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Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ‘key Malaysian partners’ to assess local solutions for sustainable biomass production in the country. The aim is to determine the most suitable feedstocks to ensure that any future jet fuel production in the region is based only on sustainable solutions. The first assessment is expected to be completed by…
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Dutch utility firm Eneco has inaugurated its Bio Golden Raand biomass power plant, located in Farmsum Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The facility, built by Areva, Ballast Nedam Industriebouw and Mesto Power, generates 49.9MW of renewable power from waste wood – enough to provide over 120,000 homes with electricity and reduce CO2 emissions by around 250,000 tonnes a year. The plant began…
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A P2 million (€33,000) biomass plant under development in the Filipino province on Isabela is likely to begin operations early next year, according to reports. Isabela Biomass is building the facility, which will generate 20MW of renewable energy from rice husks supplied by a group of local rice millers. Ground broke on the project last December. Once complete the plant will be able eligible…
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The Wales Centre of Excellence for Anaerobic Digestion (the AD centre), part of the Sustainable Environment Research Centre based at the University of South Wales, has been awarded £889,000 (€1 million) by the Welsh government's A4B project to deliver a 'knowledge transfer' centre focused on advanced anaerobic processes and biogas systems. The AD centre has been delivering support to…
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Biogas plant engineering firm Weltec is to open two new UK-based biomass plants later this year, one in Londonderry, Northern Ireland and another in Leicester. The Londonderry project is a 500kW AD plant for industrial meat processing company Foyle Food Group. This plant, comprising a 3,000m3 stainless steel digester, will handle waste from the company's abattoirs in the vicinity, including…
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Constellation, a supplier of electricity and natural gas and a subsidiary of Exelon, is to design, build and operate a $130 million (€96 million) renewable energy plant in the US after signing an agreement with the City of Los Angeles. Under the agreement, the 27MW power plant will be located at LA Sanitation's Hyperion treatment plant. Hyperion is among the 10 largest wastewater treatment…
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GreenWood Tree Farm Fund (GTFF) has become the world's first short rotation forest plantation to earn certification under the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB). The RSB certification covers GTFF's cultivation, management and harvesting of coppiced poplar trees, used as biomass feedstock either to be pelletised for direct combustion in biomass electric plants or for the cellulosic…
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Specialty chemicals company Elevance Renewable Sciences has awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its second biorefinery located in Natchez, Mississippi to URS. Under the contract, URS' scope of work involves converting Elevance's existing biodiesel plant into a new biorefinery. 'With our presence in Baton Rouge, near the site of the new biorefinery, we are able…
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Empyro has broken ground on its pyrolysis oil production plant in the Netherlands. Once construction is complete, expected for the end of this year, production capacity at the plant will be gradually ramped up to more than 20 million litres of pyrolysis oil per year. This oil is enough to replace 12 million m3 of natural gas, the equivalent annual consumption of 8,000 households. Located at the…
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Russia-based GS Group has announced it will build a new wood pellet plant. To be located in Pskov, the production facility will have an annual capacity of 90,000 tonnes when it comes online towards the end of this year. The investment necessary to bring the project to realisation is currently being reviewed. The new plant is the third phase of a large-scale investment project by GS, set to last…
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Edge Renewables, a UK-based producer of woodchips for use in biomass heating systems, has called for greater clarity on restrictions in place for use of infected timber. The move comes as increasing amounts of British woodland is being felled in an attempt to counter the increasing threat posed by diseases. Simon Lloyd-Jones, director of Edge Renewables, says: 'As a producer of renewable woodchip…
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A commercial food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) plant located in County Durham, UK, has started operations. The Emerald Biogas-operated £8 million (€9.6 million) facility has a capacity to process 50,000 tonnes a year of leftover food collected from businesses across the northeast of the country. It will generate enough energy to power 2,000 homes annually. At the plant launch, UK…
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A new $45 million (€33 million) biogas plant has opened in the US city of Le Sueur, Minnesota. Avant Energy is behind the project, named Hometown BioEnergy, which has the capacity to generate 8MW for local residents from manure and corn silage. Construction was completed back in November before operations at the plant began one month later. The state of Minnesota has a renewable standard in…
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Biomass can slash CO2 emissions by almost 50% when co-gasified with coal in an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) energy plant. This is according to a team of researchers from the Universita degli Studi di Salerno in Italy. The researchers carried out a study at the Elcogas-owned 335MW Puertollanco IGCC plant in Spain, which typically runs on a 50/50 blend of coal and petroleum coke,…
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