Feb 7, 2012
Kedco raises more than £400,000 in fundraising round
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Feb 6, 2012
Algae producer Aquaviridis has joined forces with OriginOil to develop a new technology that extracts oil from the algae and will develop this multi-phase production at its Mexicali site in Mexico.
Through the North American Free Trade Agreement, a region in the country has been put aside for such developments and OriginOil will help by harvesting and developing its algae... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2012
The Green Investment Bank (GIB), a world first initiative to encourage private investment into green energy projects, has received 32 bids from cities in the UK willing to host the bank.
The city that wins the bid would need to be able to recruit and retain the staff, work closely with other parties involved in order to further develop investment projects, and ensure that... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2012
Novozymes has formed a joint venture with Sea6 Energy, an Indian company, to develop a method of turning seaweed into biofuels. Through the research, enzymes will be used to convert the seaweed-based carbohydrates into sugar, which can then be turned into ethanol through fermentation.
Sea6 Energy will contribute its offshore seaweed cultivation technology to the partnership,... [Read More]
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Feb 6, 2012
Biomass company Enviva is to supply wood pellets to utility owner E.ON under a 240,000 tonne per year agreement which will operate for a number of years.
The contract, of which the value has been undisclosed, will begin early next year and the pellets will come from Enviva’s facilities in the south east of the US, where there is a large amount of wood to be harvested.
Speaking... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2012
Helius Energy has released its results for the 2010-2011 financial year and says its profit before tax was just £7,200 (€8,664) although it had a cash balance of £500,000, raising £6.3 million in a secondary placing of shares.
The company, which produces energy from biomass as well as other sources, says despite these figures it managed to secure... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2012
Finnish paper producer UPM is to build a biorefinery that will produce biofuels from crude tall oil derived from pulp in Lappeenranta, Finland.
The facility will be commercial size and produce about 100,000 tonnes of biodiesel a year to be used as vehicle fuel. The biodiesel is called BioVerno and produces 80% less greenhouse gases than traditional fossil fuels.
Construction... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2012
Yorkshire Water in the UK is working with Esholt sewage works to build a biothelys sludge treatment plant that will create energy from human waste.
The multi-million pound project will take effluent from the Yorkshire Water 750 acre sewage works, which currently collects waste from about 700,000 people, as well as about 300 litres of wastewater which it treats before dumping... [Read More]
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Feb 2, 2012
Tampere Energy is building a pellet heating plant following the signing of an agreement with MW of Power.
As the largest pellet plant in Finland, the facility will produce 33MW of thermal power and an old boiler at the existing site will be replaced by a new boiler provided by Metso.
The project is expected to cost in excess of €8.2 million and the ministry of employment... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2012
Over last year, more than one billion gallons of biodiesel was produced in the US, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says.
A total of 1.1 billion gallons was more than the predicted production estimates of 800 million gallons, which was the target set by the EPA’s Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
Previously, the most biodiesel the US had produced was in 2008,... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2012
A new technology has been developed at the University of Sheffield in the UK which uses microbubbles to harvest and remove water from algae for biofuel production.
Algae produces oils which can be used to create biodiesel but water needs to be removed from the algae first in order to do so.
Using the microbubble system is an inexpensive way to do this. The process works... [Read More]
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Jan 31, 2012
VTT, a company working at developing Vietnam’s solid biomass fuel resources on an industrial level as part of the Energy and Environment Partnership Programme run by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, is to create multi-fuel delivery chains for power plants and industrial boilers.
The programme will make sure biomass fuels are available all year round through... [Read More]
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Jan 31, 2012
Bioenergy company ZeaChem has been awarded a $232.5 million (€176 million) loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build a biorefinery that will convert biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals.
It will be the company’s first commercial size cellulosic biorefinery and will use woody biomass and agricultural residues to produce... [Read More]
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Jan 31, 2012
Scientists from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Sustainable Bioenergy Centre (BSBEC) have uncovered a series of genes which could help grasses being breed with better characteristics for bioenergy production.
The genes help to better develop the wood part of the grass, called the fibrous, such as what is in rice and wheat. In understanding... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
An African renewable energy company has secured $5 million (€3.8 million) in fundraising to develop its first biomass energy project on the continent.
Takoradi Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of Africa Renewables and a biomass producer and trader, received the funding from Standard Chartered Bank in Ghana.
The money will be used to double the company’s biomass... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
A Californian county has decided to produce 100% renewable energy for county facilities.
Sonoma County has signed a year-long agreement with 3 Phases Renewables to produce all of its electricity from renewable sources, generating 15% of it from biomass.
Seven county facilities in Santa Rosa and Petaluma will be powered from biomass throughout this year, with the rest being... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
A new plant in Plymouth, UK is to open, converting 40,000 tonnes of wood waste into renewable heat and electricity annually, which should reduce CO₂ emissions by around 16,500 tonnes a year.
Three companies, MITIE's Asset Management, O-Gen UK and the Una Group are working together on the development, under the name of O-Gen Plymtrek.
During construction, about 50 jobs... [Read More]
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Proceeds from the bond sale have been used to refinance $40 million of Gevo RNG’s outstanding 2021 green bonds
SIAAP (Greater Paris Sanitation Authority) and SUEZ have officially inaugurated a new state-of-the-art biogas production unit at the Seine Aval wastewater treatment plant in the Paris metropolitan area
Natural State Renewables has announced a key strategic partnership with Axens as part of its plan to produce carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from surplus forest biomass
