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Agribusiness and biodiesel producer Cargill has launched a second manure-to-biogas project in the US. The project is up and running at the Bettencourt Dairy B6 Farm in Jerome, Idaho. It uses manure produced by the farm’s 6,000 cows, generating enough renewable methane to make electricity for about 1,100 typical homes. This is Cargill’s third foray into dairy cow biogas in Idaho. The…
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Tanquid, OPEC, Vopak, Mestilla, Petrom, Amerifina Bio-Fuels, Noil Energy Group, Enamo, MÜNZER Bioindustrie, OK a.m.b.a, LSPO Oy, BTP Biodiesel, Slovnaft, GREENEA, Noil Energy Group, Coalandoil, italgest, Shimadzu Europa, Camlin Fine Chem, Transpetrol – just some of the names registered for the third Bioenergy International expo & conference, organised by leading global publication Biofuels…
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Hawaii-based ClearFuels Technology has signed a letter of agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to build a biorefinery in Colorado. ClearFuels will receive an initial $7.7 million (€5.6 million) toward the construction of the Colorado refinery as part of an overall $22.6 million DoE grant. The ClearFuels-Rentech biorefinery in Colorado is scheduled to be completed by the end of…
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Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Antti Pasanen (AP), Doctor of Technology for St1 Biofuels, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May. BI: What is the main subject of your presentation? AP: I am going to give a speech, about new…
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It is estimated that the UK will be left with a shortage of wood chips following the increase of commercial-scale biomass-to-energy plants. According to a report from the Confederation of Forest Industries (Confor) titled Wood Fibre Availability and Demand in Britain 2007-2025, Britain will, for the first time, become reliant on wood chips and pellets as the demand for biomass will exceed…
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The Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) is getting support from the top. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved almost 5,000 agreements for the delivery of more than 4.18 million tonnes of biomass. Aside from the 4,605 agreements it has also paid eligible biomass owners $165,274,695 (€123,201,542 in matching payments under the first phase of the Biomass Crop…
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The smell was not enough – plans to build a controversial biogas plant in the UK are going ahead despite hefty opposition. Plans submitted by S S Agriservices for a £4 million (€4.58 million) anaerobic digestion unit on land at Attleborough Poultry Farms in Norfolk won approval despite 150 letters of objection about the possible smell. The process uses bacteria to break down organic…
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The Ontario Government in Canada will invest more than CA$8 billion (€5.96 million) in 184 renewable energy projects across the province. Ontario coalition The Green Energy Act Alliance says the sums will bring 2,500MW of renewable projects to the province and help Ontario replace all of its coal-fired power plants by 2014. Of the 184 planned projects seven are biogas, two biomass, four…
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The upcoming Bioenergy International expo & conference is now only weeks away and only a few places remain for the free plant tour that comes with the delegate pass You can listen to presentations from H.E. Mr. Jan Dusík, Minister of the Environment for the Czech Republic, Ivan Soucek, CEO, Ceska Rafinerska, Marc Gillmann, Bioenergy expert, Total, Miroslav Bažata, Head of biofuel sales,…
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A French energy company has claimed it will begin construction on the world’s largest biomass plant in Poland. GDF Suez will build the plant with a capacity of 190 megawatts (MW) at a cost of €240 million. GDF Suez intends to double its overall renewable capacity by 2013 to 25,000MW. Currently the company derives 20% of its production capacity from renewable energies. The group has 695MW…
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In the UK two projects that will see Cumbrian farmers producing renewable energy from agricultural materials have been granted planning permission. These projects will generate electricity from manure and energy crops using anaerobic digester (AD) units. Community Renewable Energy North West (CoRE NW) is planning to develop a group of energy farms, the first of which is the Blackdyke energy…
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In Idaho, US, agribusiness giant Cargill’s second biogas project is up and running at the Bettencourt Dairy B6 farm in Jerome. Using anaerobic digestion (AD), the manure from the farm’s 6,000 cows is turned into methane, which is then burned in generators to create electricity. Cargill’s biogas project is producing enough renewable methane to generate electricity for approximately 1,100…
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According to a new report, ‘Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? Growth, competition and opportunity in the world’s largest economies,’ China is the front-runner for investing in renewable technology, while the US and the UK are trailing behind in second and third places. In 2009 the UK invested around $11.2 billion (€8.3 billion), while China invested around three times this with…
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Green wastewater management company Freedom Environmental Services, headquartered in Orlando, US, has signed a contract that will see 26 acres of unused land in Brevard County developed into a waste-to-energy facility. The planned facility and full service wastewater treatment will make use of developed technologies such as anaerobic digestion (AD) and it is thought that this has the ability to…
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