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A company in Kolkata, India, has launched a new bus that runs on biogas produced from cow dung. Phoenix India Research (PIR), the company behind the new bus, claims it’s the first biogas fuelled bus to be launched in south-east Asia. Four more biogas buses are set to enter service in Kolkata over the next month, with a further ten planned by the end of the year. The bus will be the cheapest…
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The equipment and machinery used for the high load and high pressure production of wood pellets is facing a reduced lifespan because of the inadequacy of existing industrial grease products, according to a new case study by NCH Europe. Globally, the market for wood pellets is booming thanks to a growing demand for pellets as biofuel in both residential heating and industrial boilers and furnaces.…
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The UK’s Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has launched a new project to investigate how removing impurities from sustainable biomass feedstocks can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of biomass energy. Biomass feedstocks specialist Forest Fuels and energy company Uniper Technologies will work with the ETI in a £2.2 million (EUR 2.6 million) project to explore how improvements…
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Europe is receiving biomethane from the UK for the first time, green gas shipper Barrow Green Gas announced. It is being sent from the UK to Europe via the interconnector pipeline to Essent in the Netherlands. Essent, the largest energy company in the Netherlands, is importing green gas to meet growing demand in the Netherlands which cannot all be met locally. The green, green gas of home Essent…
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Malaysia-headquarted renewable energy group Green & Smart Holding saw a 181% increase in net profit for the year ended 30 September 2016, helped by the group maintaining and increasing its biogas contracts. Net profit increased 181% to RM9.9m (€2.08m) last year, compared to RM3.5m the year before. Revenue increased 260% to RM67.38m, compared to RM18.70m the year before. Gross profit…
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Finnish technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 28MW combined heat and power (CHP) plant to the Meliadine Gold Mine project in Canada, owned by Agnico Eagle Mines. The order includes five Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel engines running on light fuel oil (LFO) or natural gas. Wärtsilä's scope includes the power generation and CHP equipment supply, plant commissioning and…
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US based landfill gas industry O & M contractor and engineering company ENERGYneering Solutions Inc. (ESI) have signed a supply and service contract for Topsoe’s proprietary HiPerFuel landfill gas conditioning solutions. The HiPerFuel unit will deliver high-purity fuel gas for an ESI landfill gas power plant in Washington State. The contract is the first deal signed for Topsoe’s…
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BioHiTech Global, a US waste management technology company, has announced that it acquired a 17.2% equity interest in the nation's first resource recovery facility utilising a proprietary mechanical biological treatment (MBT) technology for the disposal and recycling of mixed municipal solid waste (MSW).  BioHiTech, through its interest in Apple Valley Waste Conversions, has the exclusive…
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Brexit is generating inertia and squeezing the growth of the renewable energy sector, according to Rachel Nutt, Tax Partner and head of Renewable Sustainable Energy at business advisors’ MHA MacIntyre Hudson. Nutt believes Brexit is creating a challenging and uncertain time for renewable businesses. “Brexit, and the resulting lack of announcements about future subsidies which have to…
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A stalled attempt to revive a biomass project in Vermont has seen the developer take his case to the state’s Supreme Court. In 2010 a bid was launched to build a wood-chip burning power plant close to the border between Connecticut and New York. The project had to be put on hold in 2014 following the withdrawal of one of its major financers. Ted Verrill, owner of Pequot Energy in…
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A new research project has been set up to investigate how Germany’s biogas plants will operate after 2030, when the majority of the country’s 9,000 facilities are going to stop receiving state subsidies. Germany’s federal environment agency has commissioned the German biomass research centre (DBFZ) to carry out the research. DBFZ claims that Germany’s renewable energy act…
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A proposed new biomass plant in the South West of England has caused controversy in the village where it is set to be built. Residents of Woolavington, Somerset, have voiced their opposition and concerns about the new wood chip fuelled biomass plant. In particular, they argue that they have not received enough information about the new development. The proposal, by SHAL Housing and Cenergist, is…
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Waste to energy firm Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) will build a 33,000 tonne per year dry anaerobic digestion facility in San Luis Obispo, California. The project is being financed by a Design, Build, Finance, Own Operate deal from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. HZI say that the new plant is set to be the first Kompogas project in the US. It will be completed as a joint venture between…
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The government of Quezon City in the Philippines has accepted a proposal from a consortium led by infrastructure holding firm Metro Pacific to develop a solid waste-to-energy facility for the city. Along with Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the consortium includes Covanta Energy LLC and Macquarie Group Ltd. They have obtained original proponent status for the planned project. When…
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