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Kleangas Energy Technologies, an alternative clean technology company and distributor of wood pellets, has received a purchase order for 3,000 tonnes of G-Pel pellets. The pellets will be shipped from the Port of Long Beach in California, US to Korea. This is Kleangas's second Korean buyer. 'We now have two buyers from Korea and we are negotiating with several other buyers from Europe,' says…
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Boeing and Japanese aviation industry stakeholders have charted a course to develop sustainable aviation biofuel for flights during the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, when millions of people are expected to visit Japan. The Initiatives for Next Generation Aviation Fuels (INAF) – a consortium of 46 organisations including Boeing, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan Airlines, Nippon…
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Cleantech company BioNitrogen Holdings, which utilises patented technology to build plants for the conversion of biomass to urea fertiliser, held a ribbon cutting ceremony on 14 May at the site of its initial plant in Hendry County, Florida. 'We are hopeful this is the beginning of our county starting to diversify economically while creating new job potential,' Karson Turner, chairman of the…
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Aurivo, a multipurpose agricultural co-operative, has opened a biomass plant at its Dairy Ingredients site in Ballaghadareen, Ireland. The facility will operate as a combined heat and power plant, with Aurivo expecting to begin selling on excess energy to the national grid by 2016. It will use 30,000 tonnes of woodchips annually, sources from Aurivo's subsidiary company ECC Teoranta near…
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Assured Asset Energy (AAE), a UK-based company specialising in anaerobic digestion and waste gasification technologies, has set up £27 million (€33 million) in financing for up to 30 new on-farm biogas projects in Northern Ireland. The fund, AAE says, will help Northern Ireland reach its 2020 renewables target. Set out in the Strategic Energy Framework for Northern Ireland 2010, the…
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Mercer International, a pulp manufacturer based in Canada, is considering entering the market for ENplus pellets through its German subsidiary ZPR. ZPR, it has been reported, has contacted various central European pellets manufacturers seeking quotes on a purchase quantity of around 5,000 tonnes of either ENplus or DINplus pellets for June, July, August and September. The pellets will then be…
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Drax Biomass International, since 2012, has been developing a 450,000 tonne per year wood pellet production plant in Gloster, in the US state of Mississippi. The multi-million dollar facility, named Amite BioEnergy, will create 45 direct jobs once operational, in addition to indirect jobs during the construction and in the transportation and forestry sectors. Now, reports say that a public notice…
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Bluesphere, a clean energy company that develops, manages and owns renewable energy projects, has started the detailed design and engineering work for its 5.2MW waste-to-energy plant in Charlotte in the US state of North Carolina. This detailed design and engineering work, which is expected to take about two months, is the first stage of project execution. It will be followed by work…
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Repreve Renewables has purchased certain genetic assets or germplasm for its giant miscanthus grass product development programme from Mendel Biotechnology, a privately held company in Hayward, California. The purchase adds Mendel's diverse miscanthus germplasm pool to Repreve's proprietary biomass crop establishment technologies, its current product development programme including the exclusive…
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On 10 July Mr Haris Basit became the new CEO of clean energy company Viaspace and was also appointed to the Viaspace board of directors. Basit comes to Viaspace with a proven and successful track record as a senior executive and technology entrepreneur. He has worked as a staff engineer at IBM, a manager at Rockwell International, a manager at Bell Labs, VP of business development for OEA…
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Since it was launched one year ago, the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) has already launched over €250 million in calls for research proposals. The BBI JU is a €3.7 billion public-private partnership between the European Commission and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC). It is expected to help make the EU's economy more resource-efficient and sustainable, while…
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Amber Infrastructure, a sponsor and manager of social and economic infrastructure projects, has announced the official start of construction on a £25 million (€35 million) green energy centre at Guardbridge in Fife, a project being developed by St. Andrews University which is part-financed by Amber's Scottish Partnership for Regeneration in Urban Centres fund (SPRUCE). The site of the…
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AEG Pelleting (AEGP), a newly incorporated subsidiary of pellet supplier Active Energy Group, has unveiled a biomass fuel granulated solution. Using a newly developed pilot plant in Belfast, the granulation system has successfully converted industrial/agricultural by-products, including sawdust, into high value biomass fuel granules suitable for use in micro combined heat and power (CHP)…
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RusForest, a Sweden-based forestry firm with operations in Russia, has reported that its total revenue reached $66.4 million (€48.6 million) in 2013. This is compared to $67.9 million 2012. The company's operating loss, which was $93.2 million in 2012, dropped 73% to $29.9 million last year. Operations at RusForest's 100,000 tonne per year pellet mill in Russia's Arkhangelsk commenced…
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