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Biomass-to-energy business DP Cleantech is to deliver a biomass power plant into Poland for the Polish Energy Partners (PEP). The 30MW plant, to be fired with straw, is hoped to be operational within two years and cost $34.1 million (€25.6 million). It will be located in Winsko, south west Poland. ‘We are great admirers of what PEP is trying to achieve with biomass power in…
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New research by global management and consultancy business Bain points to increased wood pellet demand by Europe for electricity production by 2020. As governments begin to subsidise greener energy sources to reach continental targets, the report puts European pellet demand at 29 million tonnes by the end of the decade, up from 8 million from 2010. Pellets can be included in positive…
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A new algal biotechnology pilot facility in Roeselare, Belgium is set to allow scientists to explore methods of treating wastewater with microalgae and new microalgal harvesting techniques. It is one of nine pilot sites across North West Europe that will be constructed as part of the EnAlgae project. The project's aim is to develop sustainable technologies for algal biomass production, bioenergy…
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Glennmont Partners has completed the £160 million (€220 million) purchase of the Port Clarence Energy Project from ECO2 and Temporis Capital on behalf of its dedicated clean energy fund, Glennmont Clean Energy Fund Europe II. The Port Clarence Energy Project will see a new biomass power generation plant built at Port Clarence, Stockton-on-Tees, UK, providing 40MW of combined heat and…
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Research and consultancy firm GlobalData has revealed that supportive government policies will see Germany continue to dominate global biogas energy generation for the foreseeable future. According to its latest report, biogas power generation is forecast to increase from 18,244GWh in 2012 to 28,265GWh in 2025. The US, the second most productive biogas power producing country, is expected to…
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An explosion at a biogas factory in Maharashtra, India claimed two lives on 15 January. A third person was critically injured on the site of the under construction Solapur Bioenergy (SB) facility on the outskirts of the town. The source of the explosion has been attached by local police to some drilling and welding work near a cement tank which caused a gas leak. It has been reported by local…
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Malaysia-based developer of a dedicated biotechnology park and ecosystem, Malaysian Bio-XCell, has unveiled its new Central Hub facility to support the country’s Bioeconomy Transportation Programme. Based in Johor, the Central Hub will serve as the focal point in the Bio-XCell biotechnology park, acting as a catalyst for a biotechnology ecosystem in Iskandar Malaysia.  The complex…
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A consortium is to use a multi-million euro grant to construct a large-scale biomass refinery in the Netherlands. The companies involved are BioMCN, Siemens, Linde, and Visser and Smit Hanab, which received a €199 million NER300 grant to fund the project also known as Woodspirit. NER300 is a financing instrument, jointly managed by the European Commission (EC), European Investment Bank and…
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Bioenergy and bio-based product sectors received a $10 million (€7.5 million) boost from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) this month. The announcement was made by agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack, who also highlighted the growth potential in the automobile industry of bio-based products via research conducted by the Iowa State University USDA’s National Institute of Food and…
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Researchers at Clemson University and commercial forestry business ArborGen are to jointly study the potential use of poplar trees for bioenergy and biofuels feedstock in the US. The South Carolina-based project will see the pair plant thousands of poplar trees on-site at the university’s Pee Dee Centre. ArborGen's southeastern field research manager David Brown says that positive results…
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A new agreement has been signed that will see Cenovus Energy purchase the carbon dioxide created by a new carbon capture and storage facility under construction by SaskPower. Cenovus will purchase the full volume of CO2, approximately 1 million tonnes per year, captured at the Saskatchewan-based facility and use it for enhanced oil recovery at a nearby project it operates on behalf of its…
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North America-based energy company Emera has acquired Brooklyn Energy, a biomass electrical co-generation facility, located in Nova Scotia. The $25 million (€18.8 million) transaction was completed alongside the government of Nova Scotia.‘Brooklyn Energy and its employees are an important addition to our energy generation portfolio because they produce electricity in accordance with…
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Plasco Energy Group has proposed a waste conversion facility to be constructed in Ottawa, Canada. An agreement has been signed with the City of Ottawa and the plant is set to convert around 150,000 tonnes of waste a year. The City has signed up to supply 109,500 tonnes per year of Ottawa's municipal solid waste and has first refusal to supply the balance of plant capacity for the first 20 years,…
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China-based Sino Bioenergy has completed a transaction to own a controlling stake in Huizhou Biotech. Sino has spent $13.5 million (€10.1 million) to acquire a 55% stake in the research company, which will produce around 3,000 tonnes of rice as biomass feedstock a year. ‘This is a significant acquisition that will start producing profit immediately for us,’ says Sino CEO Daniel…
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