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Near Kiev, Ukraine, the country’s first biogas cogeneration plant at the Ukrainian Milk Company has been operating successfully for nine months.
Converting the manure from 4,000 cows into biogas, the plant employs a Jenbacher gas engine manufactured by GE Energy, a company serving the energy sector by developing and deploying technology that makes efficient use of natural resources.
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In the town of Warminster, Wiltshire, UK, property developer and energy supplier Malaby Martin Ltd. has been granted planning permission for the construction of a biogas plant.
Wiltshire Council approved the plant, which is planned for Bore Hill Farm – a redundant smallholding consisting of a farmhouse, disused outbuildings and 12 acres of land.
Employing anaerobic digestion technology for…
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Construction has begun on what will soon be Hungary’s largest biogas plant.
The Hungarian division of Germany-based Aufwind Neue Energien laid the facility’s cornerstone on 16th July this year in Szarvas, southeast Hungary.
Costing HUF 3.9 billion (€13.5 million) to build the plant will produce 4.2MW of energy each year. The project, expected to be completed early next year, received…
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Following the closure of a number of sawmills throughout Lake County, Oregon, US, a new biomass plant is being developed for the region.
Planned to be built alongside the country’s last remaining sawmill, the project will be Iberdrola Renewables’ first fully owned and operated biomass power plant.
Renewable energy company Iberdrola Renewables received a $1.7 million (€1.3 million)…
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A biomass plant being developed for the Isle of Wight may have the capacity to supply electricity to more than two thirds of the island’s population.
Costing £130 million (€154 million) to construct, the Reality Energy Centre has been proposed for a disused landfill site in Newport, adjacent to Vestas R&D centre.
Real Ventures Ltd. is expected to submit a planning application before…
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A new quarterly magazine will launch in September, targeted at companies producing biomass, biopower and biogas.
BIOENERGY INSIGHT magazine is a brand new international publication borne out of extensive research and a market demand for information. Using a totally up to date circulation list, the magazine will provide the inside track on issues surrounding pellet/briquette biomass production…
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Industrial gas and equipment supplier Air Products is planning to construct a renewable energy plant in Tees Valley, UK.
The facility still needs to be approved by Stockton on Tees Borough Council and receive consent from the Environment Agency. However, if it goes ahead, 50 permanent jobs will be created, in addition to 500-700 construction jobs.
It is expected to take three years to…
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London looks likely to miss its 20% renewable energy target that was set prior to the Olympic Games.
In a meeting between the London Assembly’s Environment Committee and the head of sustainability at the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, David Stubbs explained that there are not enough renewable energy projects in the city. A planned wind turbine scheme has already been…
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In a bid to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, British Airways (BA) has teamed up with Solena Group, a renewable energy producer, to construct a waste-to-biofuels plant.
Solena will invest around $300 million (€233.9 million) in the plant and is already considering two potential sites, both located close by to Dagenham, east London, UK.
The plant will produce 16 million gallons of…
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US energy firm Bowerman Power has opened a new green energy plant in California.
The plant, based in Orange County, will turn landfill gas into electricity. According to Bowerman, the facility will provide enough electricity to power 26,000 homes.
With Bowerman, a subsidiary of Montauk Energy, joining the Olinda Landfill in Brea and the Prima Deshecha Landfill in San Juan Capistrano as a…
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In Boston, Lincolnshire, UK, an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant is under construction at Staples Vegetables plant.
The plant will utilise vegetables out-of-specification at the packhouse or bypassed in the field to generate electricity for supply to the site and the surplus will be injected into the grid. Heat will also be produced by the plant and will be used to chill packhouse areas, with…
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Gameslack Farm, Wetwang, UK, is to be home to a new biomass plant after having been given the green light.
Despite huge opposition from local residents, East Riding planning councillors granted permission for the project to go ahead.
The plant, which was voted nine to six in favour by the councillors, will burn mostly straw for the generation of 12MW power.
Coun Paul Robinson, support…
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In Rwanda, southern Africa, a biogas plant has been constructed for Nsinda Central Prison in Rwamagana District, Eastern Province.
The project is supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which came about in an attempt to reduce the amount of firewood being consumed at the prison.
The commissioner general of prisons Mary…
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In Oregon, US, three projects dedicated to generating energy from sustainable sources have been awarded $3 million (€2.4 million) in government funding.
The US department of Energy’s State Energy Program split the funds between the counties of Lake, Tillamook and Wallowa.
The Lakeview Cogenerative project received $1.7 million to convert wood waste into bioelectricity and heat.
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France-based energy provider GDF Suez is thought to be investing €5 million in a biomass plant located in Bansko, Bulgaria.
GDF Suez representatives met with the town mayor Alexander Kravarov and privately owned French company Bul Eco Energy.
GDF Suez will present Bansko Municipality with its investment offer by the end of July 2010.
To date the French energy company has installed biomass…
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