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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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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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A Canada-based biogas plant co-owned by Lethbridge Biogas and not-for-profit Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp (CCEMC) has opened. The $30 million (€21.8 million) anaerobic digester co-generation facility currently has a generating capacity of 2.8MW – enough to power 2,800 homes – but this could be expanded to 4.2MW in the future with the addition of new generating…
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Global technology provider of specialised biofuels and renewable chemicals, Biochemtex, is to invest around $200 million (€147 million) in its new cellulosic biofuels plant in Sampson County, North Carolina, US. The firm will operate at the location as Carolina Cellulosic Biofuels, established in early 2013 as a special purpose vehicle for delivering the first commercial-scale cellulosic…
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Biomass and waste-to-energy provider DP Cleantech has developed a biomass combustion technology to convert coconut waste into clean energy. DP recently signed a contract to deliver the new turnkey solution for the Mahachai Green Power project in Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand. The 9.5MWe high pressure, high temperature plant will be delivered on an EPC basis including all electro-mechanical…
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Cory Environmental, a UK-based recycling, waste management and energy recovery company, has launched its first anaerobic digestion plant in Weston-super-Mare. The plant can generate up to 500kW of energy per hour for onsite use and export to the national grid using around 12,000 tonnes of food waste a year. Around 7,500 tonnes of this feedstock is part of a seven year waste treatment contract…
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