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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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PDM Group, a UK food product manufacturer, has revealed it plans to spend over £90 million (€103.2 million) on anaerobic digestion, recycling and food processing facilities over the next 18 months. In addition to the £44 million investment into AD facilities in Widnes and Dagenham , PDM will spend just shy of £30 million to upgrade its animal by-product rendering operations…
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Waste management company AmeyCespa has secured a green light for its Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park (MKWRP) project 11 weeks after submission of the planning application.  MKWRP will have the capacity to process up to 140,000 tonnes of municipal, industrial and commercial residual waste a year to generate approximately 7MW of renewable energy, 5.8MW of which will be exported to the…
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Green crude producer Sapphire Energy (SE) has paid off the entire loan guarantee it was awarded by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in December 2009. SE was awarded a $54.5 million (€41 million) loan guarantee through the Biorefinery Assistance Programme, administered by the USDA Rural Development-Cooperative Service, to build a fully integrated, algae-to-crude oil commercial…
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Clean energy recovery from waste specialist Energos is preparing to build its ninth conversion facility featuring an anaerobic digestion plant after it received planning approval earlier this month. Based at AmeyCepsa's Milton Keynes Waste Recovery Park in the UK, the facility will convert 90,000 tonnes of non-recyclable household waste into 7MW of electricity – sufficient to power…
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Emera Energy, energy company and subsidiary of Emera Inc., has acquired the biomass-fired power plant Brooklyn Power in Nova Scotia, Canada for $25 million (€18.8 million). The deal, originally announced in December last year, came about following the Nova Scotia government's decision to buy ReNova Scotia Bioenergy (formerly Bowater Mersey Paper Company) from Resolute Forest Products,…
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Ekman, a forestry trading company, is now Scotia Atlantic Biomass' worldwide agent for the marketing of its entire wood pellet production after the two companies entered into an agreement. Scotia Atlantic Biomass is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian alternative energy company Viridis Energy. The agreement covers an initial period of 24 months and an aggregate projected wood pellet…
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Alaska Airlines is to buy biojet fuel for its aircraft from Hawai'i BioEnergy, a consortium of three of Hawaii's largest landowners and three venture capital firms, after the two companies signed an agreement. The material used to produce the renewable aviation fuel is likely to be woody biomass and will comply with the Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels' criteria. Alaska Airlines is Hawai'i…
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Fife Council is building a new anaerobic digestion facility at Lochhead landfill site in Dunfermline which will begin generating power later this year. The AD plant will convert methane extracted from up to 40,000 tonnes of local food and garden waste into up to 1.4MW of renewable electricity and heat. The heat will supply the council's existing district heating system and has the potential to…
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North Blyth Energy is to build a 99.99MW biomass-fired power station at Blyth Harbour, Northumberland after being granted permission by the UK government. It is estimated the new renewable plant will generate enough electricity to benefit 170,000 homes per year. A spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change says: 'Sustainably-sourced biomass has an important role to play as part of…
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The European Parliament's Environment Committee has voted to approve draft legislation to cap the proportion of first generation biofuel in transport fuel at 5.5%, but it will be to the full Parliament in Strasbourg in September. The vote will take place on 10 September, the day before the start of Biofuels International conference on 11-12 September in Antwerp. This will provide the perfect…
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Canopus Star's Romanian grain terminal at the Constanta Port will be able to store 50,000 tonnes following a newly announced expansion. The expansion will cost €15 million, an investment made by US agribusiness company Cargill and Transport Trade Services (TTS). This also includes growing the facility's warehouse capacity to 110,000 tonnes. The project will be finalised by 2014.
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Germany-based CropEnergies has acquired UK bioethanol producer Ensus from funds affiliated to The Carlyle Group in an all stock deal worth €13.5 million. Following the completion of the transaction, Carlyle is expected to gain 2.6% stake in CropEnergies. The company is set to invest nearly €58 million to enhance the competitiveness of the UK producer and increase its own production…
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A biogas project in Lebanon operated by environmental solutions provider Averda International has attached a technology provider to get it moving forward. An on-site power facility at a landfill site in Naameh will transform waste into energy via a GE Jenbacher J312 landfill gas engine. It has the potential to generate 637kW of renewable electricity and go towards eliminating the equivalent of…
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