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Guangdong Shaoneng Group's $88.61 million biomass power plant in China is ready for commercial operations, Reuters reports. The total investment for the plant is $88.61 million (€64 million).
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Plans to build a biomass-fired power plant at the former Anglesey Aluminium works near Holyhead, Wales are progressing after the UK government approved design changes proposed by Lateral Power. The plant will generate around 299MW of electricity, which is enough to power around 3,000 homes. A proposal to construct the plant was first submitted in 2009. The Department of Energy and Climate Change…
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Forth Energy, a joint venture between SSE and Forth Ports, says it is not continuing with plans to develop the Grangemouth and Rosyth biomass-fired power plants in the UK. Both projects have gained consent from the Scottish government and Forth Energy is investigating options to attract other developers to take the projects forward. As previously reported by Bioenergy Insight in January, the…
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Biogas company Methalandes of France is developing what will be the nation's largest anaerobic digestion plant to date in the town of Hagetmau. The facility will be able to handle waste products from the agricultural and food sectors in order to produce 37.8 million kWh of electricity. The construction contract for the new project has been awarded to Xergi; the company's fifth order in France in…
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Swedish energy company Göteborg Energi has opened its new demonstration plant – GoBiGas – which will produce large volumes of biogas through the gasification of biomass. The gasification technology installed at the site makes it possible to produce biofuel that will fuel 15,000 cars or 400 buses annually. According to Kia Andreasson, municipal councillor and chairman of…
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Albioma, a France-based independent energy producer, has finalised its acquisition of the totality of shares in Rio Pardo Termoelétrica, a cogeneration plant situated in the São Paulo region in Brazil. The bagasse cogeneration plant, which has an installed capacity of 60MW, was commissioned in 2009. Albioma says its 'expertise should enable significant improvements in the energy…
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A new 7MW biogas power plant will be built in Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands after the project received government approval at the end of March. Renewable energy development company Tibbar Energy is behind the project, which was granted final approval by the Virgin Island Department on Planning and Natural Resources' Division of Coastal Zone Management (CZM). The CMZ decision was the last step…
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Viaspace, a grower of energy crops, has signed a contract with Mesquite Lake Water and Power to provide Giant King Grass for a biomass-fired power plant and biofuels facility in the US state of California. Mesquite Lake is developing a biomass energy park in Imperial Valley. It has already purchased an 18MW biomass power plant, which was damaged during a 2010 earthquake. Following repair works,…
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The Energex American-owned wood pellet production plant in Juniata County, Pennsylvania has been damaged after a fire broke out on the morning of 29 March. The four-alarm fire and subsequent dust explosion inside a warehouse used for storing pellets is reported to have destroyed the office and sawdust warehouse, and one firefighter was taken to hospital. The processing part of the plant was not…
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Solvay, a renewable technology company, says it has produced industrial-scale volumes of torrefied biomass. The new business will be run by the recently established Solvay Biomass Energy, a joint venture between Solvay and the US company New Biomass Energy (NBE). The torrefied biomass is being produced at NBE's facility in Quitman, Mississippi. Current production of 80,000 tonnes per year will be…
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Eqtec Iberia, part of Spanish holding company Ebioss Energy, is progressing with the construction of its 5MW Karlovo renewable plant located in Bulgaria's Plovdiv province. The biomass-to-energy plant with integrated biomass gasification technology, construction on which started last October, will use three GE Jenbacher fuel-flexible engines – one J612 and two J620 units – powered by…
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Lufthansa is testing a new type of biofuel for use in aircraft to increase its efforts to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions. The aircraft carrier is teaming up with Gevo to research the blending of Gevo's ATJ with conventional kerosene for aircraft use. The alcohol-to-jet fuel producer uses fermented plant waste from a range of sources to produce isobutanol, a form of alcohol which can then be…
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Two Italy-based companies are to develop a 30MW biomass plant in the country's Ravenna region. The Powercorp project, a joint venture between Enel Green Power and Seci Energia, will be built on an industrial site previously occupied the Eridania sugar refinery. Fuelled by locally-sourced woodchip, the plant will have an estimated total annual output of 222GWh. The €126 million facility will…
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General Electric has partnered with Malaysian biotechnology company, Green and Smart, to develop a palm oil effluent (POME) biogas plant to provide a waste-to-power solution for the country's power providers. The plant is expected to begin operations by December this year, and will use GNS' technology in anaerobic digesters and GE's Jenbacher gas engine technology to produce power for supply to…
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