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On 21 June 2010 more than 200 financiers and clean energy experts witnessed presentations supporting the construction of biomass, biogas and small hydropower plants, as well as clean transport projects, at the Philippines Clean Energy Investors Forum in Manila. This is the second time the forum has taken place and is organised by the CTI Private Financing Network (CTI).
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Beaver Wood Energy is planning to construct a large biomass and wood pellet production facility at the former Green Mountain Race Track in Vermont, US, and the company recently met with the State Board to discuss the project further.
When the facility is completed, after a 26-month construction period, the 144-acre site will consist of a 29MW biomass plant and an integrated pellet plant, which…
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Asea One Power Corporation, a Philippines-based biomass project developer, has shortlisted the final four companies, one of which will be selected for the turnkey contract of its first power plant.
The chosen engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor will be informed by 15 July 2010 before the 12MW plant in Aklan, Philippines, begins construction.
‘We are still in the…
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The Philippines is pushing ahead with its biomass production and now has a total of 18 biomass plants, according to an ex-government official.
According to local news website, InterAksyon.com, the Philippines has the ability to use enough biomass power plants to provide energy to more than 300,000 homes.
According to the news channel, former Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri said: "Fired mainly by…
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China has the potential to provide millions of people living in rural parts of the country with electricity, according to the report ‘Rural Biomass Energy 2020 in the People’s Republic of China’.
In order to fulfil its potential, however, China needs $60 billion (€48.8 billion) by 2020. 30 million residents who still use kerosene-fuelled lamps and firewood for heat and cooking could…
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The Nova Scotia government is ending a legal requirement to operate a biomass plant based in Port Hawkesbury as a must-run facility.
In a statement, the Nova Scotia government said it introduced the new rules due to concerns expressed from the local community about the "use of primary forest biomass for electricity".
Under the terms of these new regulations, the number of new trees being cut down…
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Cornwall, UK, is set to be the home of a £1.5 million (€1.9 million) anaerobic digestion (AD) plant after planning permission, submitted by AD installation company Green and Pleasant Recycling, is close to being finalised at the Cornwall Council.
The plant will process local food and waste as well as farm waste for the generation of 350km/h of electricity and 500kW/h of heat.
The facility…
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Expected to be UK, Scotland’s largest anaerobic digestion (AD) plant, recycling firm Scotwaste’s £70 million (€86.4 million) facility has been granted planning permission.
Based in Bathgate, Lothian, the plant will have the capacity to process all of West Lothian’s commercial, industrial and residential waste, and from it generate enough electricity to benefit 7,000 households.…
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Based in Michigan, US, energy provider Traverse City Light and Power has halted plans that would have seen the development of a 10MW biomass plant.
The wood burning facility would have contributed towards the company’s 2020 target of 30% of electricity to come from renewable sources.
According to Mike Coco, chairman of Traverse City, ‘Our ratepayers tell us they don’t know enough about…
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In Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, green energy provider Pacific BioEnergy is currently expanding its wood pellet plant, which has now reached the halfway point.
The expansion of the plant will cost in the region of $24 million (€19.7 million), making it the largest of its kind in Canada and the second largest in North America after northern Florida.
The plant will double in size…
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Forth Energy’s £360 million (€444.8 million) biomass plant proposed for the city of Leith in Scotland, UK, is facing criticism after reports claim it will not be carbon neutral until the year 2050.
The current belief centres on the fact that biomass plants are green as the wood they burn to produce power is replaced.
However a US report by the Manomet Centre for Conservation Sciences in…
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If granted permission, a proposed biomass plant in Kent, UK, is due to convert thousands of tonnes of waste wood into heat and power.
A joint venture between German Evonik New Energies and renewable energy firm HES Biopower, Biomass Power’s facility will utilise a yearly supply of 160,000 tonnes of wood for the generation of 25MW of power.
35MW of low-grade steam heat will also be produced…
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UK-based bioethanol producer Ineos Bio has received a £7.3 million (€8.77 million) grant from One North East and the Department for Energy and Climate Change towards the £52 million construction cost of its advanced bioethanol from waste plant.
The plant, to be located at the Ineos Seal Sands site in the Tees Valley, is designed to produce 24,000 tonnes per year (30 million litres) of…
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Biogas power plant operator RuBa Energie has signed an agreement to purchase grass from clean energy company Viaspace.
As part of the agreement, a test plot of five acres of Viaspace Giant King Grass was planted at the RuBa facility in Kevelaer, Germany, on 6 June 2010.
The goal of the collaboration with RuBa is to produce an alternative, high yield, non-food feedstock for the more than 4,000…
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New York-based Laidlaw Energy Group’s subsidiary Laidlaw Berlin BioPower will sell its energy from its proposed wood-fired power generation facility to Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH).
Once operational the 70MW biomass facility in Berlin, New Hampshire, will be the largest wood-burning power plant in the state.
The long-term power purchase agreement must be considered and approved by…
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