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Apr 24, 2015
UK's renewable energy targets drive increases in US wood pellet exports
Biomass News
Mar 31, 2015
In Denmark, DONG Energy is converting the last CHP unit at its Avedøre Power Station from coal to wood pellets.
The unit will be operational from 2016, providing heat for 65,000 households in the Greater Copenhagen area. From Q3 next year, Avedøre Power Station – the largest power station in Denmark – will be able to generate heat based entirely... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 7, 2015
Agricultural biotechnology company Ceres has announced that its biotech sugarcane traits have been advanced to the next stage of testing ahead of schedule due to positive data from initial field evaluations under tropical conditions in Latin America. Leading product candidates are currently being multiplied for wider-scale field evaluations which are scheduled to begin... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 7, 2015
PureVision Technology, a Colorado, US-based biorefinery developer, will scale up its biorefining technology at an industrial site in Boardman, Oregon owned by biorefinery developer ZeaChem.
PureVision's patented biorefining technology takes in raw biomass, such as corn stalks, wheat straw and industrial hemp, and produces sugars, pulp, lignin and other value-added materials... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 7, 2015
Republic Services has announced its newest landfill gas-to-energy project located at the Upstate Regional Landfill in Union County, South Carolina. The renewable energy project consists of two reciprocating combustion engines that generate 3,200kW of energy for the local electric grid, or enough electricity to power more than 1,800 area homes.
'Landfills are essential... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 7, 2015
Scania and the development financier of the Swedish state Swedfund are partnering to produce biogas as an automotive fuel in the Indian city of Nagpur, which is located in the state of Maharashtra and has 2.5 million inhabitants.
The biogas will be produced from digested sludge from one of the city's wastewater treatment plants in collaboration with local companies. Nagpur... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 7, 2015
Stuttgart-based global engineering and construction company M+W Group has been appointed as main contractor for the delivery of a £111 million (€150 million) energy from waste (EfW) facility in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Following the design and development phase, M+W Group will engineer, procure and construct a new 12.5MWe thermal treatment plant alongside a new... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 7, 2015
Nestlé Waters has begun constructing an agricultural biogas facility that will provide renewable energy for the Henniez bottling plant and the Swiss power grid, as well as natural fertilizer for local farms.
The company is building the Valbroye plant in the Canton of Vaud with renewable energy development firm Group E Greenwatt.
The biogas plant will process 28,000... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 7, 2015
Energy company Fortum has announced that it is planning to build a new multi-fuel combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Zabrze, Poland. The total value of the investment is approximately €200 million. Commercial operations are expected to begin by the end of 2018, providing district heating to some 70,000 households in Zabrze and Bytom.
The new plant, which will... [Read More]
Policy News
Apr 22, 2015
SBP has announced that a further four Certification Bodies have been accepted as applicants and are now able to progress towards achieving SBP-approved status. The applicant Certification Bodies are: Forest Certification, KPMG Performance Registrar, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and SGS.
The SBP Framework of standards and processes enables producers of woody biomass to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 20, 2015
Aria Energy, a provider of baseload renewable energy, has started commercial operations and renewable energy production at Sarasota County's Central County Solid Waste Disposal Complex located in Nokomis, Florida.
The Sarasota project is a 4.8MW landfill gas-to-energy facility that produces renewable energy by capturing and processing the methane gas generated at the landfill... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 20, 2015
Inspection company USFGIS and Twin Ports Testing have signed a strategic agreement to jointly enter the biomass market.
Jane Vogt, USFGIS VP, says: 'By combining the strengths of both companies we create a single source solution for inspection and testing services to the biomass industry in a highly efficient way.'
Twin Ports Testing has been involved in the wood pellet... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 27, 2015
Glenfarne Asset Company (GAC), a subsidiary of New York-based privately held energy and infrastructure firm Glenfarne Group, has launched Prime Energia which will establish a 400MW portfolio of power plants in Chile through a mix of brownfield acquisition and greenfield development. Prime Energia's recently acquired 50MW brownfield backup power plant in Chile is part of... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 27, 2015
In Japan, Nippon Paper Industries and Mitsubishi have agreed to establish Nippon Paper Ishinomaki Energy Center, an electric power generation company that will build and operate a renewable power plant using a combination of biomass and coal in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture.
The new company will set up the electric power generation facility on the Hibarino site owned... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 24, 2015
Weltec Biopower has started building a 500kW anaerobic digestion plant in Loughgall, Northern Ireland for vegetable producer Gilfresh.
'This is our third plant in Northern Ireland and the eleventh in the UK,' says Kevin Monson, sales manager of Weltec Biopower UK.
Gilfresh grows a number of vegetables, including salad crops, root vegetables, cabbages and pak choi. The... [Read More]
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Indonesian gas distributor PT Pertamina Gas Negara Tbk (PGN) has signed an agreement with NeutraDC Singapore (NDSG) to provide biomethane for forthcoming data centre projects in Singapore
Once cleared, the site will be redeveloped into an Energy, Biochar and Carbon (EBAC) plant – a pyrolysis facility designed to convert plant matter into biochar, renewable electricity and heat
Swedish tanker owner Furetank has announced it will run its European fleet on renewable biogas throughout 2025, marking a major step towards fossil-free shipping
