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Caraga Renewable Energy, a subsidiary and power generation arm of Eastern Petroleum, has been awarded a contract to operate the first phase of a 47MW biomass-fired power plant in Agusan del Norte, Philippines. Phase one of the project will generate 23.5MW renewable energy. Caraga signed the contract in the municipality of Buenavista. Expected to cost $100 million (€74 million), the plant…
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The first of eight France-based gas-to-grid (GtG) projects being developed by MT-Energie, a provider of anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas upgrading systems, has started injecting upgraded biomethane into the gas grid. According to a company statement, a group of farmers from the Champagne region are behind the eight projects in France after they decided to become 'energy entrepreneurs' last…
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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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Another Scottish distillery is to go green after receiving funding from the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB). Balmenach Distillery in Speyside is the third such facility to benefit from the GIB's investment in the Scottish drinks industry. The project will be financed using £5 million of funding announced last month. Balmenach itself will also contribute capital in order to install new…
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Per Aarsleff, a Denmark-based contracting company, has signed an agreement to develop what it is calling 'Northern Europe's largest biogas plant' on a 12 hectare plot in the Danish town of Tønder. The contract value of the biogas plant in Tønder is approximately DKK300 million (€40 million). There is also an option to build a similar plant in Aabenraa town, bringing to total…
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Elevance Renewable Sciences, a specialty chemicals company, has created a new collaboration with Genting Plantations through Genting Integrated Biorefinery (GIB), to be located in the Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) in Malaysia. The 25:75 collaboration between Elevance and Genting Plantations will build a 240,000 tonne metathesis biorefinery based on Elevance's proprietary metathesis…
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Scotia Atlantic Biomass, a subsidiary of renewable energy firm Viridis Energy, has entered into an agreement with Halifax Grain Elevator which will see Halifax invest up to $1 million (€700,000) in the subsidiary. Halifax Grain, a bulk grain handling and storage provider at the Port of Halifax, provides segregated storage using 365 silos ready for transport via cargo ship, transport vehicle…
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