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Kenyan electricity provider Tower Power is to build two biomass power plants in the country. One facility will provide 30MW of power and will be built at Marigat in the Baringo District. The second plant will be provide 12MW and is planned for Mariakani in the Kwale District. Construction is due to begin in March and the projects will come online by November 2014. The developments will use…
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A farm in Kirkton, Ontario, has begun to produce electricity and thermal energy through the use of waste streams such as manure and organic material. The waste is used to produce biogas through an anaerobic digestion process, which provides the majority of the heat and electricity for the farm operations as well as for homes on the farm. The electricity that is not used is sold back to grid,…
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BioDiesel International (BDI) has secured a contract to build a multi-feedstock biogas plant in northern France for €4.45 million. The plant was commissioned by a French waste disposal company that will use the facility to crush, handle and convert the organic waste into biogas to power an electricity and thermal energy system. Each year the plant will produce 4.2 million Nm³, which…
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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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Florida-based company BioTork has converted papayas into fatty acids which it says can be refined into biofuels. Under a research development programme working with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center (PBARC) and Rivertop Solutions, BioTork says this discovery is a positive breakthrough for the local agriculture and military markets. The…
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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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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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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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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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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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Canals throughout the UK might soon play a part in bioenergy production as energy company Dalkia says the waterways could be used to deliver biomass. The company already uses the Aire and Calder Navigation canal system, which is located in Yorkshire, to transport wood. Hundreds of years ago the canals were used to transport 40 million tonnes of cargo around the country each year, whereas today…
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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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Biomass fuel producer Enviva says it will build a 454,000 tonne wood pellet plant in Courtland, Virginia, with operations set to begin in the first half of 2013. However, the project will only go ahead if the land where the plant is to be built on receives permission from Southampton County to rezone the property. The company is currently expanding within the mid-Atlantic region, where it already…
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Neste Oil has commissioned its Rotterdam facility to produce hydrated vegetable oil (HVO), opening it on 19 December 2011. This follows the opening of productiion in Singapore and Finland, adding a further 800,000 tonnes to its capacity and bringing the total output to two million tonnes of HVO. The Rotterdam refinery produces NExBTL renewable diesel, Neste Oil’s own type of diesel, and is…
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