Apr 3, 2013
New biogas plant opens in India
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Apr 3, 2013
Waste heat-to-power equipment supplier Gulf Coast Renewable Energy (GCRE) reveals it is to double capacity at its wood pellet manufacturing plant in Georgia, US.
A new facility earmarked for Copiah County has also been mooted and both projects should make a combined total of 80 new jobs.
The original facility in Lucedale will double its pellet capacity from 160,000 to... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2013
Malaysia-based Wah Seong Corporation (WS) is to expland its renewable energy division via plans to build biomass generated power plants in Asean, South America and Africa.
The first two plants at the head of the push would be delivered into Congo and Cambodia, tentatively based at 5MW and 10MW of power respectively.
‘Usually, the cost to build a plant is between... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2013
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) believes its country’s farmers will grow the most corn since 1936 as growers look to take advantage of high prices driven by last year’s drought.
A forecast of 97.3 million acres of corn is set to be sown in 2013 to help boost dwindling supplies, while soyabean plantings have been placed at 77.1 million acres. Wheat crops... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2013
Associated British Ports (ABP) has signed a 15-year contract with Drax Power which will see terminal investments of up to £100 million (€118 million) to handle wood pellet shipments at its Humber ports of Hull and Goole.
The move will support Drax Power’s conversion to a low carbon electricity producer through replacing coal with sustainable biomass. Its... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2013
The Zimbabwe Electricity Regulatory Authority has received license application to build a biomass power plant from Lurosa Investments.
The proposed 2MW facility would generate electricity from timber waste feedstock in the east of the country. Zimbabwe currently uses more electricity than it produces at peak times (2,000MW against 1,200MW).
It has been reported that 70,000... [Read More]
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Mar 27, 2013
The Canadian government has awarded the village of Telkwa a grant to retrofit a municipal building with a biomass heating system.
The grant comes in at CA$680,230 (€522,375) and the facility will burn waste wood from a nearby forest. As well as the municipal building, heat will also be provided to a nearby business, a school and four residences.
‘Building clean... [Read More]
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Mar 26, 2013
Denmark-based conglomerate Maersk is working on two new projects to develop biomass-based marine fuels.
Each project involves work using lignin taken from plants and from the production of paper and bioethanol.
‘Lignin has a variety of industrial uses already because of its chemical characteristics, energy content and its abundance,’ says Peter Normark Sørensen... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2013
Canada-based Port Allen, owned by the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, may become the location for a new wood pellet facility.
Biomass Secure Power (BSP), situated in British Columbia, has an option on 90 acres of the Port Allen land up until the end of August.
BSP CEO Jim Carroll says a plant would represent ‘$400 million (€307 million) investment across four phases... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2013
Two hospitals in Cambridge, UK are set to benefit from a multi-million pound investment from the Green Investment Bank for a biomass project.
The £18 million (€21 million) injection is the Bank’s first foray into aiding a National Health Service renewable energy project.
If planning permission is approved, the new facility will provide Addenbrooke... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2013
Algae-based green crude oil producer Sapphire Energy has entered into a commercial agreement with Tesoro Refining and Marketing, a subsidiary of Tesoro.
Tesoro will purchase crude oil from Sapphire’s green crude farm in New Mexico, which recently reached continuous cultivation and crude oil production.
“In less than one year, we have started up commercial demonstration... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2013
Renewable energy business Kedco has revealed its Enfield, UK-based biomass CHP project has made more strides towards realisation.
The project already has full planning and environmental permissions to generate 12MW of electricity and heat from 60,000 tonnes of waste wood a year.
But Kedco has now appointed N+1 Singer as its equity advisor and received outlined terms from... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2013
Research conducted by bioeconomy consultants NNFCC and WRAP has placed the number of anaerobic digesters (AD) in the UK, outside of the water industry, at over 100 for the first time.
The number of facilities has nearly doubled since September 2011 and totals 106, processing over 5 million tonnes of food and farm waste a year.
‘This is a significant milestone for... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2013
A commercial-scale lignin separation plant has been installed by Domtar at its mill in North Carolina, US.
The company claims this is the first facility of its type in the country in over 25 years. The production of lignin began in February, with a targeted rate of 75 tonnes a day, for industrial applications such as a bio-based alternative to the use of petroleum... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2013
More biogas plants are set to be introduced in the eastern province of Holguin, Cuba this year.
Thirty-five new facilities, specially adapted to handle the estimated mass and volume of animal waste produced by private swine producers, will produce methane to help power food plants.
The are already 32 biogas facilities in the province producing around 8,750 cubic metres... [Read More]
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Mar 15, 2013
Danish firm Burmeister and Wain Scandinavian (BWS) has been given planning permission to build a new biomass power plant in Widnes, UK.
The proposed plant is believed to be able burn 147,000 tonnes of wood a year via truck deliveries to generate around 20MW of energy and 3.5MW of heat energy.
The project was passed by council officials as it is based on ‘environmentally-friendly... [Read More]
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Mar 15, 2013
According to a report by Wood Resource Quarterly the exportation of logs and lumber from North America to China fell by 17% to $2.1 billion (€1.6 billion) last year.
Despite this recent decline, timberland owners in the US and lumber companies in Canada have greatly benefited from China’s increased wood consumption over the past five years. The report says 2012... [Read More]
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