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Following Australia’s lowest wood chip export figures in ten years, demand is on the rise. According to the Wood Resource Quarterly exports for pine chips have risen 38%, while eucalyptus chips are up 12%. In addition, around 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets are set to be transported to Europe by the end of this year. Australia saw its wood export market fall to a ten-year-low in 2009 when…
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Currently under construction in the town of East Cowes, Isle of Wight, is the island’s new 18,000 square foot Waitrose supermarket, which, when completed, could be fully powered by biomass. The retailer has submitted a planning application to the local council and if this is approved the new Waitrose will have permission to convert an electricity substation into a biomass plant. The facility…
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EXCLUSIVE: Unseasonably warm weather is affecting global demand for wood pellets, according to an industry expert. Speaking at the Argus Biomass 2016 conference held in London, Joao Rocha Paris, CEO of Portugal-based wood pellet firm Enerpar, said Europe was the main consumer of wood pellets in the world. However, he said due to three consecutive warm winters "we are facing a dramatic situation…
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In May this year the Lower Reule Bioenergy anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, supported by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), came online in Staffordshire, UK, with the ability to generate 1.3MW of power from 15,000 tonnes of waste. However it is expected that this will increase to 30,000 tonnes of waste a year once phase two of the development process is completed in October 2010.…
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In a bid to incorporate anaerobic digestion into its composting process, organic recycling firm Ceder Grove Composting has ventured with Germany-based green energy producer BioFerm Energy. ‘Cedar Grove is always seeking proven new technologies to bring waste materials to a higher use, for example, turning food waste into compost or energy,’ Ceder Grove Composting’s CEO Steve Banchero…
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Gameslack Farm, Wetwang, UK, is to be home to a new biomass plant after having been given the green light. Despite huge opposition from local residents, East Riding planning councillors granted permission for the project to go ahead. The plant, which was voted nine to six in favour by the councillors, will burn mostly straw for the generation of 12MW power. Coun Paul Robinson, support…
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In Rwanda, southern Africa, a biogas plant has been constructed for Nsinda Central Prison in Rwamagana District, Eastern Province. The project is supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which came about in an attempt to reduce the amount of firewood being consumed at the prison. The commissioner general of prisons Mary…
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In Oregon, US, three projects dedicated to generating energy from sustainable sources have been awarded $3 million (€2.4 million) in government funding. The US department of Energy’s State Energy Program split the funds between the counties of Lake, Tillamook and Wallowa. The Lakeview Cogenerative project received $1.7 million to convert wood waste into bioelectricity and heat. The…
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The Colac Power Company, a joint venture between biological farming firm Camperdown Compost Company and green electricity developer Diamond Energy, is to build a biogas plant in the town of Colac, Victoria, Australia. The Victorian government has awarded the project with a $1.5 million (€1.2 million) grant to help build the plant. Once construction has been completed it will process organic…
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France-based energy provider GDF Suez is thought to be investing €5 million in a biomass plant located in Bansko, Bulgaria. GDF Suez representatives met with the town mayor Alexander Kravarov and privately owned French company Bul Eco Energy. GDF Suez will present Bansko Municipality with its investment offer by the end of July 2010. To date the French energy company has installed biomass…
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Construction has begun on what will be the world’s first commercial-scale biocoal pellet plant in Duiven, Gelderland province, the Netherlands. The €15 million plant, owned by German renewable energy provider RWE Innogy and torrified pellet manufacturer Topell Energy, has the capacity to produce 60,000 tonnes of pellets each year and should be up and running by 2011. Essent, a subsidiary…
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Gas and electricity provider British Gas and Adnams Bio Energy have completed the construction phase of their groundbreaking anaerobic digestion (AD) plant. Using waste from the brewery and left over food the venture will produce biogas that, in conjunction with the National Grid, will be injected into the grid sometime this year. The AD plant will be the first in the UK to produce biogas…
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With the support of the new UK coalition government anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas as a means of energy is set to boom, meet climate change targets and could eventually produce a massive 7 terawatts of energy. Anaerobic digestion, a natural process where organic matter is converted into energy, is the only renewable energy to be named a top priority by the new government, Lord Redesdale,…
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The European Commission (EC) is working on an energy-from-waste (EfW) communication that will address how the process can be optimised without compromising higher reuse and recycling rates, according to European Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella. Vella made the announcement while speaking at the Dutch Parliament on 4 April, 2016. He said that the European institution is aiming to adopt the…
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