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A new combined heat and power project makes up part of PowerSecure International’s new multi-million dollar business wins. The new business consists of $15 million (€11.5 million) of turnkey sales for distributed generation systems, including its IDG systems. A significant portion of the revenue for these new distributed generation awards relates to the CHP project, which will be split…
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UK power station Drax will plan to raise £180 million ($290 million) through a new share placing to support a change to becoming a predominately biomass-fuelled power generator. Three of the six Drax units will be converted to biomass meaning the site will be one of the largest renewable energy plants in Europe. The company is now looking to secure capital funding for the conversion, which…
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Food producer, distributor and marketer Del Monte is developing a Sh963.4 million (€8.65 million) biogas plant at its pineapple farm in Thika, Africa. Designed to generate 5MW of renewable electricity, the plant, expected to be the largest of its kind in the nation, will be consumed on site helping to save Del Monte millions in electricity costs. Any excess electricity will be sold to the…
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Biomass energy supplier Land Energy's new multi-million pound wood pellet production plant, based in Girvan in Ayrshire, Scotland, is operational. The facility has the capacity to manufacture 60,000 tonnes of wood pellets a year using locally-sourced timber from sustainable forests and sawmills within a 50-mile radius of the plant. This is enough to benefit more than 15,000 households. The plant…
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Clean energy project developer Punjab Biomass Power says it hopes to establish a number of rice straw-fired biomass plants with a total capacity of 96MW by 2017, Bloomberg reports. The first of these will cost 800 million rupees (€11.65 million) and is planned for the north of Punjab state. Punjab Biomass Power, 51% of which is owned by Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services and 40%…
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Covanta Energy's expansion of the H-Power renewable power plant in Honolulu in Hawaii has finished. The $302 million (€232 million) project has increased the plant's handling capacity by 900 tonnes to 3,000 tonnes per day of municipal solid waste (MSW). A third boiler has also been installed. Covanta Energy began expanding the facility at the end of 2009, before which it produced 5MW of…
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Technology supplier Metso is to provide a Swedish combined heat and power plant with a biofuel-fired boiler. The plant, based in Torsvik and owned by Jönköping Energi (JE), is expanding and the new 100MW unit will serve to help meet district heating and electric power needs of Jönköping municipality. The expansion the CHP plant represents a significant investment for the…
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Some biomass-related projects in the US are set to benefit from a new multi-million investment by the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP). REAP hopes to aid ranchers, farmers and small rural businesses fund renewable energy systems and energy-efficiency improvements. The new investment is $16 million (€12.3 million) and is earmarked for 244 projects. Grants for…
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Schools in India are set to benefit from plans by Kochi to introduce biogas plants to help convert waste into heat and power. Kochi will work with Suchitwa Mission to provide the systems to both government and aided schools under the umbrella theme of ‘My City, My Pride’, part of the Suchitwa Varsham waste management programme. ‘The biogas plants will be installed to treat waste…
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After six years of research and development BioPower Systems is set to construct its pilot demonstration plant just off the coast of Port Fairy, Australia. The plant has received a combined funding of AU$10.6 million (€8.4 million) from the Australian and Victorian governments and BioPower Systems has also sealed a new strategic partnership with large Chinese industrial organisation Shanghai…
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According to a new report the US surpassed Canada as the largest wood pellet exporter in the world for the first half of 2012. The report, compiled by the North American Wood Fibre Review, says both South US and British Columbia regions reached a record high of 760,000 tonnes of produce in the second quarter of 2012. An estimated figure of 1.5 million tonnes has been mooted to come from southern…
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The UK government’s u-turn on financial support for small-scale anaerobic digestion plants has been welcomed by many up and down the country. In its review of support for renewable energy published in July, the government had proposed removing ROC support for small new anaerobic digestion plants from 1 April 2013. But the u-turn now means facilities that produce between 50kW and 5MW…
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The US Department of Agriculture will supply a multi-million loan guarantee for a new biomass generating plant in Summit County, Ohio. An area of abundant beetle-killed trees has been considered as feedstock by various agencies and officials, but now the $40 million loan guarantee could see those discussions move to an actuality. It is believed any such project could eventually produce around…
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Energy technology supplier Metso has won the contract to convert the combustion technology at Kuopion Energia’s Haapaniemi Two in Kuopio, Finland. The change will use a shift from pulverized peat-fired combustion to fluidised bed technology. The rebuild will take place during the summer and early autumn of 2013, but the value of the order has not been disclosed.Kuopion Energia hopes the…
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