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Rentech, the owner and operator of wood fibre processing, wood pellet production and nitrogenfertiliser manufacturing businesses, has released selected financial results for the three and six months ended June 30 2014. In a statement, Rentech CEO and president Hunt Ramsbottom commented: 'Our wood fibre businesses continue to grow. Construction of our Canadian wood pellet projects is nearing…
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A $250,000 (€225,000) matching funds grant has been awarded to the city of Lebanon in Tennessee, US to assist with the construction of a new waste-to-energy facility that will reduce landfill usage and provide clean electrical power. The funding comes from the Clean Tennessee Energy Grant programme administered by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). The biomass…
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Clean energy company Bluesphere has announced it is pursuing a strategy to work in partnership with landfill owners to convert harmful methane gas emissions from landfills into electricity. The process is based in readily available technology that is already being used in various parts of the US and other parts of the world. Methane can be converted into energy by drilling pipes into the…
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Viridis Energy says that its wholly owned subsidiary, Viridis Merchants (VMI) – an aggregation and trading business – has secured a European supply agreement for up to 20,000 tonnes of ENplus certified premium wood pellets per year. VMI intends to distribute to the residential heating market throughout the UK and Europe. The agreement marks VMI's first European supply and is expected…
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Wastech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Belkorp Environmental Services, has officially opened its Landfill Gas Utilization Plant at the Cache Creek Landfill in British Columbia, Canada. The plant will generate electricity at a rate of 4.8MW – enough to power more than 2,500 homes. The project uses technology to trap gas that is naturally generated from the landfilling process, and transform…
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The UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) is investing £64 million (€80.8 million) into a new energy from waste plant in Derby. The project is being developed by Derby City and Derbyshire County Councils, alongside sponsors Interserve and Shanks Group. GIB will provide long-term loan financing alongside Germany's Bayerische Landesbank and Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking, with each bank…
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Renewable energy company China Everbright International has signed three contracts with DP CleanTech for the construction of three 30MW straw-fired biomass power plants in China. This brings the number of Everbright International plants in China using DP technology to five; and the total number of DP power plants in China to 55, which represents over 30% market share. The plants will also be…
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NEO Energy, a renewable energy company developing three AD plants in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the US, has signed an agreement with Himark Biogas for their design, construction and start-up. The plants will recycle food waste to produce renewable electricity and organic-based fertiliser. 'NEO's anaerobic digestion plants will recycle food waste generated by supermarkets, food processors,…
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Dong Energy Thermal Power is developing a renewable energy plant near Fredercia in Denmark that will supply district heating and power to local residents. On 23 July, the Babcock and Wilcox Company (B&W) announced that B&W Vølund, a subsidiary of B&W Power Generation Group, was awarded a contract exceeding $80 million (€60 million) to build a 280MW-thermal (MWth) biomass…
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Dalkia, an energy services provider and subsidiary of Veolia Environnement and Electricité de France (EDF), and the Canadian investment fund Fengate Capital Management are joining forces to develop what will be their second biomass power plant in Merritt, British Columbia, Canada. This plant will consume 307,000 tonnes a year of biomass to generate 40MW of electricity. This production will…
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Plans to build a £160 million (€202 million) biomass-fired power plant in Stockton-On-Tees, in the north of the UK, have been accepted and planning permission granted by Stockton Council. Port Clarance Energy, a joint venture between Eco2 and Temporis Capital, is the behind the project, plans for which were submitted in April earlier this year. The new power plant will produce 49MW a…
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PHI Group, a company focused on energy and natural resources, is to establish wood pellet factories in central and southern Vietnam after signing a memorandum of understanding with two Vietnamese wood processing companies. The initial proposed combined capacities for the joint venture wood pellet plants are around 400,000 tonnes a year. PHI says it intends to own a minimum of 51% equity interest…
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In the US, BioCNG, a provider of biogas conditioning systems, will design and build one of these systems, along with gas pipeline, for the Persigo wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), which is jointly owned by the City of Grand Junction and Mesa County, Colorado. The BioCNG system will produce around 500 gallons of petrol equivalent per day from the WWTP digester gas, which will be piped roughly…
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RusForest, a Swedish forestry company with operations in Russia, has sold its subsidiary, Ystad Pellets. Ystad Pellets owns a non-core wood pellet mill that has been idle for several years in Ystad, Sweden. RusForest expects to receive a total net amount of $600,000 (€446,500 million) in cash from the transaction. It has already received $200,000 of this amount from the buyer. Payment of the…
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