Mar 6, 2012
Biomass CHP builds demonstration plant
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Mar 6, 2012
Finnish project management services provider, Dovre Group is to invest approximately €1.4 million in Sararasa Biomass's renewable energy expansion. The money will go towards an Indonesian plant that makes pellets from woodwaste materials, which is also owned by Stahl Capital.
'Our intention is to work together with Sararasa on other biomass-to-energy projects in the... [Read More]
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Mar 6, 2012
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has released guidance documents and policymaking tools to assist governments in ensuring rural communities can benefit from bioenergy development and also that biofuel crop production does not threaten food security or impact negatively on indigenous peoples. Deforestation due to land conversion is also an issue of concern.
'Development... [Read More]
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Mar 5, 2012
Waste company Viridor has disclosed details of a facility that will burn 275,000 tonnes of waste each year. The facility is located on the company's landfill and waste management site, Beddington Lane, and will handle waste from Sutton, Croydon, Kingston, and Merton as well as a large amount of business waste.
The project, reportedly costing around £200 million... [Read More]
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Mar 5, 2012
The Dominican Republic's National Energy Commission has signed a technical cooperation agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank.
The agreement, which will see a number of bioenergy studies, including technical studies on bioenergy and also on the sustainability of agricultural projects, will be undertaken at a cost of $937,500 (€708,275).
National Energy... [Read More]
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Mar 5, 2012
Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding (RATCH) has announced it will take a 40% stake in Songkhla Biofuel. Precise Power Producer already holds a 40% shareholding in the company, and Assiddeek Savings Cooperative a 20% shareholding.
Songkhla Biofuel is to guarantee the supply of 300-370 tonnes of biomass residues per day to the Songkhla Biomass Power Station in... [Read More]
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Mar 2, 2012
Npower has announced that 2 of Tilbury Power Station's 3 generating units are likely to be out of use for at least another 5 months. This is in the wake of the fire that broke out at the plant last week.
It has been suggested that the third generator, which is situated in a different location and suffered less damage, could be up and running again by April. However, the... [Read More]
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Mar 2, 2012
Recycling and waste to energy firm, Ecolutio, has entered into an agreement to develop an advanced municipal waste handling system in Lancaster, California.
The new facility will reportedly feature the company's patented GreenStream technology.
It will reduce local waste, generate fuels, produce large supplies of green-certified recycled materials and help the city... [Read More]
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Mar 1, 2012
Waste to energy group Kedco, has announced that it is looking to establish an Anaerobic Digestion ("AD") facility in Langham, Rutland as part of the Company's ongoing development pipeline. The company, which focuses on the production of clean energy in the UK and Ireland, expects to develop the facility in partnership with the Larkfleet Group, a privately owned group... [Read More]
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Feb 29, 2012
The capacity of Rangeland Energy's Crude Oil Terminal, or COLT Hub has been expanded to supply the growing demand of Bakken crude oil.
The oil rail terminal, located on 300 acres of land in North Dakota, US, has been expanded prior to its official opening, slated for May later this year.
The terminal was originally planned to open in Q1 2012 but this was delayed after... [Read More]
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Feb 28, 2012
Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and of State (Agriculture), announced that Biofour will receive grants of up to $126,400, (€93,951.41) via the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP). The investment will be put towards testing an incinerator for agricultural biomass combustion.
The trial aim is to evaluate the energy potential of various biomasses.... [Read More]
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Feb 28, 2012
$4 million (€2.97 million) is being distributed between 3 companies in Edmonton, Canada, in a bid to boost the area's bio-refining sector. The grants will help Ceapro, Radient Technologies and TerraVerdae BioWorks take their products developed from biomass and municipal waste into commercial realms. Approximately 30 other companies were in the running to receive... [Read More]
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Feb 28, 2012
ZeaChem is to receive $12 million (€8.93 million) as part of a larger grant awarded by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The grant, worth a total of $40 million (29.76 million), is being distributed through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), Regional Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP). The project is aimed at establishing... [Read More]
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Feb 28, 2012
Universal Bioenergy, a publicly traded independent diversified energy company, has announced that it set a new record in sales revenue for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011. Reaching over $71.74 million, it is an estimated 73.75% mark up on the results taken at the period in 2010.
These results are however preliminary and unaudited, but the company expects the formal... [Read More]
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Feb 28, 2012
Plans to build 2 biomass power plants in Yorkshire have been discarded by electricity generator Drax.
Drax's initial plan, announced back in 2008, was to invest £2 billion (€1.49 billion) constructing 3 biomass power stations located respectively in Immingham, Selby and the third in an unconfirmed location, potentially Hull. The scheme in Selby was cancelled... [Read More]
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Feb 28, 2012
A fire broke out in a fuel storage area at RWE npower's wood-pellet-fired Tilbury Power Station on Monday morning. The plant, which only started generating power last month, is Britain's largest dedicated biomass plant.
'The fire involves some 4,000 tonnes of fuel in storage cells. At least two are very well alight,' says the Essex County Fire and Rescue Service.
Due to... [Read More]
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Feb 23, 2012
Renewable Energy Group (REG) has announced its financial results for the 2011 fourth quarter and full-year.
The company achieved record 2011 Adjusted EBITDA (for the year) of $107 million and record revenues (for the year) of $824 million, compared to $8 million and $216 million, respectively, in 2010. Furthermore, the 2011 fourth quarter saw an increase of 126% to... [Read More]
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