Jul 5, 2011
University to cut electricity bills with biogas plant
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Jul 5, 2011
The Tanzania Sisal Board is to invest $31.1 million (€21.5 million) to encourage the production of sisal biogas in the region.
The investment will go towards developing 13 new biogas generation plants, with an overall capacity of 7000kW of electricity. Each plant is expected to consume around 500kW, with the excess energy sold to the national grid.
One sisal biogas... [Read More]
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Jul 5, 2011
In Hereford, England, Great Ynys Farm will convert litter from 90,000 chickens into biogas for renewable electricity and heat generation.
Some of the electricity will be used to power the poultry houses and anaerobic digester, with the remaining 90% will be sold to the national grid. The captured waste heat will warm the chicken houses, reducing the consumption of expensive... [Read More]
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Jul 4, 2011
Energy and petrochemical company Shell and biotechnology firm Paques Holding are to enter into a 50/50 joint venture, Paqell, to encourage the use of biological desulphurisation in the oil and gas sector for high pressure gas applications using Thiopaq O&G (oil and gas) technology.
Paques has been utilising Thiopaq technology in the water business for atmospheric biogas... [Read More]
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Jul 4, 2011
In Llangefni, Wales, UK, wood fuel supply company EcoPellets of Cork, Ireland, and energy firm Integrated Energy Systems International are now moving ahead with a pellet production facility and a 30MW biomass-fired power plant.
The project, expected to be one of Europe's largest wood pellet plants, was announced in 2009 but developments came to a halt while waiting for... [Read More]
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Jul 4, 2011
In the US, Dominion Virginia Power's efforts to convert three of its coal-fired power plants to biomass-fired ones are costing its 18,000 customers an additional $0.14 (€0.10) a month.
The average domestic bill is now expected to reach $108.77 a month, up from $103.91, as Dominion charges an extra $4.86 per month to cover the utility's fuel costs, according to David... [Read More]
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Jun 29, 2011
In Croatia, privately held food and drinks company Agrokor is to construct a biogas plant in the region.
Planned for Zagreb, the plant, which will be built by construction company GH Holding of Slovenia, will generate 1MW of energy from waste food.
This is the first in a long line of biogas projects for Agrokor; the company is looking to invest 1 billion kuna (€135... [Read More]
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Jun 28, 2011
In Poundbury, Dorset, UK, construction work has started on an anaerobic digestion plant at Rainbarrow Farm.
Using waste materials and crops, the anaerobic digestion plant will produce electricity, gas and fertiliser. The gas generated from the process will benefit around 4,000 households in the surrounding area.
JV Energen, a collaboration between landowners, local farmers... [Read More]
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Jun 28, 2011
In Wiltshire, UK, Stowell Farms is developing an anaerobic digestion plant to add value to the business.
The new plant, which was installed by EnviTec Biogas UK, will generate 4,150,000kWh of electricity from maize and whole-crop silage. Some of what is produced on site will be consumed on the farm, with the remaining sold to the National Grid at £0.13 (€0.15)... [Read More]
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Jun 27, 2011
In France, bioenergy firm Meta-Bio Energies has broken ground on a biomass-to-biogas plant in Bel-Air de Combrée.
The new biogas plant will handle around 23,000 tonnes a year of biomass, including food, agricultural and municipal waste, and convert it into 1MW of energy – enough to benefit around 4,000 households.
Electricité de France will purchase... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2011
The owner of the Kawasaki biomass-fired power plant in Yokohama, Japan, could potentially open another in Fiji.
Company officials from the Japanese plant and Fiji's President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau met on 21 June 2011 to discuss the possibility of setting up a biomass plant in the country.
Fiji is an ideal country in which to develop a bioenergy industry, due to the high... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2011
Under RENEW LA, a scheme designed to help the US state of Los Angeles send 0% of its waste to landfill, a new waste-to-energy plant is being developed in the region.
Los Angeles has now started contract negotiations with Green Conversion Systems (GCS), which will design and construct the plant.
Domestic waste designed for the tip stands at around 3,300 tonnes a day in... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2011
In Scotland, UK, a wood pellet production plant is being developed that, when operational in March 2012, will produce wood pellets.
Land Energy is behind the project, which will come to realisation on a site previously occupied by a textile factory. Work at the site is scheduled to get underway in July 2011.
Based in Belfast, Ireland, Lagen Construction will be responsible... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2011
Wood pellet manufacturer Biomass Secure Power is developing a torrefied wood pellet plant in British Columbia, Canada.
The production facility will have an annual production capacity of 500,000 tonnes of pellets, made from wood harvested by the company itself. A small portion will come local logging businesses.
One hundred per cent of the pellets produced at the site will... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2011
Construction on a proposed biomass plant in Rothschild, Wisconsin, US, is due to begin shortly, after Domtar, a paper company behind the proposal, agreed to certain conditions.
The plant, which is a joint venture between Domtar and energy firm We Energies, was originally announced back in September 2009. According to Craig Timm, manager of public affairs at Domtar, the... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2011
Russia is turning to biogas in a bid to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
According to the Energy Ministry, Russia has the potential to generate 66 billion m3 of biogas a year from agricultural waste. This could produce 110 billion KW/h of electricity, 1 billion GJ of heat or 8.7 billion gallons of petrol or diesel.
The Energy and Agriculture Ministries are now urging... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2011
Production has stopped at the Georgia Biomass wood pellet plant in Waycross, Georgia, US, after an explosion on 20 June 2011.
The incident occurred at around 8am. No one was injured.
'It did extensive damage to the processing end,' says Dennis Keen, Ware County fire chief. 'They'll probably be down an extended period of time.'
Georgia Biomass is a subsidiary of Germany's... [Read More]
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