Mar 29, 2012
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Mar 29, 2012
World Health Energy Holdings has signed a letter of intent with Prime, an Indian industrial and transport company, to build a biodiesel production facility on a budget of $100 million (€75 million).
The development will be built on 250 acres and Prime has tested batch samples of spirulina algae which it plans to cultivate under the project, for biodiesel production.
The... [Read More]
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Mar 28, 2012
Italy-based Agroils Technologies has received investment funds of €900,000 from X-Capital, which it says it will use to develop technology to produce biofuel, protein biomass for animal feed and jatropha.
The process of production was developed by Roberto Crea, who also developed the first recombinant production of human insulin at Genentech in California in 1978.
‘The... [Read More]
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Mar 27, 2012
Imperative Energy, a company that provides biomass heat and power to the UK and Ireland, plans to expand its US presence by bringing its biomass developments overseas.
The company has formed a partnership with Northline Energy, a Lynnwood, Washington-based company that provides biomass combustion systems. The companies plan to invest $100 million (€75 million) over... [Read More]
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Mar 27, 2012
Vega Biofuels has raised funds to help it design and engineer a bio coal manufacturing plant which will be based in South Georgia.
The facility will produce the bio coal from timber waste as part of a green energy torrefaction process.
‘We've been working with a small group of existing shareholders the past few months to put together a funding package that will help... [Read More]
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Mar 27, 2012
Three schools in India are going green with biogas plants being installed on their sites.
Under a scheme being funded by the Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project, over the next month Cotton Hill Government Higher Secondary School for Girls; Government Girls HSS, Pattom; and Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Manacaud, will all have biogas plants built... [Read More]
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Mar 27, 2012
The local government of Bridgeport in Connecticut, US, is considering building an anaerobic digestion plant that would convert the city’s sewage into energy.
The government has asked for proposals to be submitted for a plant to be built near the West Side Treatment Facility, a sewage plant.
The anaerobic digester will recover the methane, which creates about 1,000BTUs... [Read More]
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Mar 27, 2012
Energy company Areva has received funding from KIC InnoEnergy to build a series of small scale biomass plants in Europe, South Asia and Latin America.
Areva plans to join various solutions to optimise the small scale power plant cost for its customers and help to cut down on construction time.
The biomass plants will produce power and are expected to ‘improve upstream... [Read More]
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Mar 26, 2012
A new scheme has been launched in the UK which will enable businesses to receive fully funded biomass boiler installations.
Anesco, the company behind the scheme, plans to install ETA biomass boilers, and also provide fuel storage, delivery systems, performance monitoring and annual services.
Firms will have the benefit of being able to reduce their heating costs by between... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2012
E.ON Climate & Renewables has been given permission by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to construct a 150 MW biomass power plant at Royal Portbury Dock in the Port of Bristol, North Somerset. The project would create an estimated 35 full-time jobs.
E.ON was planning to annually contribute £50,000 (€59,954) to a Community Investment Fund,... [Read More]
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Mar 22, 2012
Independent power producer, U-Thong Bio Power, is planning the construction of a new biomass power plant in the Supanburi Province, Thailand.
Using rice husk and bagasse as feedstocks, the plant will generate an estimated electricity output of 9.9MW, enough to power between 6000 to 8000 homes.
Completion of the project is expect at the end of 2013.... [Read More]
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Mar 20, 2012
In Brussels, Innogy Venture Capital, European financial investor Gimv and other partners have signed an agreement to invest in the start-up company GreenWatt S.A.
GreenWatt designs, operates and builds turnkey biogas plants for the generation of renewable heat and power from biodegradable waste materials without the need for slurry.
The €6 million investment will... [Read More]
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Mar 20, 2012
Renewable energy developer RES has submitted its proposal to build a biomass-fired power plant in Northumberland, UK.
RES' bid could see the construction of a £250 million (€300 million), 100MW power station at Battleship Wharf on the River Blyth. According to RES, the plant will be able to generate renewable energy for around 170,000 households and slash CO2... [Read More]
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Mar 19, 2012
In Thailand, power producer U-Thong Bio Power is planning to build a biomass-fired power plant in Supanburi in the country's northwest region.
The 9.9MW facility will use rice husks and bagasse to produce renewable power that will benefit between 6,000 and 8,000 homes.
U-Thong Bio Power has commissioned Areva's Bioenergy Business Unit and its local partner Ensys to construct... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2012
Vechta-based Weltec Biopower has started building one of Germany's largest biogas plants in Arneburg, Stendal District, Saxony-Anhalt.
The plant will use four fermenters, six digestate storage units, and one liquid reservoir to produce about 6 million m3 of biomethane (more than 700 cubic metres/hour) every year that will then be fed into the natural gas grid.
'This biogas... [Read More]
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Mar 16, 2012
Perth-based rural land management firm Bell Ingram has installed a 90kW biomass boiler at its headquarters, designed to reduce carbon emissions and cut heating costs.
An assessment of the Perth-located building was completed by microgeneration consultant Nigel Benson and provided the catalyst for the biomass boiler installation as it highlighted the potential for... [Read More]
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Mar 12, 2012
Skogforsk, the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, is to collaborate with Grand Rapids-based Itasca Community College (ICC), on a research program developing methods, systems and technology within the bioenergy sector in Minnesota.
The research will focus on the forest-based biomass supply chain, with the aim to increase efficiency and quality.
Skogforsk focuses... [Read More]
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