Jul 1, 2013
Waste biomass to fuels company raises more funds
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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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Jun 24, 2013
A new facility scheduled for operation in September will use sugar beet pulp to produce biogas in Moldova.
Südzucker Moldova (SM), a sugar producing company, will house the new bioenergy facility at its sugar factory in Drochia to allow for ‘maximum use of waste resulting from the extraction of sugar from beets, which will be converted to "green" and organic... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2013
Vermont Wood Pellet (VWP), a US-based pellet producer, has won a share of a $750,000 (€572,500) grant provided by the Working Lands Enterprise Fund.
The company has said its $38,153 windfall will be spent on upgrading its equipment to increase production output and overall efficiency by reducing the amount of waste made during the process.
Its facility turned out... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2013
A new report pertaining to wood markets states many sawmills in northern Europe have expanded their lumber sales outside the Europe market the past few years.
The resultant increase in non-European exports from Nordic countries went from 27% of total exports in 2007 to 43% in 2012. The biggest changes have come within shipments to Northern Africa, the Middle East, Japan,... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2013
Technip, a France-based project management and engineering company, has won a multi-million euro front end contract to build a second generation biomass-to-liquid (BtL) plant in Finland.
The €5 million ($6.6 million) contract was awarded by Forest BtL and the facility will be built on Ajos island. It aims to produce approximately 140,000 tonnes of biodiesel and naphtha... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2013
Tropical Power, a developer of biogas plants in Africa, has signed a deal with Clarke Energy to supply the first two containerised Jenbacher biogas engines in sub-saharan Africa.
The combined heat and power units will be supplied to an agricultural biogas plant located at a farm near Lake Naivasha, Kenya.
The project aims to produce 2.4MW of renewable electricity to power... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
According to local news reports, five plantation companies in Malaysia have signed a biomass joint venture cluster agreement to benefit the state of Sabah.
The biomass project borne from this agreement, a concept from the Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM), aims at aggregating sufficient volumes of biomass for a variety of downstream processing activities by allowing palm oil... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
The US National Biodiesel Board (NBB) is to open up its membership to include qualified renewable diesel producers, in a move that it hopes will unite the advanced biofuels industry in the diesel sector.
The decision, made unanimously by NBB's governing board, consolidates the larger biodiesel industry with the younger and smaller renewable diesel industry together to... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
Researchers from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at the University of Illinois (UI), US are evaluating the biomass potential of woody crops and their work is making them take a close look at the Robinia pseudoacacia tree – otherwise known as the black locust.
According to UI associate professor of crop sciences Gary Kling, it has been displaying a higher yield... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Moose Creek Energy's landfill gas-to-energy plant was officially opened on 7 June by energy minister Bob Chiarelli.
The 4.2MW plant is located in Moose Creek, Ontario at the Lafleche Environmental facility.
Moose Creek Energy is a joint venture between Energy Ottawa, a subsidiary of Hydro Ottawa, and Integrated Gas Recovery Services.
The facility at Moose Creek will generate... [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
