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The Small Industries Development Board (SIDB) will launch biogas plants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan to provide both low-cost fuel and benefit economic, social and environmental sectors. The biogas project will be funded by money from the Pakistan-Italian debt swap agreement of 2009, when Italy agreed to convert Pakistan’s $100 million (€77.8 million) debt into aid for development…
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The Filipino government’s energy department is to look into ‘more realistic targets’ for the country’s bioethanol production. Energy undersecretary Jay Layug says the Philippines’s bioethanol production has remained minimal compared with demand since the Biofuels Law was passed in 2006. ‘Five years ago the government wanted us to be a top ethanol producer in…
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LeRay officials are in negotiations for a potential five-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with ReEnergy Holdings to make building a biomass energy plant more affordable. LeRay plans to invest about $34 million (€26.4 million) to convert a coal-fired plant into one that produces energy using biomass materials in Fort Drum, New York. To offset those costs, it is seeking to…
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A new biodiesel plant designed and installed by Agri Process Innovations for Oswalt Bioenergy has gone from construction to full start-up within seven days in Lake Providence, Louisiana, US. Plant manager Hal Oswalt and company owner Sonny Oswalt decided to go ahead with the 5 million gallon per year, multi-feedstock facility after sensing a real ongoing demand for biodiesel pursuant to RFS2 in…
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Nova Scotia Power (NSP) officials have announced a new milestone in the construction of a CAN$208 million (€160 million) biomass cogeneration plant. A steam turbine and generator used to produce electricity has arrived at the facility and NSP is confident it will generate about 60 MW a year via burned biomass. The combined weight of the turbine and generator came in at 260 tonnes and was…
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UK investment company Ludgate Environmental Fund (LEF) has put in a total of £14.1 million (€17.3 million) across three companies that deal in anaerobic digestion, biomass and waste heat recovery. As part of a £76.3 million project by Tamar Energy, LEF will invest £7 million to help it fund developments of food and mixed waste anaerobic digestion facilities that generate…
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Over 3,500 signatures have been gathered by protesters for a petition against a proposed biomass power station in Barrow, UK. The campaigning group, calling themselves Furness Opposes Biomass, is against a proposed 80MW power station from integrated energy company Centrica. They have named potential health problems and destruction of the landscape as reasons why they are campaigning. However, any…
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A five-year joint biomass project between the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and Kenya will be ready in June. The project will help to further assist Kenya’s adoption of clean energy solutions by removing its heavy reliance on fuel wood and agricultural residue for cooking. ‘This project, which partly aims at moving the country away from traditional wood stoves, should…
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A new location in Lincolnshire, UK has become apparent as locals back the proposal of a new community-owned biogas plant in the area. After a meeting in March showed overwhelming support for alternative energy supply in the town of Caistor, and with funding from the Department of Energy and Climate Change LEAF fund secured, an actual location for the proposed biogas plant could now be…
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Pure Biofuels del Peru management has entered into a partnership with US-based private equity fund manager Pegasus Capital Advisors to acquire the business. Both companies combined to purchase the equity of Pure Biofuels in a move to provide growth capital for both terminal and operational expansion. ‘Pegasus' extensive expertise in biofuels make it an ideal partner and its financial…
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Italian-based Organic Rankine Cycle (OCR) specialists Turboden has announced plans to build two biomass-fuelled combined cooling, heat and power plants in the UK. The company, which was acquired by Pratt and Whitney Power Systems in 2009, will supply one of its ORC turbo generators each to British Sky Broadcasting (BSB) and Heathrow Airport. ‘We’re proud to be entering the UK market,'…
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The EU-Malaysia Biomass Sustainable Production Initiative (Biomass-SP) has claimed several parties are looking to invest up to RM3.5 billion (€878 million) in the country’s budding biomass sector. Biomass-SP has said that those investing sought the help of itself and the Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation to ensure sufficient amounts of feedstock for their operations were available,…
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A district-wide heating project in Vermont, US has been awarded more grants and loans from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help continue its regeneration last week. The project, which will cost around $20 million (€15.4 million) in total, will replace an old state-owned heating plant in the Montpelier district with a new wood biomass facility. It is believed the new plant will…
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NDR Energy Group, (a subsidiary of Universal Bioenergy), has signed a Master Core Secondary Market Services Agreement for storage facility services with a natural gas distributor that supplies and delivers natural gas to over 20.9 million customers on the west coast of the US. The gas utility company owns and operates 134 billion cubic feet of underground gas storage facilities, and under the…
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