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Renewable energy company Harvest Power has raised $110 million (€760,000) in a funding round. True North Venture Partners were the leaders in the investment, with help from American Refining and Biochemical, as well as existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, Generation Investment Management and more. Harvest Power plans to use the funds to expand its operations…
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A new co-digestion facility will be built in California after the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (SRCSD) joined forces to help produce renewable energy. Fats, oils, grease and liquid food processing waste will be used in the digestion system, producing power for a plant in the southern Sacramento County. As part of the American…
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In order to cut energy bills and make sure employees do not lose their jobs, a luxury spa hotel in Anglesey, UK has built a £500,000 (€607,000) biomass plant. The system at the plant, situated at the Tre-Ysgawen Hall Country House Hotel and Spa, at Capel Coch, near Llangefni, is able to produce 600kW of power, using woodchips as fuel, meaning that the £90,000 oil bill that is…
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In Oslo, Norway, the government is planning to run all the city’s buses on biogas produced from food waste. At the moment there 65 buses in Oslo that are powered by biogas from the city’s sewage treatment plant but with this new development enough biogas will be produced to fuel at least 200 buses. Using 50,000 tonnes of food waste a year, the facility will produce the equivalent of 4…
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UK-based food company PDM plans to invest £40 million (€48.5 million) into building a network of anaerobic digestion plants throughout this year. The plants, to be built under a project which the company has dubbed ReFood, will be built in Widnes and East London, UK. The two plants come after PDM’s first anaerobic digester was deemed a success after it was built at its…
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Dong Energy wants to invest just under $800 million (€612 million) into converting three of its coal and gas fired power stations into bioenergy plants, using wood pellets to produce heat and electricity. According to Bloomberg, the executive VP of Dong, Thomas Dalsgaard, says that the Danish plants will have a capacity of around 1GW. The company plans to begin the conversions next year,…
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The North East Lincolnshire Council in the UK has approved a biomass-fuelled plant, which will be built in the region for about £130 million (€158 million). Real Ventures, the company behind the development, plans for the facility to have an electrical output of more than 49MW which should power around 90,000 residences. The plant will be a combined heat and power (CHP) project which…
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A renewable energy power station worth £250 million (€304 million) will be built in the Port of Blyth after planning permission was granted. The renewable energy developer RES submitted its planning application in March 2012 and the Planning Inspectorate confirmed formal acceptance on 11th April 2012. The examination and consultation period can take up to nine months before a decision…
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Wealth management firm, Taaleritehdas, plans to build a series of biogas plants throughout Finland, which will convert household biowaste, wastewater slurry, industrial byproducts and agricultural waste into biogas. Over the next couple of years, the Finnish company will build five to seven plants which will cost about €90 million. Under its plans, the company will also purchase a biogas…
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Viridor, a waste management company based in the UK, has broken ground on a new anaerobic digestion (AD) plant that is located close to Bridgwater in Somerset, UK. It is the first AD plant in that region of the country and will be situated next to the Walpole landfill site, coming online in April 2013. The Somerset Waste Board approved the facility in September 2011 and it will cost about…
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BioPower Operations, a company that grows, produces and sells biomass and its byproducts, has become a public company, listing its shares on the stock market. The company currently has plans to produce and sell biomass oils in the short term and in the long term receive licenses to grow trees and bamboo that can also be converted into oils, biofuels, animal feed or electricity. Robert Kohn, CEO…
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The Harare City Council in Zimbabwe is in talks with a local gas company, considering a joint venture to enable electricity to be generated from waste collected from nearby sewage works. About $3 million (€2.28 million) will be needed to fund the project, which will take a year and a half to build. One plant, called Firle, is expected to produce 2.5MW whilst the other, Crowborough, should…
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UK energy company E.ON has received approval from the Shropshire council to build a new fuel store at its Ironbridge power station in the region. This planning permission grant will allow the company to convert a section of its Ironbridge power station so that it can use 100% wood pellets as a renewable fuel source. E.ON will continue to work with the council so that it can build the fuel storage…
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Ventura, which is a subsidy of biodiesel company Biodico, has been given a $2 million (€1.5 million) grant from the California Energy Commission and will use the funds to produce renewable energy and biodiesel at Biodico’s 10 million gallon a year facility which is being built in Port Hueneme, California. At the facility, process heat and power will be generated through the use of…
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