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New government funding to help develop clean and efficient heating systems has been awarded to 13 local authorities across England, Climate Change and Industry Minister Nick Hurd announced.
The £24 million (€28m) is spread across projects from Sheffield to Somers Town, which will soon help warm homes and businesses with low-carbon energy.
This is the first round of funding from a…
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William Strauss, president and founder of FutureMetrics, will be speaking at this year’s Bioenergy Insight Conference.
Strauss is globally recognised as a leading expert in the wood pellet sector. Strauss continues to be a thought leader in the sector and has published numerous papers on a variety of subjects relevant to the wood pellet sector.
He is also a founder and a director of Maine…
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BioDynamic UK has received £1.5 million in funding for a new anaerobic digestion plant in Nottinghamshire, UK, through peer to peer investment.
After being rejected 25 times in attempts to secure funding for the construction of the plant, BioDynamic UK turned to peer-to-peer funding specialists F&P for support. Within two weeks the renewable energy project had secured the £1.5…
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Woodcote Media is delighted to welcome Daryl Worthington to the team as assistant editor of Fluid Handling, Bioenergy Insight, Biofuels International and Tank Cleaning Magazine.
Daryl will be working across Woodcote Media’s portfolio of publications, with a specific focus on Fluid Handling magazine.
Worthington has a wealth of experience in journalism. He joins Woodcote Media from history…
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Six years after the natural disaster and the reactor catastrophe in the Fukushima prefecture today governor Masao Uchibori has launched a biomass-based power plant by pressing the button that starts the operations.
The clean energy power plant produced by UK-based Entrade, located at the small health resort Nishigo, uses biomass which is available in the region – for instance pellets…
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The construction of a renewable energy biomass cogeneration facility adjacent to Albany, USA’s Procter and Gamble manufacturing centre is on schedule, the $200 million (184 million euro) plant set to start producing energy and steam for its customers within 90 days.
When completed, the 50-megawatt cogeneration biomass facility will produce energy for Georgia Power, steam for Procter and…
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The government of Quezon City in the Philippines has accepted a proposal from a consortium led by infrastructure holding firm Metro Pacific to develop a solid waste-to-energy facility for the city.
Along with Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the consortium includes Covanta Energy LLC and Macquarie Group Ltd. They have obtained original proponent status for the planned project.
When…
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Waste to energy firm Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) will build a 33,000 tonne per year dry anaerobic digestion facility in San Luis Obispo, California. The project is being financed by a Design, Build, Finance, Own Operate deal from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
HZI say that the new plant is set to be the first Kompogas project in the US. It will be completed as a joint venture between…
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A proposed new biomass plant in the South West of England has caused controversy in the village where it is set to be built.
Residents of Woolavington, Somerset, have voiced their opposition and concerns about the new wood chip fuelled biomass plant. In particular, they argue that they have not received enough information about the new development. The proposal, by SHAL Housing and Cenergist, is…
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A new research project has been set up to investigate how Germany’s biogas plants will operate after 2030, when the majority of the country’s 9,000 facilities are going to stop receiving state subsidies.
Germany’s federal environment agency has commissioned the German biomass research centre (DBFZ) to carry out the research. DBFZ claims that Germany’s renewable energy act…
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A stalled attempt to revive a biomass project in Vermont has seen the developer take his case to the state’s Supreme Court.
In 2010 a bid was launched to build a wood-chip burning power plant close to the border between Connecticut and New York. The project had to be put on hold in 2014 following the withdrawal of one of its major financers.
Ted Verrill, owner of Pequot Energy in…
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US based landfill gas industry O & M contractor and engineering company ENERGYneering Solutions Inc. (ESI) have signed a supply and service contract for Topsoe’s proprietary HiPerFuel landfill gas conditioning solutions. The HiPerFuel unit will deliver high-purity fuel gas for an ESI landfill gas power plant in Washington State.
The contract is the first deal signed for Topsoe’s…
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Finnish technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 28MW combined heat and power (CHP) plant to the Meliadine Gold Mine project in Canada, owned by Agnico Eagle Mines.
The order includes five Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel engines running on light fuel oil (LFO) or natural gas. Wärtsilä's scope includes the power generation and CHP equipment supply, plant commissioning and…
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BioHiTech Global, a US waste management technology company, has announced that it acquired a 17.2% equity interest in the nation's first resource recovery facility utilising a proprietary mechanical biological treatment (MBT) technology for the disposal and recycling of mixed municipal solid waste (MSW).
BioHiTech, through its interest in Apple Valley Waste Conversions, has the exclusive…
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Brexit is generating inertia and squeezing the growth of the renewable energy sector, according to Rachel Nutt, Tax Partner and head of Renewable Sustainable Energy at business advisors’ MHA MacIntyre Hudson.
Nutt believes Brexit is creating a challenging and uncertain time for renewable businesses. “Brexit, and the resulting lack of announcements about future subsidies which have to…
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