Jun 24, 2010
Asea One builds first biomass power plant
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Jun 22, 2010
Beaver Wood Energy is planning to construct a large biomass and wood pellet production facility at the former Green Mountain Race Track in Vermont, US, and the company recently met with the State Board to discuss the project further.
When the facility is completed, after a 26-month construction period, the 144-acre site will consist of a 29MW biomass plant and an integrated... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2010
In the US renewable energy firm Clenergen Corporation (CRGE) is planning to construct a number of biomass plants across India at a cost of around $100 million (€80.6 million). Tim Bowen, chief operating officer at CRGE, believes that India is an expanding market and could prove to be a lucrative investment for Clenergen.
CRGE is looking for the constructions to take... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2010
Trial runs have commenced at Sri Panchajanya Power’s 10MW biomass power project in Hingoli, Maharashtra, India. Sri Panchajanya is the wholly owned subsidiary of renewable power generation company Suryachakra Power Corporation (SPCL).
The trials began on the 19 June 2010, while the plant is expected to begin operating at full-scale by next week.
SPCL is the flagship... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2010
Among other companies Taylor Biomass Energy, a privately held firm dedicated to developing innovative recycling solutions, is soon to find out who the federal Energy Department has chosen to receive a loan guarantee rewarding ground-breaking energy technology.
However Taylor may have a better chance than most of receiving the $98.6 million (€80 million) loan after... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2010
On 21 June 2010 more than 200 financiers and clean energy experts witnessed presentations supporting the construction of biomass, biogas and small hydropower plants, as well as clean transport projects, at the Philippines Clean Energy Investors Forum in Manila. This is the second time the forum has taken place and is organised by the CTI Private Financing Network (CTI).
... [Read More]
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Jun 18, 2010
The winner of a dispute over who will be granted permission to construct a biomass-to-energy plant in the city of Berlin, New Hampshire, US, may be emerging.
Renewable energy companies Laidlaw Berlin Biopower and Clean Power Development (CPD) wish to build a plant on the edge of the city but the wind farm located close by and a maximum amount of electricity the North... [Read More]
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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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