Dec 14, 2012
UK biogas association slams ‘criminal’ energy strategy
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Dec 13, 2012
The first food waste to power plant in Bristol, UK opened this December.
The facility is operated by Geneco, a subsidiary of Wessex Water, with the anaerobic digestors provided by technology business Monsal. It took less than a year to construct and can generate 10GWh, enough power for almost 3,000 homes.
‘The opening of the food waste plant builds on our experience... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2012
Netherlands-based engineering consultancy Grontmij has won a contract to design a new organic waste to energy biogas facility in Poland.
The facility will be located in Bialystok and is hoped to produce 23 million cubic metres of biogas a year from biodegradable organic waste material.
The contract is said to be worth about €2 million ($2.6 million) and will be handled... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2012
The public in both Suffolk and Norfolk, UK can now be ferried on a specially created bus route via the power of biogas.
Anglian Bus, a division of the Go Ahead Group, is operating the fleet of 13 renewable energy powered single-deck buses, brought for a cost of £624,000 (€772,500), via new routes between Lowestoft and Norwich. Part of the UK government’s... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2012
A $275 million (€211.3 million) biopower plant under constrcution in Berlin, Germany has taken delivery of a new 132 tonne steam turbine this December.
Japanese company Fiji provided the turbine to the Burgess Biopower plant, which will be owned by UK-based technology developer Cate Street Capital and built by Babcock and Wilcox Construction.
The plant is expected... [Read More]
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Dec 11, 2012
US-based Enova Wood Pellet Group has signed a long-term port agreement as it looks to solidify a presence in Georgia and South Carolina.
The deal was inked with Georgia Kaolin Terminals (GKT) and will provide Enova with enough capacity to export up to 1.35 million tonnes of wood pellets via the facility in Savannah. GKT is a subsidiary of the Colonial Group.
‘This... [Read More]
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Dec 11, 2012
The Fairmont ethanol plant has now changed ownership from Advanced Bioenergy to Flint Hills Resources as previously reported by Bioenergy Insight.
The acquisition was announced on 7 December but the finances have not yet been revealed. It is believed that Flint Hill will be looking to appoint four new members of staff at the plant based in Nebraska.
The plant has a capacity... [Read More]
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Dec 10, 2012
US-based technology provider ArborGen has signed a long-term partnership with the College of Charleston Foundation to support forest conservation and restoration efforts.
Its first order of business was to donate 75,000 Longleaf Pone seedlings that will be planted over the next few months across 144 acres of Dixie plantation.
‘We are grateful for ArborGen’s... [Read More]
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Dec 7, 2012
Germany-based biogas plant manufacturer Weltec Power has been chosen to help bring a new project online in France.
The company will work with engineering and development business Methaneo to establish a 500kW plant in Saint Varent, western France. Weltec has worked on five previous biogas projects in the country to date.
‘We decided to work with Weltec because it... [Read More]
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Dec 7, 2012
A working partnership believes it has found, following a year and a half of research, a direct biological pathway to convert renewable sources into butadiene.
Butadiene, a light olefin generated from oil, is used to manufacture rubbers, nylon plastics and latexes. Around 10 million tonnes is produced a year with a market value coming in at over $20 billion (€15.4... [Read More]
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Dec 6, 2012
US-based Portland General Electric (PGE) is delving deeper into alternative biomass sources to help replace coal at the Boardman power plant.
According to plant research and development director Wayne Lei, 18 different products have been tested in scaled-down apparatus at Washington State University. Of the 18, it has been decided that corn stover, wheat straw, poplar... [Read More]
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Dec 6, 2012
Control systems provider Tri-Mer and Enginuity Energy (EE) will work together to test the air emission quality of various biomass fuels.
Both companies will share technologies and work out of EE’s research and development laboratory in Pennsylvania, where EE gasifies a range of high moisture and high ash content material. Tri-Mer will provide a filter system that... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2012
Energy from waste company DP Cleantech has been subject of an equity buyout which has led to a change of ownership structure.
The change comes as a result of an equity buyout led by longstanding CEO Simon Parker and is accompanied by a refinancing deal.
‘We are pleased to take full control of the company at such an exciting time for the industry, which we strongly... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2012
New Leaf Energy (NLE) has set in motion plans to purchase a biomass plant which closed in 2011.
A letter of intent for the purchase of the Greenville Steam plant has been signed by NLE and it has claimed it will rehire around 20 employees that had been laid off after the closure. The plant is currently owned by Gallup Power Greenville.
The plant has the capacity to produce... [Read More]
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Dec 5, 2012
Bioethanol producer Vivergo has started up its production process from wheat at its Humberside facility.
The wheat is being supplied by grain marketing company Frontier via selected farmers under its Humber Gold brand and it has also confirmed that the milling, fermenting and distilling process has now began at the plant.
Despite a challenge in providing constantly high... [Read More]
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Dec 4, 2012
Advanced biorefinery owners Borregaard has received a multi-million grant from the Research Council of Norway to further wood processing projects.
The grant totals NOK 30 million ($5.3 million) and will be spread on projects over a three year period. Borregaard won the investment after submitting three applications for funding on projects within the areas of lignin products... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2012
A new laboratory to develop technologies to produce high-value chemicals from biomass has opened in Singapore.
The Metabolic Engineering Research Laboratory was officially opened by the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) in December and will design and drive factories that can produce cost-efficient wastes.
‘Most of the world's current chemicals... [Read More]
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SIAAP (Greater Paris Sanitation Authority) and SUEZ have officially inaugurated a new state-of-the-art biogas production unit at the Seine Aval wastewater treatment plant in the Paris metropolitan area
Natural State Renewables has announced a key strategic partnership with Axens as part of its plan to produce carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from surplus forest biomass
