Aug 23, 2012
Chemtex and USDA go ahead with new biofuels plant
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Aug 23, 2012
A 2.4MW biogas plant being constructed in Pomerania, Poland has announced the next phase of its project.
The plant, being built by Weltec Power, will have a 50m³ dosing feeder and four storage tanks up and running by the summer of 2013, which will help feed substrates into four 4,438m³ stainless-steel fermenters.
Plant operator NEWD will ferment the potato waste of a... [Read More]
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Aug 22, 2012
After two years of evaluation, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has finalised its Massachusetts Renewable Portfolio Standard Class One regulations for biomass eligibility.
The final conclusion requires all woody biomass plants to generate power at a minimum of 50% efficiency to receive one half of a renewable energy credit or 60% to receive a whole... [Read More]
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Aug 21, 2012
SCA Timber’s Bollsta sawmill in Bollstabruk, Sweden has increased its capacity for the production of bioenergy, limiting its need of fossil fuels.
An old on-site boiler has been replaced by two new ones that use Nordic pine bark and other residue from the production of wood-based fuel products.
The use of oil at Bollsta sawmill has been reduced from 3,400 cubic metres... [Read More]
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Aug 21, 2012
Questions are being raised by the residents of Truckee, California about potential health implications over a proposed new renewable energy project.
A meeting between residents and Brett Storey, project manager of biomass programmes at Placer County, took place in August. The new facility would convert wood debris from forest service thinning projects into sustainable... [Read More]
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Aug 21, 2012
International trade and planning company Trade 360 has earmarked the site of a former pickle factory in Delhi, Ontario as a potential biogas plant home.
Canadian-based Trade 360 purchased the 76 acre site from Smucker Foods, parent company of pickle producers Bick, and believes it could become a major destination for green bin waste from the Greater Toronto Area and... [Read More]
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Aug 20, 2012
Saxlund International, the fully-owned subsidiary of German energy and environmental technology group Opcon AB, has been commissioned to deliver of a biomass handling system to a coal-fired power plant in Berlin.
The 248MW coal-fired power plant is being prepared for biomass co-firing and Saxlund will provide external and internal biomass handling systems, including wood... [Read More]
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Aug 17, 2012
A joint-venture project called Ineos New Planet BioEnergy (INPB) has been granted parts 79 and 80 registration from the US Environmental Protection Agency for the production and sale of advanced bioethanol from non-food waste materials.
Headed by waste to biofuel company Ineos Bio, the notice of registration came after successful completion of the construction of... [Read More]
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Aug 16, 2012
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has awarded a contract to Aecon Group's industrial division to begin work on its Atikokan Generating Station (GS) biomass conversion project. Aecon will be responsible for the design and construction of fuel handling and storage systems for the generating station conversion.
OPG want to make the Atikokan GS one of the largest biomass plants... [Read More]
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Aug 16, 2012
A local Australian council has instigated a Bioenergy Support Programme to help interested individuals and businesses become more sustainable through bioenergy.
Ararat Rural City Council and the Department of Sustainability and Environment has made council bioenergy support officer Daryl Scherger more directly available to discuss ideas and pathways for those wanting to... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
Global supplier of environmental and energy systems Air Products is to build and operate what it is calling ‘the world’s largest renewable energy plant ‘.
The Tees Valley plant, to be located at the New Energy and Technology Business Park, UK will use advanced gasification energy-from-waste technology and have a capacity of 50MW.
Air Products expects... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
Clean energy project developer Camco International has announced that Camco Southeast Asia (Camca SEA) is to embark on its first biogas clean energy project; a 2MW anaerobic digestion plant using palm oil mill effluent (POME).
The biogas plant will be built at a palm oil mill in Palong, Pahang state, Malaysia. When construction is finished – planned for early 2013... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
Bio-based chemicals developer Cobalt Technologies and Rhodia, a specialty chemicals company, will together build and operate a biobutanol demonstration plant in Brazil.
The two companies are working together to eventually construct a commercial-scale biorefinery. This facility will be fitted with Cobalt's technology, producing bio n-butanol from Brazilian bagasse and other... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted Parts 79 and 80 registration to Ineos New Planet BioEnergy (INPB), a joint venture between Ineos Bio and New Planet BioEnergy, for the production and sale of bioethanol from non-food waste materials.
This notice of registration comes as building of the Indian River BioEnergy Center has finished and is going through... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
In the US, Rollcast Energy – a developer of clean, renewable bioenergy projects – has received a $250,000 (€202,000) grant as part of the US Forest Service Woody Biomass Utilization Grant Program.
The funds have been awarded to the company's LaGrange, Georgia-based Greenway Renewable Power project, construction on which will start next year before start-up... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
A $1.37 million (€1.1 million) grant is set to allow researchers to study and potentially develop shrub willow as a bioenergy crop.
Associate professor of horticulture at Cornell University Larry Smart and professor at the J. Craig Venter Institute will partner to study the genetics of hybrid shrub willow, itself a cool-climate, perennial woody plant.
‘Determining... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
Bioethanol producer Ensus has announced the restarting of its £300 million bioethanol plant in Teeside, UK by the end of August after a 15-month enforced shutdown.
The move follows the closure of a loophole in the tariff system by the European Union’s Customs Code Committee which allowed imports of subsidised US product to distort the market. Coupled with the... [Read More]
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