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New York-based Laidlaw Energy Group’s subsidiary Laidlaw Berlin BioPower will sell its energy from its proposed wood-fired power generation facility to Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH). Once operational the 70MW biomass facility in Berlin, New Hampshire, will be the largest wood-burning power plant in the state. The long-term power purchase agreement must be considered and approved by…
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In Idaho, US, three anaerobic digestion (AD) plants could fuel a power station on a 15-year contract. The Idaho Power Company is hoping to buy power from the three projects in the Magic Valley area of south-central Idaho. The utility is seeking permission from the state’s Public Utilities Commission for the power purchase agreements with the Middleton-based developer New Energy Company.
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The 500-acre Lower Reule farm has begun the operation of its £3 million (€3.5 million) anaerobic digestion (AD) biogas facility in Staffordshire, UK. The plant will produce 1.3MW of electricity from a combination of feedstocks. 12,750 tonnes of food waste collected from local supermarkets and food producers will be the main source of power but 1,250 tonnes of maize silage and 1,000 tonnes of…
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Scotland, UK-based leisure firm John O’Groats Leisure is set to install a biomass boiler after receiving a £51,808 (€60,525) grant from the Scottish Biomass Heat Scheme. The company will use the boiler to heat its two properties Caberfeidh Guest House and the Seaview Hotel. It will be located at the guest house but heat will also be transported to the hotel across the road via a pipe…
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French industrial gas group Air Liquide has announced the commissioning of 12 biogas purification units in the last 12 months in Europe. With these new units, Air Liquide triples its biogas purification capacity on the European continent. Overall, Air Liquide has designed and deployed worldwide 50 biogas purification units in order to transform biogas into biomethane and inject it into the…
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Green Energy UK, an independent energy supplier, has become the first energy firm in Britain to supply only renewable green gas to its customers. In a statement, Green Energy said it will now only supply its customers with gas from biomethane from anaerobic digestion plants. Doug Stewart, chief executive of Green Energy UK, said: “Supplying 100% renewable gas and electricity has always been…
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Sweden’s vision to produce 50% of its energy from sustainable sources by 2020 looks extremely likely since 32% of its energy is already generated from biomass. The government is striving for the nation to become 100% fossil-free by the year 2030 and as a result investments in the sector have soared over the past few years. However, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly, logs and wood…
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Turkey’s new biogas plant will be launched in July this year before it becomes fully operational at the beginning of 2011. The plant, which was built by Austrian-based biogas engineering company Enbasys GmbH, will use ENBAFERM multi-feedstock biogas technology to process around 55,000 tonnes of municipal and industrial waste each year. The biogas produced will be used to generate electricity…
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In Castle Bytham, Lincolnshire, UK, an application filed by Bygen Power for the construction of a biogas plant has received unanimous objecting votes from Castle Bytham parish council in an attempt to block the build on a nearby farm. Deemed as too large and in the wrong place, local residents have expressed woes about vehicle noise and pollution, and the possibility of water contamination.…
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County councillors in St. Albans, UK, have approved a biomass plant. If the facility receives planning permission from the Secretary of State it will be built on EQ Waste Management’s composting site, which has spontaneously combusted numerous times in previous years. EQ’s director Adrian Lupson received a £17,000 (€20,220) fine in 2009 after management of the plot was deemed below the…
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The Kenya Domestic Biogas Programme, which will see the construction of 8,000 biogas digesters across 28 districts in Kenya, Africa, is receiving a helping hand from the Netherlands. The Dutch government will invest KES200 million (€2 million) in the programme while beneficiaries will raise the other half in order to implement the Sh50,000 each digesters. Each digester will run off a daily…
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Clearfleau, a UK-based provider of on-site treatment solutions for the food and beverage sector, is commissioning an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in rural Cumbria. By feeding bio-methane into the gas grid, the facility will produce over £3 million (appr. €3.8m) per annum in cost savings and revenue, while supplying up to 25% of First Milk’s Aspatria creamery’s energy…
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The global biomass pellet market is expected to grow with a CAGR of 11.1% until 2020, according to a recent market study. According to research by Research & Markets, as US-based market watchdog, the increasing use of biomass pellets in power industry is propelling the growth of the global biomass pellet market. The growing demand for renewable energy sources is one of the important factors,…
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Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) and American Renewables' joint petition for the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center, a planned 100MW biomass power plant has been approved by Florida's Public Service Commission (FPS). American Renewables will build, own and operate the facility and will sell all energy and environmental attributes generated from the facility to GRU for a period of…
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