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Following two-and-a-half years of planning, Harper Adams University College, located in Edgmond, UK will finally see work begin on its £3 million (€3.6 million) renewable power system. The turf cutting ceremony took place on 4 August and brought together all the major partners, including plant designer BiogenGreenfinch, energy company E.ON and local contractor Adonis Construction. The…
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Construction has commenced on biogas company Swedish Biogas International’s plant in Flint, Michigan, US. The biogas facility is being built at Flint’s wastewater treatment plant and, once completed, will produce electricity from human waste. Phase 1 of the build is expected to cost more than $4 million (€3.01 million).
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Greener for Life (GfL), a food and energy supplier based in the UK, recently submitted an application to build an anaerobic digester in Rackenford, Devon. However GfL’s plans have been dashed after the application was turned down by councillors. The plant, expected to cost in the region of £25 million (€29.7 million), would have processed cow slurry, crops and food waste, 40,000 tonnes…
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Following an announcement in July this year that food retailer Waitrose had submitted a planning application to the council that could see its 18,000 square foot supermarket in the Isle of Wight powered by biomass, the company is now switching to green transport fuel. Five of Waitrose’s home delivery vans – Mercedes Sprinters – will run on liquid biomethane (LBM), a renewable vehicle fuel…
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A power station in Nebraska is set to replace some of its coal with biopellets thanks to a new deal. Biomass supplier Next Step Biofuels signed a letter of intent with Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) to test burn 2,200 tonnes of Next Step's corn stover PowerPellets. PowerPellets will replace up to 5% of the coal burned in one of OPPD's North Omaha Station boilers during the…
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In Washington, US, Nippon Paper Industries is planning the construction of a cogeneration plant. The $71 million (€53.5 million) facility will be built at its mill in Port Angeles and generate steam and electricity from forest biomass that would otherwise remain unused or be burned. The biomass will produce 20MW of energy which will be sold to utility companies, while the new plant will add…
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In Scotland, joint venture TEG Biogas is to construct and operate a 16,000 tonne-a-year food waste anaerobic digestion plant in Glenfarg, Perthshire. TEG Biogas has been awarded a grant for approximately 20% of the plant and equipment capital funding (700,000) by Zero Waste Scotland, the Scottish Government funded organisation that provides support to the waste and recycling sector. The grant…
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Its neighbour Germany may lead the European biogas race, but thanks to loans Poland is well on its way to contending for the title. The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, an EU programme, will allocate z? 500 million (€123.65 million) in loans and subsidies to agricultural biogas plant development over the next three years. Overall biogas plant construction…
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Producer of natural gas-burning engines, Vancouver, Canada-based Westport Innovations, is to manufacture engines for motor company Volvo after it signed an agreement to develop products that will run off biogas and natural gas. Although the company refused to divulge any information surrounding the new engine products, Westport explained that it would be repaid for the engineering and related…
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UK-based energy provider Peel Energy is currently developing a large-scale biomass plant planned for Tafford, Manchester, UK. Costing £70 million (€83.5 million) to build, the biomass facility will generate 20MW of energy from recycled wood, agricultural waste and energy crops. This is enough to provide 37,000 homes with energy – almost a third of Trafford borough’s population. The…
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Near Kiev, Ukraine, the country’s first biogas cogeneration plant at the Ukrainian Milk Company has been operating successfully for nine months. Converting the manure from 4,000 cows into biogas, the plant employs a Jenbacher gas engine manufactured by GE Energy, a company serving the energy sector by developing and deploying technology that makes efficient use of natural resources. The…
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In the town of Warminster, Wiltshire, UK, property developer and energy supplier Malaby Martin Ltd. has been granted planning permission for the construction of a biogas plant. Wiltshire Council approved the plant, which is planned for Bore Hill Farm – a redundant smallholding consisting of a farmhouse, disused outbuildings and 12 acres of land. Employing anaerobic digestion technology for…
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Construction has begun on what will soon be Hungary’s largest biogas plant. The Hungarian division of Germany-based Aufwind Neue Energien laid the facility’s cornerstone on 16th July this year in Szarvas, southeast Hungary. Costing HUF 3.9 billion (€13.5 million) to build the plant will produce 4.2MW of energy each year. The project, expected to be completed early next year, received…
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Following the closure of a number of sawmills throughout Lake County, Oregon, US, a new biomass plant is being developed for the region. Planned to be built alongside the country’s last remaining sawmill, the project will be Iberdrola Renewables’ first fully owned and operated biomass power plant. Renewable energy company Iberdrola Renewables received a $1.7 million (€1.3 million)…
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