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Under RENEW LA, a scheme designed to help the US state of Los Angeles send 0% of its waste to landfill, a new waste-to-energy plant is being developed in the region.
Los Angeles has now started contract negotiations with Green Conversion Systems (GCS), which will design and construct the plant.
Domestic waste designed for the tip stands at around 3,300 tonnes a day in Los Angeles alone.…
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The owner of the Kawasaki biomass-fired power plant in Yokohama, Japan, could potentially open another in Fiji.
Company officials from the Japanese plant and Fiji's President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau met on 21 June 2011 to discuss the possibility of setting up a biomass plant in the country.
Fiji is an ideal country in which to develop a bioenergy industry, due to the high availability of wood…
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In Scotland, UK, a wood pellet production plant is being developed that, when operational in March 2012, will produce wood pellets.
Land Energy is behind the project, which will come to realisation on a site previously occupied by a textile factory. Work at the site is scheduled to get underway in July 2011.
Based in Belfast, Ireland, Lagen Construction will be responsible for the civil,…
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Wood pellet manufacturer Biomass Secure Power is developing a torrefied wood pellet plant in British Columbia, Canada.
The production facility will have an annual production capacity of 500,000 tonnes of pellets, made from wood harvested by the company itself. A small portion will come local logging businesses.
One hundred per cent of the pellets produced at the site will be exported to Europe…
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In France, bioenergy firm Meta-Bio Energies has broken ground on a biomass-to-biogas plant in Bel-Air de Combrée.
The new biogas plant will handle around 23,000 tonnes a year of biomass, including food, agricultural and municipal waste, and convert it into 1MW of energy – enough to benefit around 4,000 households.
Electricité de France will purchase the electricity, while the…
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A $14.5 million (€9.9 million) wood pellet production plant is due to officially open on 9 June 2011 with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
Wood pellet manufacturer New England Wood Pellet owns the plant, which is based in Deposit, New York, US and has the capacity to manufacture 85,000 tonnes of wood pellets a year.
Construction of the plant was completed in April 2011. It was built on a site…
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The number of biogas plants that are either operational or scheduled for development across the UK will need an estimated 5.5 million tonnes of feedstock by the end of 2013, according to a study from Enagri.
The study concludes that approximately 150 biogas plants powered by farm effluents could be online in the UK by 2013. It also predicts a significant increase in the number of plants installed…
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The global biopower sector is set to double in size over the next decade, a new report says.
Governments around the world are heavily investing into the industry for energy security purposes and although biopower only currently accounts for about 10% of all global primary energy, it is expected to increase at a yearly rate of more than 7% within the next decade.
The biopower energy generated…
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Nexterra Systems is to install biomass gasification systems to heat the Missoula University campus in the US.
The system will cost a total of $16 million (€10.9 million) and will provide the campus with clean, carbon-neutral heat, converting locally sourced wood residues into 34,000 lbs/hr of clean renewable steam.
This steam will be used to displace 70% of the university’s natural gas…
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Sumitomo Metal Industries, a steel works company, is using coffee grounds as a biomass fuel to power its Kashima plant in Japan.
Currently the biomass fuel generated from coffee only equates to 1% of the total amount of fuel used within the plant but the company hopes to increase this number over time.
For the first year of coffee biomass generation Sumitomo plans to purchase 12,000 coffee…
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A university has produced jet fuel from a mixture of both coal and biomass feedstocks which will be tailored to be used in US military jet fuel applications.
The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota says its refining technologies helped to produce the coal-biomass feedstock which will be used as another source of fuel that is an alternative to…
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Four Rivers BioEnergy’s UK subsidiary, Verta Energy Trading, is to purchase all the shares of ML Oils, a UK waste oil procurement and handling business.
ML Oils currently buys about 6,000 tonnes of waste liquid biomass each year which will be enough to power 4MW of electricity at Verta’s waste-to-energy plant.
Last financial year, ML Oils made $4 million (€2.7 million) of revenue…
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BioHiTech America, a US-based technology company which develops data driven solutions for food waste disposal, has partnered with New Jersey-headquartered water management specialist Natural Systems Utilities to convert commercial food waste to energy.
The firms will also be working with New Jersey-based utility specialist Ridgewood Green RME and the village of Ridgewood. They will be testing a…
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Metso, an energy company, says it will build the world’s biggest biomass gasification plant for Vaskiluodon Voima in Finland.
The plant will provide 140MW to the grid, replacing some coal use with domestic wood-based renewable fuels and helping to cut down on CO₂ emissions.
The plant will be located in Vaasa and will be connected to a 565MW coal-fired power plant which uses mostly forest…
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The US-based Florida Keys islands may use gasification technology to convert waste into electricity, according to media reports.
According to news website Waste360, Monroe County, which encompasses Key West and about 95% of the rest of the Keys islands, is finalising a contract with Annapolis, Maryland-based Energy3 LLC to build a gasification plant capable of processing 50,000 tonnes of organic…
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