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The government of the West Africa-based country of Guinea-Bissau has signed an agreement with Chinese firm Shenyang Lan Sa Trading Co for the construction of a biomass power plant to supply energy to the cities of Bissau and Mansoa in the centre of the country. According to reports on Machuhub.com, Xuguang Li, president of Shenyang Lan Sa Trading Co, signed the contract. Shenyang Lan Sa Trading…
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UK-based biogas and landfill gas specialist ENER-G Natural Power has rebranded as Ylem Energy. This follows the transfer of the ENER-G trademark as part of Centrica’s recent acquisition of former sister company ENER-G Cogen International. The biogas business has developed more than 150MW of landfill gas-to-energy projects over the past 25 years in the UK, Poland, Mexico and South…
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EXCLUSIVE. The date for the publication of the post-2020 Renewable Energy Directive (RED) has been mooted by an industry expert speaking at a biofuels conference. An industry expert close to the sector, who spoke at the Argus Biofuels conference and wished not to be named, said that he believed  RED phase two was due to come out on 7 December, 2016. However, in a statement to Bioenergy…
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UK logistics specialist Stobart Group has seen its half-year pre-tax profits soar by 1700% to £10.8 million, up from £600,000 in the same period last year. The Group, which also has an energy division, claims it is the number one supplier of biomass in the UK, sourcing and supplying fuel to biomass plants under a mix of short and long-term contracts. Underlying profits, rose 252% from…
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German experts on CO2 utilization from the Nova-Institut have launched a petition for the full integration of renewable carbon capture and utilisation (rCCU) in the EU Renewable Energy Directive. According to the authors, the ongoing development of the 2030 Climate and Energy Framework and the reform of the RED is a unique opportunity to establish a regulatory framework in which rCCU is fully…
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A partnership between Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeenshire Council and Moray Council has been agreed that will see the three authorities work together on the next steps for the building an energy-from-waste (EfW) facility in the city. The agreement will see the three authorities work together on initial project and procurement development work on the £150 million facility which will help…
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Japan has turned to a German renewable energy firm Entrade Energiesysteme to generate power from timber irradiated by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdowns. According to media reports in Bloomberg, Entrade will sell electricity from 400 of its container-size biomass-to-power machines set up in Fukushima Prefecture, said Julien Uhlig. The devices will generate 20MW of power by next year and…
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Environmental organisations have used social media to try and influence European Commission members involved in the drafting of the post-2020 Renewable Energy Directive (RED). According to environmental group Dogwood Alliance, the messages originated from at least 29 counties across five continents. The messages reached nearly 1.5 million people worldwide. The social media action was part of the…
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US-based PHG Energy (PHGE) has opened its Tennessee gasification facility, according to a report by News Channel 5 Network. The gasification plant will save 16 million pounds of waste every year. The company signed a contract with the city in 2015 to build the plant, which will use scrap wood, tires and sewer sludge from Wilson County, Tennessee, and within a 20-mile area, because…
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Jersey-based investment firm 3i infrastructure has agreed to buy UK-based renewable energy supplier Infinis and its subsidiaries for £185 million (€206m). The investment specialist is expected to acquire all of Infinis's landfill gas assets by the end of November, using all of the capital raised in June this year. Infinis is the largest landfill gas (LFG) electricity…
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IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, issued a first-of-its-kind bond that gives investors the option of getting repaid in either carbon credits or cash, raising $152 million (€138.2m) to support private sector development and prevent deforestation in developing countries.  Each year, 5.5 million hectares of tropical forest area—an area approximately the size of Costa…
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Coal will not end energy poverty and increasing its share in the energy pool will actually increase poverty in poor countries, a new report says. According to a recent position paper by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), a UK think tank on international development, the coal industry is vouching for increased coal use to fight extreme poverty and improving energy access. In the paper ODI…
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The Paris agreement on climate change has come into force today (4 November, 2016). This marks the first time that governments have agreed legally binding limits to global temperature rises. Under the agreement, all governments that have ratified the accord, which includes the US, China, India and the EU, now carry an obligation to hold global warming to no more than 2C above pre-industrial…
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Statkraft, a European-based renewable energy giant, has said it has become the first international wood chip producer and supplier and trader to be certified under the Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP) certification scheme. "Statkraft fully subscribes to the SBP vision to provide economically, environmentally and socially sustainable wood fuel that contributes to a low carbon economy," said…
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