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Over 3,500 signatures have been gathered by protesters for a petition against a proposed biomass power station in Barrow, UK. The campaigning group, calling themselves Furness Opposes Biomass, is against a proposed 80MW power station from integrated energy company Centrica. They have named potential health problems and destruction of the landscape as reasons why they are campaigning. However, any…
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UK investment company Ludgate Environmental Fund (LEF) has put in a total of £14.1 million (€17.3 million) across three companies that deal in anaerobic digestion, biomass and waste heat recovery. As part of a £76.3 million project by Tamar Energy, LEF will invest £7 million to help it fund developments of food and mixed waste anaerobic digestion facilities that generate…
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Gloucester-based Markey Group has opened a new £1.1 million (Є1.35 million) biomass facility. The burner runs on wood waste generated by the subsidiary of Markey Group, Premiere Kitchens. On average, Premiere Kitchens creates approximately 2,350 tonnes of wood waste each year in the form of extracted chipboard dust and residual off-cuts. Previously, the majority of this would have gone to…
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The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) have thanked members of the Senate Agriculture Committee for reauthorizing farm programs that are valuable to the biotechnology industry and ensuring they have the funding to work. 'The Farm Bill's energy title and proposals to support biomanufacturing will help the United States maintain its competitive leadership in biotechnology, manufacturing and…
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EcoPellets's plans to burn an annual 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets at a 17MW solid biomass co-generation plant and a 14MW liquid biomass plant in Llangefni, are on the verge of falling through due to concerns about the potentially damaging effects they will have on local air quality as well as noise pollution worries. The £100 million (€122.98 million) plant was set to create a…
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In order to cut energy bills and make sure employees do not lose their jobs, a luxury spa hotel in Anglesey, UK has built a £500,000 (€607,000) biomass plant. The system at the plant, situated at the Tre-Ysgawen Hall Country House Hotel and Spa, at Capel Coch, near Llangefni, is able to produce 600kW of power, using woodchips as fuel, meaning that the £90,000 oil bill that is…
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Kedco has secured approximately £166,860 (€203,700.77) through a placing of 12,835,385 new ordinary shares (Placing Shares), with a number of existing and new investors, at an issue price of 1.3 pence per ordinary share. The proceeds are to be used for working capital purposes and for continuing investment in the Company's portfolio of biomass electricity and heat generation…
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A new co-digestion facility will be built in California after the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (SRCSD) joined forces to help produce renewable energy. Fats, oils, grease and liquid food processing waste will be used in the digestion system, producing power for a plant in the southern Sacramento County. As part of the American…
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The US Patent & Trademark Office has awarded NTE Energy a patent for its proprietary biomass hybrid renewable energy technology. This newly patented technology allows the simultaneous operation of a biomass energy cycle in unison with a traditional power plant. It integrates biomass and steam electric power, forming a single hybrid power facility that will offer shared equipment for both…
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Renewable energy company Harvest Power has raised $110 million (€760,000) in a funding round. True North Venture Partners were the leaders in the investment, with help from American Refining and Biochemical, as well as existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, Generation Investment Management and more. Harvest Power plans to use the funds to expand its operations…
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Dyadic International is a global biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, manufacture and sale of enzyme and protein products for the bioenergy, biochemical, biopharmaceutical and industrial enzyme industries. The company has announced that Abengoa Bioenergy New Technologies (Abengoa), has agreed to pay them $5.5 million for an expansion of its rights under the non-exclusive…
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UK-based food company PDM plans to invest £40 million (€48.5 million) into building a network of anaerobic digestion plants throughout this year. The plants, to be built under a project which the company has dubbed ReFood, will be built in Widnes and East London, UK. The two plants come after PDM’s first anaerobic digester was deemed a success after it was built at its…
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A recent study conducted by the Oregon State University (OSU) and a number of other universities located in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria, has suggested that the use of forest biomass may be responsible for higher greenhouse gas emissions and furthermore may not be sustainable. A depletion of soil nutrients, higher erosion risk, younger forests, loss of forest biodiversity and shorter…
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A demonstration coordinated by organisations Biofuelwatch, No Leith Biomass Campaign, Friends of the Earth Scotland and Grangemouth Community Council was joined by MSPs as they attempted to persuade the Scottish Government to reduce the "heavy subsidies" given to biomass plants. The protest, which took place outside Holyrood, was in reaction to the high subsidies being offered to wood-burning…
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