Dec 18, 2013
$24m authorised for Jackson County port’s wood pellet export facility
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Dec 16, 2013
Growing Power Hairy Hill's (GPHH) biorefinery in Canada can now handle 73,000 tonnes a year of municipal solid waste diverted from landfills in the Edmonton area for use as renewable energy.
The plant was commissioned in 2005 and initially utilised contaminated feedstock including sand laden cow manure and municipal solid waste, in addition to ethanol stillage. GPHH says... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2013
Sapphire Energy, an algae-based Green Crude oil producer, and Phillips 66, an integrated energy manufacturing and logistics company, announced a joint development agreement aimed at pushing production of algae crude oil towards commercialisation.
The US-based companies will collect and analyse data from co-processing of algae and conventional crude oil into fuels including... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2013
Construction is due to begin at the site of a new green energy plant in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Evermore Renewable Energy says it has secured more than £80m in funding for the wood-fuelled power plant that will be built at Londonderry Port and Harbour, Lisahally.
Work will begin before the end of this year, and Evermore says operations will commence in summer... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2013
The quantity of wood pellets exported from North America to Europe in the second quarter of this year rose again for the seventh consecutive quarter, according to data from Wood Resources International and reported by the North American Wood Fiber Review.
Between Q3 2011 and Q2 2013 volumes exported to Europe have more than doubled, going from around 500,000 tonnes to... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2013
Birmingham Bio-Power is developing a new 10.3MW biomass-fired power plant in Birmingham, UK and has announced that, under a new EPC contract, MWH Treatment will design, build and maintain the facility.
Preparation work on the £47.8 million (€57 million) biomass gasification plant is to start immediately with completion scheduled for early 2016. When the plant... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2013
A new anaerobic digestion plant has been built at Shropshire Energy's site in Ely, UK.
UTS Biogas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anaergia, built the large-scale 2.4MW renewable plant which will deliver green heat and electricity for facility operations.
The AD system will utilise 20,000 tonnes a year of vegetable waste and 36,500 tonnes of maize silage to produce almost... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2013
A Canada-based biogas plant co-owned by Lethbridge Biogas and not-for-profit Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp (CCEMC) has opened.
The $30 million (€21.8 million) anaerobic digester co-generation facility currently has a generating capacity of 2.8MW – enough to power 2,800 homes – but this could be expanded to 4.2MW in the future with the addition... [Read More]
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Dec 11, 2013
A lecturer in transportation engineering at the University College Cork (UCC), Ireland believes Irish motorists could be relying on feedstock like sea lettuce to fuel their cars in the future.
Jerry Murphy, who has a PhD in energy production from waste, has presented the potential for biomethane produced from slurry and grass via anaerobic digestion. This could help the... [Read More]
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Dec 10, 2013
Concord Blue, a waste solutions company, and fermentation technology supplier LanzaTech have entered into an agreement to produce fuels and chemicals from waste materials.
Under the agreement, LanzaTech will install a Concord Blue reformer at its facility in Georgia, US to convert waste biomass from regional forestry operations into syngas. The syngas will be converted... [Read More]
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Dec 10, 2013
A new biomass power plant at Drax power station in Yorkshire, UK has opened.
The biomass power plant now burns wood pellets sourced from the US instead of coal, slashing its carbon emissions by 80%.
By 2016, £700 million (€837 million) will have been invested to convert three of the plant's six coal-fired generating units to biomass.
The facility was opened... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2013
Pinnacle Renewable Energy and Coast Tsimshian Resources (CTR) have signed an agreement to build a new wood pellet plant in British Columbia, Canada.
'A wood pellet plant provides a solution for low-end fibre that is sustainable and makes the best use of our forest resources,' CTR board chair Garry Reece was reported to have said.
Pinnacle already owns six wood pellet production... [Read More]
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Dec 9, 2013
Construction has started on a $6 million (€4.4 million) biogas plant in Bekes, Hungary, UPI reports.
Hidashati Farm is behind the 1.2MW project and commissioned Biogaz Unio to build the plant.
The plant will handle animal waste to generate 1.2MW of renewable energy – enough power for 2,500 homes and heat for 1,500 homes a year.
The feedstock for the plant will... [Read More]
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Dec 6, 2013
Empee Sugars has decided to sell its 10MW biomass-based power plant in Tamil Nadu.
The plant, located on a 14-acre land parcel in Pudukottai district, has power purchase agreements for third party sale to industries.
According to the senior officials, the company hopes to concentrate on larger power plants it operates under the power division and there are plans for expansion... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2013
Future Biogas, a UK-based builder and operator of anaerobic digestion plants, is to become the first registered producer to join the Biomethane Certification Scheme (BMCS) run by private limited company Green Gas Trading.
The BMCS is an independent certification scheme was set up to provide both a credible process for certifying biomethane and a trading platform to facilitate... [Read More]
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Dec 4, 2013
German Pellets has announced that its US wood pellet production facility in Woodville, Texas has received ENplus certification.
The certification confirms that the facility, which commenced operations this summer, is producing high-quality product, thus securing a high level of security of supply for customers in Europe. German Pellets says its import of ENplus pellets... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2013
Global technology provider of specialised biofuels and renewable chemicals, Biochemtex, is to invest around $200 million (€147 million) in its new cellulosic biofuels plant in Sampson County, North Carolina, US.
The firm will operate at the location as Carolina Cellulosic Biofuels, established in early 2013 as a special purpose vehicle for delivering the first commercial-scale... [Read More]
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