Oct 28, 2013
Sweetwater Energy to convert CO2 to sugars in JV
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Oct 28, 2013
Emerald Biogas has opened its new anaerobic digestion plant in County Durham, UK.
The £8 million (€9 million) facility handles commercial food waste collected from around the area and uses this to generate renewable energy for around 2,000 households per year.
Antony Warren, director of Emerald Biogas, says: 'We are now in the position to accept and process... [Read More]
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Oct 28, 2013
Scientists at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have acquired 200 hectares of coastal land in the Western Region to set up a demonstration farm with aims to start producing sustainable jet fuel from plants.
The Integrated Seawater Energy and Agriculture System Project plans to be 100% sustainable once operational, using aquaculture to eventually produce biofuels.
The... [Read More]
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Oct 24, 2013
Power and gas company E.ON says it will not continue with the development of a biomass-fired power plant at the Port of Bristol in the UK.
The company, however, remains committed to investing in the UK. The facility was to be located at Portbury Dock.
In a statement a spokesperson for E.ON said: 'We continue to believe the UK could be a good market for investment in which... [Read More]
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Oct 24, 2013
Renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris and GOL South American airline Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that could pave the way for GOL commercial flights to use Amyris renewable jet fuel in 2014.
Under the MoU, the two companies will establish a framework for bringing Amyris renewable jet fuel, produced from... [Read More]
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Oct 22, 2013
Renewable energy company Estover Energy's biomass-fired CHP plant has been granted planning consent.
The £65 million (€76.5 million) plant, to be built at Discovery Park in Kent, was awarded consent by Dover District Council. It will generate renewable heat and power across the 220 acre site. It will also supply low carbon electricity to the national grid, supporting... [Read More]
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Oct 18, 2013
Cool Planet Energy Systems, a developer of small-scale biorefineries, has launched its biochar soil amendment product – Cool Terra – for commercial agricultural trials.
The company has assembled a biochar research team to develop and produce high-performance biochar soil amendments designed for specific applications.
Cool Planet says it plans to continue expanding... [Read More]
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Oct 18, 2013
Helsingin Energia has collaborated with the Finnish Environment Institute and Tampere University of Technology to study the changes in the environmental impacts of the Salmisaari power plant when coal is replaced with small amounts of wood pellets.
It was concluded in the study that mixed combustion of wood pellets reduces the climate impacts of the power plant. However,... [Read More]
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Oct 18, 2013
Texas-based renewables company EM Biogas is selling its Huckabay Ridge anaerobic digestion plant.
The $26 million (€19 million) plant was erected in 2007. Comprising eight digesters with a capacity to handle 7.5 million gallons of digestate, the plant is one of the largest AD facilities in North America. The sale also includes around 72.5 acres of land, property improvements... [Read More]
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Oct 18, 2013
Greenleaf Power, an owner and operator of green energy plants, has completed the acquisition of the Saint-Félicien cogeneration power plant in Quebec, Canada.
This is the first plant Greenleaf has purchased outside of the US; it currently owns and operates biomass facilities in San Joaquin, Humboldt, Lassen and Riverside counties.
Its latest project has the capacity... [Read More]
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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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Indonesian gas distributor PT Pertamina Gas Negara Tbk (PGN) has signed an agreement with NeutraDC Singapore (NDSG) to provide biomethane for forthcoming data centre projects in Singapore
Once cleared, the site will be redeveloped into an Energy, Biochar and Carbon (EBAC) plant – a pyrolysis facility designed to convert plant matter into biochar, renewable electricity and heat
Swedish tanker owner Furetank has announced it will run its European fleet on renewable biogas throughout 2025, marking a major step towards fossil-free shipping
