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Supervisors at the Port of Pascagoula in Jackson County, Mississippi, have authorised the borrowing of up to $24 million (€17 million) for the construction of a specialised wood pellet exporting facility on Bayou Casotte. The facility is expected to cost around $30 million, with $15 million coming from port bonds. The state has reportedly put up $10 million, and the terminal operator will…
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UK-based Gazasia is to develop an anaerobic digestion plant in the Philippines with local business Aseagas to provide clean, renewable transport fuel. The project will create the first biomethane plant in the country, which will produce biogas from organic waste. This, in turn, will be processed to generate liquid biomethane to be used as fuel. The initial $47 million (€34.3 million) project…
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Empee Sugars has decided to sell its 10MW biomass-based power plant in Tamil Nadu. The plant, located on a 14-acre land parcel in Pudukottai district, has power purchase agreements for third party sale to industries. According to the senior officials, the company hopes to concentrate on larger power plants it operates under the power division and there are plans for expansion in the power…
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Genera Energy, a bioenergy supply chain management company and a feedstock developer, has launched its first mobile agriculture app, Biomass. The Biomass app was developed to serve as a mobile crop planning and learning tool for biomass farmers and landowners. The Biomass app offers features such as a biomass crop library complete with detailed information, photos, and range maps for the most…
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Construction has started on a $6 million (€4.4 million) biogas plant in Bekes, Hungary, UPI reports. Hidashati Farm is behind the 1.2MW project and commissioned Biogaz Unio to build the plant. The plant will handle animal waste to generate 1.2MW of renewable energy – enough power for 2,500 homes and heat for 1,500 homes a year. The feedstock for the plant will be collected from cattle…
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A decision on who will supply Fort Drum, New York, US, with biomass power will not be made until 2014, according to the Defense Logistics Agency. Negotiations are reportedly still taking place, but issues 'should be resolved in January'. The contract will be worth millions of dollars each year. ReEnergy Holdings, which already operates a biomass facility on post, is tipped to be a top contender.…
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Pinnacle Renewable Energy and Coast Tsimshian Resources (CTR) have signed an agreement to build a new wood pellet plant in British Columbia, Canada. 'A wood pellet plant provides a solution for low-end fibre that is sustainable and makes the best use of our forest resources,' CTR board chair Garry Reece was reported to have said. Pinnacle already owns six wood pellet production facilities in…
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Growing Power Hairy Hill's (GPHH) biorefinery in Canada can now handle 73,000 tonnes a year of municipal solid waste diverted from landfills in the Edmonton area for use as renewable energy. The plant was commissioned in 2005 and initially utilised contaminated feedstock including sand laden cow manure and municipal solid waste, in addition to ethanol stillage. GPHH says the opportunity became…
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A new biomass power plant at Drax power station in Yorkshire, UK has opened. The biomass power plant now burns wood pellets sourced from the US instead of coal, slashing its carbon emissions by 80%. By 2016, £700 million (€837 million) will have been invested to convert three of the plant's six coal-fired generating units to biomass. The facility was opened by energy secretary Ed…
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Concord Blue, a waste solutions company, and fermentation technology supplier LanzaTech have entered into an agreement to produce fuels and chemicals from waste materials. Under the agreement, LanzaTech will install a Concord Blue reformer at its facility in Georgia, US to convert waste biomass from regional forestry operations into syngas. The syngas will be converted by LanzaTech's gas…
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A lecturer in transportation engineering at the University College Cork (UCC), Ireland believes Irish motorists could be relying on feedstock like sea lettuce to fuel their cars in the future. Jerry Murphy, who has a PhD in energy production from waste, has presented the potential for biomethane produced from slurry and grass via anaerobic digestion. This could help the country meet directives…
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ClearCove, a renewable energy company, has completed their New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)-supported project titled ClearCove Organics Harvester Demonstration at the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility (IAWWTF). The project’s final results have been collected in a report documenting the energy potential of the Harvester technology. A pilot system…
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A new anaerobic digestion plant has been built at Shropshire Energy's site in Ely, UK. UTS Biogas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anaergia, built the large-scale 2.4MW renewable plant which will deliver green heat and electricity for facility operations. The AD system will utilise 20,000 tonnes a year of vegetable waste and 36,500 tonnes of maize silage to produce almost 20,000MWh of renewable…
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Birmingham Bio-Power is developing a new 10.3MW biomass-fired power plant in Birmingham, UK and has announced that, under a new EPC contract, MWH Treatment will design, build and maintain the facility. Preparation work on the £47.8 million (€57 million) biomass gasification plant is to start immediately with completion scheduled for early 2016. When the plant is up and running it will…
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