Dec 2, 2013
DP Cleantech signs contract to build coconut-to-energy power plant in Thailand
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Dec 2, 2013
Cory Environmental, a UK-based recycling, waste management and energy recovery company, has launched its first anaerobic digestion plant in Weston-super-Mare.
The plant can generate up to 500kW of energy per hour for onsite use and export to the national grid using around 12,000 tonnes of food waste a year. Around 7,500 tonnes of this feedstock is part of a seven year... [Read More]
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Nov 29, 2013
Ottowa, Canada-based biotechnology firm Iogen will see construction begin on a commercial-scale facility based on its technology after a 10-year wait.
The company announced that the plant will now be built in Brazil instead of Canada as originally intended.
Raízen Energia Participacoes (REP) has signed a deal to license Iogen's biomass-to-ethanol technology, which... [Read More]
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Nov 29, 2013
A wood panel manufacturer on the border of Shropshire and north Wales, UK is to abandon plans for a massive biomass plant to produce its own heat and electricity.
Owners of the Kronospan factory will instead submit a new planning application to build a smaller plant that will generate heat only.
Mike McKenna, company chairman, says that the international owners of the... [Read More]
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Nov 28, 2013
Work on a Hawaii biomass facility that was expected to generate 10% of the island's electricity needs has been halted until the developer, Hu Honua Bioenergy, receives the final regulatory permits and approvals, according to John Sylvia, the company's CEO.
The company is waiting on final regulatory permits and approvals, and has had to extend the construction schedule... [Read More]
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Nov 28, 2013
The Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR) has announced a financing deal with First Biogaz, a member of Austria's Biogest, for the construction of a 1.5MW biogas plant in northern Romania.
According to Marin Schlerka, Biogest CEO, the plant requires an investment of around €6 million ($8 million) and its output can cover the energy consumption of around 4,500 households.
Tobias... [Read More]
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Nov 26, 2013
M&G Chemicals, among the three largest producers of PET resin for packaging applications in the world, has announced plans to construct a second-generation biorefinery in the region of Fuyang, Anhui Province, China in a joint venture with Chinese biomass collections and logistics company Guozhen.
The refinery will convert one million tonnes of biomass into bioethanol... [Read More]
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Nov 26, 2013
Northern Virginia Electric cooperative, its development partner, Novi Energy, and a number of Virginia state officials celebrated the grand opening of the Novec Energy Production Halifax County Biomass plant in South Boston, US earlier this month.
The $178 million (€131 million) renewable-energy power plant, which can generate up to 49.9MW of electricity, burns wood... [Read More]
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Nov 25, 2013
A $2 million (€1.4 million) biogas plant is to be built at a solid domestic waste landfill site near Grodno, Belarus.
Sweden-based Vireo Energy intend for the project to extract biogas from the landfill and burn it to generate around 1MW of electricity. Development will begin next year.
After biogas is extracted, grass will cover the landfill in order to rule out... [Read More]
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Nov 25, 2013
Preparations to launch a pilot project for a biogas plant in the Kathmandu Valley are underway, according to the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC).
'A pilot project will be set up that will produce biogas and compost fertiliser worth three metric tonnes every day,' says Rabin Man Shrestha, chief of the Environment Management Division at the KMC. 'It will be replicated... [Read More]
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Nov 25, 2013
A new woody biomass plant in New Hampshire, US is scheduled to begin operating by the middle of December this year.
The Burgess Biopower plant cost around $275 million (€203 million) to develop and is designed to produce 75 megawatts of electricity per year.
Plant developer Cate Street Capital says the facility will burn approximately 750,000 tonnes of low-grade wood... [Read More]
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Nov 22, 2013
EDF Renewable Energy and Santee Cooper have dedicated the Pinelands biomass project, which consists of two nominal 17.8MW generating facilities located in Allendale and Dorchester counties in South Carolina.
The Dorchester facility achieved commercial operation on 1 November with Allendale not far behind on 19 November.
The two projects interconnect to Santee Cooper's... [Read More]
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Nov 21, 2013
Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has opened two new stores which it is calling 'Triple Zero'.
One of the new locations, in Leicester in the UK, features many new technologies to ensure no carbon emissions are released, no waste is sent to landfill and no impact on the water usage of the local area.
All of the store's electricity and heating will come from an onsite generator.... [Read More]
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Nov 21, 2013
The average price per tonne of wood pellets in Germany has risen.
According to the German Energy Wood and Pellet Association (DEPV), the cost has increased slightly over the previous month and is currently €284.21 – 0.7% more than in October. In November 2012, the cost of a tonne of wood pellets was €247.90.
Location also plays a part in the cost of wood... [Read More]
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Nov 21, 2013
UK-based renewable energy company Imperative Energy will go ahead with the construction of a biomass CHP plant after it was granted planning permission from Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council.
The £70 million (€84 million) plant, planned for Solihull in Birmingham, will use 130,000 tonnes of locally sourced waste wood to generate 17.75MWe of renewable heat... [Read More]
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Nov 21, 2013
Viridis Energy, a manufacturer and distributor of biomass fuel, has formed a wholly owned subsidiary to arrange transactions between buyers and sellers of alternative energy, including wood pellets.
Commodities trading specialist Jesse Harte has been appointed MD of the wholesale division of the new company, named Viridis Merchants. Doug Middleton, who currently manages... [Read More]
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Nov 19, 2013
Dalkia and Fengate Capital Management have closed the financing for a biomass plant to be located in British Columbia, Canada.
With a production capacity of 40MW of renewable electricity using 307,000 tonnes a year of biomass, the plant will be one of the largest in Canada. The power will be sold to BC Hydro and Power Authority and benefit almost 40,000 homes.
Funding... [Read More]
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