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German Pellets has announced that its US wood pellet production facility in Woodville, Texas has received ENplus certification. The certification confirms that the facility, which commenced operations this summer, is producing high-quality product, thus securing a high level of security of supply for customers in Europe. German Pellets says its import of ENplus pellets also strengthens its…
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The average price per tonne of wood pellets in Germany has risen. According to the German Energy Wood and Pellet Association (DEPV), the cost has increased slightly over the previous month and is currently €284.21 – 0.7% more than in October. In November 2012, the cost of a tonne of wood pellets was €247.90. Location also plays a part in the cost of wood pellets in Germany. In…
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Future Biogas, a UK-based builder and operator of anaerobic digestion plants, is to become the first registered producer to join the Biomethane Certification Scheme (BMCS) run by private limited company Green Gas Trading. The BMCS is an independent certification scheme was set up to provide both a credible process for certifying biomethane and a trading platform to facilitate the trading of…
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Supermarket chain Sainsbury's has opened two new stores which it is calling 'Triple Zero'. One of the new locations, in Leicester in the UK, features many new technologies to ensure no carbon emissions are released, no waste is sent to landfill and no impact on the water usage of the local area. All of the store's electricity and heating will come from an onsite generator. Biogas required for the…
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Lime Energy has sold its 2.8MW landfill gas-to-energy project in Florida to Green Gas Americas, a developer of waste gas to power projects. The sale came about through the acquisition of GES-Port Charlotte, a subsidiary of Lime Energy, which owns the landfill gas facility. The plant, built on the Charlotte County landfill, generates and sells power to Orlando Utilities Commission through a…
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Ernst Biomass' pellet plant in New Jersey, US has been damaged after a fire broke out on 9 November. The incident is reported to have caused $50,000 (€37,330) worth of damage to equipment such as the facility's conveyor system. Nobody was injured but production at the facility was temporarily suspended. The cause of the fire has not yet been determined but it is thought to have started…
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Science and technology company Battelle has developed a mobile device that converts biomass materials, such as woodchips and agricultural waste, into bio-oil using catalytic pyrolysis. This intermediate bio-oil can be upgraded via hydrotreatment into a gas/diesel blend or jet fuel. Testing of the bio-based fuel alternative produced by Battelle suggests it can be blended with existing petrol and…
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Brazil-based construction business Odebrecht is believed to be planning to separate the cogeneration from its sugar and ethanol operations to create a new bioelectricity company.Odebrecht currently produces 816MW of electricity by burning the sugarcane bagasse left over from its production of sugar, but it is believed the 2013/14 harvest will be able to generate about 1700GW of…
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We Energies, a US electricity services provider, has opened its biomass-fuelled power plant on the site of Domtar's paper mill in Rothschild, Wisconsin. The new plant will generate 50MW of renewable electricity from wood, waste wood and sawdust. 'The addition of the biomass plant enables us to produce renewable energy on demand,' says Gale Klappa, president and CEO of We Energies. 'That benefit…
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Capital Dynamics, the private asset manager for a UK-based pension fund, has acquired a number of biomass power plants in New South Wales, Australia. The total 68MW portfolio includes two fully operational base-load plants that produce power and steam from local sugarcane waste and other biomass fuel sources. The power and steam is sold under long-term contracts to nearby sugar mills and the…
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Dalkia Energia has opened its €80.8 million biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Hungary. Located in the city of Pecs, the project has the capacity to generate 35MW of power and 70MW of heat from 240,000 tonnes a year of straw feedstock. This is estimated to cut CO¬2 emissions by around 150,000 tonnes a year. The new plant will provide 60% of the city's demand for the district…
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Neste Oil, a refining and marketing company concentrating on low-emission traffic fuels, is to promote the deployment of sustainable aviation biofuels in the Netherlands after committing to a Dutch initiative for the sector. Neste is to explore the production opportunities for aviation biofuel and scaling up production. Its renewable fuel refinery in Rotterdam could…
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Power provider Hoosier Energy has started up its landfill gas-to-energy plant in Illinois, US. Located at the 460 acre Livingston Landfill, the refurbished Livingston Renewable Energy Station generates 15MW of electricity for approximately 9,000 homes in Illinois and Indiana. Hoosier partnered with the landfill owner and operator as well as Ameresco – the company that assisted the…
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A 160,000 tonne per year anaerobic digestion facility that will process food waste into biogas for energy generation has been awarded planning permission in Dagenham, London. The green light for the plant, which is being developed by ReFood - a part of the Doncaster, UK-based PDM Group - was given by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. ReFood explains that the facility, which is expected…
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