Jul 27, 2010
Clean Power Development and Gestamp plan bioenergy projects
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Jul 27, 2010
The Vinogradovsky district in north-west Russia will be home to a new wood pellet plant.
The plant, which will employ 100 specialists, is expected to be completed by 2013 and will produce 35,000 tonnes of pellets annually.
The project will challenge the issues of lumbering wastes and low-quality lumber in the region.
Made from compacted sawdust, wood pellets are a... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2010
A power station in Nebraska is set to replace some of its coal with biopellets thanks to a new deal.
Biomass supplier Next Step Biofuels signed a letter of intent with Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) to test burn 2,200 tonnes of Next Step's corn stover PowerPellets.
PowerPellets will replace up to 5% of the coal burned in one of OPPD's North Omaha Station... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2010
In Scotland, joint venture TEG Biogas is to construct and operate a 16,000 tonne-a-year food waste anaerobic digestion plant in Glenfarg, Perthshire.
TEG Biogas has been awarded a grant for approximately 20% of the plant and equipment capital funding (700,000) by Zero Waste Scotland, the Scottish Government funded organisation that provides support to the waste and recycling... [Read More]
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Jul 26, 2010
Its neighbour Germany may lead the European biogas race, but thanks to loans Poland is well on its way to contending for the title.
The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, an EU programme, will allocate z? 500 million (€123.65 million) in loans and subsidies to agricultural biogas plant development over the next three years.
Overall biogas... [Read More]
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Jul 23, 2010
In Boston, Lincolnshire, UK, an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant is under construction at Staples Vegetables plant.
The plant will utilise vegetables out-of-specification at the packhouse or bypassed in the field to generate electricity for supply to the site and the surplus will be injected into the grid. Heat will also be produced by the plant and will be used to chill... [Read More]
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Jul 23, 2010
Greener for Life (GfL), a food and energy supplier based in the UK, recently submitted an application to build an anaerobic digester in Rackenford, Devon.
However GfL’s plans have been dashed after the application was turned down by councillors.
The plant, expected to cost in the region of £25 million (€29.7 million), would have processed cow slurry, crops and... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2010
In a bid to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, British Airways (BA) has teamed up with Solena Group, a renewable energy producer, to construct a waste-to-biofuels plant.
Solena will invest around $300 million (€233.9 million) in the plant and is already considering two potential sites, both located close by to Dagenham, east London, UK.
The plant will produce... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2010
London looks likely to miss its 20% renewable energy target that was set prior to the Olympic Games.
In a meeting between the London Assembly’s Environment Committee and the head of sustainability at the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, David Stubbs explained that there are not enough renewable energy projects in the city. A planned wind turbine scheme... [Read More]
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Jul 20, 2010
A new quarterly magazine will launch in September, targeted at companies producing biomass, biopower and biogas.
BIOENERGY INSIGHT magazine is a brand new international publication borne out of extensive research and a market demand for information. Using a totally up to date circulation list, the magazine will provide the inside track on issues surrounding pellet/briquette... [Read More]
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Jul 20, 2010
Industrial gas and equipment supplier Air Products is planning to construct a renewable energy plant in Tees Valley, UK.
The facility still needs to be approved by Stockton on Tees Borough Council and receive consent from the Environment Agency. However, if it goes ahead, 50 permanent jobs will be created, in addition to 500-700 construction jobs.
It is expected to... [Read More]
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Jul 19, 2010
In the town of Warminster, Wiltshire, UK, property developer and energy supplier Malaby Martin Ltd. has been granted planning permission for the construction of a biogas plant.
Wiltshire Council approved the plant, which is planned for Bore Hill Farm – a redundant smallholding consisting of a farmhouse, disused outbuildings and 12 acres of land.
Employing anaerobic... [Read More]
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Jul 19, 2010
Construction has begun on what will soon be Hungary’s largest biogas plant.
The Hungarian division of Germany-based Aufwind Neue Energien laid the facility’s cornerstone on 16th July this year in Szarvas, southeast Hungary.
Costing HUF 3.9 billion (€13.5 million) to build the plant will produce 4.2MW of energy each year. The project, expected to be completed... [Read More]
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Jul 19, 2010
Following the closure of a number of sawmills throughout Lake County, Oregon, US, a new biomass plant is being developed for the region.
Planned to be built alongside the country’s last remaining sawmill, the project will be Iberdrola Renewables’ first fully owned and operated biomass power plant.
Renewable energy company Iberdrola Renewables received a $1.7 million... [Read More]
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Jul 16, 2010
Near Kiev, Ukraine, the country’s first biogas cogeneration plant at the Ukrainian Milk Company has been operating successfully for nine months.
Converting the manure from 4,000 cows into biogas, the plant employs a Jenbacher gas engine manufactured by GE Energy, a company serving the energy sector by developing and deploying technology that makes efficient use of... [Read More]
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Jul 16, 2010
A biomass plant being developed for the Isle of Wight may have the capacity to supply electricity to more than two thirds of the island’s population.
Costing £130 million (€154 million) to construct, the Reality Energy Centre has been proposed for a disused landfill site in Newport, adjacent to Vestas R&D centre.
Real Ventures Ltd. is expected to submit a... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2010
Producer of natural gas-burning engines, Vancouver, Canada-based Westport Innovations, is to manufacture engines for motor company Volvo after it signed an agreement to develop products that will run off biogas and natural gas.
Although the company refused to divulge any information surrounding the new engine products, Westport explained that it would be repaid for the... [Read More]
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