Jul 7, 2014
Philippines biogas plant to utilise poultry litter
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Jul 7, 2014
General Electric (GE) is to acquire Monsal, an anaerobic digestion and biogas company based in the UK.
In a statement, GE says the move will enable it to 'help municipalities and industrial manufacturers shift from disposing wastewater treatment by-products to generating renewable energy and other value from their streams'.
'For many years, GE has been working to further... [Read More]
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Jul 1, 2014
React Energy, an infrastructure developer and operator which focuses on the production of clean energy in the UK, has released an operational update, in which it announced the issuance of a £1.5 million (€1.9 million) secured loan note (SLN).
The SLN is intended to fund the ongoing development of the group through organic and acquisitive growth.
React is currently... [Read More]
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Jul 1, 2014
Canada-based forestry company TimberWest Forest is planning a $60 million (€44 million) wood pellet production plant in Vancouver Island Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Ground could break on the plant as early as Q4 this year, with operations due to commence within a year. When production begins, the facility will manufacture 200,000 tonnes of wood pellets annually, produced... [Read More]
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Jul 1, 2014
A unit of energy company First Energy Service is building a wood-fired biomass plant to be located in Oita Prefecture, Japan.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking and partners will provide a 6.3 billion yen (€45 million) loan for the 18MW plant, Bloomberg reports, which was signed by a group of banks including the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Bank.
In addition, Sumitomo... [Read More]
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Jun 30, 2014
Forest Fuels, a UK wood fuel supply company, says it is among the first UK biomass fuel suppliers to be included as an approved supplier on the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Biomass Suppliers List (BSL) for both woodchips and wood pellets.
Buying fuel from a BSL approved supplier satisfies some of the new requirements which boiler owners need to meet in... [Read More]
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Jun 30, 2014
In North Carolina, US, the largest renewable energy facility using swine waste as feedstock has been officially opened.
The ribbon cutting ceremony took place at the Storms Hog Power (SHP) site at the Storms Hog Farm near Bladenboro. The plant has been designed to produce 600kW when operating at full capacity.
The 600kW plant has been in near constant operation since it... [Read More]
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Jun 30, 2014
E.ON UK has produced renewable energy for the first time at its Blackburn Meadows biomass plant in Sheffield.
The £120 million (€150 million) Blackburn Meadows plant is now the third biomass facility in E.ON UK's generation portfolio and can provide enough energy to power around 40,000 homes.
The 30MW renewable energy plant will convert locally sourced recycled... [Read More]
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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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