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The newly formed developer and operator of biomass power plants Greenleaf Power has completed its second acquisition. The 15 November saw the company acquire a 28MW biomass power plant in Scotia, California, from Marathon Asset Management. The plant, which was purchased for an undisclosed sum, has been in operation since 1988, utilising mill residuals, forest thinning, logging slash, green…
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Rubbish collection vehicles could soon be running off natural biogas derived from landfill gas in the city of Toronto. The city has purchased just one green truck to date which will be used for testing, but this figure will increase should the results prove positive. ‘It is important to the city to pilot test vehicles with alternative fuel technologies before making a long-term commitment,’…
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In Cassington, Oxford, a £9 million (€10.6 million) anaerobic digestion (AD) plant has opened. Developed as a joint venture with M&M Skip Hire as part of Agrivert’s 20-year contract with Oxfordshire county council, the facility has the capacity to generate 2MW of electricity from 45,000 tonnes of waste a year. The renewable power produced will be supplied to the National Grid.…
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In an attempt to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and lower GHG emissions, the Maine Department of Conservation in the US is awarding over $5.55 million (€4.05 million) in funding to eight conservation projects. The grants will see traditional heating systems at six schools, the University of Maine and Northern Maine Medical Center replaced by either wood chip or pellet boilers.…
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In Shandong province, China, the world's first industrial-scale plant for CO2 storage by algae is being developed. And GEA Westfalia Group, Oelde, Germany, has been awarded a €1 million contract which will see the company supply three high-performance separators for harvesting and washing of the algae. The algae are cultivated by feeding purified flue gas from the coal-fired power…
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Anaerobic digestion (AD) specialist Farmgen, headquartered in Lancaster, UK, is currently building an AD plant at Carr Farm, which will generate 800kW of renewable electricity for the grid when it comes online next spring. And the company has now secured a power purchase agreement with supermarket chain Marks and Spencer (M&S). In a bid to consume only green energy by 2012 M&S has…
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In Oregon, US, the building work has begun on Spain-based renewable energy firm Iberdrola Renovables’ biomass power plant in Lake County. The plant is the company’s first biomass project in the US. Operations are due to commence by the end of 2012 when it will produce 26.8MW of renewable power. 200 construction jobs will be created, in addition to 20 for operations and maintenance at the…
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Bioenergy firm Solena Group has signed a letter of intent with clean energy company Rentech for the use of its proprietary Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuel technology in Solena’s sustainable biojet fuel project – GreenSky. The facility will convert more than 500,000 tonnes of waste biomass feedstock into synthesis gas every year using Solena’s plasma gasification technology, BioSynGas. The…
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A manufacturer of biomass-based boilers and waste heat recovery systems, Thermax is to acquire Danish firm Danstoker A/S and its Germany-based subsidiary Omnical Kessel for $42 million (€29.5 million). Danstoker is another boiler manufacturer and the deal is expected to boost Thermax’s presence within the European renewable energy sector as it aims to source 20% of its total energy from…
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The 26 November 2010 will see a biogas plant open at the Sant’Antnin waste treatment plant in Marsascala. 250,000 tonnes of waste are produced yearly by the local residents and the new facility will use a large percentage of this producing renewable energy from 71,000 tonnes of waste. The gas extracted will generate enough electricity to power 1,400 households. Heat will also be produced…
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Orangeburg County Biomass is looking to build a wood-fired power plant but is struggling to find a client to secure the power purchase agreement. The biomass power generator, planned for Orangeburg County’s John Matthews Industrial Park, will cost in the region of $100 million (€72.2 million) to erect. Located on 55 acres of land, the project would burn mostly wood chip and forestry waste…
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In March earlier this year Solid Energy business Nature’s Flame opened New Zealand’s largest wood pellet production facility. The Taupo-based plant, which cost $34 million (€24.55 million) to build, has a total output capacity of 40,000 tonnes of pellets a year but the company is already planning to expand this to 90,000 tonnes. Earlier this month Nature’s Flame loaded its second bulk…
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With no biogas plants under construction in Greece or South Africa, biogas plant designer and constructor Zorg Biogas AG is looking to build two. The company recently received its first advanced orders from the two nations. Both of the 1MW plants will use manure as the feedstock. Prior to purchasing the biogas facilities, the prospective customers we able to visit an operating plant in Kyiv…
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A six-mile stretch of 13 dairies along Interstate 10 between El Paso and La Cruces produces around 1.6 billion pounds of cattle manure annually. With this in mind, start up company R-Qubed is currently developing a biogas plant in the region. It will convert the manure into methane for electricity production, in addition to high-grade fertiliser, compost and other materials. And according to…
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