Other News

Renewable energy business Abengoa has inaugurated its demonstration plant that uses waste-to-biofuels technology. The plant, located in Babilafuente, Spain has a capacity to treat 25,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste, from which it will obtain up to 1.5 million litres of bioethanol via a fermentation and enzymatic hydrolysis treatment. Manuel Sánchez Ortega, CEO of Abengoa, said during…
Read More »

A new multi-million dollar wood pellet plant has been tentatively announced for Mississippi, US. The $115 million (€88.1 million) facility is slated to be housed at George County industrial park and will aim to produce around 500,000 tonnes of pellets a year. That figure is according to management from Florida-based Green Circle Bioenergy (GCB), the company attached to the…
Read More »

Waste-to-biofuels company Enerkem has closed another round of financing to increase its total equity investment for 2013. It closed on CN$50 million (€36.4 million) to bring its yearly financing total to $87 million. As part of this drive, institutional fund Investissement Quebec has joined the seven other investors, including Waste Management of Canada, all of whom have increased their…
Read More »

A new biogas plant in Germany has been commissioned and has been supplying to the public grid since May. The Weltec Biopwer facility, based in the industrial region of Altmark, took eight months to construct and consists of four digesters, six digestate storage units and a liquid reservoir. It produces 1,650m3 of raw biogas an hour, 250m3 exclusively for the heating needs of the plant…
Read More »

Home owners in Solwezi, Zambia will be connected to biogas stoves thanks to a project run by the Devolution Trust Fund (DTF). DTF will connect 120 households through the North-Western Water and Sewerage company at a cost of KR2.2 million (€307,850). It has built five biogas units, a decentralised waste water treatment plant and sewer network to connect the project. The DTF is also targeting…
Read More »

UK-headquartered Green Biologics (GB), an international biotechnology company, has announced collaboration and planned investment in facilities with US business Easy Energy Systems (EES). The collaboration will result in the modification of Easy Energy’s ethanol demonstration plant in Iowa to produce renewable n-butanol and acetone. ‘We’ve been working with Easy Energy for…
Read More »

According to local news reports, five plantation companies in Malaysia have signed a biomass joint venture cluster agreement to benefit the state of Sabah. The biomass project borne from this agreement, a concept from the Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM), aims at aggregating sufficient volumes of biomass for a variety of downstream processing activities by allowing palm oil providers come…
Read More »

It has been reported the Tanzania domestic Biogas Programme (TDBP) is to spend $21 million (€16.1 million) to create an infrastructure supporting new 50 enterprises. In a statement TDBP said the project is being worked with the Centre for Agriculture Mechanisation and Rural Technology and is a component of the Africa Biogas Partnership Programme, funded by the Netherlands government. TDBP…
Read More »

Tropical Power, a developer of biogas plants in Africa, has signed a deal with Clarke Energy to supply the first two containerised Jenbacher biogas engines in sub-saharan Africa. The combined heat and power units will be supplied to an agricultural biogas plant located at a farm near Lake Naivasha, Kenya. The project aims to produce 2.4MW of renewable electricity to power the local farm and the…
Read More »

UK waste-to-energy BioWayste has signed a six year contract with recycling business Brocklesby to provide green electricity and heat via its anaerobic digestion (AD) technology. BioWayste will run and manage a £2 million (€2.3 million), 40,000 tonne per year AD plant based on Brocklesby’s seven acre site in Yorkshire. Six reactors, along with combined heat and power engines, will…
Read More »

A new report pertaining to wood markets states many sawmills in northern Europe have expanded their lumber sales outside the Europe market the past few years. The resultant increase in non-European exports from Nordic countries went from 27% of total exports in 2007 to 43% in 2012. The biggest changes have come within shipments to Northern Africa, the Middle East, Japan, China and the US. Finnish…
Read More »

A loan agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the World Bank has been signed which will see $90 million (€69.5 million) additional financing for energy efficiency projects in the country. The extra financing will cover the reconstruction costs of two combined heat and power (CHP) plants in the cities of Gomel and Mogilev. Both CHP facilities are expected to add 145MW of electrical…
Read More »

Technip, a France-based project management and engineering company, has won a multi-million euro front end contract to build a second generation biomass-to-liquid (BtL) plant in Finland. The €5 million ($6.6 million) contract was awarded by Forest BtL and the facility will be built on Ajos island. It aims to produce approximately 140,000 tonnes of biodiesel and naphtha via wood and…
Read More »

Vermont Wood Pellet (VWP), a US-based pellet producer, has won a share of a $750,000 (€572,500) grant provided by the Working Lands Enterprise Fund. The company has said its $38,153 windfall will be spent on upgrading its equipment to increase production output and overall efficiency by reducing the amount of waste made during the process. Its facility turned out 15,500 tonnes of hardwood…
Read More »