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Statkraft, a European renewable energy generator, has shipped over 3,000 tonnes of woodchips to a customer in Denmark. The consignment is the first woodchip cargo to be shipped from Statkraft's new biomass trading hub which opened in August at the site of the former Södra Cell paper mill, located south of Oslo, Norway, at Tofte. Statkraft is processing round wood to energy chips at the site…
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The US fuel manufacturer Energex has been qualified into the Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI) Standards Program, a third-party accreditation programme providing specifications for residential and commercial-grade pellet fuel. Energex has qualified its Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, and Lac-Megantic, Quebec, facilities, becoming the eighth company to join the PFI Standards Program. The PFI Standards…
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E.ON UK, a subsidiary of the German power company E.ON has confirmed that Ironbridge Power Station in Shropshire will cease commercial generation and will close permanently following. The iconic plant, which has reached its 20,000 hours limit of generation under the Large Combustion Plant Directive, was officially first synchronised to the grid by former E.ON colleague Mike Smith in…
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Full Circle Generation, a UK green investment consortium, is planning to build a major waste-to-energy farm in Northern Ireland. The Belfast Waste for Energy site, to be located at aerospace company Bombardier’s factory, is set to become one of, if not the largest waste energy facility in Northern Ireland at an annual capacity of 61GWh, enough to power 14,500 homes. An annual 120,000 tonnes…
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Sierra Energy has chosen Andy Egan as its engineering and procurement partner in delivering renewable energy solutions to the US Army and California Energy Commission. Andy Egan’s first mission will be to design and fabricate the FastOx gasification system at Fort Hunter Liggett, a US Army garrison in California. FastOx gasification will assist the Army in achieving the net-zero energy and…
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Rentech, a US wood fibre processing company, says its Atikokan plant in Ontario, Canada, has achieved record production of approximately 1,850 tonnes of pellets for the week ended 14 November. The plant’s design capacity is 110,000 tpy, or 2,115 tonnes a week. Pellet production at the company’s Wawa facility recently resumed, having been offline to modify the log in-feed system and…
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Bioenergy Infrastructure Group (BIG), a platform established to invest and operate biomass plants in the UK, has reached financial close on its second waste-to-energy project. The new £200 million (€284 million) plant has a 25MW capacity and will be located on 7.5 acres in Hull, East Yorkshire. BIG was established by cornerstone investor Infracapital, alongside shareholders Helios,…
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Constellation, a subsidiary of Exelon Corp., and LA Sanitation have begun the construction of a 25MW biogas-fueled cogeneration plant. The facility will supply 100% of the steam and electricity produced to power LA Sanitation’s Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in Los Angeles, US. Commercial operation of the Hyperion cogeneration plant is scheduled for the end of 2016. The cogeneration…
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The city of Toyohashi in the Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is planning to set up a combined biomass power generation facility. The Toyohashi plant, projected to be finished in 2017, will base its operations on collecting biodegradable waste from the city’s population of 380,000. To fund the scheme, Toyohashi Municipal Government is reaching out to private finance initiatives. ‘This will be…
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Aalborg Energie Technik, a Danish biomass engineering company, has received an order for the conversion of Østkraft's 20-year-old boiler plant to combust biomass instead of coal. The conversion and rebuilding with installation and commissioning will take place from July to September 2016. After the conversion the plant will be capable of firing any combination of feedstock between 100%…
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MPC Capital, a German investment company, is set to construct an 18MW biomass power plant in Brazil. The plant, which will be fed by rice husk, will be built in the city of Itaqui, Rio Grande do Sul state. Building is projected to start in 2016 with an investment of BRL208 million (€51.2m). The Itaqui plant, with an annual processing capacity of 140,000 tonnes of rice husk, is MPC’s…
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Monsanto and Novozymes have announced a new acreage target for 2025 that will guide the companies’ microbials business for the next decade. The two partners in The BioAg Alliance are develop new microbial solutions for global agriculture and project that their products will be used on 250-500 million acres globally by 2025, equivalent to 25-50% of all US farmland. Currently the…
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When upgrading one of Europe’s largest sewers, which currently serves 3.5 million people, increasing its capacity by 60%, and taking into account a predicted population increase of 10% by 2021, it is understandable why such a system is regarded as a ‘super sewer’. These are the scale of the upgrades being undertaken by Thames Water at their Beckton and Crossness sites in East…
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HSBC has pledged to commit $1 billion (€937m) to a green bond portfolio which will invest in high quality liquid assets in the form of green, social, or sustainability bonds. These bonds will be aligned with the Green Bond Principles and will be used to fund projects in sectors such as clean transportation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and climate change adaption, as well as SME…
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