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Biogas plant developer Agri Capital and technology provider BioWatt Developments are to work closer together following the completed signing of a mutual cooperation framework agreement. Agri Capital will use the agreement to help springboard its attempt to break into the UK market from Europe, where it operates 80 biogas plants throughout Germany, while BioWatt seeks to capitalise on further…
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US-based technology provider ArborGen has signed a long-term partnership with the College of Charleston Foundation to support forest conservation and restoration efforts. Its first order of business was to donate 75,000 Longleaf Pone seedlings that will be planted over the next few months across 144 acres of Dixie plantation. ‘We are grateful for ArborGen’s partnership,’ says…
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Global research company FuturaGene, which focuses on plant genetics development for forestry, biopower and biofuels markets, is to collaborate with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture research organisation EMBRAPA after the signing of a cooperation framework agreement. The pair will research eucalyptus and other tree species with an aim of increasing the development of sustainable energy…
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US-based Enova Wood Pellet Group has signed a long-term port agreement as it looks to solidify a presence in Georgia and South Carolina. The deal was inked with Georgia Kaolin Terminals (GKT) and will provide Enova with enough capacity to export up to 1.35 million tonnes of wood pellets via the facility in Savannah. GKT is a subsidiary of the Colonial Group. ‘This is a milestone for Enova…
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Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has announced contracts to supply thousands of tonnes of biomass wood pellets to a large facility in northwest Ontario. The Atikokan Generating Station will receive 45,000 tonnes of pellets from Atikokan Renewable Fuels, while another 45,000 will be delivered by Resolute Forest Products Canada (RFPC). OPG believes these contracts will boost the northwestern Ontario…
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The Fairmont ethanol plant has now changed ownership from Advanced Bioenergy to Flint Hills Resources as previously reported by Bioenergy Insight. The acquisition was announced on 7 December but the finances have not yet been revealed. It is believed that Flint Hill will be looking to appoint four new members of staff at the plant based in Nebraska. The plant has a capacity of 115 million gallons…
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The first UK Green Investment Bank was officially opened by business secretary Vince Cable in November. Headquartered in Edinburgh, with a large presence also in London, the bank will use £3 billion ($4.8 billion) of government money to invest in sectors like carbon capture and storage, renewable energy and energy efficiency measures. Cable believes the bank will place green economy at the…
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Hong Kong-based investment company Greenheart Group is set to use bioenergy to power one of its tropical hardwood processing facilities. It has signed multiple agreements with various suppliers and contractors to construct a bioenergy plant which will generate power for the processing facility in West Suriname from its own wood waste. Greenheart claims the plant will convert five tonnes of wood…
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Renewable fuel producer Fulcrum Bioenergy has received multi-million dollar financing for a new facility in the US. The total amount comes to $175 million (€134 million) and construction of the Sierra Biofuels municipal solid waste to low-carbon fuels facility represents Fulcrum’s foray into such a plant. ‘The current IPO market environment remains challenging, especially for…
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A new laboratory to develop technologies to produce high-value chemicals from biomass has opened in Singapore. The Metabolic Engineering Research Laboratory was officially opened by the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES) in December and will design and drive factories that can produce cost-efficient wastes.  ‘Most of the world's current chemicals and chemical-based…
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Advanced biorefinery owners Borregaard has received a multi-million grant from the Research Council of Norway to further wood processing projects. The grant totals NOK 30 million ($5.3 million) and will be spread on projects over a three year period. Borregaard won the investment after submitting three applications for funding on projects within the areas of lignin products for use in concrete,…
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The UK renewable energy company Drax has pulled out of a £1 billion (appr. €1.4 billion) project to introduce carbon capture technology to cut emissions. The company says it remains committed to fulfilling its current work on a carbon capture and storage (CCS) feasibility and technology development project (FEED), but once completed, would not be investing further and will withdraw as…
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A new combined heat and power plant is up and running in Germany. The $44 million (€34.4 million)GBE Gocher Bioenergie facility, a joint venture between RWE Innogy and Goch municipal utility, has a capacity for 7.6MW of electricity and 28MW of heat. It will used landscaping wood as feedstock. The nearby Nähr -Engel food production facility will benefit from around 130,000 tonnes of…
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Three companies signed a biogas supply agreement at the official opening of the Suiker Unie biomass fermenator in Vierlaten, the Netherlands. Suiker Unie will produce biogas from around 100,000 tonnes of vegetable residues, including sugar beet, while GasTerra will transport the gas which will be purchased by BioMCN. The new facility increases Suiker Unie’s current biogas capacity to a…
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