May 8, 2012
Further cash injection for US district heating regeneration
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May 3, 2012
NDR Energy Group, (a subsidiary of Universal Bioenergy), has signed a Master Core Secondary Market Services Agreement for storage facility services with a natural gas distributor that supplies and delivers natural gas to over 20.9 million customers on the west coast of the US.
The gas utility company owns and operates 134 billion cubic feet of underground gas storage facilities,... [Read More]
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May 3, 2012
New York's largest on-farm, 'co-digestion' biogas power project, located at Synergy Dairy in Covington, Wyoming County, has been opened.
The facility was constructed by CH4 Biogas, who, under the name Synergy Biogas, also owns and operates the project.
It is designed specifically for the co-digestion of food and animal waste, generating 1.4 MW of renewable electricity,... [Read More]
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May 1, 2012
Dyadic International is a global biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of enzyme and protein products for the bioenergy, biochemical, biopharmaceutical and industrial enzyme industries. The company has announced that Abengoa Bioenergy New Technologies (Abengoa), has agreed to pay them $5.5 million for an expansion of its rights... [Read More]
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May 1, 2012
The US Patent & Trademark Office has awarded NTE Energy a patent for its proprietary biomass hybrid renewable energy technology. This newly patented technology allows the simultaneous operation of a biomass energy cycle in unison with a traditional power plant.
It integrates biomass and steam electric power, forming a single hybrid power facility that will offer shared... [Read More]
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May 1, 2012
Kedco has secured approximately £166,860 (€203,700.77) through a placing of 12,835,385 new ordinary shares (Placing Shares), with a number of existing and new investors, at an issue price of 1.3 pence per ordinary share.
The proceeds are to be used for working capital purposes and for continuing investment in the Company's portfolio of biomass electricity and... [Read More]
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Apr 30, 2012
EcoPellets's plans to burn an annual 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets at a 17MW solid biomass co-generation plant and a 14MW liquid biomass plant in Llangefni, are on the verge of falling through due to concerns about the potentially damaging effects they will have on local air quality as well as noise pollution worries.
The £100 million (€122.98 million)... [Read More]
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Apr 27, 2012
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) have thanked members of the Senate Agriculture Committee for reauthorizing farm programs that are valuable to the biotechnology industry and ensuring they have the funding to work.
'The Farm Bill's energy title and proposals to support biomanufacturing will help the United States maintain its competitive leadership in biotechnology,... [Read More]
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Apr 27, 2012
Gloucester-based Markey Group has opened a new £1.1 million (Є1.35 million) biomass facility.
The burner runs on wood waste generated by the subsidiary of Markey Group, Premiere Kitchens. On average, Premiere Kitchens creates approximately 2,350 tonnes of wood waste each year in the form of extracted chipboard dust and residual off-cuts. Previously, the majority... [Read More]
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Apr 27, 2012
Helius Energy has confirmed that it is working with a number of banks including Lloyds Bank Wholesale Banking & Markets, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander Global Banking & Markets, amongst others, to finance its Avonmouth dedicated biomass project, located in the Port of Bristol.
It is anticipated that the project's financial close will occur this summer,... [Read More]
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Apr 27, 2012
Bioeconomy consultants for the UK Government, NNFCC, have released a new report suggesting that heat and power from biomass could create up to 50,000 jobs by 2020.
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change–commissioned research, is aimed at providing evidence for the Government's Bioenergy Strategy. It coincides with two other NNFCC studies on the potential... [Read More]
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Apr 23, 2012
Eco 2 (North Lincs) has bought 13 acres of the former British Sugar factory, Scawby Brook, with the plan to develop an £80 million biomass station. The acquired land, now known as Glanford Vale Business Park, will be home to the Brigg Renewable Energy Project, which will reportedly create 80 new local jobs.
This comes as the result of more than 4 years of planning... [Read More]
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Apr 23, 2012
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by Italian power company Enel to build a 1-5MW concentrated solar power and biomass bi-generation plant, which will produce electricity for the city of Rome.
Italy's agency for new technologies, Enea, and Rome's local authority Roma Capitale, which will be backing the porject also signed the agreement. Enel will build and... [Read More]
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Apr 23, 2012
ProSelect Gas Treating has launched the world's first carbon capture system for the greenhouse industry. The GC6 Carbon Capture System was unveiled at the SunSelect Produce greenhouses in Delta, British Columbia.
The $5 million new technology was developed in Canada and is able to secure carbon dioxide emissions from biomass combustion and convert it into fertilizer. This... [Read More]
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Apr 23, 2012
Planning permission has been awarded to developer Real Ventures, for the proposed construction of a biomass power station at the Port of Immingham on the River Humber. The project has a value of approximately £130 million (Є159.15 million).
Hundreds of jobs will reportedly be created during the 30-month construction period and during the predicted 25-year life of... [Read More]
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Apr 23, 2012
Proposed Biomass power plant, which will be located in Russell, Massachusetts, has been issued with a final Clean Water Act permit by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
EPA has determined that the final National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for the proposed facility meets the requirements set by the Federal Clean Water Act.
The proposed... [Read More]
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Apr 23, 2012
A recent study conducted by the Oregon State University (OSU) and a number of other universities located in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria, has suggested that the use of forest biomass may be responsible for higher greenhouse gas emissions and furthermore may not be sustainable.
A depletion of soil nutrients, higher erosion risk, younger forests, loss of forest... [Read More]
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