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Beta Renewables, a cellulosic biofuels business and part of the Mossi Ghisolfi Group, and Novozymes, a producer of industrial enzymes, marked the official opening in Northern Italy of the world’s largest advanced biofuels facility this October.
Situated in fields outside the city of Crescentino, it is claimed to be ‘the first plant in the world’ to be designed and built to…
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An award-winning University of Queensland researcher hopes to use a chemical found in lemons and other citrus fruits to produce clean, renewable jet fuel.
Claudia Vickers, a senior researcher at the Systems and Synthetic Biology Group at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, is modifying baker's yeast to produce a synthetic form of the natural chemical…
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Two Malaysian companies Detik Aturan and Global Green Synergy have both secured contracts to supply wood pellets to different Asian markets.
Under a new agreement, Detik plans to export 20,000 tonnes a month of pellets to South Korea's BC21 Co. by the middle of next year. BC21 hopes to be consuming 5 million tonnes per year by 2015.
As part of its agreement with China Light (GuangZhou) Import and…
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Clean Energy Fuels, one of North America's largest providers of natural gas for transportation, is ready to begin distributing commercial volumes of its renewable natural gas vehicle fuel at 35 public Clean Energy stations throughout California.
The company's fuel – Redeem – is made from waste materials collected from landfill, diary and sewage plants and today already powers…
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VTT Technological Research Centre of Finland is organising a new European project to study the anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic waste.
The AD process can be optimised to produce either biogas or volatile fatty acids that are even more valuable products than biogas. The produced volatile fatty acids can be converted further to raw materials with which it is possible to produce oil-replacing…
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Utility company Kentucky Power Co. is to acquire biomass-based power from a renewable production plant near Hazard after the Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) approved a 20-year power purchase agreement.
Under the recently approved agreement, Kentucky will buy renewable electricity from the 58.8MW ecoPower Generation-Hazard biomass plant, construction on which will take about two…
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The cause of a fire which broke out at the UK's Port of Tyne on 11 October is under investigation.
Around 50 fire fighters responded to the incident, which originated inside a wood pellet storage facility at around 3pm.
The port's operations were not disrupted and the property sustained minimal damage, according to reports. An external conveyor transfer tower will need to undergo some repair…
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According to a new survey published by WRAP, anaerobic digestion (AD) is driving forward to UK organics recycling industry.
The study – ASORI – shows the number of operational AD sites grew during 2012 and the total input of organic waste processed via AD rose to 1.69 million tonnes last year. WRAP said over 50% of those sites surveyed have come online since the last survey was…
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Leidos Holdings, a science and technology company, is to assume ownership of a 37.5MW biomass-fuelled power plant currently being built in Plainfield, Connecticut by Leidos Constructors.
The new facility is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. Upon entering operations the biopower plant will power the equivalent of 37,000 homes. Connecticut Light & Power has signed a 15-year…
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A commercial-scale renewable power plant has opened in Junction City in the US state of Oregon.
The project, known as JC-Biomethane, has been labelled 'the Pacific Northwest's first commercial food waste-to-electricity' facility.
Essential Consulting of Oregon designed and will also manage the plant, which will convert large volumes of food waste and other biomass materials into biogas for the…
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Brazilian biopower company Energias Renovaveis do Brasil (ERB) is to partner with Dow Chemical for the construction of a renewable electricity facility in Minas Gerais state.
According to reports from Bloomberg, the two companies have agreed to build a 237 million real (€80 million) biopower plant at the site of Dow Chemical's ethanol production facility. It will use sugarcane waste to…
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RWE Innogy's biopower plant in Georgia, US has recently been certified under the European Pellet Council's ENplus A1.
The new certification provides assurance to buyers in Europe that the pellets meet strict quality criteria. The company exports to European countries such as Italy, Germany and Denmark.
The pellet production facility manufactures 750,000 tonnes of pellets and is operated by…
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Greenleaf Power, an owner and operator of green energy plants, has completed the acquisition of the Saint-Félicien cogeneration power plant in Quebec, Canada.
This is the first plant Greenleaf has purchased outside of the US; it currently owns and operates biomass facilities in San Joaquin, Humboldt, Lassen and Riverside counties.
Its latest project has the capacity to generate around 21MW…
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Waste from dairy farms and beer breweries could provide the necessary ingredients to grow algae-based biofuels say the leaders of a project based in Vermont, US.
The US Department of Agriculture awarded the association, which includes the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI), a $51,000 (€37,000) grant to research biofuels technology using algae during a news conference at…
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