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Green Circle Bio Energy, a provider of renewable energy, is looking to expand its plant in Cottondale, Florida, US, to supply some of the demand in Europe.
The plant currently converts 560,000 tonnes a year of biomass into renewable energy.
No definite expansion plans are in place but Green Circle is already looking at locations for the expansion. These include Florida, Mississippi and…
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Three renewable energy events – EBEC, Nextgen and Microgen – are joining forces later this year, backed by a number of trade associations including the Renewable Energy Association (REA). Under 'The Power of 3', the three international events organised by Closer2 Media will be held at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire on 5-6 October 2011.
EBEC (European Bioenergy Exhibition and…
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Two green companies, Abutec and Roeslein Alternative Energy, are teaming up with Smithfield Foods to convert gas from animal waste into renewable energy.
Roeslein's partner, food producer Smithfield, houses nearly two million pigs through nine facilities, and they produce enough manure to make 2.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
Renewable energy specialist Roeslein has a supplier/manufacturer…
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Energy company Dong Energy, along with local companies, is developing a consortium called Måbjerg Energy Concept.
The consortium has been established to examine the feasibility of bioenergy projects and determine which ones will be profitable. These projects include building new plants and upgrading existing ones.
All the projects will utilise locally sourced biomass and waste materials to…
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Bioenergy France 3, the French arm of Spanish biofuels producer Ambene, has obtained permission from local officials to build a 41MW biomass-fired cogeneration plant in the south of France.
According to SeeNews, the plant will be constructed in the Torremila industrial zone of Perpignan.
At the end of December, the Pyrenees-Orientales prefecture gave the green light to the €50m ($54m)…
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London, UK-headquartered Africa Renewables (AfriRen) is establishing a woodchip supply chain project in Ghana using old, local rubber trees.
As part of the initiative, AfriRen will utilise redundant rubber trees from the Ghana Rubber Estates (GREL) plantation, turning them into woodchips before marketing them to Europe-based utility companies and energy traders.
'The redundant rubber trees are…
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General Electric (GE) is the newest member of a consortium set up to research and develop biomass-based aviation fuel.
In addition to GE, the association consists of Virgin Australia, Renewable Oil, the Future Farm Industries CRC and Dynamotive Energy Systems, of Canada. Together the companies are looking to mallee eucalypt trees as a feedstock for producing commercial quantities of bio-jet…
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Biomass imports to the UK are expected to soar, as the nation's supply of domestic biomass is not enough to fulfil the demand of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED).
Currently 74% of the bioenergy industry is supplied with domestic feedstocks, but this is expected to shift to 81% imported biomass as the UK strives to meet the RED. Under the RED, 15% of energy is to come from renewable sources by…
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Three renewable energy companies have formed a partnership to develop and run a biogas plant in Columbia, South Carolina, US.
The new anaerobic digester will convert 48,000 tonnes of organic waste matter into 3.2MW of biogas power.
German plant engineering company Eisenmann will supply its anaerobic digestion technology to the project, while US companies W2E Organic Power and CIYCOR will oversee…
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Gazprom, Russia's largest natural gas company, is switching to biomass.
The company has installed four 6MW biomass boilers at its Severoonezhsk-based 24MW plant.
Speaking about the project, David Poveda, director of Spain's Nova Energia Group, says: 'The four global boilers use wood waste with a moisture content of 50% or higher, which in many cases are completely covered in snow. Biomass was…
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RWE, a German utility company, is looking to increase the levels of renewable energy it generates in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
With a strong focus on the biogas and wind energy markets, the company is planning to invest €13 million for the construction of a biogas plant in Bergheim Paffendorf. It will convert a variety of feedstocks including sugar beets, alfalfa and manure into…
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In the UK, supermarket giant Tesco's organic waste-derived ethanol has been certified by OFGEM, the government's energy official.
The ethanol, which has been under development for 2 years, has seen Tesco granted a Renewable Obligation Certificate, confirming the fuel contains no traces of additional fossil fuels and is 100% renewable.
The fuel is currently being used to fuel specially adapted…
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In the US, wood pellet manufacturer Fram Renewable Fuels is to partner with a producer of pine shavings, Telfair Forest Products (TFP), to build a wood pellet production plant in Lumber City, Georgia.
The companies are scheduled to break ground on the facility this month before it becomes operational in January 2012.
Upon completion, the plant will convert around 350,000 tonnes a year of shavings…
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In Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada, pulp mill Millar Western Forest Products is planning to construct a biomass-fired power plant.
The new plant, estimated to cost in the region of $35 million (€35.6 million), would be designed to handle the mill's wastewater, converting this into 5.2MW of renewable energy a year.
An anaerobic system is currently installed at the mill to treat the waste matter,…
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Sri Lanka's Tokyo Cement Power, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokyo Cement Group, is to build a power plant in the Uva Province.
The Dendro Power Project will convert branches from Gliricidia plants into 5MW of renewable energy, all of which will be supplied to the National Grid.
The project is estimated to cost around Rs.1.5 billion. Part of this will be financed by Tokyo Cement Group, with the…
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