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Algae-based energy is the order of the day for Thailand-based petroleum company PTT and it is working in Australia to achieve that end.
PTT is already in early partnership with Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, with the end-goal of developing algae-oil extraction. The venture is currently focusing on fatty acid methyl ether from selected marine algae.
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Valoneo, a French waste-to-energy company, has started trading on the deregulated market Marche Libtre of Euronext Paris.
The company’s market capitalisation runs at €14 million, with shares trading at €11.60 after being on the market since July.
Valoneo was listed on the public market through a direct quotation, advised by French corporate finance adviser Atout Capital.
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California-based CR&R Waste and Recycling Services is set to build a $100 million (€88.7 million) anaerobic digester complex in Perris, California.
The company expects to have the plant up and running by early 2016.
Using food scraps and garden waste as feedstock, the facility will produce fertiliser and biogas, which will be used to power 45% of the vehicles in CR&R’s waste…
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Canadian business Solarvest Bioenergy has closed a non-brokered private placement, in which an investor purchased 400,000 common shares at a price of $0.25 (€0.19) per share for gross proceeds of $100,000.
SB says the proceeds from this private placement will be used as general working capital. The shares will be subject to resale restrictions for a period of four months from closing under…
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Ecotricity has announced it is to develop a third Green Gas Mill, a new green energy site in Somerset, UK, that will generate enough gas from grass to power up to 2,500 homes.
The company launched its first Green Gas Mill project in Gloucestershire back in April, with a second announced in August in Hampshire, while a fourth is also due to be unveiled before the end of the year.
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Energy company RWE nPower has called time on its 100% biomass plant in Tilbury, UK.
The company announced it will stop work at the biomass plant this July while it considers and reviews further options on project feasibility.
The Tilbury facility began life as a coal-fired plant over 30 years ago and was due to close down in 2015 as RWE opted it out of the EU’s Large Combustion Plant…
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A wood pellet boiler project is set to benefit residents of an apartment building in New Hampshire, US.
The Berlin Housing Authority-owned complex aims to save around $11,000 (€8,500) a year once the boilers are in place. It also hopes to add water conversion features, programme thermostats and upgrade its hot water system too.
This is part of an overall movement, called the Berlin Model…
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A Canadian biogas producer can move forward with building a facility after receiving a feed-in tariff contract.
The Ontario Power Authority has issued the contract meaning ZooShare Biogas Co-Operative (ZBC) can push on its plans to build a 500kw biogas plant at Toronto Zoo next year.
ZBC is funding the project through the sale of bonds to Ontarians who want to aid the environment, support the zoo…
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US wood pellet and grill manufacturer Traeger Pellet Grills (TPG) has sold part of its business to private equity firm Trilantic Capital Partners (TCP).
TPG reportedly called the sale a ‘substantial minority interest’ while New York-based TCP says it ‘saw potential in Traeger for expansion’. That thought follows the installation of Traeger-branded shops into shopping…
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An Australian abattoir is to construct a multi-million biogas system to help reduce its reliance on coal.
Bindaree Beef (BB), based in New South Wales, will see the AU$43 million (€30.4 million) system reduce its carbon emission by 95% while cutting utility cost of processing each head of cattle by over a third. The project involves installing a more energy efficient rendering plant and…
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UK-based renewable power plant business Clarke Energy (CE) is to supply Tamar Energy with combined heat and power systems for their biogas plants.
CE will initially provide six biogas engines across four Tamar sites in the UK, with a combined renewable power output of 8MWe.
The agreement comes after the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and Department for Energy Food and Rural…
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The Highland Council (THC) in Scotland has awarded a long-term contract for the servicing, maintenance and repair of biomass installations, including the supply of wood fuel, across 59 sites.
The £1.2 million (€1.4 million) per annum contract went to Fort William-based biomass heat company HWEnergy and will last for four years.
As many Highland communities are off the gas network,…
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A loan agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the World Bank has been signed which will see $90 million (€69.5 million) additional financing for energy efficiency projects in the country.
The extra financing will cover the reconstruction costs of two combined heat and power (CHP) plants in the cities of Gomel and Mogilev.
Both CHP facilities are expected to add 145MW of electrical…
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UK waste-to-energy BioWayste has signed a six year contract with recycling business Brocklesby to provide green electricity and heat via its anaerobic digestion (AD) technology.
BioWayste will run and manage a £2 million (€2.3 million), 40,000 tonne per year AD plant based on Brocklesby’s seven acre site in Yorkshire. Six reactors, along with combined heat and power engines, will…
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