Jul 5, 2013
Wood pellet firm sells ‘substantial’ stake
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Jul 4, 2013
An Australian abattoir is to construct a multi-million biogas system to help reduce its reliance on coal.
Bindaree Beef (BB), based in New South Wales, will see the AU$43 million (€30.4 million) system reduce its carbon emission by 95% while cutting utility cost of processing each head of cattle by over a third. The project involves installing a more energy efficient... [Read More]
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Jul 3, 2013
UK-based renewable power plant business Clarke Energy (CE) is to supply Tamar Energy with combined heat and power systems for their biogas plants.
CE will initially provide six biogas engines across four Tamar sites in the UK, with a combined renewable power output of 8MWe.
The agreement comes after the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Department... [Read More]
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Jul 3, 2013
The Highland Council (THC) in Scotland has awarded a long-term contract for the servicing, maintenance and repair of biomass installations, including the supply of wood fuel, across 59 sites.
The £1.2 million (€1.4 million) per annum contract went to Fort William-based biomass heat company HWEnergy and will last for four years.
As many Highland communities are... [Read More]
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Jul 3, 2013
A loan agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the World Bank has been signed which will see $90 million (€69.5 million) additional financing for energy efficiency projects in the country.
The extra financing will cover the reconstruction costs of two combined heat and power (CHP) plants in the cities of Gomel and Mogilev.
Both CHP facilities are expected to... [Read More]
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Jul 2, 2013
UK waste-to-energy BioWayste has signed a six year contract with recycling business Brocklesby to provide green electricity and heat via its anaerobic digestion (AD) technology.
BioWayste will run and manage a £2 million (€2.3 million), 40,000 tonne per year AD plant based on Brocklesby’s seven acre site in Yorkshire. Six reactors, along with combined... [Read More]
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Jul 2, 2013
It has been reported the Tanzania domestic Biogas Programme (TDBP) is to spend $21 million (€16.1 million) to create an infrastructure supporting new 50 enterprises.
In a statement TDBP said the project is being worked with the Centre for Agriculture Mechanisation and Rural Technology and is a component of the Africa Biogas Partnership Programme, funded by the Netherlands... [Read More]
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Jul 2, 2013
UK-headquartered Green Biologics (GB), an international biotechnology company, has announced collaboration and planned investment in facilities with US business Easy Energy Systems (EES).
The collaboration will result in the modification of Easy Energy’s ethanol demonstration plant in Iowa to produce renewable n-butanol and acetone.
‘We’ve been working... [Read More]
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Jul 1, 2013
Home owners in Solwezi, Zambia will be connected to biogas stoves thanks to a project run by the Devolution Trust Fund (DTF).
DTF will connect 120 households through the North-Western Water and Sewerage company at a cost of KR2.2 million (€307,850). It has built five biogas units, a decentralised waste water treatment plant and sewer network to connect the project.
The... [Read More]
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Jul 1, 2013
Waste-to-biofuels company Enerkem has closed another round of financing to increase its total equity investment for 2013.
It closed on CN$50 million (€36.4 million) to bring its yearly financing total to $87 million. As part of this drive, institutional fund Investissement Quebec has joined the seven other investors, including Waste Management of Canada, all of whom... [Read More]
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Jul 1, 2013
A new biogas plant in Germany has been commissioned and has been supplying to the public grid since May.
The Weltec Biopwer facility, based in the industrial region of Altmark, took eight months to construct and consists of four digesters, six digestate storage units and a liquid reservoir. It produces 1,650m3 of raw biogas an hour, 250m3 exclusively for the heating... [Read More]
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Jun 28, 2013
A new multi-million dollar wood pellet plant has been tentatively announced for Mississippi, US.
The $115 million (€88.1 million) facility is slated to be housed at George County industrial park and will aim to produce around 500,000 tonnes of pellets a year. That figure is according to management from Florida-based Green Circle Bioenergy (GCB), the company attached... [Read More]
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Jun 28, 2013
Renewable energy business Abengoa has inaugurated its demonstration plant that uses waste-to-biofuels technology.
The plant, located in Babilafuente, Spain has a capacity to treat 25,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste, from which it will obtain up to 1.5 million litres of bioethanol via a fermentation and enzymatic hydrolysis treatment.
Manuel Sánchez Ortega, CEO... [Read More]
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Jun 27, 2013
One of the most powerful people on Earth, US President Barack Obama, gave a passionate address on climate change on 25 June during a visit to Georgetown University in Washington DC.
Obama wants to cut carbon pollution and reduce global warming and told an audience of students and visitors: ‘I refuse to condemn your generation, and future generations, to a planet... [Read More]
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Jun 26, 2013
A division of Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby has signed a pact with state-run power producer Tenaga Nasional (TNB) to establish a joint venture that will generate power from agricultural waste.
Sime Darby Plantation will hold a 51% equity stake in the proposed joint venture, and the remainder will be held by TNB Energy Services.
The proposed joint venture, which is... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2013
A German scientist believes forests in Tasmania could hold a key to bountiful bioenergy production.
Andreas Rothe, from the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan, has spent five months studying the region and ascertained that waste from those forests could generate millions of dollars worth of bioenergy.
He estimates more than 3 million tonnes of biomass per person... [Read More]
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Jun 25, 2013
A biogas boiler has been installed at the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) in Lalitpur, Nepal as it aims to encourage local renewable energy consumption.
The gas produced by the 1m3 capacity facility will power the Centre’s canteen for two hours a day via household waste feedstock.
Govindraj Pokhrel, AEPC executive director, was quoted as saying he hopes... [Read More]
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