Jul 11, 2013
Biomass residue project aims to transform life in rural India
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Jul 11, 2013
Planning permission for an 80,000 tonne clean energy recovery from waste facility in Lisburn, Northern Ireland has been granted by environment minister Alex Attwood.
The advanced conversion facility from Energos at the former Burn House rendering facility will use non-recyclable, non-hazardous mixed waste to generate 7MW of electricity, enough to power 17,000 homes.... [Read More]
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Jul 10, 2013
A wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based BioPower Operations, simply named BioPower, has agreed to develop a castor plantation and milling operation in Paraguay.
Under the terms of the agreement Ambrosia, a development company, will provide the land, pay costs for the testing and give BioPower a monthly $45,000 (€35,100) project management fee and reimbursement of expenses... [Read More]
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Jul 10, 2013
Algae-based energy is the order of the day for Thailand-based petroleum company PTT and it is working in Australia to achieve that end.
PTT is already in early partnership with Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, with the end-goal of developing algae-oil extraction. The venture is currently focusing on fatty acid methyl ether from selected marine algae.
‘Oil... [Read More]
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Jul 9, 2013
Canadian business Solarvest Bioenergy has closed a non-brokered private placement, in which an investor purchased 400,000 common shares at a price of $0.25 (€0.19) per share for gross proceeds of $100,000.
SB says the proceeds from this private placement will be used as general working capital. The shares will be subject to resale restrictions for a period of four... [Read More]
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Jul 8, 2013
A wood pellet boiler project is set to benefit residents of an apartment building in New Hampshire, US.
The Berlin Housing Authority-owned complex aims to save around $11,000 (€8,500) a year once the boilers are in place. It also hopes to add water conversion features, programme thermostats and upgrade its hot water system too.
This is part of an overall movement,... [Read More]
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Jul 8, 2013
Energy company RWE nPower has called time on its 100% biomass plant in Tilbury, UK.
The company announced it will stop work at the biomass plant this July while it considers and reviews further options on project feasibility.
The Tilbury facility began life as a coal-fired plant over 30 years ago and was due to close down in 2015 as RWE opted it out of the EU’s Large... [Read More]
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Jul 5, 2013
A Canadian biogas producer can move forward with building a facility after receiving a feed-in tariff contract.
The Ontario Power Authority has issued the contract meaning ZooShare Biogas Co-Operative (ZBC) can push on its plans to build a 500kw biogas plant at Toronto Zoo next year.
ZBC is funding the project through the sale of bonds to Ontarians who want to aid the... [Read More]
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Jul 5, 2013
US wood pellet and grill manufacturer Traeger Pellet Grills (TPG) has sold part of its business to private equity firm Trilantic Capital Partners (TCP).
TPG reportedly called the sale a ‘substantial minority interest’ while New York-based TCP says it ‘saw potential in Traeger for expansion’. That thought follows the installation of Traeger-branded... [Read More]
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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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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
