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The European Union (EU) has funded a project based in Brazil, which aims to harness the combined power of positioning and reflectometry technology in order to create a low-cost, unmanned aerial platform for biomass mapping of the Brazilian Amazon forest. Not only is Brazil a large country but much of it is covered by the dense Amazon rainforest. In a statement on the European Commission website,…
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Biffa, one of the UK’s leading integrated waste management companies, has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Cory Environmental’s municipal, industrial and commercial collection business for £13.5 million. For the year ended 31 December, 2015 Cory Environmental reported total revenues of around £34 million. The business employs a total of 800 people. In…
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Valmet has received an order from energy firm Kotkan Energia to modernise the turbine automation and to supply a new turbine controller to the Hovinsaari biomass-fired power plant in Kotka, Finland. The new automation will be started up in September to improve turbine reliability and availability. The order was included in Valmet's first quarter 2016 orders received. The value of the order is not…
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Bioenergy has the significant potential to become a pillar in the future energy portfolio of cities, according to a new report by the World Bioenergy Association (WBA). The new study from World Bioenergy Association addresses the challenges cities are facing within the global climate mitigation policy and explains the contributions biomass can offer to reduce the use of fossil fuels in…
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Utility firm E.ON Denmark has opened a 300,000 tonne per year (tpy) organic waste to biogas anaerobic digestion (AD) facility, called Grøngas Vraa. In a statement, the company said that the 115 million crown ($17.5 million) facility will produce biomethane from manure and organic wastes and is directly connected to the Danish gas network. The new biogas plant in Vrå ,…
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The European Parliament’s Environment Committee has released a draft report suggesting amendments to the Waste Framework Directive proposals set out in the Circular Economy Package (CEP) last year.  The European Parliament rapporteur for the EU Circular Economy Package, Italian MEP Simona Bonafè, wrote the report for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food…
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Quantum Biopower, a Connecticut, US, firm, has received approval from the Southington Planning & Zoning committee to build a food recycling and anaerobic digestion facility in the city. Quantum notes that the facility, when completed, will be the first of its kind in the state.  The facility is expected to cost around $12 million. To assist in the financing, the company received a $2…
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Tokyo-based First Energy Service Co. has announced that it will shed its sole solar power project and shift its focus to biomass, according to media reports. According to a report in Bloomberg, the company has restructured its business units to focus on woody biomass facilities. It is also expecting strong government subsidies to continue backing its vision. First Energy currently operates two…
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The UK will continue to work with Europe in a number of areas, including improving the environment, the former Mayor of London Boris Johnson has said. Writing in his weekly column in The Telegraph, the bookies’ favourite to be the UK’s next prime minister said: “I cannot stress too much that Britain is part of Europe, and always will be. “There will still be…
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PHI Group, a US public company focused on conventional energy and renewables, announced that the company has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire a wood pellet manufacturing company in southeastern US. The identity of the target company and certain details will be kept confidential until closing, PHI Group said in a statement. The total purchase price for 100% of the operation, excluding…
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Raw Biogas, a UK anaerobic digestion (AD) plant developer, has submitted a planning application for an £8 million biogas plant in Northamptonshire. But the project, to be located at Wormslade Farm and projected to process 46,000 tonnes of manure and crops annually to power 2,500 homes, is facing local resistance, BBC reports. Clipston Parish Council – smallest local authority unit in…
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Danish power plant developer Burmeister & Wain Scandinavion Contractors (BWSC) has begun the construction of a £140 million biomass plant in the UK. BWSC took possession of the development site situated at Discovery Park near Sandwich, Kent, earlier this month, and the building is projected to be finished in two years, reports Thanet Gazette. The project is expected to create 300 jobs…
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The £25 million Guardbridge Energy Project in Scotland moved a step closer to completion when the Vital Energi project team took delivery of a 6.5MW biomass boiler furnace. The furnace made the 1,300 mile journey from Sweden, where it was manufactured at Jernforsen’s facility in the remote town of Järnforsen. The biomass boiler and furnace is 10m high, will weigh more than 130…
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The US House of Representatives’ has been presented with a bill to increase the number of biogas application that qualify for the federal Section 45 investment tax credit. Currently only biogas-based electricity projects are eligible for the 30% tax credit, but the bill – titled the Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Act or H.R. 5489 – would see other biogas application, such…
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