Jun 18, 2010
Berlin’s biomass brawl
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Jun 18, 2010
In two years’ time Belarus will be home to almost 40 new biogas power plants after the Council of Ministers directed 39 should be implemented by 2012.
Once up and running the 39 plants will generate around 340kW/hr of electricity from biogas produced from biomass, manure, sewage and household waste.
The investment needed to get this large-scale project off the ground... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2010
Infrastructure development company Gammon Infrastructure Projects and its special purpose vehicle (SPV) Punjab Biomass Power has commissioned its first biomass plant.
The facility, located in Patiala, Punjab, India, uses rice straw and husk to generate 12MW of power, some of which is exported to the state grid.
Gammon Infrastructure owns a 50% stake in the biomass... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2010
Biogas power plant operator RuBa Energie has signed an agreement to purchase grass from clean energy company Viaspace.
As part of the agreement, a test plot of five acres of Viaspace Giant King Grass was planted at the RuBa facility in Kevelaer, Germany, on 6 June 2010.
The goal of the collaboration with RuBa is to produce an alternative, high yield, non-food feedstock... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2010
New York-based Laidlaw Energy Group’s subsidiary Laidlaw Berlin BioPower will sell its energy from its proposed wood-fired power generation facility to Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH).
Once operational the 70MW biomass facility in Berlin, New Hampshire, will be the largest wood-burning power plant in the state.
The long-term power purchase agreement must be... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2010
In Idaho, US, three anaerobic digestion (AD) plants could fuel a power station on a 15-year contract.
The Idaho Power Company is hoping to buy power from the three projects in the Magic Valley area of south-central Idaho.
The utility is seeking permission from the state’s Public Utilities Commission for the power purchase agreements with the Middleton-based developer... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2010
Submit your presentation abstract now for the upcoming
Bioenergy International Asia expo & conference in Kuala Lumpur on 10-11th November.
After last year’s successful show in Singapore the event, organised by Biofuels International magazine, is moving to Malaysia with the theme: improving profitability in biofuels production.
The potential for biodiesel production... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
Following plans to open the most up to date coal and biomass power plant in the city of Czestochowa, Poland, Finland-based energy company Fortum looks set to continue constructing facilities within the nation.
In addition to the €130 million power plant with a generation capacity of 120MW of heat and 64MW of electricity, Fortum is also planning to build a combustion... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
Farmer-owned cooperative AG Processing’s (AGP) ethanol producing facility located in Hastings, Nebraska, US, has received a $275,000 (€226,000) grant from the Nebraska Energy Office.
Combined with $50,000 of the company’s own funds the grant is expected to go towards reducing the amount of natural gas used at the site.
Following the transformation of its anaerobic... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
Renewable energy firm Solutions Using Renewable Energy (SURE) is planning to invest up to $90 million (€74.3 million) within the next two years that will see the construction of a number of biogas-to-energy power plants in the Philippines.
Using a combination of debt and equity, including funds from Asian Development and the World Bank, the top priority on SURE’s... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
With only a handful of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in operation throughout the UK, energy company Future Biogas is set to add to these numbers with plans to build an AD plant on the outskirts of Norwich county.
The biogas plant will produce electricity from maize grown on approximately 1,000 acres of land and a local farmer who will grow the maize for the plant has... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
If granted permission, a proposed biomass plant in Kent, UK, is due to convert thousands of tonnes of waste wood into heat and power.
A joint venture between German Evonik New Energies and renewable energy firm HES Biopower, Biomass Power’s facility will utilise a yearly supply of 160,000 tonnes of wood for the generation of 25MW of power.
35MW of low-grade steam... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
UK-based bioethanol producer Ineos Bio has received a £7.3 million (€8.77 million) grant from One North East and the Department for Energy and Climate Change towards the £52 million construction cost of its advanced bioethanol from waste plant.
The plant, to be located at the Ineos Seal Sands site in the Tees Valley, is designed to produce 24,000 tonnes per year (30... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
For the first time the AEBIOM Bioenergy Conference & RENEXPO Bioenergy Europe will open its doors in the Albert Hall in Brussels, Belgium, from June 30th to July 1st.
This joint event of the European Biomass Association (AEBIOM) and the REECO Group is an exclusive get-together of the European bioenergy industry. Strong partners were acquired for this event with a... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
In Bangladesh Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), a state-run non-banking financial institution, says it targets the installation of 36,000 biogas plants in the country by 2012.
Experts say only 3% of people in the country living in cities are now receiving natural gas through pipelines for their household cooking and 70% of the total population are not... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
UK-headquartered Blue Sphere Corporation, an emission reduction project integrator, has signed a non-binding term sheet for the construction and operation of a biomass-fired cogeneration facility in Henan Province, China.
Blue Sphere and its co-developer Hanmei Straw Cogeneration have estimated that the annual electricity generated could be 140.8 million Kwh, the annual... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
In Canada the New Brunswick government is setting aside land for biomass projects, enough to replace about 200 million litres of oil.
More than 1.2 million m3 of the province's branches, tree tops and foliage are to be allocated to forest products companies generating energy and value-added products.
The Department of Natural Resources is to announce that eight... [Read More]
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