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A Staffordshire, UK-based waste collection firm has been awarded a £1.4 million (€1.6 million) grant to help finance the construction of its anaerobic digestion (AD) facility. John Pointon & Sons (JPS) received the grant from the government’s Waste Resource and Action Programme (WRAP) that will go towards funding its £12 million biomass facility in Cheddleton. Expected to be up and…
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A subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources, Ohio, US-based Renewafuel has finished the construction of its biomass cube fuel pellet plant in Gwinn, Michigan. The project, which was announced back in June 2008, cost $19 million (€13.85 million) to build and will create 25 new jobs when fully operational. Renewafuel, a provider of renewable energy for industrial and institutional applications,…
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In Sicily, Italy, RWE Innogy Italia is to build a biomass cogeneration plant after signing a construction agreement. Together RWE Innogy and its JV partner Fri-EI Green Power will own 90% of the project, while the remaining 10% will be owned by Infrastrutture e Gestioni S.p.A. Construction of the plant is expected to commence later on this year before it comes online in late 2012. When…
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Developer, owner and operator of renewable energy projects Methane Power is looking to raise $20 million (€14.59 million) to build a number of power projects in the US states of North and South Carolina. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Methane Power aims to generate up to 10MW of renewable energy from landfill gas (LFG) within the next 12 months. According to Methane Power’s founding…
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In Shropshire, UK, Bishop’s Castle Biomass Power looked set to acquire land on which it was planning to construct a biomass power plant. However a recent meeting saw the development scrutiny committee agree to send the matter back to the Shropshire Council’s cabinet to review its decision. Over 350 people attended the meeting to voice their concerns about the project and the committee’s…
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American Renewables, a Boston, US-based company which develops, builds and operates clean energy facilities, has secured a long-term supply deal for its 100MW biomass plant in Gainesville, Florida. The contract will see waste recycling firm Wood Resource Recovery supply around 50% of the total biomass fuel needed when operations at the plant commence towards the end of 2013. According to…
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The Japanese government has implemented a set of guidelines that could see the nation cut its CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 compared to levels in 1990. Japan is the fifth largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world and is looking to boost the amount of electricity generated from non-fossil fuels in a bid to cut these emissions by 25% by 2020. Currently just 34% of the country’s…
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Described as Spain’s ‘leading company in renewable energy through the use of biomass residue and energy crops,' forestry management company Ence has developed what will be the country’s largest biomass plant. On 20 September 2010 the project was approved by the Spanish government, an important hurdle to overcome as construction will be funded by state capital reserved for projects…
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South Korea-based contractor STX Heavy Industries is planning to build what will be Malaysia’s largest biomass cogeneration plant. The announcement comes after STX won a $50.20 million (€37.2 million) contract, awarded by the Malaysian firm Ebe, to construct the facility. Generating electricity from biomass, the power plant is expected to be completed by mid-2012.
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In Norfolk, UK, Breckland councillors have rejected plans to build a biomass plant. The project was submitted by Greenshoots Energy and included an anaerobic digester, a CHP plant and storage tanks. It would produce power from maize, chicken waste and cattle slurry before transferring the electricity to the National Grid. The principle planning officer for Breckland Nick Moys explains that…
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In New Hampshire, US, New York-based Laidlaw Energy Group has gained consent that will see the construction of a biomass plant in Berlin. Dedicated to developing power production facilities, Laidlaw Energy is now set to erect its $100 million (€74.27 million) plant at the site of the former Fraser Paper Mill. While Babcox and Wilcox will provide the EPC services, Homeland Renewable Energy…
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During the recession, as the cost of fossil fuels went down, so did the prices of woody biomass used for energy. However in the third quarter of 2010 biomass prices have risen in the south, the northwest and the southwest of the US, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review. Compared to the previous quarter prices for woody biomass, including sawmill by-products, forest residues and…
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In the town of Lahad Datu, Sabah, Malaysia, state-owned Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) is looking to acquire biomass derived from oil palm that will go towards the generation of power. According to the minister of industrial development Datuk Raymond Tan Shu Kiah, ‘The state cabinet has actually approved a budget provision to POIC for the purpose. The government is convinced that with the…
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Texas, US-based Greenville Energy is looking to build a biomass plant in Greenville that would generate 63MW of renewable energy from wood chips using infrastructure from the existing city-owned 87MW Powerlane plant. On 19 August 2010 the company applied for an air quality permit for the proposed facility from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. However, despite applying for the…
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