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Forest industry giant UPM has published new Finland-based forest portfolios for competitive bidding. Four of these portfolios are located in Kainuu, one in Pohjois-Savo and one in North Karelia. Additionally as a special portfolio the island Ärjänsaari located in the Lake Oulujärvi is included in the bidding process. The bidding process has two stages. First the parties interested…
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Investors managing more than $13 trillion of assets urged leaders of the Group of 20 to ratify a global climate deal by the end of 2016 and to step up efforts to shift from fossil fuels. According to media reports, a total of 130 investors, grouped in six coalitions, wrote a letter to G20 leaders and also called on them to double global investment in clean energy, develop carbon pricing and phase…
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IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will provide BRL 150 million (€41m) of long-term financing to CerradinhoBio, an ethanol and biomass-based electricity producer operating in the state of Goias, in Brazil. This investment will support the growth of the sugar and ethanol industry and help to further develop renewable energy production in the country.  Brazil is the world’s…
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The amount of household rubbish being rejected for recycling in England has increased by 84% over the past four years, according to a BBC report analysing government figures. A BBC Freedom of Information request found councils were unable to recycle 338,000 tonnes of waste in 2014-15 - up from about 184,000 tons in 2011-12. But Department for Environment data shows total recycled waste rose from…
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More than £13m in funding has been committed to a new anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Nottinghamshire, UK, that will generate renewable energy. The new facility at Stud Farm in Rufford will use poultry litter, straw, and other agricultural feedstock from adjacent farms to fuel a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, supplying electricity and heat to local businesses. Any surplus…
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot, which is part of DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE’s) National Laboratory Impact Initiative, in collaboration with national laboratories, supports small businesses to advance energy technology and help transform our biomass resources into commercially successful,…
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A driver in the UK has been taken to hospital after a crash which sparked a intense lorry fire on a busy dual carriageway. Two lorries collided on the A449 near Worcester at around on Tuesday morning (17 August, 2016). One of the vehicles, which was carrying wood chips, then burst into flames, according to the Birmingham Mail. An ambulance and a paramedic area support officer were…
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Renewable energy firm China Everbright International has boosted the amount of electricity produced from its energy projects for the six months ended 30 June, 2016. The firm made the announcement in its interim results published on 15 August, 2016. During the period under review, the Group's environmental energy projects processed a total of 4,196,000 tonnes household waste and generated a total…
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The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) will be opting for a 100% green electricity tariff with EDF from October 2016 under a new framework from The Energy Consortia (TEC). UWE Bristol spends circa £3 million (€3.4m) per year on electricity and for an uplift of less than 0.3% has chosen to secure 100% of its electricity supply from renewable sources, verified by the REGO…
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German bioenergy developer Weltec Biopower will shortly start building an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant for Colombia‘s largest egg producer. The 800kW biogas plant is to go live in early 2017. In terms of the feedstock input, the operator Incubadora Santander, which produces about 3.5 million eggs a day, plans to make use of the co-digestion of dry chicken manure from the laying hens and…
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A new renewable energy research centre, called VILLUM Center for the Science of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals, has opened in Copenhagen, Denmark. The new centre at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) will be headed by Professor Ib Chorkendorff who will bring together a team of researchers from Stanford University, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Southern Denmark, among…
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UK-based construction specialist Interserve has announced that it is leaving the energy-from-waste (EfW) industry months after revealing complications with on-going projects had cost the company £70 million (€81m). The company announced its decision in its recently published interim management statement. An £88m operating loss on the firm’s EfW projects has led to a…
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Amur, a new UK-based anaerobic digestion (AD) player, is set to complete the second phase of construction for its AD plant in North Yorkshire, UK, by the end of this year. The business, part of AB Agri, an Associated British Foods subsidiary, was officially launched in June this year at the ADBA show in Birmingham, UK.  Associated British Foods also owns high-street retailer Primark and food…
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Denmark-based biotechnology company Novozymes has reported half year pre-tax tax profit up 6% to DKK 1,906 million (€256m), compared to DKK 1,792 a year earlier, helped by strong sales growth. The firm’s net profit was DKK 1,496 million, an increase of 8% from DKK 1,389 million in the first half of 2015, primarily driven by the gain from net finance. In the first half of 2016, sales…
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