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Dalkia Energia has opened its €80.8 million biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Hungary. Located in the city of Pecs, the project has the capacity to generate 35MW of power and 70MW of heat from 240,000 tonnes a year of straw feedstock. This is estimated to cut CO¬2 emissions by around 150,000 tonnes a year. The new plant will provide 60% of the city's demand for the district…
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Okanagan Pellet Company (OPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Viridis Energy, has commenced a major one to two year plant upgrade that will be conducted in three phases. The OPC plant upgrades are intended to address new regulatory requirements for safe storage and management of wood pellets and ensure the plant complies with National Fire Protection Association and BC Fire Safety code. In…
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Neste Oil, a refining and marketing company concentrating on low-emission traffic fuels, is to promote the deployment of sustainable aviation biofuels in the Netherlands after committing to a Dutch initiative for the sector. Neste is to explore the production opportunities for aviation biofuel and scaling up production. Its renewable fuel refinery in Rotterdam could…
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Wood pellet manufacturer German Pellets is ramping up capacity at its Urania production plant in Louisiana, from 578,000 tonnes to over 1 million tonnes a year. The commissioning of the first construction phase is complete and work on phase two has now started. The financing for the capacity increase of the plant has been raised in full. 'We are delighted at the fast realisation of the expansion…
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Power provider Hoosier Energy has started up its landfill gas-to-energy plant in Illinois, US. Located at the 460 acre Livingston Landfill, the refurbished Livingston Renewable Energy Station generates 15MW of electricity for approximately 9,000 homes in Illinois and Indiana. Hoosier partnered with the landfill owner and operator as well as Ameresco – the company that assisted the…
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A 160,000 tonne per year anaerobic digestion facility that will process food waste into biogas for energy generation has been awarded planning permission in Dagenham, London. The green light for the plant, which is being developed by ReFood - a part of the Doncaster, UK-based PDM Group - was given by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. ReFood explains that the facility, which is expected…
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Dalkia and Fengate Capital Management have closed the financing for a biomass plant to be located in British Columbia, Canada. With a production capacity of 40MW of renewable electricity using 307,000 tonnes a year of biomass, the plant will be one of the largest in Canada. The power will be sold to BC Hydro and Power Authority and benefit almost 40,000 homes. Funding will be provided by the…
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Atico, an asset management fund in Brazil, and German energy company Steag have partnered to build a biomass plant in Bahia, Brazil. According to reports the new plant, Atico's first renewables project, will cost BRL750 million (€240 million). It will generate 150MW of renewable energy from woodchips made from eucalyptus. The feedstock used to make the woodchips will be sourced from a…
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Pacific Ag, the largest crop residue supply company in the US, has announced a $7 million (€6.4 million) investment from Advantage Capital Agribusiness Partners (ACAP). The growth capital will enable Pacific Ag to accelerate the expansion of its operations across the country through acquisitions, technology, equipment, sales and marketing to meet the increasing demand for agricultural…
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Viridis Energy, a manufacturer and distributor of biomass fuel, has formed a wholly owned subsidiary to arrange transactions between buyers and sellers of alternative energy, including wood pellets. Commodities trading specialist Jesse Harte has been appointed MD of the wholesale division of the new company, named Viridis Merchants. Doug Middleton, who currently manages the US brokerage business…
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UK-based renewable energy company Imperative Energy will go ahead with the construction of a biomass CHP plant after it was granted planning permission from Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. The £70 million (€84 million) plant, planned for Solihull in Birmingham, will use 130,000 tonnes of locally sourced waste wood to generate 17.75MWe of renewable heat and power for a number of…
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The National Energy Regulator of South Africa has approved the registration of six biogas plants in KwaZulu-Natal. These latest projects will be located in Izimpongo Village, Melmoth and Mgwabi Village at Eshowe and come shortly after a further 21 similar plants were registered this year, planned for Limpopo and one in Pretoria. This brings the total number of biogas operations registered in…
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Nippon Paper Industries is reported to have started operations at its new biomass in Port Angeles in Washington, US. The new $85 million (€63 million) co-generation plant at the site of Nippon's existing mill is not yet fully operational; this is slated to begin by the end of 2013 when it will generate electricity and steam from forest wood waste. The majority of this renewable electricity…
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A biomass refinery in Malaysia is set to become the second in the world to convert biomass waste into renewable products before 2017. Work is scheduled to begin on the facility in Johor by the end of 2014 and will be developed by MYBiomass, a collaboration between the Malaysian Industry Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT), renewable energy business Sime Darby and Felda Global…
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