Dec 20, 2011
IFPRI report criticised for inaccuracies
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Dec 19, 2011
Biomass to ethanol producer TMO Renewables says it has raised £7.6 million (€9 million) in a financing round from new and current shareholders.
This will be combined with the £4.6 million that was raised at the beginning of the year, and will be used to help the company come into commercialisation.
The company is working with plant owners and land official... [Read More]
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Dec 19, 2011
A new municipal solid waste (MSW) to energy centre will be built in Plymouth, processing up to 75,000 tonnes of MSW a year and exporting 3.2MW to the national grid.
Wardell Armstrong, the engineering and environmental consultancy, has received permission for the £15 million (€18 million) development from Devon County Council and will work with AAD South West,... [Read More]
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Dec 15, 2011
OriginOil, an algae technology developer, has joined forces with Australian company Future Energy Solutions (FES), and its subsidiary Alternate Energy Systems (AES), to carry out feasibility studies on the potential for biorefining centres around the world.
The biorefineries would serve US and NATO military requirements for alternative fuels, including biofuels.
OriginOil... [Read More]
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Dec 15, 2011
Shipping company Maersk and the US navy are working together to test biofuels derived from algae by fuelling a container ship with the alternative fuel for a journey from the north of Europe to India.
The ship, called Maersk Kalmar, was chosen for the tests because it features an engine that has been specifically designed for auxiliary testing, meaning risk of damage on... [Read More]
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Dec 14, 2011
BNP Paribas Clean Energy Partners has bought a straw-fired renewable energy plant from Eco2 for its clean energy fund.
It is the first biomass facility the fund has bought, although it also owns a wind power facility and solar photovoltaics and other assets in France, Italy, the UK and Ireland.
The new plant is based in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, UK and will be able to produce... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2011
The UK and India have made a £10 million (€11.8 million) deal to collaborate on sustainable bioenergy research.
The programme will see scientific research carried out into plants and algae for bioenergy development.
Funding from the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Indian Government Department of Biotechnology has helped to put... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2011
Clayton Hall Farm in West Yorkshire, UK has invested in a £1.6 million (€1.9 million) anaerobic digestion plant which is anticipated to pay itself off within five years.
The plant uses a digester which creates gas that activates a generator that supplies 400KW of electricity to the grid, heating farm buildings in the local area.
The feedstock used will be food... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2011
Sargas, a Norwegian bioenergy company, says it is keen to invest in electrical energy in Malta as part of a deal with plant owners DSME and SNC-Lavalin to construct a plant.
The feedstock used at the plant is called bio paste and is a wet mix of biomass and coal. However, natural gas will also power the plant but a carbon capture system will be installed.
The company hopes... [Read More]
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Dec 13, 2011
The UK committee on climate change says it will be difficult to meet carbon budgets without the use of bioenergy and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
In order to meet the country’s 2050 targets, bioenergy will need to make up a total of 10% of all energy produced, rather than the 2% it currently stands at.
The review of UK energy says a 10% share of bioenergy... [Read More]
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Dec 12, 2011
Malaysia says it wants to export more biomass products to Europe under a new EU-funded deal. Currently RM300 million (€71.5 million) is exported to the region from Malaysia but the head of the EU delegation to Malaysia Vincent Piket says this estimate is only based on enquiries from Europe.
Under the initiative, 45 SMEs have been chosen to work under the EU-Malaysia... [Read More]
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Dec 8, 2011
Aurora Algae has released a new method of developing algae strains that can be designed to meet fuel needs without using ‘foreign genes’ and instead using the algae’s natural genetic makeup.
Aurora says that in the past algae development has been limited to using existing strains of eukaryotic microalgae, because there was not enough technology available... [Read More]
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Dec 7, 2011
Algarythm, a South Australian company, has developed a new method in producing algal biomass in commercial quantities.
Fishace Ecological Engineering has designed an open pond algae system coupled with photo-bioreactors to increase microalgae density and volume whilst decreasing operating costs. Nutrient-loaded waste waters have been introduced whilst managed fish culture... [Read More]
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Dec 7, 2011
FuturaGene, a woody crop plantation company for the bioenergy and biofuel markets, has opened a new biotech R&D centre in China.
Although Futuragene has been working in China through partnerships with universities and research institutes over the last six years, this is the first such centre of its kind for the company in the country.
Stanley Hirsch, CEO of FuturaGene,... [Read More]
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Dec 6, 2011
Biogas plant developer Malaby Biogas is to begin commissioning an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in the second quarter of 2012, which will be the first plant of its kind in Wiltshire, UK.
The Bore Hill Farm Biodigester at Warminster will use commercial food waste, abattoir waste, spoiled non-woody crops and animal slurry to produce the gas.
By the third quarter of next... [Read More]
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Dec 6, 2011
Universal Bioenergy says it generated revenues of nearly $50 million (€37 million) for the first three quarters of this year, an increase of more than $7 million made on the same time last year.
The company increased its total operating expenses for the three months ending on September 30 2010 by 7.5% to more than $576,000 for the same period in 2011.
The company’s... [Read More]
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Dec 6, 2011
US company Fulcrum Bioenergy has raised $100 million (€74.5 million) in an venture capital financing round.
The company uses municipal solid waste (MSW) to produce renewable fuel and currently makes about 700 million gallons a year from 13 million tonnes of rubbish taken from landfills in the US.
The company uses heat generated from its refinery process to power its... [Read More]
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