Aug 9, 2013
‘Ambitious’ French biogas plan under way
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Aug 8, 2013
Amyris, a renewable chemicals and fuels company, has entered into agreement for the sale of convertible notes in a private placement for up to $60 million (€44.9 million) in cash proceeds.
Under the terms of the agreement Temasek, one of Amyris's largest stockholders, agreed to purchase $35 million of the notes in an initial tranche and, at Amyris's election, up to... [Read More]
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Aug 8, 2013
As a way of tackling its energy concerns Pakistan is to work with Indian boiler manufacturers to increase the amount of biogas used in the country.
Representatives of Indian engineering companies have reportedly been over to Pakistan to discuss partnerships with sugar mills and allied industries.
One MoU has already been signed by Cheema Boilers and turbine manufacturers... [Read More]
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Aug 7, 2013
Forest management and climate change mitigation have come under scrutiny after a study found that up to half of the aboveground biomass found in tropical forests is stored in a selection of big trees.
Ferry Slik, a scientist at the Centre of Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, led the study, Reuters reports, which... [Read More]
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Aug 7, 2013
A new large-scale biomass-fired power plant is to be built in Japan as energy company Showa Shell Sekiyu pursues new ways to deliver renewable energy to the nation.
The 49MW renewable power station will be built on the site of Showa's former Ohgimachi plant at the Keihin refinery complex. The project will fall under the Japanese government's renewable energy feed-in tariff... [Read More]
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Aug 6, 2013
Darling Downs Fresh Eggs is to become the first Australian egg producer to power its poultry business on renewable energy.
The Pittsworth, Queensland-based company is to install a $2.86 million (€2.15 million) biogas digester which will generate renewable power, slashing its consumption of fossil-based electricity by 60% in the first year.
According to Darling Downs... [Read More]
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Aug 6, 2013
Waste No Energy, an Indiana, US-based company owned by Rakr Farms, is developing a multi-million dollar anaerobic digestion plant.
When it comes online in December 2013, the facility will handle a mixture of manure and food waste to generate 8.2 million kW of renewable power which will be purchased by Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) and used to power 940... [Read More]
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Aug 5, 2013
An anaerobic digestion plant developed by HydroThane UK and the North British Distillery, in partnership with biogas digester company Ener-G, has received an industry award.
The AD plant generates up to 24,000MWh of renewable energy in the form of biogas from 27,000kg per day of chemical oxygen demand.
The facility is fitted with Ener-G's 500kW combined heat and power... [Read More]
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Aug 5, 2013
Foresight Group and the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) have invested £20 million (€23 million) into the construction of the Evermore Renewable Energy plant.
The facility, to be built on 10 acres of land in Derry/Londonderry in Northern Ireland, will burn around 110,000 tonnes per year of wood for the generation of 15MWe of combined heat and power (CHP). The... [Read More]
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Aug 2, 2013
PDM Group, a UK food product manufacturer, has revealed it plans to spend over £90 million (€103.2 million) on anaerobic digestion, recycling and food processing facilities over the next 18 months.
In addition to the £44 million investment into AD facilities in Widnes and Dagenham , PDM will spend just shy of £30 million to upgrade its animal by-product... [Read More]
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Jul 31, 2013
Waste management company AmeyCespa has secured a green light for its Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park (MKWRP) project 11 weeks after submission of the planning application.
MKWRP will have the capacity to process up to 140,000 tonnes of municipal, industrial and commercial residual waste a year to generate approximately 7MW of renewable energy, 5.8MW of which will... [Read More]
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Jul 31, 2013
Green crude producer Sapphire Energy (SE) has paid off the entire loan guarantee it was awarded by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in December 2009.
SE was awarded a $54.5 million (€41 million) loan guarantee through the Biorefinery Assistance Programme, administered by the USDA Rural Development-Cooperative Service, to build a fully integrated, algae-to-crude... [Read More]
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Jul 30, 2013
Clean energy recovery from waste specialist Energos is preparing to build its ninth conversion facility featuring an anaerobic digestion plant after it received planning approval earlier this month.
Based at AmeyCepsa's Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park in the UK, the facility will convert 90,000 tonnes of non-recyclable household waste into 7MW of electricity –... [Read More]
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Jul 29, 2013
Emera Energy, energy company and subsidiary of Emera Inc., has acquired the biomass-fired power plant Brooklyn Power in Nova Scotia, Canada for $25 million (€18.8 million).
The deal, originally announced in December last year, came about following the Nova Scotia government's decision to buy ReNova Scotia Bioenergy (formerly Bowater Mersey Paper Company) from Resolute... [Read More]
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Jul 29, 2013
Ekman, a forestry trading company, is now Scotia Atlantic Biomass' worldwide agent for the marketing of its entire wood pellet production after the two companies entered into an agreement.
Scotia Atlantic Biomass is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian alternative energy company Viridis Energy. The agreement covers an initial period of 24 months and an aggregate... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2013
Alaska Airlines is to buy biojet fuel for its aircraft from Hawai'i BioEnergy, a consortium of three of Hawaii's largest landowners and three venture capital firms, after the two companies signed an agreement.
The material used to produce the renewable aviation fuel is likely to be woody biomass and will comply with the Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels' criteria.
Alaska... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2013
Fife Council is building a new anaerobic digestion facility at Lochhead landfill site in Dunfermline which will begin generating power later this year.
The AD plant will convert methane extracted from up to 40,000 tonnes of local food and garden waste into up to 1.4MW of renewable electricity and heat. The heat will supply the council's existing district heating system... [Read More]
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