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UK chancellor Alistair Darling will announce a £1 billion (€1.1 billion) fund to inject investment in green transport and energy projects. The UK government is committed to reducing UK carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 and so changes in infrastructure and power generation will be needed over the coming decades. The Labour Government hopes to upgrade the transport system to use cleaner fuels…
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Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International magazine, and here Jaroslav Pesek, head of the quality department and strategic reserves at Czech state-run pipeline and storage terminal operator CEPRO, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May. CEPRO is heavily involved with…
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Biomass energy development company Helius Energy has been granted permission that will see the construction of an electricity plant at Avonmouth Dock, on the Bristol Channel, UK. The Department for Energy and Climate Change gave consent under Section 36 of The Electricity Act 1989 for Helius Energy to build a 100MW electricity-generation refinery that will be fuelled by biomass. The power…
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In Idaho, US, agribusiness giant Cargill’s second biogas project is up and running at the Bettencourt Dairy B6 farm in Jerome. Using anaerobic digestion (AD), the manure from the farm’s 6,000 cows is turned into methane, which is then burned in generators to create electricity. Cargill’s biogas project is producing enough renewable methane to generate electricity for approximately 1,100…
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According to a new report, ‘Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? Growth, competition and opportunity in the world’s largest economies,’ China is the front-runner for investing in renewable technology, while the US and the UK are trailing behind in second and third places. In 2009 the UK invested around $11.2 billion (€8.3 billion), while China invested around three times this with…
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Green wastewater management company Freedom Environmental Services, headquartered in Orlando, US, has signed a contract that will see 26 acres of unused land in Brevard County developed into a waste-to-energy facility. The planned facility and full service wastewater treatment will make use of developed technologies such as anaerobic digestion (AD) and it is thought that this has the ability to…
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The Growing Power Hairy Hill biogas facility’s plans to expand are being supported by the Canadian Government. Expansion of the existing demonstration-scale biogas plant represents the first phase in developing a larger integrated biorefinery capable of producing products such as green power, bio-fertiliser and fuel ethanol. The project includes the construction of new biogas capacity, the…
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Bioenergy International expo & conference is organised by leading publication Biofuels International (BI) magazine, and here Dag Roger Rinde (DRR), managing director of Statoil Energy & Retail Norway, provides an insight into what he will be speaking about at the event in Prague, Czech Republic, on 5-6 May. Statoil is the first company in Norway to offer 5% ethanol to general consumers,…
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A plant proposed for the city of Gretna, Florida, US, has been suspended for a period of six months. The proposal was filed by Adage and the company has requested for the state Department of Environmental Protection to delay working on its application. Work has halted work on the Gretna project. Proposal for the refinery was submitted in December 2009 but received negative reactions from over…
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In a bid to stop energy company Eco2 constructing an unwanted biomass plant in their neighbourhood in North Lincolnshire, UK, protesters have suggested an alternative site. If the biomass plant is given the go-ahead it will create enough biomass to power 65,000 homes but at a cost of spoiling the area of Scawby Brook. In a compromise campaigners suggested that the firm explores the former…
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In the US the newly-passed Forest Biomass Supply Agreements Bill (SB 6236) will allow the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to enter into long-term agreements to supply forest biomass from trust lands for energy projects/purposes. There are approximately 3 million acres of state trust land in Washington. The bill goes hand-in-hand with HB 2165, which was passed in 2009 to…
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India’s largest energy firms NTPC and Indian Oil Corp (IOC) are considering biodiesel production. The two companies will undertake research and development on an integrated biodiesel unit for developing new innovative technology. The biodiesel project is in line with the government-proposed policy on biofuels. The government is considering to replace 10% of petroleum product requirement in…
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In California Envirepel Energy plans to reopen the company’s first renewable energy facility after it temporarily closed in June last year to deal with a shareholder proxy effort. The company hopes the facility, which generates 2.5MW of power from biomass resources, will be operational again by the middle of April 2010. The plant, which was built in the centre of a commercial business park,…
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In North Carolina, US, the city of Charlotte’s first biomass power plant is due to be complete by 31 December. The North Carolina Utilities Commission has approved a $12 million (€8.87 million) 3.2MW proposed facility by Orbit Energy Filings with the commission that Orbit intends to sell the energy produced, a total of 23 gigawatt-hours annually, to Duke Energy for the next 20…
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