
SIAAP (Greater Paris Sanitation Authority) and SUEZ have officially inaugurated a new state-of-the-art biogas production unit at the Seine Aval wastewater treatment plant in the Paris metropolitan area
Natural State Renewables has announced a key strategic partnership with Axens as part of its plan to produce carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from surplus forest biomass
