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Jan 5, 2015
SBP accepts certification bodies as applicants
Biogas News
Jan 7, 2015
Clean Energy Fuels, a provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, has sold its majority interest in the McCommas Bluff biomethane production plant in Dallas, Texas to minority interest owner Cambrian Energy for approximately $40.6 million (€34.2 million).
Clean Energy will continue to have the right to market and sell biomethane produced at the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 6, 2015
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a loan of up to €7 million for the construction of a new biomass boiler plant in Prijedor, a municipality in the north west of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This will be EBRD's first investment in renewable energy in the region.
The operator of the plant is Toplana AD Prijedor, the majority of which... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 20, 2015
Blue Sphere, a clean energy company that develops, manages and owns waste-to-energy projects, announced today they have acquired four fully operational biogas facilities in Italy. Each of these facilities produce 1MW.
Blue Sphere Italy signed a definitive agreement with Kinexia, an Italian public company, and will now await a change of control process that could take up... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 12, 2015
If heat and power plants that burn forest woodchips acquire these chips from optimised supply chains, they can obtain better quality biomass and lower their total acquisition costs. This is according to a study by Ramoll Finland, commissioned by Miktech Oy.
An optimised supply chain includes comprehensive and real-time management features for biomass, resources and conditions.
'The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 12, 2015
Waste-to-product business, Shanks Group, has announced that Iris Solutions, a consortium led by Orgaworld Canada, part of Shanks' Organics division, has been selected as the preferred proponent for the Surrey Biofuels Processing Facility project in Canada.
Shanks will build the plant, which will process 115,000 tonnes of residual kitchen and garden waste from Surrey each... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 12, 2015
A biogas plant complete with gas upgrading facility has been installed for Icknield Gas in Oxfordshire, UK.
Construction began in June 2014 and was complete in six months; since 12 December Icknield Gas has been feeding green energy into the existing Southern Gas Networks grid.
Using a combination of pig slurry, farm by-products and energy crops, the facility is able to... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jan 13, 2015
A wood pellet plant, built and started-up by mechanical engineering company Hekotek in November 2014, has reached the designed output capacity of 30,000 tonnes per year.
The plant, owned by Lesresurs and being operated by Rusforest Management Group, is located in the Irkutsk region of Eastern Siberia.
The wood pellets are produced from sawdust and pulp chips generated... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 13, 2015
BlueRock Energy, a privately held energy solutions company, and ReEnergy Black River have entered into a services agreement to support the delivery of power from ReEnergy's 60MW Black River bioenergy facility to the Fort Drum US Army installation in New York.
Under the agreement, BlueRock Energy is performing load forecasting, scheduling and delivery services from the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 13, 2015
Renewable energy company Tamar Energy has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Energy for its current 11MW generation portfolio.
The PPA covers Tamar Energy's first five anaerobic digestion plants, at Basingstoke, Hampshire; Holbeach, Lincolnshire; Retford, Nottinghamshire; Halstead, Essex and Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. The PPA was signed with EDF... [Read More]
Other News
Jan 13, 2015
Renewable fuel producer UPM has started commercial production at its renewable diesel biorefinery in Lappeenranta, Finland.
The UPM Lappeenranta Biorefinery is based on a hydrotreatment process developed by the company, and produces approximately 120 million litres per year of renewable UPM BioVerno diesel.
UPM's BioVerno diesel, which is produced out of crude tall oil,... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jan 20, 2015
Construction of a proposed pellet plant at Tolko's Lavington mill will begin later this month, Tolko Industries and Pinnacle Renewable Energy have announced.
The decision follows a significant consultation and review process, and permit approval from the Ministry of Environment (MoE) and the District of Coldstream.
The plant will employ technology which advances the way... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jan 20, 2015
RusForest, a Swedish forestry company with operations in Russia, has engaged mechanical engineering firm Hekotek to build a wood pellet production facility at the company's Magistralny sawmill in Eastern Siberia.
Under the contract, Hekotek will deliver equipment for the construction of the plant, which will have an annual capacity of 30,000 tonnes. The facility will be... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jan 20, 2015
Maine Woods Pellet Company is building a biomass-fired power plant in Athens, Maine and has chosen Turboden to supply what will be the world's largest biomass-based Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC).
Maine Woods Pellet owns and operates a wood pellet production facility. This plant can produce up to 100,000 tonnes per year of wood pellets for the bulk and bagged fuel markets,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 20, 2015
At Cannington Cold Stores' 45,000 tonne Bridgwater site in Somerset, UK, Veolia has installed a 2MW biogas combined heat and power (CHP) plant. This adds to four existing 324kW CHPs it has already successfully installed at the site.
The biogas solution has been supplied by Cogenco, Veolia's package CHP team and is fuelled by waste food, helping the chilled food storage... [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
