Feb 13, 2012
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Feb 13, 2012
The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) has announced the first completed commercial certification of the Manildra Group, Australia.
Through its subsidiary Shoalhaven Starches Pty Ltd, the Manildra Group produces bioethanol from starchy wastewater generated by their wheat-processing facility.
The certification, conducted by NCS International, serves to prove sustainable... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2012
Construction of the US's first large-scale, wood-to-ethanol plant is set to begin this year in Upper Peninsula, Michigan.
The $232-million (€175.05 million) biorefinery is to be built on 40 acres in Kinross Charter Township, with completion expected in late 2013.
A company called Mascoma developed the wood-to-ethanol process which combines wood chips with microorganisms,... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2012
Chroen Industries has been sold to Linde Engineering Dresden after it went into adminstration and Linde will continue to develop Choren’s Carbo-V technology for synthetic gas.
This gas can be used to produce biofuels and Linde already works in this sector, planning, delivering and constructing chemical, gas, biotechnology and pharmaceutical plants.
The insolvency... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2012
The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association in the UK says it is pleased the review of feed-in-tariffs has finally been published although it is concerned about the proposed tariffs for anaerobic digestion (AD).
The government says that plants with installed capacity of more than 500kW will get given £0.09 (€0.107)/kWh from October, which is £0.009... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2012
Active Energy says that in order to focus on its Ukraine biomass project, which it recently purchased, it would close its two UK-based businesses.
The company says that although its performance was what it had expected last year, its revenues had ‘deteriorated significantly’ and it is worried this would continue in the future because of increased competition... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2012
New woodchip boilers will be installed in Herefordshire, UK, after a local company won a £60,000 (€72,000) government funding grant to develop sustainable schemes.
Woolhope Woodheat will be in charge of the project which will see the boilers installed in schools, organisations and businesses around the area.
The clean burning woodchip boilers should help to... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2012
Forth Energy, a joint venture between Forth Ports and energy company SSE, has withdrawn its plans to build a combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Leith, Scotland, following the announcement of new proposals to develop the Port of Leith as an offshore renewable energy hub.
Forth Energy wrote to the Scottish government’s energy consents unit, cancelling its planning... [Read More]
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Feb 7, 2012
Iran's Tehran refinery began producing Euro-5 compliant jet fuel and gas oil on 7 February.
National Iranian Oil Engineering and Construction (NIOEC) invested approximately $650 million (€495 million) in the project, which is able to produce 5 million litres of jet fuel and 8 million litres of gas oil daily.
Additionally, NIOEC's €28.5 million jet fuel production... [Read More]
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Feb 7, 2012
Waste to energy company Kedco, which is based in the UK and Ireland, has secured about £403,000 (€485,000) through a placing of 31 million shares at an issue price of £0.013 per share.
The money raised is to be put towards working capital and will be invested into the company’s biomass electricity and heat generation projects.
The company has selected... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2012
Algae producer Aquaviridis has joined forces with OriginOil to develop a new technology that extracts oil from the algae and will develop this multi-phase production at its Mexicali site in Mexico.
Through the North American Free Trade Agreement, a region in the country has been put aside for such developments and OriginOil will help by harvesting and developing its algae... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2012
The Green Investment Bank (GIB), a world first initiative to encourage private investment into green energy projects, has received 32 bids from cities in the UK willing to host the bank.
The city that wins the bid would need to be able to recruit and retain the staff, work closely with other parties involved in order to further develop investment projects, and ensure that... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2012
Novozymes has formed a joint venture with Sea6 Energy, an Indian company, to develop a method of turning seaweed into biofuels. Through the research, enzymes will be used to convert the seaweed-based carbohydrates into sugar, which can then be turned into ethanol through fermentation.
Sea6 Energy will contribute its offshore seaweed cultivation technology to the partnership,... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2012
Biomass company Enviva is to supply wood pellets to utility owner E.ON under a 240,000 tonne per year agreement which will operate for a number of years.
The contract, of which the value has been undisclosed, will begin early next year and the pellets will come from Enviva’s facilities in the south east of the US, where there is a large amount of wood to be harvested.
Speaking... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2012
Helius Energy has released its results for the 2010-2011 financial year and says its profit before tax was just £7,200 (€8,664) although it had a cash balance of £500,000, raising £6.3 million in a secondary placing of shares.
The company, which produces energy from biomass as well as other sources, says despite these figures it managed to secure... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2012
Finnish paper producer UPM is to build a biorefinery that will produce biofuels from crude tall oil derived from pulp in Lappeenranta, Finland.
The facility will be commercial size and produce about 100,000 tonnes of biodiesel a year to be used as vehicle fuel. The biodiesel is called BioVerno and produces 80% less greenhouse gases than traditional fossil fuels.
Construction... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2012
Yorkshire Water in the UK is working with Esholt sewage works to build a biothelys sludge treatment plant that will create energy from human waste.
The multi-million pound project will take effluent from the Yorkshire Water 750 acre sewage works, which currently collects waste from about 700,000 people, as well as about 300 litres of wastewater which it treats before dumping... [Read More]
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