Jun 30, 2014
E.ON's Blackburn Meadows biomass plant generates electricity
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Jun 24, 2014
A biomass-fired power plant in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India has been destroyed following a fire on 22 June.
According to reports, the fire started in a bagasse pile kept on the plant's premises. No one was hurt and the cause of the fire is under investigation.
Fire fighters were still working to fully extinguish the blaze on 23 June.... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2014
Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso has acquired 100% of the shares of the US-based company Virdia, a developer of extraction and separation technologies for conversion of cellulosic biomass into highly refined sugars and lignin.
The transaction is valued at $33 million (€24 million), with additional potential payouts totalling approximately $29 million... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2014
RusForest, a Swedish forestry company with operations in Russia, has signed a long-term contract for pellet sales from the company's LDK-3 wood pellet mill in Arkhangelsk.
RusForest has entered into a sales contract for 60,000 tonnes of pellets, a majority of the company's annual pellet production.
The pellets, which will be sold through a trading house focused on bioenergy,... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2014
Areva, a France-headquartered supplier of bioenergy facilities, has delivered a biomass power plant to U-Thong Bio Power in Thailand.
Built jointly by Areva and its partner Ensys, the installation is located in the Suphanburi province in Thailand. The facility is designed to generate 9.9MWe of energy using rice husk and bagasse. This is enough to benefit around 8,000 households.
Under... [Read More]
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Jun 23, 2014
Biogenic Reagents, a producer of biocarbon products from renewable biomass, has entered into an agreement with West Fraser, a US subsidiary of West Fraser Timber – the largest lumber producer in North America – to develop renewable biocarbon products.
The parties will contribute capital and assets to a new company called Biogenic Reagents Ventures, which will... [Read More]
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Jun 23, 2014
InventivEnergy, an asset management firm, has selected NRG Energy Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of NRG Energy, to restart the Aspen Power biomass plant located in Lufkin, Texas.
NRG will also operate and maintain the facility once it resumes operation. The plant first opened in August 2011 and was the first wood-fired biomass power plant in the state. It can consume... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2014
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is supporting energy firm Fortum Värme to design, build and operate a new biomass-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant with a €260 million loan. The plant will be located in Stockholm and deliver heat to the existing district heating system in Sweden's capital and electricity to the public grid.
The EIB is also financing... [Read More]
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Jun 18, 2014
UK turkey producer Bernard Matthews is to fit 21 of its turkey farms with biomass boilers.
A total of 179 biomass boilers will be installed at sites across Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire. Bernard Matthews says 'the project highlights the growing demand for biomass within the poultry industry as companies seek to cut energy bills and reduce greenhouse gas emissions'.
As... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2014
Greenleaf Power, an owner and operator of biomass power plants in North America, has announced the closing of $100 million (€73.7 million), which it will use to acquire more biomass plants.
Babson Capital Management is the agent for the financing institutions under the financing.
To date the company has purchased five biomass-fired facilities with a total output capacity... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2014
Switzerland-based Alter Energy Group has signed a letter of intent to acquire an operating wood pellet production plant in North Carolina, US.
According to Edward Klaeger, AEG CEO: 'Our plan is to export the initial 110,000 tonnes a year of wood pellets to EU markets for the upcoming heating season.'
The company will then increase capacity to 280,000 tonnes a year during... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2014
Rentech, an owner and operator of wood pellet production and wood fibre processing businesses, has announced a new long-term processing agreement between its subsidiaries, Fulghum Fibres Chile, Forestal Pacifico and Forestal Los Andes, and Astillas Exportaciones (Astex), the Chilean subsidiary of Japan's Mitsubishi.
The new processing agreement would expand the volume... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2014
Construction of a biogas plant in the UK stopped last week following a fatal incident.
A 30-year-old male worker was killed in a 'crushing incident' on 11 June at Penare Farm in Higher Fraddon, Cornwall. According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the man was crushed when 'a temporary structure collapsed'.
HSE inspectors are said to be working with Devon and Cornwall... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2014
Ceres, an agricultural biotechnology and seed company, says it will evaluate a number of its biotech traits in sugarcane in South America.
Plantings were recently completed and preliminary performance observations will be available by the end of the year. Ceres expects to receive sugar yield results in the second half of 2015 when the first growing cycle is completed.
Sugarcane... [Read More]
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Jun 16, 2014
A new 17.3MW renewable power plant has opened in Plessis-Gassot, France.
Known as Electr'od, the cogeneration facility is powered by landfill gas. Featuring 10 GE Jenbacher engines to generate renewable electricity and heat for residents and businesses, the facility is the most powerful landfill gas-fuelled power plant in France.
French waste management and services company... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2014
EU energy ministers have agreed to limit the production of biofuels made from food crops to 7%.
The ministers' compromise is welcomed following last year's deadlock when European Union governments failed to agree on a proposed 5% cap on the use of biofuels based from crops used in transport fuel.
The 7% compromise includes a 0.5% target aimed at second generation biofuels,... [Read More]
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Jun 12, 2014
The EU Energy Council is expected to reach political agreement on measures to incorporate indirect land use change (ILUC) into EU biofuels policies on 13 June, which would effectively bring a close to almost two years of investment-blocking policy paralysis in the low carbon fuels sector. This is according to a statement from the UK's Renewable Energy Association (REA).
Both... [Read More]
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