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In Tolkkinen, Finland, sustainable technology and services supplier Metso has been selected to supply Porvoon Energia with a biomass boiler plant for the generation of combined heat and power (CHP). MW Power, a joint venture between Mesto and power solutions company Wärtsilä, will deliver the plant. The order is expected to be worth in the region of €15 million and is included in…
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Zorg Biogas Ukraine is to build a biogas plant in Zhytomyrsky region, Ukraine. Construction will begin in the spring later this year and upon completion, expected in Q3-Q4 2011, it will generate 1063kW of renewable electricity. The plant will process 60 tonnes a day of corn and grass silo, supplied by local agricultural businesses. While Zorg Biogas Ukraine will conduct the planning and…
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In Almaty, Kazakhstan, 20 compressed natural gas (CNG) fuelled buses have been launched in the city. The buses come just months after Kazakhstan's first CNG filling station opened in July. The vehicles, which are to be part of a 200-strong fleet, arrived in mid-December and will first be used to transport athletes during the Asian Winter Games in February, before beginning commercial operation in…
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Wood pellet manufacturer Enviva, based in Richmond, Virginia, is to build a pellet plant in North Carolina, US. The company considered sites in Alabama, Mississippi and North Carolina but with resources available in abundance, its close distance to ports and lots of skilled labour, the town of Ahoskie in Hertford County was the ideal location for Enviva. Speaking about the location John…
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Construction of a biogas plant is underway in Voznesensk, Ukraine, after it commenced yesterday. In addition to the biogas plant, which will generate 3120m3 of biogas a day from corn silo, energy plants and biomass, the governmental executive committee of Voznesensk has opened a cogeneration plant. Using 130m3 of natural gas, the plant will produce 400kW of electricity and 540kW of thermal…
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The Welsh Assembly has passed a new Environment Bill (Wales) that will cap the amount of waste sent to waste-to-energy plants. Set to come into effect in 2017, the Bill will require businesses to limit the amount of recyclable waste being sent for incineration and a ban on disposable food waste being discarded in sewers. Any businesses that fail to comply with the new regulations will…
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In the UK Evonik New Energies UK is continuing work on its first biomass plant in Ridham Dock, Kent. The combined heat and power (CHP) plant will handle approximately 160,000 tonnes of landfill-diverted wood waste annually for the generation of 25MW of electricity, significantly reducing CO2 emissions. The electricity produced will be supplied to the National Grid, with potential to utilise…
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Noble Group, a Hong Kong-headquartered agricultural, industrial and energy products company, has acquired two sugarcane/ethanol mills in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Both the mills, Catanduva and Potirendaba, are fully operational, situated 50km apart from each other and located just over 100km from Noble’s UNP facility. Catanduva has a nominal sugarcane crushing capacity of 4.6…
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The UK government has set targets stating that 12% of all heat will be generated from a renewable source by 2020. This will be supported by the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), confirmed by Westminster in October 2010. With this in mind renewable energy consultancy Natural Power has developed a rapid ‘heat assessment’ package aimed at small-scale biomass projects which provides initial…
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Dedicated to the engineering, construction and installation of coal-fired power plants, Chinese company Wuhan Kaidi Electric Power is to purchase three biomass plants. The plants, Suqian Kaidi Green Energy Development, Wanzai Kaidi Green Energy Development and Wangjiang Kaidi Green Energy Development will be acquired from China-based Wuhan Kaidi Holding Investment for a consideration of CNY 296…
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The construction of a 25MW biomass power plant proposed for Oregon, US, can now move forward after the La Pine, Oregon, city council denied an appeal against the project. Renewable energy developer Biogreen Sustainable Energy is behind the plans. Around 25,000 bone dry tonnes (BDT) of the biomass utilised at the plant will be forest thinning materials from Biogreen’s own timberland holdings…
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In the US the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (UWO) is to install a dry fermentation anaerobic biodigester for the production of biogas from yard and food waste. Designed by BIOFerm Energy Systems, a provider of clean renewable energy solutions, the $3.5 million (€2.6 million) plant will generate 3071MW a year of electricity and 4183MW a year of heat for the campus. Any excess power will be…
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In the city of Waterville in Maine, US, the construction of a biomass cogeneration plant has begun. The $11.2 million (€8.36 million) facility, located in Colby College, will produce heat from steam and electricity from hot water, replacing approximately 1 million gallons of heating fuel a year. According to college estimates, the plant will pay for itself within six to 10 years. A…
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Metso, a global supplier of sustainable technology and services, is to supply Oü Helme Energia with a biomass power plant for combined heat and power (CHP) in Helme, Estonia. Oü Helme Energia is a subsidiary of AS Graanul Invest, a private capital-based company dealing with bioenergy and renewable energy production. MW Power, a joint venture between Metso and Wärtsilä dedicated to…
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