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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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Dalkia and Fengate Capital Management have closed the financing for a biomass plant to be located in British Columbia, Canada. With a production capacity of 40MW of renewable electricity using 307,000 tonnes a year of biomass, the plant will be one of the largest in Canada. The power will be sold to BC Hydro and Power Authority and benefit almost 40,000 homes. Funding will be provided by the…
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Cool Planet Energy Systems, a developer of small-scale biorefineries, has launched its biochar soil amendment product – Cool Terra – for commercial agricultural trials. The company has assembled a biochar research team to develop and produce high-performance biochar soil amendments designed for specific applications. Cool Planet says it plans to continue expanding application…
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A biomass refinery in Malaysia is set to become the second in the world to convert biomass waste into renewable products before 2017. Work is scheduled to begin on the facility in Johor by the end of 2014 and will be developed by MYBiomass, a collaboration between the Malaysian Industry Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT), renewable energy business Sime Darby and Felda Global…
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Renewable energy company Estover Energy's biomass-fired CHP plant has been granted planning consent. The £65 million (€76.5 million) plant, to be built at Discovery Park in Kent, was awarded consent by Dover District Council. It will generate renewable heat and power across the 220 acre site. It will also supply low carbon electricity to the national grid, supporting the UK's national…
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded nearly $10 million (€7.3 million) to a consortium, led by Colorado State University (CSU), to study the challenges limiting the use of insect-killed trees as a sustainable feedstock for bioenergy and renewable fuels. CSU researchers, together with other scientists from universities, government and private industry in the region, created the…
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Power and gas company E.ON says it will not continue with the development of a biomass-fired power plant at the Port of Bristol in the UK. The company, however, remains committed to investing in the UK. The facility was to be located at Portbury Dock. In a statement a spokesperson for E.ON said: 'We continue to believe the UK could be a good market for investment in which sustainable biomass has…
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Renewable fuels and chemicals company Amyris and GOL South American airline Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that could pave the way for GOL commercial flights to use Amyris renewable jet fuel in 2014.  Under the MoU, the two companies will establish a framework for bringing Amyris renewable jet fuel, produced from Brazilian sugarcane, to…
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Scientists at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have acquired 200 hectares of coastal land in the Western Region to set up a demonstration farm with aims to start producing sustainable jet fuel from plants. The Integrated Seawater Energy and Agriculture System Project plans to be 100% sustainable once operational, using aquaculture to eventually produce biofuels. The AED64.2 million…
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Emerald Biogas has opened its new anaerobic digestion plant in County Durham, UK. The £8 million (€9 million) facility handles commercial food waste collected from around the area and uses this to generate renewable energy for around 2,000 households per year. Antony Warren, director of Emerald Biogas, says: 'We are now in the position to accept and process unwanted commercial food…
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