Apr 23, 2012
Biomass subsidies protest in Scotland
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Apr 17, 2012
Renewable energy company Harvest Power has raised $110 million (€760,000) in a funding round.
True North Venture Partners were the leaders in the investment, with help from American Refining and Biochemical, as well as existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, Generation Investment Management and more.
Harvest Power plans to use the funds... [Read More]
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Apr 17, 2012
A new co-digestion facility will be built in California after the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (SRCSD) joined forces to help produce renewable energy.
Fats, oils, grease and liquid food processing waste will be used in the digestion system, producing power for a plant in the southern Sacramento County.
As... [Read More]
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Apr 17, 2012
In order to cut energy bills and make sure employees do not lose their jobs, a luxury spa hotel in Anglesey, UK has built a £500,000 (€607,000) biomass plant.
The system at the plant, situated at the Tre-Ysgawen Hall Country House Hotel and Spa, at Capel Coch, near Llangefni, is able to produce 600kW of power, using woodchips as fuel, meaning that the £90,000... [Read More]
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Apr 17, 2012
In Oslo, Norway, the government is planning to run all the city’s buses on biogas produced from food waste.
At the moment there 65 buses in Oslo that are powered by biogas from the city’s sewage treatment plant but with this new development enough biogas will be produced to fuel at least 200 buses.
Using 50,000 tonnes of food waste a year, the facility will... [Read More]
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Apr 17, 2012
UK-based food company PDM plans to invest £40 million (€48.5 million) into building a network of anaerobic digestion plants throughout this year. The plants, to be built under a project which the company has dubbed ReFood, will be built in Widnes and East London, UK.
The two plants come after PDM’s first anaerobic digester was deemed a success after it... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2012
Dong Energy wants to invest just under $800 million (€612 million) into converting three of its coal and gas fired power stations into bioenergy plants, using wood pellets to produce heat and electricity.
According to Bloomberg, the executive VP of Dong, Thomas Dalsgaard, says that the Danish plants will have a capacity of around 1GW.
The company plans to begin the... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2012
The North East Lincolnshire Council in the UK has approved a biomass-fuelled plant, which will be built in the region for about £130 million (€158 million).
Real Ventures, the company behind the development, plans for the facility to have an electrical output of more than 49MW which should power around 90,000 residences.
The plant will be a combined heat and... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2012
A renewable energy power station worth £250 million (€304 million) will be built in the Port of Blyth after planning permission was granted.
The renewable energy developer RES submitted its planning application in March 2012 and the Planning Inspectorate confirmed formal acceptance on 11th April 2012. The examination and consultation period can take up to nine... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2012
Wealth management firm, Taaleritehdas, plans to build a series of biogas plants throughout Finland, which will convert household biowaste, wastewater slurry, industrial byproducts and agricultural waste into biogas.
Over the next couple of years, the Finnish company will build five to seven plants which will cost about €90 million.
Under its plans, the company will... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2012
Viridor, a waste management company based in the UK, has broken ground on a new anaerobic digestion (AD) plant that is located close to Bridgwater in Somerset, UK.
It is the first AD plant in that region of the country and will be situated next to the Walpole landfill site, coming online in April 2013.
The Somerset Waste Board approved the facility in September 2011 and... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2012
BioPower Operations, a company that grows, produces and sells biomass and its byproducts, has become a public company, listing its shares on the stock market.
The company currently has plans to produce and sell biomass oils in the short term and in the long term receive licenses to grow trees and bamboo that can also be converted into oils, biofuels, animal feed or electricity.
Robert... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2012
The Harare City Council in Zimbabwe is in talks with a local gas company, considering a joint venture to enable electricity to be generated from waste collected from nearby sewage works.
About $3 million (€2.28 million) will be needed to fund the project, which will take a year and a half to build.
One plant, called Firle, is expected to produce 2.5MW whilst the other,... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2012
UK energy company E.ON has received approval from the Shropshire council to build a new fuel store at its Ironbridge power station in the region.
This planning permission grant will allow the company to convert a section of its Ironbridge power station so that it can use 100% wood pellets as a renewable fuel source.
E.ON will continue to work with the council so that it... [Read More]
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Apr 10, 2012
Ventura, which is a subsidy of biodiesel company Biodico, has been given a $2 million (€1.5 million) grant from the California Energy Commission and will use the funds to produce renewable energy and biodiesel at Biodico’s 10 million gallon a year facility which is being built in Port Hueneme, California.
At the facility, process heat and power will be generated... [Read More]
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Apr 10, 2012
Pellet exports from North America into Europe hit a new record in the fourth quarter of last year.
Shipments rose to 600,000 tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2011, which is a sharp increase from the 130,000 tonnes shipped in the first quarter of 2008. Shipments have been on the rise steadily every quarter since then.
Over all of last year, wood pellet shipments reach just... [Read More]
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Apr 10, 2012
The US government says it is to give $35 million (€27 million) towards the research and development of advanced biofuels, bioenergy and bio-based products.
Through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI), a joint programme established by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the US Energy Department, the project hopes to create more sources of... [Read More]
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