Sep 19, 2011
Weltec Biopower completes biogas plant in Czech Republic
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Sep 19, 2011
British Columbia, Canada-based Viridis Energy, an alternative energy company, has started supplying its wood pellets to sustainable energy solutions provider Abellon Clean Energy in Italy.
This is Viridis' second European customer, but the company is about to embark on a third agreement and is scheduled to begin shipping wood pellets to Switzerland within the next month.
Viridis... [Read More]
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Sep 16, 2011
On 13 September Hungary celebrated the grand opening of a 4.2MW CHP plant in Szarvas, the largest in the nation.
r.e Bioenergie of Germany constructed the plant, while poultry company Gallicoop Pulykafeldolgozó will provide the plant with most of the biomass needed. The facility has been installed with three GE Jenbacher J416 engines which will convert the feedstock... [Read More]
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Sep 16, 2011
In Gradec, Croatia, Agrokor is looking to build a biogas plant after receiving a €5 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
The €5 million loan will be used to buy and install the plant and purchase the necessary equipment.
Slated for completion by September 2012, the plant will convert organic waste into biogas, which will be... [Read More]
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Sep 14, 2011
BP is expanding its biofuels activities in Brazil, with the purchase of shares in Tropical BioEnergia and the acquisition of additional shares in sugar and ethanol producer CNAA.
The company will invest around $71 million (€51.8 million) for the remaining 50% of Tropical BioEnergia from its joint venture partners Maeda Agroindustrial and LDC-SEV Bioenergia.
Following... [Read More]
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Sep 13, 2011
Greenearth Energy, an Australia-based geothermal company, has set up a new subsidiary dedicated to biomass projects.
Greenearth Biomass Energy will create 'green' energy projects using biomass and waste materials.
The company is currently testing its new biomass gasification technology in Indonesia but the technology can be used anywhere.
Greenearth says this technology... [Read More]
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Sep 13, 2011
In North Carolina, US, Duke University and electric and gas service provider Duke Energy, have developed a renewable energy project with the help of search engine Google. The project creates electricity from pig excrement.
The biogas plant has been set up at the Yadkinville-based Loyd Ray Farms, which is home to 9,000 pigs.
Duke Energy and the university have invested... [Read More]
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Sep 12, 2011
In the UK, power companies such as Drax and RWE are facing opposition from the wood industry as they press ahead with biomass-fired power projects.
The price of wood has doubled since 2009 and the Wood Panel Industries Association is urging the government to remove the subsidies encouraging these biomass plants to come online. However, the subsidy programme for biomass... [Read More]
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Sep 12, 2011
In Indonesia, PTT is planning to invest between $3 and $4 million (€2.2-2.9 million) in a biomass-fired power plant.
The plant will generate 10MW of electricity for nearby areas.
Indonesia comprises mainly coal-fired plants and this project enables PTT to expand on its oil and gas business.... [Read More]
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Sep 12, 2011
In addition to Europe, the Asian market, and in particular Korea, is predicted to become a highly profitable export market for wood pellet producers around the world.
While the renewable energy market is still on hold in Japan following the Fukushima disaster, and China's demand for biomass is supplied domestically, Korea has been identified to become an important and... [Read More]
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Sep 9, 2011
In Berlin, New Hampshire, US, a proposed biomass-fired power plant has been awarded $275 million (€199 million) in funding and construction is now scheduled to begin in the third quarter of this year.
Building work will be completed within two years and the plant is expected to be up and running in 2013.
It is hoped this will encourage other companies to build similar... [Read More]
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Sep 8, 2011
New Zealand's largest biomass-fired boiler has been built at Waiouru Army Base, increasing the country's consumption of wood pellets by 50%.
By switching the existing coal-fired plant to one which fires wood pellets, 5,300 tonnes of coal has been displaced, in addition to 10,500 tonnes per year of carbon emissions.
The facility began generating 8MW of renewable energy... [Read More]
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Sep 7, 2011
Wood pellet producer Pinnacle Renewable Energy and CMC Engineering have proposed to build a wood pellet export facility at Prince Rupert Harbour in British Columbia, Canada.
If the $30 million (€21.3 million) project is approved, four 15,000 tonne, 39m tall pellet silos would be built from galvanised steel, as well as a number of conveyors which would transport the... [Read More]
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Sep 6, 2011
The growing demand for wood pellets means a growing need for wood. This in turn gives rise to questions about the sustainability of wood pellet production, as well as quality assurance and production safety.
On 4-5 October 2011 the 11th Pellets Industry Forum, held in Stuttgart, Germany, will examine these issues, and more.
The forum will open on 4 October with a presentation... [Read More]
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Sep 6, 2011
London, UK-headquartered Africa Renewables (AfriRen) is establishing a woodchip supply chain project in Ghana using old, local rubber trees.
As part of the initiative, AfriRen will utilise redundant rubber trees from the Ghana Rubber Estates (GREL) plantation, turning them into woodchips before marketing them to Europe-based utility companies and energy traders.
'The redundant... [Read More]
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Sep 6, 2011
General Electric (GE) is the newest member of a consortium set up to research and develop biomass-based aviation fuel.
In addition to GE, the association consists of Virgin Australia, Renewable Oil, the Future Farm Industries CRC and Dynamotive Energy Systems, of Canada. Together the companies are looking to mallee eucalypt trees as a feedstock for producing commercial... [Read More]
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Sep 6, 2011
Biomass imports to the UK are expected to soar, as the nation's supply of domestic biomass is not enough to fulfil the demand of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED).
Currently 74% of the bioenergy industry is supplied with domestic feedstocks, but this is expected to shift to 81% imported biomass as the UK strives to meet the RED. Under the RED, 15% of energy is to come... [Read More]
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The company aims to repurpose land, grid connections and cooling infrastructure that date back to the site’s coal-generation era
The first project, located in Biburg, Lower Bavaria, represents EnviTec’s debut in the Bavarian market following the construction of 112 biogas plants across Germany
