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The Florida Biofuels and Bioenergy Association wants state governor Rick Scott to veto a bill that would lift the 2008 state law requiring petrol sold by a terminal suppliers or wholesalers to be blended with ethanol.‘We are disappointed in this step by the Florida Legislature as they’re telling both investors and the people who are working in bioenergy, biofuel and biotechnology that…
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A new biogas project in was inaugurated in Finland in March under the banner of ‘the world’s biggest’ facility of its type.
Operated by Vaskiluodon Voima, the 140MW biomass gasification plant aims to help the country cut its use of coal down by around 40%. It has been built in Vassa, central Finland.
The plant is using wood residue from the internal forestry industry as its…
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Global biomass and renewable energy plant suppliers DP CleanTech (DPC) has released details about its new European manufacturing operations
After putting its European division, based in Tonder, Denmark into receivership last February, the company overall have recorded a profit in the first quarter of this year.
‘It has been a very challenging couple of years in the European clean energy…
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The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Centre in Wisconsin, US has had its funding by the US Department of Energy (US DoE) renewed for another five years.
The centre receives $25 million (€19.2 million) a year from the US DoE and supports almost 400 researchers.
‘Our researchers, in partnership with the states of Wisconsin, Michigan and affiliated industries, have made…
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Air Products' Prism membranes division in St. Louis, US, has received Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) certification from DNV GL Business Assurance Italia for its newest line of biogas membrane separators.
‘This certification confirms that our biogas separation product meets the European standards for design, manufacture, and safe operation of pressurised equipment,’ says…
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Metrogas, a natural gas developer from Chile, is working on a project to process street market waste into biogas for vehicles in two years.
The company has completed research tests and will install a pilot anaerobic digestion plant in 2016 by investing up to $350,000 (€313,000).
This investment is expected to be followed by an industrial plant in the next years.
Chile’s capital…
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Kerala state agriculture minister K P Mohanan says his department wants to green light the installation of biogas plants in government and aided schools across the state.
The waste generated at the schools will be treated for biogas production and used back on-site to help power canteens. There will be separate schemes for primary, UP and high schools.
Primary schools will have a scheme of Rs…
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European ethanol association ePure has responded to the draft report by European parliament member Corinne Lepage which focused on the European Commission’s (EC) proposal for a directive amending the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) and the directive of the use of energy from renewable sources (RED).
‘We see some constructive suggestions in Lepage's draft report but also some ideas that…
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The Helius Corde biomass energy plant and animal feed processing unit in Rothes, Scotland has opened.
The plant was officially opened on 17 April by HRH the Duke of Rothesay and it will use by-products from nearby malt whisky distilleries to produce renewable energy and a animal feed protein supplement.
The plant, owned and operated by the joint venture of Helius Energy (HE), Rabo Project Equity…
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Second generation feedstock business NexSteppe has launched its new sorghum hybrid products in the US and Brazil.
The company hopes its sweet sorghum and high biomass hybrids will offer alternative solutions to advanced and cellulosic biofuels, biopower and biobased product producers.
‘Through a combination of directed conventional breeding, marker-assisted breeding and analytical…
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Norwegian finance minister Sigbjørn Johnsen officially inaugurated a biorefinery demonstration plant at Borregaard’s production facility in Sarpsborg this April.The demo plant started preliminary operations last summer, followed by normal operations in the first quarter of 2013. The plant uses proprietary Borregaard technology and aims to produce cost-effective and sustainable lignin…
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The first commercial biogas plant in South Africa is nearing construction in Bronkhorstspruit.
Project development company Bio2Watt will build, own and operate the 3MW capacity facility, which it aims to have online by the end of spring 2014 latest.
The Bronkhorstspruit location allegedly provides the project with proximity to key fuel supplies, grid access and sufficient water supplied by one of…
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Bioenergy plant operator Katrinefors Kraftvärme (KK) is set to build a new CHP plant in Sweden with local municipal energy company VänerEnergi.
This will be the second plant involving KK, a 50/50 joint venture owned by Metsä Tissue (MT), and it will be based in Mariestad near a MT mill. Construction is slated to start this April and be operational by the end of 2014.
MT will supply…
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The Colorado Economic Development Commission has dangled a multi-million dollar carrot in front of biomass company Cool Planet Energy Systems (CP) to try and entice it to the state.
CP, a California-based start-up, claims to have a petrol generating process via biomass and plant waste that does not need to rely on federal subsidies.
The CEDC hopes $3 million (€2.3 million) in tax credits…
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