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Greenbelt Resources Corporation has received “Eco Friendly Technology” registration for its ECOsystem process. Greenbelt claims that the certification gives the company a greenlight to offer its waste-to-energy process as a solution available to address Indonesia’s food waste challenge. Indonesia is the world’s second biggest ‘food waster’ after Saudi…
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The Bioenergy Insight Conference, a world-leading bioenergy event, will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 4 and 5 October 2017, covering the whole bioenergy supply chain. The show will focus on all the new developments and the latest challenges. Topics covered in the seminars include the global biomass market, financing bioenergy projects and ensuring sustainability at scale. The debut…
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Hong-Kong based China Everbright International has secured another contract for a waste-to-energy project in Shandong province, China. This is the company’s 18th waste-to-energy project in Shandong province. The company said that the Qihe project will be developed and constructed on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) model for a concession period of 30 years. The waste-to-energy project, which…
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The Canadian government is set to invest $2.6 million (€1.8 million) into Sustane, a Halifax, Nova Scotia based waste-to-energy company. Sustane claims to have developed a new process which converts municipal solid waste into clean burning fuel and other recycled products. The investment will be used to scale up Sustane’s technology, supporting the creation of a demonstration facility…
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Nine EU Member States have asked the European Commission (EC) for permission to pollute above national limits set in EU law, according to the European Environmental Bureau (EBB). Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland and Luxembourg have all asked for the limits that should have been met in 2015 to be raised so that they no longer appear to have breached them. The…
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Philippines-based property development firm MRC Allied and China-based engineering group Guangdong Power Engineering Co. (GPEC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities in the renewable energy sector. “The purpose of the MOU is to confirm that both parties have an interest in developing renewable-energy projects in the Philippines as identified by MRC…
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The UK’s renewable energy industry, including heat, power and transport, employed a record 125,940 people in 2015/16, according to a new report. The report is called REView 2017 and is the sector’s authoritative annual publication. The number of jobs grew by 2.5% between 2014/15 and 2015/16, a significant decline in growth from two years previous when growth was at nearly 9%. REView…
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Norway-headquartered Geminor has signed a new agreement to supply refuse-derived fuel (RDF) to the Amager Bakke energy-from-waste plant in Copenhagen, Denmark. Part of a contract to supply 30,000 tonnes of waste to support the commissioning of the plant, the delivery marks the agreement’s commencement, which will see Geminor manage the transport of RDF material from producers in the UK and…
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Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has invested €25 million in subscribing to Lithuania’s first green bond issuance, made by the country’s leading energy supplier Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy). The money will go towards supporting both biomass and waste-to-energy facilities in the Baltic country, alongside a range of other renewable energy sources. The investment comes under…
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Chris Stark, the Scottish government's director of Energy and Climate Change, will be the keynote speaker at Bioenergy Insight’s Conference & Expo 2017. The conference will take place from 4-5 October in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stark is leading the development of Scotland’s approach to emissions-reduction and the accompanying energy system transition. His team provides advice to…
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The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has published its July Short-Term Energy Outlook, which among other things shows the administration’s expectations for bioenergy and biofuel’s roles in the US energy supply. In the report, EIA says total generation from renewables in the electric power sector is set to increase by 11% in 2017, and then remain relatively unchanged in 2018.…
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UK biogas plant specialist Agrivert has opened a new anaerobic digestion plant in North London. Councillor Richard Thake, chairman of Hertfordshire County Council, officially opened the facility. This is the company’s fifth AD plant. Designed and constructed by the Agrivert team, the new North London AD facility was constructed in just 11 months and is already operating at full power…
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New research shows that biogas generated from food and drink byproducts has growing potential as a low-carbon alternative to diesel in HGVs and other commercial vehicles. Published this week, the study was performed by Aker Associates for British bioenergy company Clearfleau. The focus of the report is biomethane generated by anaerobic digestion (AD) for use in the commercial vehicle market. It…
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The European Biomass Association AEBIOM has united with a range of renewable energy sources associations to urge MEPs to maintain priority dispatch for existing installations. A draft report published by Dr. Karins MEP proposes changes to the current dispatching regime for generating installations using renewable energy sources. In a letter, a range of renewable energy industry associations,…
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