Jan 9, 2012
Farm builds installs new anaerobic digester
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Jan 6, 2012
BioDiesel International (BDI) has secured a contract to build a multi-feedstock biogas plant in northern France for €4.45 million.
The plant was commissioned by a French waste disposal company that will use the facility to crush, handle and convert the organic waste into biogas to power an electricity and thermal energy system.
Each year the plant will produce 4.2... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2012
The Nigerian government has signed a deal with Global Biofuels, a local biofuel producer, to build 15 biofuel plants in the country, costing about N414 billion (€2.02 billion) in total.
The project will create about 120,000 jobs and will power 15 states with 30MW each. A pilot plant will be built in Ekiti, with construction beginning within the next few months and... [Read More]
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Jan 5, 2012
Florida-based company BioTork has converted papayas into fatty acids which it says can be refined into biofuels.
Under a research development programme working with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center (PBARC) and Rivertop Solutions, BioTork says this discovery is a positive breakthrough for the local agriculture and military... [Read More]
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Jan 4, 2012
World Health Energy Holdings (WHEH), a public holding company that works on forming joint ventures with algae companies for the production of biodiesel and fish food, says it has signed a deal with Indian company Prime to build a biodiesel facility.
The production site will sit on 250 acres and cost up to $100 million (€77 million) to build. So far two sites are being... [Read More]
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Jan 4, 2012
German chemical company BASF has participated in a $50 million (€38 million) funding round with an investment of $30 million into biofuel producer Renmatix.
The process Renmatix uses to produce biofuels includes creating industrial sugar from lignocellulosic biomass such as wood, cane waste or straw. Using supercritical water—a state in which water acts as a... [Read More]
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Jan 3, 2012
The Indian government says last year it intensified its bioenergy power generation across the country and now 30 villages in total have had biomass gasifiers installed.
The government says it also has plans to add a further 30,000MW capacity of renewable energy, adding to the 22,000MW capacity that has now been installed within the grid across India, which is about 11%... [Read More]
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Jan 3, 2012
A prison in the US is to install a thermophilic anaerobic digester covering 3-4 acres which will produce about 1MW of electricity each year, with the electricity generated both powering the site and being fed onto the grid.
The electricity will be created through the use of about 5,500 tonnes of poultry litter each year and the facility is scheduled to come online in 2013.
EcoCorp,... [Read More]
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Jan 3, 2012
Renewable energy company Amersco has received a Final Acceptance Certificate from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Savannah River Operations Office and can now complete construction on its new biomass cogeneration facility.
Once completed, the site is expected to produce $944 million of energy, water, operations and maintenance savings over nearly 20 years.... [Read More]
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Jan 3, 2012
Canals throughout the UK might soon play a part in bioenergy production as energy company Dalkia says the waterways could be used to deliver biomass.
The company already uses the Aire and Calder Navigation canal system, which is located in Yorkshire, to transport wood.
Hundreds of years ago the canals were used to transport 40 million tonnes of cargo around the country... [Read More]
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Jan 3, 2012
Dutch electricity company Eneco has begun construction of a 49.9MW bioenergy plant at Delfzijl port in the Netherlands.
The plant is due to come online in 2013 and will see 300,000 tonnes of woodchips turned into power, which will provide electricity to around 120,000 homes.
The woodchips will arrive by ship, train and truck from the Netherlands and other nearby countries,... [Read More]
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Dec 22, 2011
Biomass fuel producer Enviva says it will build a 454,000 tonne wood pellet plant in Courtland, Virginia, with operations set to begin in the first half of 2013.
However, the project will only go ahead if the land where the plant is to be built on receives permission from Southampton County to rezone the property.
The company is currently expanding within the mid-Atlantic... [Read More]
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Dec 22, 2011
Neste Oil has commissioned its Rotterdam facility to produce hydrated vegetable oil (HVO), opening it on 19 December 2011.
This follows the opening of productiion in Singapore and Finland, adding a further 800,000 tonnes to its capacity and bringing the total output to two million tonnes of HVO.
The Rotterdam refinery produces NExBTL renewable diesel, Neste Oil’s... [Read More]
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Dec 21, 2011
Swedfund has invested €10 million into Addax Bioenergy, a company based in Sierra Leone.
Swedfund’s investment, which Addax & Oryx is also a part of, will be the biggest private sector agriculture investment into the country and will be added to a total investment of €267 million.
The greenfield projects will include the construction of an ethanol refinery... [Read More]
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Dec 20, 2011
Energy systems company Danish Stirling DK has commissioned a four-engine biomass plant at the spa resort of Tabbs in Tabarz, Thuringia, Germany.
The plant, the first of its kind in the world according to the company, is powered by wood chips given from the local area, generating 4,000MWh of heat and 1,000MWh of electricity each year, which is the highest the amount for... [Read More]
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Dec 20, 2011
Xergi has signed a deal with the Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (MMPA)to build a new biogas plant in the US which will feature gas-fired CHP engines that will output 8MW of electrical power.
Hometown BioEnergy, the name of the plant, will be built in Le Sueur, Minnesota and will produce biogas from waste such as agriculture and food, including sweet corn, potato waste... [Read More]
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Dec 20, 2011
The body representing biofuels in the US is calling for the cellulosic biofuel tax credits to be extended so that companies can raise the funds they need to build biorefineries.
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) says the industry is at a turning point where it is rapidly growing because biotechnology companies have had private investment to help commercialise... [Read More]
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