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Costing in the region of $8.8 million (€7.1 million) and developed with the aim of slashing the US-based Northern Nevada Correction Center’s utility bills, Nevada’s first biomass project has been deemed unsuccessful. The biomass plant burns wood for the generation of heat and power. It was originally thought that it would be able to heat all of the water used at the prison, as well as…
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The 500-acre Lower Reule farm has begun the operation of its £3 million (€3.5 million) anaerobic digestion (AD) biogas facility in Staffordshire, UK. The plant will produce 1.3MW of electricity from a combination of feedstocks. 12,750 tonnes of food waste collected from local supermarkets and food producers will be the main source of power but 1,250 tonnes of maize silage and 1,000 tonnes of…
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Scotland, UK-based leisure firm John O’Groats Leisure is set to install a biomass boiler after receiving a £51,808 (€60,525) grant from the Scottish Biomass Heat Scheme. The company will use the boiler to heat its two properties Caberfeidh Guest House and the Seaview Hotel. It will be located at the guest house but heat will also be transported to the hotel across the road via a pipe…
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Sweden’s vision to produce 50% of its energy from sustainable sources by 2020 looks extremely likely since 32% of its energy is already generated from biomass. The government is striving for the nation to become 100% fossil-free by the year 2030 and as a result investments in the sector have soared over the past few years. However, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly, logs and wood…
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Turkey’s new biogas plant will be launched in July this year before it becomes fully operational at the beginning of 2011. The plant, which was built by Austrian-based biogas engineering company Enbasys GmbH, will use ENBAFERM multi-feedstock biogas technology to process around 55,000 tonnes of municipal and industrial waste each year. The biogas produced will be used to generate electricity…
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In Castle Bytham, Lincolnshire, UK, an application filed by Bygen Power for the construction of a biogas plant has received unanimous objecting votes from Castle Bytham parish council in an attempt to block the build on a nearby farm. Deemed as too large and in the wrong place, local residents have expressed woes about vehicle noise and pollution, and the possibility of water contamination.…
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In a bid to reduce Cuba’s carbon dioxide emissions and save money the Rum Mulata factory in central Villa Clara province, Cuba, has begun replacing its two tonnes of diesel-a-day supply with 7m3 of biogas. The rum factory is based in the Heriberto Duquesne Sugar Company and uses a 70/30 blend of oil and biogas respectively to generate 12 tonnes of steam every hour. Repairs are currently…
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Sustainable energy provider Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) is due to begin the construction of its £13.5 million (€15.9 million) biogas facility in North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, by the end of May. With support in the form of £2.2 million from the Scottish Government the Ayrshire renewable waste treatment plant is the first in a long line of planned AD plants throughout Scotland. …
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The majority state-owned oil and gas firm PTT Plc is due to invest THB300 million (€7.5 million) on the development of vehicles powered by biogas in Thailand. Agricultural waste will be converted into methane and used as an alternative to fossil fuels in vehicles. ‘The idea is aimed at using methane gas for vehicles in rural areas that are located too far from natural gas for vehicles…
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Located at the Budd Inlet Treatment Plant in Washington State, US, a biogas and energy efficiency project costing over $2 million (€1.5 million) is set to save the sewage agency around $228,000 in annual utility costs. The $2.4 million project will capture methane gas from a sewage treatment plant that will then be used to power machinery at the plant. The heat generated will be utilised by…
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UK-based clean tech firm ENER-G has switched on a biogas from wastewater project in Budapest, Hungary. Described as one of Europe’s most ambitious biogas from wastewater schemes, the Living Danube programme is Europe’s largest environmental investment currently under implementation. ENER-G Energia Technologia Zrt., the Hungarian subsidiary of ENER-G, has designed and built a €2.6 million…
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Energy company Electrabel and France-based electricity generation and distribution firm GDF Suez Group have launched a €40 million biomass generating system at the Gelderland power station in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The Gelderland power station originally burnt coal but the conversion will result in around one quarter of this being replaced by wood pellets. With a total capacity of…
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Energy company Dalkia is to undertake its largest biomass project to date and invest €70 million on the construction of two biomass generators in Poland. Owned by French energy firm EDF and Veolia Environnement, this is the Dalkia Group’s largest biomass combustion project so far. A statement released by Dalkia said: ‘The investment of €70 million, which is to generate around €364…
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John Ibbett, chairman of the AD group Biogen Greenfinch located in Bedfordshire, UK, manages 5,500 acres of land, 23,000 pigs sold to the likes of Tesco and J Sainsbury and an annual production 12.5 million litres of Bedfordshire herd slurry. With the enforcement of government laws such as the taxation on rubbish sent to landfill sites as a way of reducing waste, Ibbett’s agribusiness then…
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