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Viaspace, a grower of energy crops, has signed a contract with Mesquite Lake Water and Power to provide Giant King Grass for a biomass-fired power plant and biofuels facility in the US state of California. Mesquite Lake is developing a biomass energy park in Imperial Valley. It has already purchased an 18MW biomass power plant, which was damaged during a 2010 earthquake. Following repair works,…
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Albioma, a France-based independent energy producer, has finalised its acquisition of the totality of shares in Rio Pardo Termoelétrica, a cogeneration plant situated in the São Paulo region in Brazil. The bagasse cogeneration plant, which has an installed capacity of 60MW, was commissioned in 2009. Albioma says its 'expertise should enable significant improvements in the energy…
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A new 7MW biogas power plant will be built in Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands after the project received government approval at the end of March. Renewable energy development company Tibbar Energy is behind the project, which was granted final approval by the Virgin Island Department on Planning and Natural Resources' Division of Coastal Zone Management (CZM). The CMZ decision was the last step…
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Swedish energy company Göteborg Energi has opened its new demonstration plant – GoBiGas – which will produce large volumes of biogas through the gasification of biomass. The gasification technology installed at the site makes it possible to produce biofuel that will fuel 15,000 cars or 400 buses annually. According to Kia Andreasson, municipal councillor and chairman of…
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Forth Energy, a joint venture between SSE and Forth Ports, says it is not continuing with plans to develop the Grangemouth and Rosyth biomass-fired power plants in the UK. Both projects have gained consent from the Scottish government and Forth Energy is investigating options to attract other developers to take the projects forward. As previously reported by Bioenergy Insight in January, the…
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Biogas company Methalandes of France is developing what will be the nation's largest anaerobic digestion plant to date in the town of Hagetmau. The facility will be able to handle waste products from the agricultural and food sectors in order to produce 37.8 million kWh of electricity. The construction contract for the new project has been awarded to Xergi; the company's fifth order in France in…
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UTS Biogas, a subsidiary of sustainable energy solutions company Anaergia, has commissioned a new biogas facility in Dagenham, London, UK, for TEG Environmental. The 1.5MW facility, utilising a combination of anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting technology, is located in the London Sustainable Industries Park. Thanks to this combination of technologies, the facility will be able to…
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Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) has plans to install 14 biomass boiler projects in 2014. Six of these projects, located in the Galena, Kake, Ketchikan, Haines, Minto and Yakutat regions, will use $20 million (€14.4 million) from the state's Renewable Energy Fund. Biomass boilers, designed to heat buildings, can be fuelled with cord wood, wood chips or wood pellets and are in demand thanks to…
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Eternity Capital, a specialist in funding for waste management and environmental services companies in the UK and Europe, has started constructing an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility for producing biogas from agricultural and food waste in Cornwall, UK, with an investment of £9.6 million (€11.4 million). The new facility will be built in collaboration with developer and operator…
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DTE Energy's biomass plant in northern California, US, has begun operations. The plant, located on the site of a former coal-fired power facility, will use around 320,000 tonnes of woody biomass fuel a year to generate 45MW of power. Biomass for the facility will be primarily derived from urban wood waste, tree trimmings and agricultural processes. DTE purchased the site, in San Joaquin Valley,…
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General Electric has partnered with Malaysian biotechnology company, Green and Smart, to develop a palm oil effluent (POME) biogas plant to provide a waste-to-power solution for the country's power providers. The plant is expected to begin operations by December this year, and will use GNS' technology in anaerobic digesters and GE's Jenbacher gas engine technology to produce power for supply to…
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Two Italy-based companies are to develop a 30MW biomass plant in the country's Ravenna region. The Powercorp project, a joint venture between Enel Green Power and Seci Energia, will be built on an industrial site previously occupied the Eridania sugar refinery. Fuelled by locally-sourced woodchip, the plant will have an estimated total annual output of 222GWh. The €126 million facility will…
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Greenergy Holdings is reported to be selling its 60% stake in a company building an 18MW biomass power plant in Negros Occidental, a Philippines province, to a German hedge fund. The company has agreed to sell its stake in Biomass Holdings, which is developing the P3.5 billion (€56.16 million), bagasse-fired power generation plant, to ThomasLloyd Cleantech Infrastructure Fund GmbH, according…
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Solvay, a renewable technology company, says it has produced industrial-scale volumes of torrefied biomass. The new business will be run by the recently established Solvay Biomass Energy, a joint venture between Solvay and the US company New Biomass Energy (NBE). The torrefied biomass is being produced at NBE's facility in Quitman, Mississippi. Current production of 80,000 tonnes per year will be…
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