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Arla Foods is set to become the UK's first zero carbon dairy after opening a bio-based liquefied natural gas (bio-LNG) filling station at its £150 million (€182 million) site in Aylesbury, UK. The bio-LNG will be used to fuel Arla's fleet of trucks, with the first 10 dual-fuel vehicles to be put into operation this month. Gasrec, a supplier of liquefied gas fuel to the transportation…
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Researchers at Aston University have developed a new portable technology called Pyrofab to convert organic waste materials, even including baby wipes, into carbon neutral fuel and biochar. The Pyrofab is based on Pyroformer technology, developed in the UK by the European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) at Aston University. The Pyrofab has the ability to process a wide range of biomass,…
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Zilkha Biomass Energy, a provider of biomass solutions, and pulp and paper technology supplier Valmet have signed a five-year collaboration agreement in the field of steam exploded black pellets. The purpose of the agreement is to bring steam exploded black pellets to the market for the production of renewable heat and power. The parties will work together to develop a joint global…
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It has been reported that Chinese company Guangzhou Devotion Thermal Technology plans to construct a biomass-fired power plant in Nepal. An estimated $50 million (€36.3 million) will be invested in the project, $15 million of which is the company's own capital. Nepal has been selected as the location of the new biomass power plant due to its rich forestry resources and demand for power…
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Two 999kW biogas plants have opened in the Czech Republic locations of Velké Meziříčí and Velká Bíteš. The first plant, based in Velké Meziříčí and owned by Energoklastr CTT, handles corn silage, cattle slurry and manure, and sugar beet pulp sourced from local farmers. The energy generated from these materials will soon be used to…
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The US Army intends to award a long-term contract to ReEnergy Holdings, a biomass energy producer that generates energy from renewable materials. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy, in coordination with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF), issued a notice of intent to award to ReEnergy Holdings for the purchase of up to 28MW of electricity from the renewable energy biomass…
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The US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in conjunction with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF), has awarded 20 base contracts to companies in three of the four energy-related technologies that are part of the $7 billion (€5 billion) capacity, large-scale renewable and alternative energy power production Multiple Award Task Order…
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AFC Energy plc, a UK-based industrial fuel cell power company, has signed a new cooperation agreement in Bangkok to accelerate the adoption of its fuel cell systems in proposed energy-from-waste (EfW) projects in Thailand. The agreement, comprising a memorandum of understanding (MoU), was signed between AFC Energy, Waste2Tricity International (Thailand) and Alter NRG. The MoU builds on the…
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Tamar Energy, a biogas plant developer based in the UK, is progressing with its anaerobic digestion facility in Hertfordshire, which will convert food waste into 3MW. Under a recently awarded £14.5 million (€17.6 million) contract, Imtech Water, Waste and Energy will build the new plant, designed to handle around 66,000 tonnes a year of leftover food into enough energy to power 6,000…
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Greenlane Biogas, global supplier of integrated full system solutions to upgrade biogas released from organic waste to biomethane, has partnered with China Agricultural University (CAU) to install a biogas upgrading system to facilitate research in the generation of renewable natural gas (RNG). The top academic institution in China for agricultural studies, CAU will use Greenlane's water…
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Alkcon Corp., a developer of natural gas processing equipment, has entered into an exclusivity agreement and a letter of intent with Flogas Group of Leicestershire, England. The agreement grants Flogas the exclusive right to market and sell the company's proprietary methane-to-propane gas conversion technology in the UK, Ireland, France, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands and Belgium. Under the terms of…
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Two Scandinavian companies are to merge and form a large-scale wood pellet business, headquartered in Sweden. Nordic energy firm Lantmännen and Scandinavian bioenergy company Neova will combine their respective wood pellet businesses to create a new company that will include Neova's wood pellet business in Sweden and the corresponding Lantmännen Agroenergy buisnesses in Sweden and…
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Versalis, the chemical subsidiary of Eni, and Elevance Renewable Sciences, a producer of specialty chemicals from natural oils, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership to jointly develop and scale a new metathesis technology to produce biochemicals from vegetable oils. Under the new partnership, the two companies will jointly develop and scale new…
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Up to $12 million (€8.8 million) in financial support is available from the Department of Energy (DoE) to advance the production of carbon fibre material from non-food based renewable feedstocks such as agricultural residues and woody biomass. The DoE says carbon fibre derived from biomass could be cheaper to make and possess greater environmental benefits than traditional carbon fibre…
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