May 11, 2010
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May 11, 2010
In a 2009 Directive put in place by the European Commission, the criteria requiring greenhouse gas reductions applied only to biomass sources for transport fuel. Now European energy firm Vattenfall Europe has taken it upon itself to identify measures that guarantee the sustainability of its solid biomass sources.
By doing so the company has taken a leading role in the... [Read More]
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May 10, 2010
After the official opening ceremony took place in Lappeenranta, southern Finland on 7 May, the country’s largest wood-burning biomass power plant has begun production.
The plant, owned by energy companies Pohjolan Voima and Lappeenrannan Energia cost €240 million to construct and has the capacity to generate 385MW of thermal power and 125MW of electricity.
Around... [Read More]
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May 10, 2010
In February 2009 Minnesota-based energy company Xcel Energy filed an application with the Wisconsin Public Service Comission that would see the installation of its biomass gasification technology at its Bay Front power plant in Ashland. The project was estimated to cost in the region of $58 million (€44.5 million) and $70 million.
The project was approved in December... [Read More]
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May 10, 2010
In Kenya a five-year pilot project is being developed as a way of improving the nation’s biogas industry and turning it into a viable market through financial and technical advancements.
The farmers of small-scale dairy farms are set to gain from the project as it looks to develop 8,000 biogas plants in rural parts of the country.
The pilot programme is targeting these... [Read More]
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May 10, 2010
Carbon dioxide refineries could soon be as common as oil refineries with the possibility of converting air into fuel drawing increasingly nearer.
In March this year a team of 14 scientists from the universities of Bath, Bristol and the West of England were awarded a £1.4 million (€1.6 million) grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, part... [Read More]
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May 10, 2010
The price of biomass across the US has been affected by the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) set up by the US federal government in 2009 to lower the prices of biomass and bring more raw materials to the market, says the North American Wood Fiber Review (NAWFR).
Northern California and Northern New England are two of the major biomass markets in the US, both housing... [Read More]
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May 10, 2010
UK firm Chesterfield BioGas, a division of Chesterfield Special Cylinders dedicated to the development of equipment for fuelling vehicles as well as the supply of systems for converting raw biogas to biomethane, will provide the city of Sheffield with a temporary biomethane gas filling station.
After signing an agreement on 22 April this year the Sheffield-based company... [Read More]
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May 6, 2010
John Ibbett, chairman of the AD group Biogen Greenfinch located in Bedfordshire, UK, manages 5,500 acres of land, 23,000 pigs sold to the likes of Tesco and J Sainsbury and an annual production 12.5 million litres of Bedfordshire herd slurry.
With the enforcement of government laws such as the taxation on rubbish sent to landfill sites as a way of reducing waste, Ibbett’s... [Read More]
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May 5, 2010
The city of Naperville, located in Illinois, US, is to create energy from landscaping debris in its newly launched project.
The Packer Engineering’s Green Depot Project, a system turning biomass into vehicle fuel, will utilise tree branches and other waste biomass found on the pavements.
The gasifier will generate electricity that will be injected into the grid and... [Read More]
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May 5, 2010
The partnership between New Page and Nova Scotia Power, coated papers producer New Page Port Hawkesbury, has proposed a biorefinery that will be constructed on the Canadian island of Cape Breton.
The facility would convert waste biomass from forests into 60MW of electricity, benefitting 30,000 homes.
However the proposal is not being well received by local residents... [Read More]
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May 5, 2010
British-owned energy supplier British Gas is to form a venture with Thames Water and Scotia Gas Networks that will see the construction of a new biomass pilot plant in Didcot, UK.
The plant will clean biomethane gas collected from human waste before injecting it into the grid to be used in kitchens and as heating.
The facility will be built at Didcot sewage works as... [Read More]
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May 5, 2010
Located at the Budd Inlet Treatment Plant in Washington State, US, a biogas and energy efficiency project costing over $2 million (€1.5 million) is set to save the sewage agency around $228,000 in annual utility costs.
The $2.4 million project will capture methane gas from a sewage treatment plant that will then be used to power machinery at the plant. The heat generated... [Read More]
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May 5, 2010
Energy company Electrabel and France-based electricity generation and distribution firm GDF Suez Group have launched a €40 million biomass generating system at the Gelderland power station in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
The Gelderland power station originally burnt coal but the conversion will result in around one quarter of this being replaced by wood pellets.
With... [Read More]
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May 4, 2010
In comparison to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the south-western state of Kerala is not dedicated to generating biomass power, according to the government.
India has the potential of generating 21,000MW of biomass power and Farooq Abdullah, the minister of new and renewable energy, said: ‘The leading states in producing biomass power... [Read More]
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May 4, 2010
The minister of plantation industries and commodities Tan Sri Bernard Dompok has claimed that the energy sources from biomass has the potential to be exploited to help tackle electricity shortages in Sabah, Malaysia.
Although these renewable sources will not replace traditional fossil fuels they will be used to expand Sabah’s energy supplies.
Dompock said: ‘It can... [Read More]
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May 4, 2010
After critics claimed that a biomass plant proposed for Shelton town, Mason County, US, would create pollution harming human health and the environment, advanced biopower company Adage’s refinery is now facing some resistance from local residents.
Located in Maryland, Adage is developing a $250 million (€190 million) refinery that will convert 604,000 tonnes of wood... [Read More]
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