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In two years’ time Belarus will be home to almost 40 new biogas power plants after the Council of Ministers directed 39 should be implemented by 2012. Once up and running the 39 plants will generate around 340kW/hr of electricity from biogas produced from biomass, manure, sewage and household waste. The investment needed to get this large-scale project off the ground is in the region of RUB…
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Infrastructure development company Gammon Infrastructure Projects and its special purpose vehicle (SPV) Punjab Biomass Power has commissioned its first biomass plant. The facility, located in Patiala, Punjab, India, uses rice straw and husk to generate 12MW of power, some of which is exported to the state grid. Gammon Infrastructure owns a 50% stake in the biomass plant, while its SPV has…
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Biogas power plant operator RuBa Energie has signed an agreement to purchase grass from clean energy company Viaspace. As part of the agreement, a test plot of five acres of Viaspace Giant King Grass was planted at the RuBa facility in Kevelaer, Germany, on 6 June 2010. The goal of the collaboration with RuBa is to produce an alternative, high yield, non-food feedstock for the more than 4,000…
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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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Submit your presentation abstract now for the upcoming Bioenergy International Asia expo & conference in Kuala Lumpur on 10-11th November. After last year’s successful show in Singapore the event, organised by Biofuels International magazine, is moving to Malaysia with the theme: improving profitability in biofuels production. The potential for biodiesel production across Asia is…
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Following plans to open the most up to date coal and biomass power plant in the city of Czestochowa, Poland, Finland-based energy company Fortum looks set to continue constructing facilities within the nation. In addition to the €130 million power plant with a generation capacity of 120MW of heat and 64MW of electricity, Fortum is also planning to build a combustion plant and a biomass power…
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Farmer-owned cooperative AG Processing’s (AGP) ethanol producing facility located in Hastings, Nebraska, US, has received a $275,000 (€226,000) grant from the Nebraska Energy Office. Combined with $50,000 of the company’s own funds the grant is expected to go towards reducing the amount of natural gas used at the site. Following the transformation of its anaerobic wastewater digester…
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Renewable energy firm Solutions Using Renewable Energy (SURE) is planning to invest up to $90 million (€74.3 million) within the next two years that will see the construction of a number of biogas-to-energy power plants in the Philippines. Using a combination of debt and equity, including funds from Asian Development and the World Bank, the top priority on SURE’s list of projects is its 30MW…
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With only a handful of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in operation throughout the UK, energy company Future Biogas is set to add to these numbers with plans to build an AD plant on the outskirts of Norwich county. The biogas plant will produce electricity from maize grown on approximately 1,000 acres of land and a local farmer who will grow the maize for the plant has already been secured. …
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If granted permission, a proposed biomass plant in Kent, UK, is due to convert thousands of tonnes of waste wood into heat and power. A joint venture between German Evonik New Energies and renewable energy firm HES Biopower, Biomass Power’s facility will utilise a yearly supply of 160,000 tonnes of wood for the generation of 25MW of power. 35MW of low-grade steam heat will also be produced…
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UK-based bioethanol producer Ineos Bio has received a £7.3 million (€8.77 million) grant from One North East and the Department for Energy and Climate Change towards the £52 million construction cost of its advanced bioethanol from waste plant. The plant, to be located at the Ineos Seal Sands site in the Tees Valley, is designed to produce 24,000 tonnes per year (30 million litres) of…
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For the first time the AEBIOM Bioenergy Conference & RENEXPO Bioenergy Europe will open its doors in the Albert Hall in Brussels, Belgium, from June 30th to July 1st. This joint event of the European Biomass Association (AEBIOM) and the REECO Group is an exclusive get-together of the European bioenergy industry. Strong partners were acquired for this event with a focus on bioenergy. The…
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In Bangladesh Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), a state-run non-banking financial institution, says it targets the installation of 36,000 biogas plants in the country by 2012. Experts say only 3% of people in the country living in cities are now receiving natural gas through pipelines for their household cooking and 70% of the total population are not getting it. Like…
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