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The green light has been given for a new renewable power station at Shoreham Port, UK this month. Plans for the electricity generating facility, set to cost around £20 million (€23.6 million), were passed by Adur District Council committee. Construction will be handled by Edgeley Green Power and the facility will cover one acre next to the existing Shoreham power station on Fishergate…
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The development of a UK biogas network has received funding by renewable energy concern Wrap to assess its feasibility. The funds will go to bioeconomy consultants NNFCC and biomathane injection providers CNG Services, who will both work with Cheshire-based farmers, to begin looking into this field. ‘The idea of a hub of farms feeding the national grid with low carbon gas is…
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US-headquartered biomass supplier Rentech has acquired Fulghum Fibres in Georgia to extend its wood pellet portfolio. The purchase means Rentech can now convert two mothballed facilities in Canada into pellet mills along with contracts with Drax Power and Ontario Power Generation for the sale and delivery of over four million tonnes of product overt 10 years. ‘This will launch us into the…
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The US Department of Forestry has invested millions of dollars into boosting biomass use throughout Maine. The $11.4 million (€8.6 million) has gone towards the Fuels for Public Buildings grant which aims to bring 24 biomass conversion projects online in the likes of schools, public buildings and hospitals across the state. The latest project, at an education centre in Ashland, is scheduled…
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Small and medium enterprises in north west Europe can apply for Innovation Coupons to help them assess the feasibility of taking a bio-based idea or technology to industrial production. The  coupon scheme is being launched by Bio Base NWE, a new €6.2 million ($8.1 million) project funded under the INTERREF IVB NWE framework programme. A coupon, each worth up to €10,000, can be used…
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A fire broke out at US-based Michigan Wood Pellet Fuel (MWPF) facility in the small hours of 6 May. Firefighters were alerted after members of the public reported smoke and flames coming from the building as three departments were alerted to tackle the blaze. Captain Chris Tinney of the Holland Department of Public Safety was quoted as saying that the fire was contained to a small area of the…
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The Renewable Energy Association (REA), whose members include both large and small biomass developers and suppliers, has released a private letter sent in April to three green campaign groups which appealed for a review of their strategy of “promoting … misinformation” and “deliberately facilitating confusion” about biomass among the general public. The letter,…
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A new anaerobic digestion facility is set to be built on a campus at the Vermont Technical College (VTC), US. Ground has broken for construction to commence and it will use food and farm waste feedstock to heat the Randolph campus and deliver electricity to the grid in Vermont. ‘This facility will become a focus for education in renewable energy, waste management, sustainable agriculture,…
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A new £8 million (€9.4 million) anaerobic digestion facility in County Durham, UK is near completion as it reaches the end of its first phase. As the region’s first commercial food waste facility by Emerald Biogas (EB) nears completion, it is now planning the second phase after securing a number of feedstock contracts for food waste. EB will also explore the potential of biogas…
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A biogas digester project for households in Bali is set to be expanded according to local news sources. Gde Suarja, project co-ordinator for Yayasan Rumah Energi, has stated a target of 500 digesters throughout the country by 2014 is now the aim. ‘As of now, 405 units have been installed in 39 districts in nine regencies. We have targeted installation of 500 units by reaching out to more…
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A new biofuels plant in Sofia, Bulgaria has awarded the construction contract to Greek company Aktor-Helektor. The project, set to use waste as feedstock, is set to take 19 months to come to fruition and cost around €109.2 million ($142.8 million). This is the second renewable energy project for the capital city as it joins another bioenergy system which is set to reduce Sofia’s…
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Car rental brand Enterprise has made a large donation to the University of Missouri in respect to renewable fuel research. The $2 million (€1.5 million) gift, via Enterprise Holdings Foundation, will reportedly be used to research biofuels, biomass and energy efficiency. Missouri chancellor Brady Deaton was quoted as saying the money would be used to create an endowment to ‘support the…
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Hearings will be held to discuss a proposed biogas plant and manure digester in Wisconsin, US. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has earmarked the first gathering to consider an air pollution permit, the second for a discharge system permit. Both hearings will take place in May. The application to operate manure storage facilities, two biogas fired engines and anaerobic…
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The Florida Biofuels and Bioenergy Association wants state governor Rick Scott to veto a bill that would lift the 2008 state law requiring petrol sold by a terminal suppliers or wholesalers to be blended with ethanol.‘We are disappointed in this step by the Florida Legislature as they’re telling both investors and the people who are working in bioenergy, biofuel and biotechnology that…
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