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The UK government has set its fifth carbon budget in order to tackle climate change. The fifth carbon budget will cut carbon emissions by 57% by 2032, based on 1990 levels. This emissions reduction should leave the UK on track to meet its Climate Change Act target of an 80% reduction in emissions by 2050. The UK's Climate Change Act of 2008 sets the 2050 target. It requires the government to set…
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German anaerobic digestion (AD) plant manufacturer Agrafem Technologies has founded a new joint venture together with Active Business Partnerships (Active BP), a strategic agriculture and rural consultancy firm.  The JV, named 4D AD Service, is offering tailor-made services for UK AD plants to assist with solutions and input to optimise performance. For three AD sites in the UK the terms are…
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Novozymes, a Denmark-based biotechnology company, has announced that it will deliver the enzymes for Dong Energy’s enzyme-enabled bioplant in the UK. The plant, which is in the process of being built by Danish energy firm Dong Energy, is based in Northwich in the north west of England and is called REnescience. According to Dong Energy, it will be the first full-scale bio plant in the world…
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German carmaker Volkswagen has showcased its algae biogas-powered vehicle at a biogas project based in El Torno Chiclana, a town in south-west Spain. The presentation of the test vehicle was unveiled at a biogas development named ‘All-gas biogas project’, which is run by Aqualia, a water management subsidiary of FCC Group. The demonstration at the wastewater treatment plant was made…
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The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) has announced that Lithuanian Remigijus Lapinskas has been elected its new president. He was elected during the annual meetings in Istanbul in Turkey on 28 May and has taken over from his predecessor Heinz Kopetz. Kopetz will continue assisting WBA in a new role as senior consultant.  “It’s an honour to be elected as the president of World…
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Tokyo-based First Energy Service Co. has announced that it will shed its sole solar power project and shift its focus to biomass, according to media reports. According to a report in Bloomberg, the company has restructured its business units to focus on woody biomass facilities. It is also expecting strong government subsidies to continue backing its vision. First Energy currently operates two…
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The UK will continue to work with Europe in a number of areas, including improving the environment, the former Mayor of London Boris Johnson has said. Writing in his weekly column in The Telegraph, the bookies’ favourite to be the UK’s next prime minister said: “I cannot stress too much that Britain is part of Europe, and always will be. “There will still be…
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PHI Group, a US public company focused on conventional energy and renewables, announced that the company has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire a wood pellet manufacturing company in southeastern US. The identity of the target company and certain details will be kept confidential until closing, PHI Group said in a statement. The total purchase price for 100% of the operation, excluding…
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Raw Biogas, a UK anaerobic digestion (AD) plant developer, has submitted a planning application for an £8 million biogas plant in Northamptonshire. But the project, to be located at Wormslade Farm and projected to process 46,000 tonnes of manure and crops annually to power 2,500 homes, is facing local resistance, BBC reports. Clipston Parish Council – smallest local authority unit in…
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Danish power plant developer Burmeister & Wain Scandinavion Contractors (BWSC) has begun the construction of a £140 million biomass plant in the UK. BWSC took possession of the development site situated at Discovery Park near Sandwich, Kent, earlier this month, and the building is projected to be finished in two years, reports Thanet Gazette. The project is expected to create 300 jobs…
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The £25 million Guardbridge Energy Project in Scotland moved a step closer to completion when the Vital Energi project team took delivery of a 6.5MW biomass boiler furnace. The furnace made the 1,300 mile journey from Sweden, where it was manufactured at Jernforsen’s facility in the remote town of Järnforsen. The biomass boiler and furnace is 10m high, will weigh more than 130…
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The US House of Representatives’ has been presented with a bill to increase the number of biogas application that qualify for the federal Section 45 investment tax credit. Currently only biogas-based electricity projects are eligible for the 30% tax credit, but the bill – titled the Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act or H.R. 5489 – would see other biogas application, such…
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The global organic biogas market was worth more than $19.5 billion (€17.2bn) in 2015 and is forecast to exceed $32 billion by 2023, growing at more than 6% CAGR from 2016 to 2023, a new report says. According to market analyst Global Market Insights (GMI), in terms of volume, organic biogas market demand was more than 22 kilotonnes in 2015 and is likely to surpass 36 kilotonnes by 2023,…
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Ireland-based renewable energy developer Stream BioEnergy has commenced construction in Northern Ireland on a new biogas plant that will process large volumes of chicken litter. The plant, to be located just outside the town of Ballymena, will generate 3MW of renewable electricity from up to 40,000 tonnes of chicken litter each year, enough to 4,000 homes. The capital cost of the plant will be…
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