Feb 2, 2012
New pellet heating plant for Finland
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Feb 1, 2012
Over last year, more than one billion gallons of biodiesel was produced in the US, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says.
A total of 1.1 billion gallons was more than the predicted production estimates of 800 million gallons, which was the target set by the EPA’s Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
Previously, the most biodiesel the US had produced was in 2008,... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2012
A new technology has been developed at the University of Sheffield in the UK which uses microbubbles to harvest and remove water from algae for biofuel production.
Algae produces oils which can be used to create biodiesel but water needs to be removed from the algae first in order to do so.
Using the microbubble system is an inexpensive way to do this. The process works... [Read More]
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Jan 31, 2012
VTT, a company working at developing Vietnam’s solid biomass fuel resources on an industrial level as part of the Energy and Environment Partnership Programme run by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, is to create multi-fuel delivery chains for power plants and industrial boilers.
The programme will make sure biomass fuels are available all year round through... [Read More]
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Jan 31, 2012
Bioenergy company ZeaChem has been awarded a $232.5 million (€176 million) loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build a biorefinery that will convert biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals.
It will be the company’s first commercial size cellulosic biorefinery and will use woody biomass and agricultural residues to produce... [Read More]
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Jan 31, 2012
Scientists from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Sustainable Bioenergy Centre (BSBEC) have uncovered a series of genes which could help grasses being breed with better characteristics for bioenergy production.
The genes help to better develop the wood part of the grass, called the fibrous, such as what is in rice and wheat. In understanding... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
An African renewable energy company has secured $5 million (€3.8 million) in fundraising to develop its first biomass energy project on the continent.
Takoradi Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of Africa Renewables and a biomass producer and trader, received the funding from Standard Chartered Bank in Ghana.
The money will be used to double the company’s biomass... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
A Californian county has decided to produce 100% renewable energy for county facilities.
Sonoma County has signed a year-long agreement with 3 Phases Renewables to produce all of its electricity from renewable sources, generating 15% of it from biomass.
Seven county facilities in Santa Rosa and Petaluma will be powered from biomass throughout this year, with the rest being... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
A new plant in Plymouth, UK is to open, converting 40,000 tonnes of wood waste into renewable heat and electricity annually, which should reduce CO₂ emissions by around 16,500 tonnes a year.
Three companies, MITIE's Asset Management, O-Gen UK and the Una Group are working together on the development, under the name of O-Gen Plymtrek.
During construction, about 50 jobs... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has provided bioenergy company Vaskiluodon Voima Oy with €18 million to build a gasification plant in Vaasa, Finland. The total project cost is expected to be about €40 million.
The facility will produce 140MW and is to be connected to a power plant that is already established, allowing for the coal from the old plant to be substituted... [Read More]
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Jan 27, 2012
Construction has begun on the Hairy Hill biorefinery in Canada which is to turn farmers’ grain into ethanol whilst at the same time producing power for the grid.
The construction marks the second phase of the development, which already features a biogas plant that produces 1MW for the power grid from manure and other waste.
That facility is expected to cost about... [Read More]
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Jan 24, 2012
True Green Energy says it is going to produce pellets as part of its rubbish to energy production process.
At the moment it turns municipal solid waste (MSW) into electricity over a number of stages, first taking the paper, plastic, food, wood, and agricultural materials and drying and shredding them. The metals and glass are put aside to be recycled at a further date.
Now... [Read More]
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Jan 24, 2012
DSM and POET have joined forces to convert a facility into its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the US, which will be based in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
The POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels joint venture will produce 20 million gallons of ethanol in the first year, growing to about 25 million gallons the year following.
The plant is due to come online in the... [Read More]
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Jan 23, 2012
Italy plans to cut incentives for renewable energy, including biomass, in a new measure which might prevent it from reaching its 2020 targets.
The decree is due to be finalised by the end of February and will see the amount spent on renewable energy capped at €5-5.5 billion, a reduction from €6-7 billion.
In 2011, the total spend on renewable power generation... [Read More]
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Jan 23, 2012
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has formed a $25 million (€19 million) partnership with Fiberight, money which will be put towards building a new biofuels plant in Blairstown, Iowa.
The facility will convert waste into biofuels, producing six million gallons a year when the plant comes online in the first half of next year.
Fiberight is spending $20 million... [Read More]
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Jan 23, 2012
A brewery based in Cornwall, UK, is expanding its facility to install an anaerobic digestion system which includes an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket which will convert the brewery’s waste liquid into heat and power.
The technology, which is costing £1 million (€1.2 million), works by a three stage treatment process, which is being installed by Truro-based... [Read More]
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Jan 20, 2012
The founder of Bioenergy Solutions has filed for bankruptcy which means hundreds of people will lose their jobs.
David Albers’ business went into the red and means the dairy farm in Fresno County, California, will close. The gas produced from the 5,000 cows used for cheese production at this factory was put through an anaerobic digester, producing enough electricity... [Read More]
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