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IHI Corp., a Japanese heavy equipment manufacturer, will build a 49MW woody biomass power plant in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima. Construction will begin this year and the plant will start generating power by the end of 2018, the company said in a statement. The station will produce enough electricity to power 77,000 homes.  
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Solar 21, an Irish renewable energy company, is set to build a 22MW biomass power plant near Hull in England. The company has acquired the project rights and is seeking to raise €60 million through a fundraising round for the scheme. The Hull plant is the first in a pipeline of five projects in partnership with energy recovery systems company Heat Recovery Solutions, Solar 21 says. The…
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As the UK reaches a critical crossroads for renewable energy, and specifically the generation of biogas through anaerobic digestion (AD), The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA)’s National Conference 2010 could not come at a more important time. Bringing together government departments and agencies, interest groups and industry, the conference will consider AD's place in the…
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Clean Development Projects Limited, a London, UK-based company dedicated to promoting and facilitating sustainability in energy, has signed an agreement with a Tunisian cement company to develop a 500,000-hectare bioenergy plantation. The oil obtained from the bioenergy plantation will be used to power cement plants in Tunisia, reducing carbon emissions by more than 2 million tonnes of CO2 a…
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Dow Chemical Co.’s largest manufacturing facility in Brazil will soon be powered from biomass. By Q4 2012 the Aratu Complex will begin burning eucalyptus wood biomass for the generation of power for its chemical processing plants. Over 75% of power and steam produced at the plant will then come from hydropower and eucalyptus cogeneration. Brazilian-based Energias Renovaveis do Brasil will…
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In India, Clenergen Corporation, a publicly traded company, has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with SV Sugar Mill (SVS) to take over operations of an existing 27MW/h biomass power plant. By December 2011 the new project is expected to boot Clenergen’s output capacity to 51.5MW/h, in addition to its revenues, which are expected to reach approximately $40 million (€30.2…
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Japanese Sumitomo Corp. has signed a contract to acquire up to 20% of Cosan Biomassa, a subsidiary of the world's largest sugar and ethanol company, Cosan S.A. Industria e Comercio. The sale is subject to the prior approval of anti-trust authorities in some jurisdictions.   Cosan Biomassa has developed a fuel pellet made from sugarcane residues, such as bagasse from the sugar mill and…
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In South Africa, Johannesburg-based renewable energy firm Ecofuels has launched its biomass-fired power plant. The pilot model demonstration facility has a 120kW production capacity, enough to meet the electricity requirements of the business park where it is situated, and sufficient to power 30 homes. The plant generates 1kWh of power per 1kg of waste utilised. The plant will start out by…
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Biomass energy company Taylor Biomass Energy is to start building its waste-to-energy plant in Montgomery, New York, following approval of the Town Board. The facility is costing $134 million (€100.8 million) to construct, $100 million of which will be financed by a federal loan guarantee. Taylor has also signed a $2.4 million-a-year deal with the Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey…
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In the US, Port Gibson, Mississippi, will be home to a new biomass-fired power plant after National Clean Fuels (NACF) signed a profit participation agreement with the Center for Environment, Commerce and Energy (CECE) to construct a biomass-to-electricity facility. The plant will convert sawdust and woodchips into power. CECE and NACF will work together in the planning and implementation…
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In Scotland the UK subsidiary of Germany-based renewable energy firm RWE Innogy, RWE npower renewables, has started to build its biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Markinch, Fife. With a production capacity of 50MW, the €235 million facility will be the largest of its kind in the UK. The plant will also deliver up to 120 tonnes of industrial steam per hour. The construction…
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In India the Khadki Cantonment Board (KCB) is planning to set up a biogas plant in Gawliwada. Construction is expected to commence shortly. When the Rs. 55 lakh (€91,930) plant is operational it will generate 400kW of electricity a day from a daily supply of 5 tonnes of organic waste. The electricity will be used to power streetlights and the cantonment hospital. The plant will treat a…
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Renewable energy firm Southeast Renewable Energy is looking to build a biogas plant in Allendale County in South Carolina, US. Costing $50 million (€37.57 million), the facility would generate 15MW of energy from timber residues. Raine Cotton, Southeast Renewable’s president and CEO said that his company is ‘working diligently to get the last few steps of the project worked out,…
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DONG Energy, a Denmark-headquartered energy firm, has unveiled plans to build a bio plant which turns unsorted household waste into energy in the UK. The plant, which the company will finance, build and operate, will use an enzyme technology it calls REnescience. DONG claims that "it will be the first bio plant in the world to handle unsorted household waste, without prior treatment, using…
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