Oct 18, 2013
Greenleaf Power buys plant in Canada
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Oct 18, 2013
RWE Innogy's biopower plant in Georgia, US has recently been certified under the European Pellet Council's ENplus A1.
The new certification provides assurance to buyers in Europe that the pellets meet strict quality criteria. The company exports to European countries such as Italy, Germany and Denmark.
The pellet production facility manufactures 750,000 tonnes of pellets... [Read More]
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Oct 17, 2013
Brazilian biopower company Energias Renovaveis do Brasil (ERB) is to partner with Dow Chemical for the construction of a renewable electricity facility in Minas Gerais state.
According to reports from Bloomberg, the two companies have agreed to build a 237 million real (€80 million) biopower plant at the site of Dow Chemical's ethanol production facility. It will... [Read More]
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Oct 17, 2013
A commercial-scale renewable power plant has opened in Junction City in the US state of Oregon.
The project, known as JC-Biomethane, has been labelled 'the Pacific Northwest's first commercial food waste-to-electricity' facility.
Essential Consulting of Oregon designed and will also manage the plant, which will convert large volumes of food waste and other biomass materials... [Read More]
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Oct 17, 2013
Leidos Holdings, a science and technology company, is to assume ownership of a 37.5MW biomass-fuelled power plant currently being built in Plainfield, Connecticut by Leidos Constructors.
The new facility is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. Upon entering operations the biopower plant will power the equivalent of 37,000 homes. Connecticut Light & Power... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2013
According to a new survey published by WRAP, anaerobic digestion (AD) is driving forward to UK organics recycling industry.
The study – ASORI – shows the number of operational AD sites grew during 2012 and the total input of organic waste processed via AD rose to 1.69 million tonnes last year. WRAP said over 50% of those sites surveyed have come online since... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2013
VTT Technological Research Centre of Finland is organising a new European project to study the anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic waste.
The AD process can be optimised to produce either biogas or volatile fatty acids that are even more valuable products than biogas. The produced volatile fatty acids can be converted further to raw materials with which it is possible... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2013
Clean Energy Fuels, one of North America's largest providers of natural gas for transportation, is ready to begin distributing commercial volumes of its renewable natural gas vehicle fuel at 35 public Clean Energy stations throughout California.
The company's fuel – Redeem – is made from waste materials collected from landfill, diary and sewage plants and today... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2013
Utility company Kentucky Power Co. is to acquire biomass-based power from a renewable production plant near Hazard after the Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a 20-year power purchase agreement.
Under the recently approved agreement, Kentucky will buy renewable electricity from the 58.8MW ecoPower Generation-Hazard biomass plant, construction on which will... [Read More]
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Oct 15, 2013
The cause of a fire which broke out at the UK's Port of Tyne on 11 October is under investigation.
Around 50 fire fighters responded to the incident, which originated inside a wood pellet storage facility at around 3pm.
The port's operations were not disrupted and the property sustained minimal damage, according to reports. An external conveyor transfer tower will need... [Read More]
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Oct 11, 2013
Two Malaysian companies Detik Aturan and Global Green Synergy have both secured contracts to supply wood pellets to different Asian markets.
Under a new agreement, Detik plans to export 20,000 tonnes a month of pellets to South Korea's BC21 Co. by the middle of next year. BC21 hopes to be consuming 5 million tonnes per year by 2015.
As part of its agreement with China... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2013
Beta Renewables, a cellulosic biofuels business and part of the Mossi Ghisolfi Group, and Novozymes, a producer of industrial enzymes, marked the official opening in Northern Italy of the world’s largest advanced biofuels facility this October.
Situated in fields outside the city of Crescentino, it is claimed to be ‘the first plant in the world’ to be... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2013
An award-winning University of Queensland researcher hopes to use a chemical found in lemons and other citrus fruits to produce clean, renewable jet fuel.
Claudia Vickers, a senior researcher at the Systems and Synthetic Biology Group at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, is modifying baker's yeast to produce a synthetic form of the natural... [Read More]
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Oct 8, 2013
Food manufacturer Mondelez Philippines, formerly known as Kraft Foods Philippines, has completed installation of a biomass boiler which will generate renewable energy for its manufacturing plant in Parañaque City.
The new technology will handle rice husks and coconut shells when it comes online later this month, helping Mondelez to slash its greenhouse gas emissions... [Read More]
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Oct 8, 2013
A*STAR's Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), that will see them carry out research into sustainable chemicals, specifically biomass-based chemicals.
The collaboration will see researchers from both institutes carry out academic meetings and R&D... [Read More]
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Oct 7, 2013
Showa Shell Sekiya K.K., an energy company currently developing a biomass-fired power plant in Japan, has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction contract to JFE Holdings.
No financial terms of the new contract were disclosed. The plant itself will cost around 16 billion yen (€121.6 million) to build.
The plant will be built south of Tokyo in Kanagawa... [Read More]
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Oct 7, 2013
Renewable Energies of Brazil (ERB), an enterprise involved with the generation of biomass-derived power, has concluded its second fundraising cycle for the development of new projects for the co-production of energy and steam.
Endespar and Fundo Caixa Ambiental (Environmental Fund Bank), run by Mantiq Investments from Santander Bank, have invested $300 million (€220.9... [Read More]
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