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The local government of Bridgeport in Connecticut, US, is considering building an anaerobic digestion plant that would convert the city’s sewage into energy. The government has asked for proposals to be submitted for a plant to be built near the West Side Treatment Facility, a sewage plant. The anaerobic digester will recover the methane, which creates about 1,000BTUs when burned, produced…
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Three schools in India are going green with biogas plants being installed on their sites. Under a scheme being funded by the Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project, over the next month Cotton Hill Government Higher Secondary School for Girls; Government Girls HSS, Pattom; and Government Vocational Higher Secondary School, Manacaud, will all have biogas plants built within their…
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Vega Biofuels has raised funds to help it design and engineer a bio coal manufacturing plant which will be based in South Georgia. The facility will produce the bio coal from timber waste as part of a green energy torrefaction process. ‘We've been working with a small group of existing shareholders the past few months to put together a funding package that will help us with expenses…
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Imperative Energy, a company that provides biomass heat and power to the UK and Ireland, plans to expand its US presence by bringing its biomass developments overseas. The company has formed a partnership with Northline Energy, a Lynnwood, Washington-based company that provides biomass combustion systems. The companies plan to invest $100 million (€75 million) over the next three…
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The Association of Anaerobic Digestion Operators (AADO) has secured confirmation of the Partial Harmonisation methodology, proposed by the European Commission for the management of digestate. The confirmation comes prior to the announcement of the amendment to the EU Fertilisers Regulation due under the Circular Economy review later this year. Since autumn 2014, concerns have been raised by AADO…
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Italy-based Agroils Technologies has received investment funds of €900,000 from X-Capital, which it says it will use to develop technology to produce biofuel, protein biomass for animal feed and jatropha. The process of production was developed by Roberto Crea, who also developed the first recombinant production of human insulin at Genentech in California in 1978. ‘The industrial…
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World Health Energy Holdings has signed a letter of intent with Prime, an Indian industrial and transport company, to build a biodiesel production facility on a budget of $100 million (€75 million). The development will be built on 250 acres and Prime has tested batch samples of spirulina algae which it plans to cultivate under the project, for biodiesel production. The proposed areas for…
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A recent study published says that investors should look at renewables and clean tech as growth areas as it is estimated that the global oil supply will start to diminish. The research, carried out by the DGFI, says that oil resources will be scarcer by 2020, yet the demand for energy is on the rise. It points out that 30 countries provide the entire world’s production of oil and that…
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A controversial anaerobic digestion plant development has been approved by the Ministry of Environment in Woolwich, Canada. Both the Woolwich Township council and the Elmira Biofuel Citizens Committee opposed the plant, which they said would exceed noise and odour limits. The township previously met with provincial ministers at the Rural Ontario Municipal Association, to discuss alternative…
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The waste water treatment plant located in Medina, New York, is to install a 60kW combined heat and power (CHP) facility which will be used to feed electricity to the grid. The site was given a Green Infrastructure Grant from the Environmental Facilities Corporation, which is funding similar upgrades. Tecogen has been chosen as the company to supply the cogeneration system and the plant, which…
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Energy efficiency and renewable energy company, Ameresco, together with the US Department of Energy (DOE) have completed the successful operational startup of the DOE's new Biomass Cogeneration Facility in Aiken, South Carolina. The new 34-acre renewable energy facility located on Savannah River Site (SRS), was constructed over a 30 month period, with the investment of over 600,000 hours of…
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RuralAus has announced that its planned 10MW biomass power plant, located on Kagaroo island will create 30 new jobs. The Perth, Australia-based forestry group intends to power its sawmill with the proposed plant, which will convert facility waste into power. It will require governmental funding in order to run the operation at the scale desired, and the company is hoping to receive a grant…
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Skogforsk, the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, is to collaborate with Grand Rapids-based Itasca Community College (ICC), on a research program developing methods, systems and technology within the bioenergy sector in Minnesota. The research will focus on the forest-based biomass supply chain, with the aim to increase efficiency and quality. Skogforsk focuses on research areas such as…
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Solid Energy business Nature's Flame has stopped production of pellets at its oldest and smallest plant located in Rolleston, Canterbury, New Zealand. Due to its age and size, it was deemed uneconomic to upgrade the facility, as the cost of ensuring reliability and safety would be too high. Furthermore forestry in the area is reportedly waning. Therefore the company is focusing on its…
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