Apr 22, 2010
China receives $66 million loan to produce bioenergy
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Apr 20, 2010
Generating power from the stalks and straw of sugarcane, also known as bagasse, is becoming increasingly popular in Brazil.
Power generation and distribution company CPFL is cashing in on this new trend and is in the development stage of building three bagasse-to-fuel power plants.
Costing €155 million, these power plants will have a total output of 145MW.... [Read More]
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Apr 20, 2010
Biomass energy development firm Helius Energy has posted a first half net loss of £0.6 million (€0.7 million) compared with a pre-tax profit of £18,875 last time.
At the end of March this year the company reported a cash balance of £12.8 million (H1 2009 £16.8m) and its net assets totaled £30 million (H1 2009 £34 million).
According to Adrian Bowles, chief executive... [Read More]
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Apr 20, 2010
In the UK the Isle of Wight’s first combined heat and power (CHP) generator has been granted planning permission.
Following opposition from Calbourne Parish Council, the councillors did a U-turn and decided to support the facility as long as noise and emission levels produced by the generator were frequently monitored.
With the capacity to generate 100KW of electricity... [Read More]
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Apr 20, 2010
The Zalaegerszeg Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) is undertaking a demo plant in Hungary that will see the production of transport fuel from biogas.
DMT Environmental Technology will supply the plant with a biogas upgrading system that has the capacity to process between 40 and 80Nm3 of biogas an hour.
The WWTP converts biogas from the combined heat and power (CHP)... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2010
US-based derivatives marketplace CME Group has launched trading and clearing services for four new European biofuel swap futures contracts.
Trading will be available on the New York trading floor and clearing services through CME ClearPort, a set of flexible clearing services open to over-the-counter (OTC) market participants to substantially mitigate counterparty risk... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2010
Germany-based utility E.ON is expanding its biomass power plant portfolio.
The company has switched on two new biomass power plants in Slovakia and expects another two more to come online in the coming months.
The total installed capacity of
the €16 million project would be 4MW, supplying enough electricity to power nearly 14,000 households. Each plant has 1 MW of... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2010
Agribusiness and biodiesel producer Cargill has launched a second manure-to-biogas project in the US.
The project is up and running at the Bettencourt Dairy B6 Farm in Jerome, Idaho. It uses manure produced by the farm’s 6,000 cows, generating enough renewable methane to make electricity for about 1,100 typical homes.
This is Cargill’s third foray into dairy cow... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2010
Tanquid, OPEC, Vopak, Mestilla, Petrom, Amerifina Bio-Fuels, Noil Energy Group, Enamo, MÜNZER Bioindustrie, OK a.m.b.a, LSPO Oy, BTP Biodiesel, Slovnaft, GREENEA, Noil Energy Group, Coalandoil, italgest, Shimadzu Europa, Camlin Fine Chem, Transpetrol – just some of the names registered for the third Bioenergy International expo & conference, organised by leading... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2010
Hawaii-based ClearFuels Technology has signed a letter of agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to build a biorefinery in Colorado.
ClearFuels will receive an initial $7.7 million (€5.6 million) toward the construction of the Colorado refinery as part of an overall $22.6 million DoE grant.
The ClearFuels-Rentech biorefinery in Colorado is scheduled to... [Read More]
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Apr 14, 2010
Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Antti Pasanen (AP), Doctor of Technology for St1 Biofuels, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May.
BI: What is the main subject of your presentation?
AP: I am going to give... [Read More]
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Apr 13, 2010
It is estimated that the UK will be left with a shortage of wood chips following the increase of commercial-scale biomass-to-energy plants.
According to a report from the Confederation of Forest Industries (Confor) titled Wood Fibre Availability and Demand in Britain 2007-2025, Britain will, for the first time, become reliant on wood chips and pellets as the demand for... [Read More]
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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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