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The Brazilian ministry of environment and Brazilian Development Bank have launched a new credit line supporting projects focused on greenhouse gas reduction and climate change solutions.
It was established under the National Climate Change Fund, and aims to encourage private, municipal, and state investments to support objectives set by Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change in 2009.…
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Kansas could become home to one of the first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol refineries in the US.
The global energy company Abengoa Bioenergy, aims to open what could be the first ethanol plant of this scale, in Hugoton, in 2013. It is expected to create 300 construction jobs, 65 permanent jobs and generate an annual payroll of almost $5 million (€3.8 million).…
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OriginOil, a developer of next-generation algae oil technologies for transportation fuel, chemicals and foods markets, has appointed Melbourne-based Frontline Engineering Australia as its first Certified Support Partner. Frontline will help algae producers and integrators, install, engineer and operate OriginOil systems in Australia and also the Asia-Pacific region. Ken Reynolds, OriginOil…
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Toronto-based renewable energy company, Protocol Biomass, has proposed building a wood pellet manufacturing plant in Prescott, Canada. In reaction to a growing European market, the facility would create a possible 50 new jobs, with expectations of doubling the workforce within five years.
‘European and UK markets are well defined [and] the Prescott area is ideally suited for a pellet…
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Mustus Energy is to work with Lockheed Martin, building a new 41.5mW biomass-fuelled power generation plant in La Crete, Canada.
Once completed, the facility will provide enough energy to power over 30,000 Canadian homes. Commercial operations are expected to begin in autumn 2013, with the previously discarded tops of aspen trees being used as feedstock.
Lockheed Martin will offer support …
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Chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst have discovered a 'mini-cellulose' molecule that behaves in the same way as cellulose when heated to a high temperature.
Complex chemical reactions that take place during high-temperature biofuel processes such as pyrolysis or gasification, have remained unknown, as wood molecules are too large, and the reactions are too complicated…
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Hamrick Engineering, a US-based start-up, has received a broad patent for extracting sugars and nanocellulose from lignocellulosic biomass by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
This new technology uses an environmentally benign technique of vacuum infusion of hydrolysis catalysts into biomass.
‘This ground-breaking patent describes how to extract sugars and nanocellulose from…
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A government investment incentivising bioenergy developments in Albertans has been announced.
Over the next 3 years, Albertans will receive a total of $444 million (€334.52 million), for use in renewable energy development, starting this year with the amount of $66 million (49.74 million)
'It is to encourage bioenergy production in the province, as a renewable source of energy,' says Alberta…
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Biomass heat and power company Imperative Energy, has received an investment from North West Fund (NWF4EE), which will now take a minority stake in the company to continue to help with future development.
Imperative Energy has plans to deploy more than £200 million (€239 million) into building biomass heat and CHP plants and has also recently received funds from the Environmental…
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An anaerobic digestion (AD) facility built in South Kirkby, West Yorkshire, UK, has been hit with a four-month delay in becoming fully operational.
The hold-up could add several millions of pounds to the commissioning budget at the plant that has already had £750 million (€1.06bln) invested to it.
Shanks, the UK waste-to-product company responsible for running the plant in a 25-year…
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Renewable Energy Group (REG) has announced its financial results for the 2011 fourth quarter and full-year.
The company achieved record 2011 Adjusted EBITDA (for the year) of $107 million and record revenues (for the year) of $824 million, compared to $8 million and $216 million, respectively, in 2010. Furthermore, the 2011 fourth quarter saw an increase of 126% to the number of gallons…
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Plans to build 2 biomass power plants in Yorkshire have been discarded by electricity generator Drax.
Drax's initial plan, announced back in 2008, was to invest £2 billion (€1.49 billion) constructing 3 biomass power stations located respectively in Immingham, Selby and the third in an unconfirmed location, potentially Hull. The scheme in Selby was cancelled along with plans for the…
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Universal Bioenergy, a publicly traded independent diversified energy company, has announced that it set a new record in sales revenue for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011. Reaching over $71.74 million, it is an estimated 73.75% mark up on the results taken at the period in 2010.
These results are however preliminary and unaudited, but the company expects the formal audit to be completed…
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ZeaChem is to receive $12 million (€8.93 million) as part of a larger grant awarded by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The grant, worth a total of $40 million (29.76 million), is being distributed through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), Regional Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP). The project is aimed at establishing regional systems for…
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