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The Namibia city of Windhoek plans to upgrade the main sludge treatment system at a local water works, installing new gas engines and improving the existing biodigestors. These biodigestors will be closed off, so that the harmful gases do not escape into the air and are instead used to generate power. This electricity will be made from biogas that is created throughout the process. Pierre van…
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Biomass power generation capacity is predicted to grow by more than 86GW by 2021, a rise from the current 58GW, and representing a total investment of more than $100 billion (€78 billion), according to Pike Research. If a more aggressive implementation campaign is put in place to build on the bioenergy resources, capacity could hit 115GW, which is an investment of more than $135…
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German Pellets is to build and operate a combined heat and power (CHP) plant in northern Italy in a joint venture with a local company. German Pellets says Italy is a good location to build the plant as the conditions are favourable thanks to the feed-in tariffs that come from electricity derived from CHP plants. Up to €0.28/kW hour can be paid for renewable energy that is generated for the…
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Australian company Algae.Tec has signed a 50/50 joint venture (JV) with Chinese company Shandong Kerui.  Working together, the companies will build a 250-module algae biofuels facility in China, in which both companies will pay half to cover costs. The module system at the facility will be enclosed and the way the algae will be cultivated is meant to give it a high yield per acre, whilst at…
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Despite receiving hundreds of objections, Hertfordshire County councillors have voted unanimously to allow Cattlegate Farm in the UK to build an anaerobic digestion plant and compost facility. Locals signed an objection statement against the facility because they believed it would be an eyesore and affect the surrounding environment through the production of noise and odour. However, the farm…
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E.ON UK, a subsidiary of the German power company E.ON has confirmed that Ironbridge Power Station in Shropshire will cease commercial generation and will close permanently following. The iconic plant, which has reached its 20,000 hours limit of generation under the Large Combustion Plant Directive, was officially first synchronised to the grid by former E.ON colleague Mike Smith in…
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Renewable energy company Amersco has received a Final Acceptance Certificate from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Savannah River Operations Office and can now complete construction on its new biomass cogeneration facility. Once completed, the site is expected to produce $944 million of energy, water, operations and maintenance savings over nearly 20 years. The project will replace a…
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A prison in the US is to install a thermophilic anaerobic digester covering 3-4 acres which will produce about 1MW of electricity each year, with the electricity generated both powering the site and being fed onto the grid. The electricity will be created through the use of about 5,500 tonnes of poultry litter each year and the facility is scheduled to come online in 2013. EcoCorp, an energy…
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The Indian government says last year it intensified its bioenergy power generation across the country and now 30 villages in total have had biomass gasifiers installed. The government says it also has plans to add a further 30,000MW capacity of renewable energy, adding to the 22,000MW capacity that has now been installed within the grid across India, which is about 11% of all energy generated in…
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Dutch electricity company Eneco has begun construction of a 49.9MW bioenergy plant at Delfzijl port in the Netherlands. The plant is due to come online in 2013 and will see 300,000 tonnes of woodchips turned into power, which will provide electricity to around 120,000 homes. The woodchips will arrive by ship, train and truck from the Netherlands and other nearby countries, with about 150 ship…
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German chemical company BASF has participated in a $50 million (€38 million) funding round with an investment of $30 million into biofuel producer Renmatix. The process Renmatix uses to produce biofuels includes creating industrial sugar from lignocellulosic biomass such as wood, cane waste or straw. Using supercritical water—a state in which water acts as a…
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World Health Energy Holdings (WHEH), a public holding company that works on forming joint ventures with algae companies for the production of biodiesel and fish food, says it has signed a deal with Indian company Prime to build a biodiesel facility. The production site will sit on 250 acres and cost up to $100 million (€77 million) to build. So far two sites are being considered for the…
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Full Circle Generation, a UK green investment consortium, is planning to build a major waste-to-energy farm in Northern Ireland. The Belfast Waste for Energy site, to be located at aerospace company Bombardier’s factory, is set to become one of, if not the largest waste energy facility in Northern Ireland at an annual capacity of 61GWh, enough to power 14,500 homes. An annual 120,000 tonnes…
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The Nigerian government has signed a deal with Global Biofuels, a local biofuel producer, to build 15 biofuel plants in the country, costing about N414 billion (€2.02 billion) in total. The project will create about 120,000 jobs and will power 15 states with 30MW each. A pilot plant will be built in Ekiti, with construction beginning within the next few months and finishing in a year’s…
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