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Foresight Group and the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) have invested £20 million (€23 million) into the construction of the Evermore Renewable Energy plant. The facility, to be built on 10 acres of land in Derry/Londonderry in Northern Ireland, will burn around 110,000 tonnes per year of wood for the generation of 15MWe of combined heat and power (CHP). The feedstock will be supplied…
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Energy company RWE nPower has called time on its 100% biomass plant in Tilbury, UK. The company announced it will stop work at the biomass plant this July while it considers and reviews further options on project feasibility. The Tilbury facility began life as a coal-fired plant over 30 years ago and was due to close down in 2015 as RWE opted it out of the EU’s Large Combustion Plant…
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Ecotricity has announced it is to develop a third Green Gas Mill, a new green energy site in Somerset, UK, that will generate enough gas from grass to power up to 2,500 homes. The company launched its first Green Gas Mill project in Gloucestershire back in April, with a second announced in August in Hampshire, while a fourth is also due to be unveiled before the end of the year. Green Gas Mills…
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Canadian business Solarvest Bioenergy has closed a non-brokered private placement, in which an investor purchased 400,000 common shares at a price of $0.25 (€0.19) per share for gross proceeds of $100,000. SB says the proceeds from this private placement will be used as general working capital. The shares will be subject to resale restrictions for a period of four months from closing under…
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California-based CR&R Waste and Recycling Services is set to build a $100 million (€88.7 million) anaerobic digester complex in Perris, California. The company expects to have the plant up and running by early 2016. Using food scraps and garden waste as feedstock, the facility will produce fertiliser and biogas, which will be used to power 45% of the vehicles in CR&R’s waste…
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Valoneo, a French waste-to-energy company, has started trading on the deregulated market Marche Libtre of Euronext Paris. The company’s market capitalisation runs at €14 million, with shares trading at €11.60 after being on the market since July. Valoneo was listed on the public market through a direct quotation, advised by French corporate finance adviser Atout Capital. Founded…
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Algae-based energy is the order of the day for Thailand-based petroleum company PTT and it is working in Australia to achieve that end. PTT is already in early partnership with Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, with the end-goal of developing algae-oil extraction. The venture is currently focusing on fatty acid methyl ether from selected marine algae. ‘Oil extracted from…
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A wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based BioPower Operations, simply named BioPower, has agreed to develop a castor plantation and milling operation in Paraguay. Under the terms of the agreement Ambrosia, a development company, will provide the land, pay costs for the testing and give BioPower a monthly $45,000 (€35,100) project management fee and reimbursement of expenses during the test…
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Planning permission for an 80,000 tonne clean energy recovery from waste facility in Lisburn, Northern Ireland has been granted by environment minister Alex Attwood. The advanced conversion facility from Energos at the former Burn House rendering facility will use non-recyclable, non-hazardous mixed waste to generate 7MW of electricity, enough to power 17,000 homes. It could also provide…
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A new renewable energy technology which aims to help eradicate the problem of open field burning in India has been unveiled. The technology, a Pyroformer container, has been developed by scientists at the European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI) at Aston University, UK as part of a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. It is believed farmers throughout India burn…
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Forty-eight companies have joined forces with the European Commission this July to set up a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for bio-based industries. The PPP brings together €3.8 billion ($4.9 million) with an aim to advance the bioeconomy in Europe. The European pulp and paper industry is one strategic partner in this PPP, with 13 of the 48 member companies from the sector as well as the…
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Sevier Solid Waste (SSW) in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee has engaged PHG Energy (PHGE) to build a new biomass gasification plant capable of cleanly converting more than 30 tonnes a day of composted material into thermal energy while producing a valuable high-carbon biochar. 'This new installation will help us reduce the amount of compost we need to transport by converting it into a biochar material,…
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Local news reports claim a renewable energy project may be located at a naval base in Portsmouth, UK. A heat and power facility to cater for two new aircraft carriers and visiting ships is on the table and a biomass-based solution appears to be favoured by the local council, with council leader Gerald Vernon-Jackson confirming Helius Energy as being in talks with the Ministry of Defence…
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A university in Pakistan is to delve into the world of biogas research by setting up a dedicated centre on campus. The Biogas Resource Centre will sit within the Ravi Campus Pattoki of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore, and aim to train and facilitate those working in the field of renewable energy. University vice-chancellor Talat Naseer Pasha, in an address regarding the…
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