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A wood pellet boiler project is set to benefit residents of an apartment building in New Hampshire, US. The Berlin Housing Authority-owned complex aims to save around $11,000 (€8,500) a year once the boilers are in place. It also hopes to add water conversion features, programme thermostats and upgrade its hot water system too. This is part of an overall movement, called the Berlin Model…
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Energy company RWE nPower has called time on its 100% biomass plant in Tilbury, UK. The company announced it will stop work at the biomass plant this July while it considers and reviews further options on project feasibility. The Tilbury facility began life as a coal-fired plant over 30 years ago and was due to close down in 2015 as RWE opted it out of the EU’s Large Combustion Plant…
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A Canadian biogas producer can move forward with building a facility after receiving a feed-in tariff contract. The Ontario Power Authority has issued the contract meaning ZooShare Biogas Co-Operative (ZBC) can push on its plans to build a 500kw biogas plant at Toronto Zoo next year. ZBC is funding the project through the sale of bonds to Ontarians who want to aid the environment, support the zoo…
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US wood pellet and grill manufacturer Traeger Pellet Grills (TPG) has sold part of its business to private equity firm Trilantic Capital Partners (TCP). TPG reportedly called the sale a ‘substantial minority interest’ while New York-based TCP says it ‘saw potential in Traeger for expansion’. That thought follows the installation of Traeger-branded shops into shopping…
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An Australian abattoir is to construct a multi-million biogas system to help reduce its reliance on coal. Bindaree Beef (BB), based in New South Wales, will see the AU$43 million (€30.4 million) system reduce its carbon emission by 95% while cutting utility cost of processing each head of cattle by over a third. The project involves installing a more energy efficient rendering plant and…
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UK-based renewable power plant business Clarke Energy (CE) is to supply Tamar Energy with combined heat and power systems for their biogas plants. CE will initially provide six biogas engines across four Tamar sites in the UK, with a combined renewable power output of 8MWe. The agreement comes after the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Department for Energy Food and Rural…
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The Highland Council (THC) in Scotland has awarded a long-term contract for the servicing, maintenance and repair of biomass installations, including the supply of wood fuel, across 59 sites. The £1.2 million (€1.4 million) per annum contract went to Fort William-based biomass heat company HWEnergy and will last for four years. As many Highland communities are off the gas network,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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