Nov 1, 2012
Bioenergy and biofuels coming online in Florida
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Oct 31, 2012
UK power station Drax will plan to raise £180 million ($290 million) through a new share placing to support a change to becoming a predominately biomass-fuelled power generator.
Three of the six Drax units will be converted to biomass meaning the site will be one of the largest renewable energy plants in Europe.
The company is now looking to secure capital funding... [Read More]
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Oct 31, 2012
Next generation bio-based chemicals producer Cobalt Technologies is set to work closely with a subsidiary of agribusiness and food company Bunge.
Bunge Global Innovation ‘s investment into Cobalt, along with chemicals business Rhodia Poliamida e Especialidades, means it will operate a pilot plant demonstrating the production of n-butanol using sugarcane bagasse as... [Read More]
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Oct 30, 2012
Germany-based biogas company BD Agro Renewables has begun operations at one of the first biogas plants in Russia.
The facility, located in Belgorod, will generate 2.4MW of electricity via a feedstock supply of 80 tonnes of maize silage, 45 tonnes of slaughterhouse waste and 80 cubic metres of slurry a day to supply around 10,000 households.
Belgorod oblast governor Vevgeny... [Read More]
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Oct 30, 2012
A new combined heat and power project makes up part of PowerSecure International’s new multi-million dollar business wins.
The new business consists of $15 million (€11.5 million) of turnkey sales for distributed generation systems, including its IDG systems.
A significant portion of the revenue for these new distributed generation awards relates to the CHP... [Read More]
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Oct 30, 2012
The European Biomass Research Institute (EBRI) welcomed a very prestigious visitor in October.
HRH Princess Anne toured the EBRI’s Pyroformer demonstration plant in Shropshire, which is also part of a European Union project named BioenNW. The Pyroformer facility uses waste products to generate cost-effective heat and power.
Speaking from his office at Aston University,... [Read More]
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Oct 26, 2012
A farmer in Devon, UK has installed a biomass boiler to help improve his carbon footprint and even his bank balance.
John Roberts now heats multiple cottages and a live/work unit on the farm via the 60kW biomass boiler which runs on logs, woodchips and pellets taken from his land. He also, under the government’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), receives 50% return... [Read More]
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Oct 25, 2012
Brazil-based ethanol producer Raizen Group is set to work with Canada-based cellulosic ethanol developer Iogen to develop a new commercial plant in South America.
Iogen has produced over 2 million litres of cellulosic ethanol at its demonstration plant in Ottawa since 2004, but this joint venture represents its first commercial foray.
Raizen produces 2.2 billion litres... [Read More]
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Oct 24, 2012
A district heating scheme in Brae, Scotland will unveil a new small biomass heating system after receiving planning permission.
The heating cabin will be operated by local company Northfish and use wood chips as feedstock. The company is already running a similar project.
The cabin will measure 12ft by 3.5ft and go towards helping to heat the local health centre, leisure... [Read More]
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Oct 23, 2012
Canadian-based Woodland Biofuels says its new demonstration plant is up and could be producing ethanol by the end of this year.
The new facility will use wood waste as feedstock and is based at the Western University Research Park’s Bioindustrial Innovation Centre in Sarnia. It will create 10 operational jobs while it employed 25 people during construction.
‘It’s... [Read More]
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Oct 23, 2012
Schools in India are set to benefit from plans by Kochi to introduce biogas plants to help convert waste into heat and power.
Kochi will work with Suchitwa Mission to provide the systems to both government and aided schools under the umbrella theme of ‘My City, My Pride’, part of the Suchitwa Varsham waste management programme.
‘The biogas plants will... [Read More]
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Oct 23, 2012
Some biomass-related projects in the US are set to benefit from a new multi-million investment by the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP).
REAP hopes to aid ranchers, farmers and small rural businesses fund renewable energy systems and energy-efficiency improvements. The new investment is $16 million (€12.3 million) and is earmarked for 244 projects.
Grants... [Read More]
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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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