Feb 15, 2011
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Feb 15, 2011
In the town of Altavista in Virginia, US, Dominion Virginia Power is planning to convert its Altavista Power Station from a coal-burning plant to a biomass one.
The plant was temporarily shut down towards the end of 2010 to begin the conversion project. Dominion hopes that it will be reopened as a biomass power plant within three years.
Some construction work needs to... [Read More]
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Feb 15, 2011
After more than two years since Atikokan Renewable Fuels, an Ontario, Canadian-based company dedicated to the production of pellet fuel, completed the acquisition of a facility, it finally has all the wood necessary to begin operations at its pellet production facility.
The company received the full amount of 179,400m3 of poplar and birch wood, in addition to maintaining... [Read More]
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Feb 15, 2011
Wood pellet company Corinth Wood Pellets of Maine, US, is planning to expand its business.
The pellet firm is on track to receive almost $125,000 (€92,327) from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to fund the expansion, which includes an increase in pellet production and the use of advanced biofuels.
According to CFO Steven Goldberg, 'Wood pellets are not only... [Read More]
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Feb 15, 2011
DeltaPoint Capital Management, a financial company based in Rochester, New York, US, has acquired its second biomass plant in seven months.
DeltaPoint bought wood pellet manufacturer Dry Creek Products for an undisclosed sum, but the purchase was aided by a $3.2 million (€2.4 million) investment by the New York state pension fund.
In July 2010 DeltaPoint set up Biomaxx,... [Read More]
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Feb 15, 2011
In the town of Grand Falls-Windsor, Canada, the wood pellet business looks lucrative and three wood pellet production facilities are currently in operation.
It is for this reason that out of the five proposals submitted to the provincial government for the redundant mill, two were for sawmills and wood pellet production.
Now the Newfoundland and Labrador Lumbers Producers... [Read More]
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Feb 15, 2011
Residents against a proposed biomass plant in Leith, Scotland, have taken their protest to the next level.
Behind the £360 million (€426.6 million) development is Forth Energy, a renewable energy company, which claims that the new facility could create over 200 jobs, both during and post-construction, and help Scotland meet its renewable energy targets.
If approval... [Read More]
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Feb 10, 2011
In the US Ineos New Planet BioEnergy, a joint venture between Ineos Bio and New Planet Energy, broke ground on its commercial-scale waste-to-biofuels plant on 9 February.
The $130 million (€95.4 million) Indian River BioEnergy Center in Vero Beach, Florida, will convert yard, vegetative and household wastes into cellulosic ethanol and renewable power for the... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2011
The 7 February 2011 saw Dutch fish processing company A van de Groep open its biogas plant.
Located in Spakenburg, the Netherlands, the facility is one of the largest in the nation. It has enough capacity to provide 3,500 households with gas.
At the plant, fish and other food waste is converted into 6 million m3 of renewable energy annually. That is 6% of the total biogas... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2011
A biogas plant under construction in Flint, Michigan, US, could undergo expansion before operations commence.
A joint venture between renewable energy company Swedish Biogas International and the City of Flint, the plant will produce biogas from waste, including primary and secondary sludge.
The biogas will be used in the natural gas network and also for the production... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2011
In Surat, India, Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) is looking to build three biogas-fired power plants, which will generate 20,000 units of electricity a day.
Two out of the three new power plants, located in Dindoli and Variyav-Kosad, have been developed already and will come online within the next six months. The third will begin operations within a year.
SMC owns a... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2011
Renewable energy company Laidlaw Energy Group is to acquire a biomass-fired power plant after it entered into a Letter of Intent on 7 February 2011.
Laidlaw will purchase the 14MW plant from Renegy Holdings and other affiliated shareholders.
The president and CEO of Laidlaw Michael Baroszek notes: 'This transaction is part of a larger strategy of growth and diversification... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2011
In Sweden energy company Göteborg Energi AB is developing a biogas project, known as GoBiGas20MW.
GoBiGas20MW is focusing on producing biogas through the gasification of biofuels and forestry waste. Technology provider Metso will supply the gasifier to sustain new gasification technology.
A demo gasification plant is scheduled to be built in two stages to demonstrate... [Read More]
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Feb 7, 2011
Not-for-profit Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) and Michigan-based energy services company Novi Company have been given the go-ahead to start preliminary construction work on its biomass-fired power plant.
Proposed for South Boston in Virginia, the US, the $175 million (€129 million) plant will convert between 250,000 and 500,000 tonnes a year of forest... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2011
In Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Company has submitted a request for an annual supply of 3 to 7 million gallons of biodiesel.
The biodiesel will power the 100MW Campbell Estate Industrial Park generating station – one of the world's largest commercial-scale power plants to be 100% fuelled by biodiesel.
250,000 gallons of the biofuel supply will go towards powering... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2011
In Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia, power business Quantum Power has completed its second biogas-fired power plant.
The facility converts biogas from meat processing and production firm AJ Bush & Son's covered anaerobic waste pond into electricity for use at the site. Construction was completed by Quantum, which also owns and operates the plant.
'Quantum has enjoyed... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2011
Incentives implemented by the German government have led to a surge in over 6,000 anaerobic digestion (AD) plants being built across the nation.
However, the vast majority of these are large-scale, around 1MW or above, thus affecting the tipping fees for waste food – which now stands at between €10 and €20 per tonne, down from €60 to €80 per tonne... [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
