Apr 13, 2010
UK to import wood chips?
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Apr 9, 2010
The Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) is getting support from the top.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved almost 5,000 agreements for the delivery of more than 4.18 million tonnes of biomass.
Aside from the 4,605 agreements it has also paid eligible biomass owners $165,274,695 (€123,201,542 in matching payments under the first phase... [Read More]
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Apr 9, 2010
The smell was not enough – plans to build a controversial biogas plant in the UK are going ahead despite hefty opposition.
Plans submitted by S S Agriservices for a £4 million (€4.58 million) anaerobic digestion unit on land at Attleborough Poultry Farms in Norfolk won approval despite 150 letters of objection about the possible smell.
The process uses bacteria... [Read More]
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Apr 9, 2010
The Ontario Government in Canada will invest more than CA$8 billion (€5.96 million) in 184 renewable energy projects across the province.
Ontario coalition The Green Energy Act Alliance says the sums will bring 2,500MW of renewable projects to the province and help Ontario replace all of its coal-fired power plants by 2014.
Of the 184 planned projects seven are biogas,... [Read More]
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Apr 9, 2010
The upcoming Bioenergy International expo & conference is now only weeks away and only a few places remain for the free plant tour that comes with the delegate pass
You can listen to presentations from H.E. Mr. Jan Dusík, Minister of the Environment for the Czech Republic, Ivan Soucek, CEO, Ceska Rafinerska, Marc Gillmann, Bioenergy expert, Total, Miroslav Bažata,... [Read More]
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Apr 9, 2010
A French energy company has claimed it will begin construction on the world’s largest biomass plant in Poland.
GDF Suez will build the plant with a capacity of 190 megawatts (MW) at a cost of €240 million.
GDF Suez intends to double its overall renewable capacity by 2013 to 25,000MW. Currently the company derives 20% of its production capacity from renewable energies.
The... [Read More]
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Apr 6, 2010
In the UK two projects that will see Cumbrian farmers producing renewable energy from agricultural materials have been granted planning permission.
These projects will generate electricity from manure and energy crops using anaerobic digester (AD) units.
Community Renewable Energy North West (CoRE NW) is planning to develop a group of energy farms, the first of which... [Read More]
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Mar 30, 2010
In Idaho, US, agribusiness giant Cargill’s second biogas project is up and running at the Bettencourt Dairy B6 farm in Jerome.
Using anaerobic digestion (AD), the manure from the farm’s 6,000 cows is turned into methane, which is then burned in generators to create electricity.
Cargill’s biogas project is producing enough renewable methane to generate electricity... [Read More]
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Mar 30, 2010
According to a new report, ‘Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? Growth, competition and opportunity in the world’s largest economies,’ China is the front-runner for investing in renewable technology, while the US and the UK are trailing behind in second and third places.
In 2009 the UK invested around $11.2 billion (€8.3 billion), while China invested around... [Read More]
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Mar 30, 2010
Green wastewater management company Freedom Environmental Services, headquartered in Orlando, US, has signed a contract that will see 26 acres of unused land in Brevard County developed into a waste-to-energy facility.
The planned facility and full service wastewater treatment will make use of developed technologies such as anaerobic digestion (AD) and it is thought that... [Read More]
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Mar 30, 2010
Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Dag Roger Rinde (DRR), managing director of Statoil Energy & Retail Norway, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May.
Statoil is the first company in Norway to offer 5% ethanol... [Read More]
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Mar 30, 2010
In a bid to stop energy company Eco2 constructing an unwanted biomass plant in their neighbourhood in North Lincolnshire, UK, protesters have suggested an alternative site.
If the biomass plant is given the go-ahead it will create enough biomass to power 65,000 homes but at a cost of spoiling the area of Scawby Brook.
In a compromise campaigners suggested that the firm... [Read More]
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Mar 29, 2010
Biomass energy development company Helius Energy has been granted permission that will see the construction of an electricity plant at Avonmouth Dock, on the Bristol Channel, UK.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change gave consent under Section 36 of The Electricity Act 1989 for Helius Energy to build a 100MW electricity-generation refinery that will be fuelled... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2010
Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International magazine, and here Jaroslav Pesek, head of the quality department and strategic reserves at Czech state-run pipeline and storage terminal operator CEPRO, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May.
CEPRO... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2010
UK chancellor Alistair Darling will announce a £1 billion (€1.1 billion) fund to inject investment in green transport and energy projects.
The UK government is committed to reducing UK carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 and so changes in infrastructure and power generation will be needed over the coming decades.
The Labour Government hopes to upgrade the transport system... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
In North Carolina, US, the city of Charlotte’s first biomass power plant is due to be complete by 31 December.
The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved a $12 million (€8.87 million) 3.2MW proposed facility by Orbit Energy Filings with the commission that Orbit intends to sell the energy produced, a total of 23 gigawatt-hours annually, to Duke Energy for... [Read More]
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Mar 23, 2010
A new anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Suffolk, UK, will convert business food waste into bioenergy to heat homes and power cars.
The facility which will be the first of its kind to generate renewable energy for the gas grid, will be sited on land owned by Southwold-based independent brewery Adnams, which will use the facility to recycle its brewery waste. Food waste... [Read More]
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Indonesian gas distributor PT Pertamina Gas Negara Tbk (PGN) has signed an agreement with NeutraDC Singapore (NDSG) to provide biomethane for forthcoming data centre projects in Singapore
Once cleared, the site will be redeveloped into an Energy, Biochar and Carbon (EBAC) plant – a pyrolysis facility designed to convert plant matter into biochar, renewable electricity and heat
Swedish tanker owner Furetank has announced it will run its European fleet on renewable biogas throughout 2025, marking a major step towards fossil-free shipping
