May 6, 2014
Wood pellet exports continue to grow
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May 6, 2014
The completion of a 4.8MW renewable energy facility in Valdosta, Georgia was commemorated at the beginning of May with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Environmental services provider Advanced Disposal partnered with Energy Systems Group (ESG), an energy services provider, to design, build, own and operate the landfill gas-to-electricity plant at the Pecan Row Landfill.
It will... [Read More]
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May 6, 2014
Viaspace, a grower of Giant King Grass for renewable energy production, has signed a contract with St Lucia, West Indies-based renewable energy firm Emunite Energy Solutions to provide Giant King Grass for its planned 100,000 tonne per year pellet mill in Guyana, South America.
The energy grass was delivered to Guyana and planted on 15-17 April. Viaspace says it received... [Read More]
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May 6, 2014
Wood pellet producer Rentech has acquired New England Wood Pellet (NEWP), the largest producer of wood pellets for the US heating market.
NEWP operates three wood pellet facilities with a combined annual production capacity of 240,000 tonnes. These plants are strategically located in the US Northeast, which is the largest domestic market for consumption of wood pellets... [Read More]
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May 2, 2014
Prairie Horizon Agri-Energy’s ethanol plant in Phillipsburg, Kansas, will build a renewable diesel facility on site.
WB Services will integrate the 3 million gallon per year (MMgy) facility onto the site where the 40 MMgy plant sits.
Ron Beemiller, president and CEO of WB Services, says: ‘This plant will be the first of its kind—the first renewable... [Read More]
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Apr 29, 2014
Fruytier, a Belgian sawmill company, has acquired Energies Renouvelables Des Ardennes’ (ERDA) pellet plant.
ERDA has reportedly been encountering financial difficulties for the last two years and in 2012 suffered losses of roughly €10 million.
Fruytier had until now been responsible for 55% - 60% of raw-material deliveries to ERDA.
Pierre Fruytier describes... [Read More]
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Apr 29, 2014
Akermin has signed a Cooperative Agreement for a commercial-scale demonstration project in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The DKK 42 million (€5.6 million), three-year demonstration project, located at the Biofos waste-water treatment plant, is partially-funded through a grant from the Danish Energy Agency (EUDP).
This project will use Akermin's industrial biocatalyst to remove... [Read More]
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Apr 29, 2014
Scotia Atlantic Biomass, a subsidiary of Viridis Energy, has received funding from the government of Nova Scotia in Canada to purchase new capital equipment to improve production facilities at its wood pellet production plant.
The investment, totalling C$517,520 (€340,000), was awarded under the Capital Investment Incentive. Additional proceeds from the incentive... [Read More]
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Apr 29, 2014
NexSteppe, a provider of sustainable feedstock solutions for the bio-based industries, has sold more than 1,000 hectares of its Palo Alto high biomass sorghums for biopower in Brazil this past growing season. The company now owns a 65% market share in the market for bioenergy sorghums in Brazil.
NexSteppe's Palo Alto high biomass sorghums can be used alongside bagasse... [Read More]
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Apr 29, 2014
TEG Biogas, an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant located in Dagenham on the outskirts of London, opened on 23 April.
The plant is London's first commercial-scale AD and composting facility. It is also the first project to be invested in by the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB), via its Foresight magazine fund.
Technology firm TEG Group built and will operate the plant, which... [Read More]
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Apr 29, 2014
Renewable fuels producer Pinnacle Renewable Energy is developing a wood pellet production plant in British Columbia, Canada.
Costing $39 million (€28 million) with an output of 250,000 tonnes a year, the facility will be Pinnacle's seventh such plant and bring its total capacity to 1.5 million tonnes a year of wood pellets.
The chosen site for the company's latest... [Read More]
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Apr 25, 2014
Lufthansa is testing a new type of biofuel for use in aircraft to increase its efforts to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions.
The aircraft carrier is teaming up with Gevo to research the blending of Gevo's ATJ with conventional kerosene for aircraft use.
The alcohol-to-jet fuel producer uses fermented plant waste from a range of sources to produce isobutanol, a form of... [Read More]
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Apr 22, 2014
Tokyo Power, the energy arm of cement and concrete manufacturer Tokyo Cement Group, has built a Rs2.4 billion 5MW biomass-fired power plant in the Sri Lankan region of Mahiyanganaya.
This is the company's second biomass plant; its first, also located in Sri Lanka, generates 10MW.
According to a company statement, 'Tokyo Power launched the Mahiyanganaya plant after successfully... [Read More]
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Apr 22, 2014
The Canadian province of Ontario has fulfilled its commitment to close all of its coal-fired power plants by the end of this year.
The last remaining fossil fuel burning facility, Thunder Bay Generating Station, has consumed its last supply of coal and will now be converted into a biomass-fired generating facility.
The province has phased out coal and replaced it with... [Read More]
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Apr 22, 2014
Jasper Clean Energy has pulled the plug on a project that would have seen it develop a biomass-fired power plant in Indiana, US.
The generating station would have produced 75MW from miscanthus feedstock.
According to a letter sent by the company's CEO Jay Catasein, the project is no longer financially viable due to a number of reasons:• The large abundance of cheap... [Read More]
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Apr 22, 2014
Independent power producer Phoenix Energy is to build and operate a 2MW biomass gasification plant near Lake Tahoe, California after signing agreements.
The US company, which develops on-site biomass gasification plants, says the facility will produce electricity, heat and biochar from forest residues sourced from Placer County's fire threat reduction activities.
Placer... [Read More]
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Apr 17, 2014
UN IPCC report findings confirm that while bioenergy has a significant role to play in society and although more research is needed, existing uncertainties should not prevent the pursuance of beneficial bioenergy options.
The published IPCC report, 'Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment', released as part of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report, comes as... [Read More]
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