Oct 23, 2012
New grants to aid biomass projects in US
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Oct 23, 2012
After six years of research and development BioPower Systems is set to construct its pilot demonstration plant just off the coast of Port Fairy, Australia.
The plant has received a combined funding of AU$10.6 million (€8.4 million) from the Australian and Victorian governments and BioPower Systems has also sealed a new strategic partnership with large Chinese industrial... [Read More]
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Oct 23, 2012
The UK government’s u-turn on financial support for small-scale anaerobic digestion plants has been welcomed by many up and down the country.
In its review of support for renewable energy published in July, the government had proposed removing ROC support for small new anaerobic digestion plants from 1 April 2013.
But the u-turn now means facilities that produce... [Read More]
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Oct 22, 2012
Technology supplier Metso is to provide a Swedish combined heat and power plant with a biofuel-fired boiler.
The plant, based in Torsvik and owned by Jönköping Energi (JE), is expanding and the new 100MW unit will serve to help meet district heating and electric power needs of Jönköping municipality.
The expansion the CHP plant represents a significant... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2012
Covanta Energy's expansion of the H-Power renewable power plant in Honolulu in Hawaii has finished.
The $302 million (€232 million) project has increased the plant's handling capacity by 900 tonnes to 3,000 tonnes per day of municipal solid waste (MSW). A third boiler has also been installed.
Covanta Energy began expanding the facility at the end of 2009, before which... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2012
Clean energy project developer Punjab Biomass Power says it hopes to establish a number of rice straw-fired biomass plants with a total capacity of 96MW by 2017, Bloomberg reports.
The first of these will cost 800 million rupees (€11.65 million) and is planned for the north of Punjab state. Punjab Biomass Power, 51% of which is owned by Infrastructure Leasing and... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2012
Biomass energy supplier Land Energy's new multi-million pound wood pellet production plant, based in Girvan in Ayrshire, Scotland, is operational.
The facility has the capacity to manufacture 60,000 tonnes of wood pellets a year using locally-sourced timber from sustainable forests and sawmills within a 50-mile radius of the plant. This is enough to benefit more than 15,000... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2012
Food producer, distributor and marketer Del Monte is developing a Sh963.4 million (€8.65 million) biogas plant at its pineapple farm in Thika, Africa.
Designed to generate 5MW of renewable electricity, the plant, expected to be the largest of its kind in the nation, will be consumed on site helping to save Del Monte millions in electricity costs. Any excess electricity... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2012
Indonesian utility company PT PLN and US-based technology firm General Electric (GE) have signed a letter of intent to develop a biomass-fired power plant.
The $5 million (€3.8 million) pilot facility, to be located in Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara, will generate 1MW of renewable power from eucalyptus- and acacia tree-derived woodchips. It is expected to begin... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2012
UK food waste recycler PDM's proposed 4.2MW biogas plant in the UK has been approved.
The £20 million (€25 million) project, to be built in Widnes, Cheshire on 1.12 hectares of land, will be able to handle 90,000 tonnes a year of Merseyside-derived food waste and generate enough biogas to power 8,000 (4%) Halton households.
The food waste will also be used for... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2012
Felda Global Ventures Holdings is developing a renewable energy plant in Malaysia that will turn palm oil mill effluent (POME) into biogas.
The RM8 million (€2 million) pilot plant will be built in Kota Tinggi, Johor by technology company Weida Bhd, who says construction will be completed within four months.
The biogas will be used to generate 2MW of electricity that... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2012
A strategic alliance between US liquid fuels from non-food biomass producer Ensyn and Brazilian wood pulp provider Fibria Celulose has been signed.
This partnership will include the establishment of an equally-owned joint venture for the production of cellulosic liquid fuels and chemicals in Brazil, as well as a US$20 million (€15.4 million) equity investment in Ensyn... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2012
The Virginia Port Authority has agreed a 20-year lease at its Portsmouth Marine Terminal (PMT) to a Virginia company that plans to export wood pellets to Europe.
Ecofuels Pellet Storage (EPS) will lease 15 acres at PMT and build two domes to house and prepare wood pellets for export. It expects to be operational by the second quarter of 2014.
‘EPS has been set up... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2012
Energy technology supplier Metso has won the contract to convert the combustion technology at Kuopion Energia’s Haapaniemi Two in Kuopio, Finland.
The change will use a shift from pulverized peat-fired combustion to fluidised bed technology. The rebuild will take place during the summer and early autumn of 2013, but the value of the order has not been disclosed.Kuopion... [Read More]
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Oct 12, 2012
The US Department of Agriculture will supply a multi-million loan guarantee for a new biomass generating plant in Summit County, Ohio.
An area of abundant beetle-killed trees has been considered as feedstock by various agencies and officials, but now the $40 million loan guarantee could see those discussions move to an actuality.
It is believed any such project could eventually... [Read More]
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Oct 11, 2012
According to a new report the US surpassed Canada as the largest wood pellet exporter in the world for the first half of 2012.
The report, compiled by the North American Wood Fibre Review, says both South US and British Columbia regions reached a record high of 760,000 tonnes of produce in the second quarter of 2012. An estimated figure of 1.5 million tonnes has been mooted... [Read More]
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Oct 10, 2012
Clean chemical developers Global Bioenergies (GB) claims to be able to demonstrate a direct way of producing propylene from renewable sources.
GB believes the market for propylene stands at $93 billion (€72.2 billion), mainly through the packaging and car industries, and that currently there is no known natural pathways leading to propylene in microorganisms.
‘Designing... [Read More]
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The Hungarian government is set to introduce a significant support scheme to boost biogas and biomethane production nationwide. The scheme will be allocated a budget of 40 billion forints (around 100 million euros)
The Capital Regional District (CRD), in partnership with FortisBC Energy Inc. (FortisBC) and Waga Energy Canada, has commenced production of renewable natural gas (RNG) at a new facility located at the Hartland Landfill
In a major development for sustainable energy in Chile’s agri-food sector, Ariztía has signed a long-term agreement with Copec EMOAC to power all of its operations with 100% renewable energy - including a notable contribution from biomass sources
