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Construction has begun on what will be the world’s first commercial-scale biocoal pellet plant in Duiven, Gelderland province, the Netherlands. The €15 million plant, owned by German renewable energy provider RWE Innogy and torrified pellet manufacturer Topell Energy, has the capacity to produce 60,000 tonnes of pellets each year and should be up and running by 2011. Essent, a subsidiary…
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With the support of the new UK coalition government anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas as a means of energy is set to boom, meet climate change targets and could eventually produce a massive 7 terawatts of energy. Anaerobic digestion, a natural process where organic matter is converted into energy, is the only renewable energy to be named a top priority by the new government, Lord Redesdale,…
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Cornwall, UK, is set to be the home of a £1.5 million (€1.9 million) anaerobic digestion (AD) plant after planning permission, submitted by AD installation company Green and Pleasant Recycling, is close to being finalised at the Cornwall Council. The plant will process local food and waste as well as farm waste for the generation of 350km/h of electricity and 500kW/h of heat. The facility…
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Expected to be UK, Scotland’s largest anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, recycling firm Scotwaste’s £70 million (€86.4 million) facility has been granted planning permission. Based in Bathgate, Lothian, the plant will have the capacity to process all of West Lothian’s commercial, industrial and residential waste, and from it generate enough electricity to benefit 7,000 households.…
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Based in Michigan, US, energy provider Traverse City Light and Power has halted plans that would have seen the development of a 10MW biomass plant. The wood burning facility would have contributed towards the company’s 2020 target of 30% of electricity to come from renewable sources. According to Mike Coco, chairman of Traverse City, ‘Our ratepayers tell us they don’t know enough about…
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In Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, green energy provider Pacific BioEnergy is currently expanding its wood pellet plant, which has now reached the halfway point. The expansion of the plant will cost in the region of $24 million (€19.7 million), making it the largest of its kind in Canada and the second largest in North America after northern Florida. The plant will double in size…
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Forth Energy’s £360 million (€444.8 million) biomass plant proposed for the city of Leith in Scotland, UK, is facing criticism after reports claim it will not be carbon neutral until the year 2050. The current belief centres on the fact that biomass plants are green as the wood they burn to produce power is replaced. However a US report by the Manomet Centre for Conservation Sciences in…
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China has the potential to provide millions of people living in rural parts of the country with electricity, according to the report ‘Rural Biomass Energy 2020 in the People’s Republic of China’. In order to fulfil its potential, however, China needs $60 billion (€48.8 billion) by 2020. 30 million residents who still use kerosene-fuelled lamps and firewood for heat and cooking could…
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Asea One Power Corporation, a Philippines-based biomass project developer, has shortlisted the final four companies, one of which will be selected for the turnkey contract of its first power plant. The chosen engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor will be informed by 15 July 2010 before the 12MW plant in Aklan, Philippines, begins construction. ‘We are still in the…
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Beaver Wood Energy is planning to construct a large biomass and wood pellet production facility at the former Green Mountain Race Track in Vermont, US, and the company recently met with the State Board to discuss the project further. When the facility is completed, after a 26-month construction period, the 144-acre site will consist of a 29MW biomass plant and an integrated pellet plant, which…
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In the US renewable energy firm Clenergen Corporation (CRGE) is planning to construct a number of biomass plants across India at a cost of around $100 million (€80.6 million). Tim Bowen, chief operating officer at CRGE, believes that India is an expanding market and could prove to be a lucrative investment for Clenergen. CRGE is looking for the constructions to take place in southern India,…
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Trial runs have commenced at Sri Panchajanya Power’s 10MW biomass power project in Hingoli, Maharashtra, India. Sri Panchajanya is the wholly owned subsidiary of renewable power generation company Suryachakra Power Corporation (SPCL). The trials began on the 19 June 2010, while the plant is expected to begin operating at full-scale by next week. SPCL is the flagship company of the Suryachakra…
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Among other companies Taylor Biomass Energy, a privately held firm dedicated to developing innovative recycling solutions, is soon to find out who the federal Energy Department has chosen to receive a loan guarantee rewarding ground-breaking energy technology. However Taylor may have a better chance than most of receiving the $98.6 million (€80 million) loan after energy secretary Steven Chu…
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On 21 June 2010 more than 200 financiers and clean energy experts witnessed presentations supporting the construction of biomass, biogas and small hydropower plants, as well as clean transport projects, at the Philippines Clean Energy Investors Forum in Manila. This is the second time the forum has taken place and is organised by the CTI Private Financing Network (CTI). The presentations were…
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