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Sep 16, 2014
Partnership build cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant
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Sep 16, 2014
The Lufthansa Group is operating its LH 190 flight from Frankfurt to Berlin Tegel using a 10% blend of the new biofuel component farnesane.
This is the first scheduled flight in Europe to run on this sugar-based bio-kerosene fuel mix.
A rig test at Lufthansa Technik's facility in Hamburg last year, as part of the EU's 'Blending Study' project preceded Lufthansa's... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 17, 2014
Irish renewable energy group Gaelectric has acquired Imperative Energy, a biomass energy provider.
Brendan McGrath, CEO, Gaelectric Group, says: 'Just 2% of the 60 million TOE (tonnes of oil equivalent) UK heat market, with 28 million TOE in commercial and industrial buildings, is currently provided by biomass. The continuing focus on sustainability, energy security and... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 17, 2014
Energy company E.ON’s £120 million biomass power station in Blackburn Meadows, Sheffield nears completion.
The 30MW facility in the Blackburn Meadows area is now in the final stages of construction and is due to be fully commissioned later this year.
It will burn locally-sourced waste wood to create electricity. Once fully operational, it will utilise an additional... [Read More]
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Sep 17, 2014
Renewable energy technology provider INEOS Bio is restarting its new cellulosic ethanol plant in Florida after contamination forced it to decrease production considerably.
The company has upgraded the facility's technology and is also finishing the installation of equipment to remove impurities from one of the plant's process streams. As a result, this contamination has... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 17, 2014
New Generation Power International, a global renewable energy company, will build three 11.5 MW wood biomass plants in Japan.
In collaboration, Chicago-based New Generation Power International (NGPI) and wood and biomass power specialist Nippon Energy Solution (NES) will initiate a new wood-based biomass energy generation project.
The project will include the construction... [Read More]
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Sep 18, 2014
A new ethanol plant may be built in Onida, Iowa, US.
Plans started earlier this year for a facility that is capable of producing 70 million gallons per year of ethanol and 200 tonnes of distiller’s grain.
‘What ethanol has done for agriculture is help balance supply and demand,’ says Walt Wendland, who, along with Chris Schwarck, has been involved in... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 18, 2014
Renewable energy providers Procter & Gamble move forward with their biomass facility in Georgia, US.
The $230 million (€178 million) biomass facility has got permission from local officials to continue with the build and have received some tax incentives to bring the plant to operation.
The project has seven partners including Georgia Power, the Georgia Public... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 19, 2014
The Nebraska Forest Service (NFS) will offer two cost-share assistance grants to organisations that are looking to install woody biomass-fired energy systems.
These grants are open to range of institutions including municipalities, universities, hospitals and greenhouses.
Funding for the programme has come from the Wildfire Control Act of 2013, which advocates the development... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 22, 2014
Glennmont Partners, an investment firm dedicated to clean energy in Europe, has started operations at the 38MW Sleaford straw-fired renewable energy plant.
Sleaford will generate enough electricity to power 65,000 homes as well as providing free heat to local sports clubs and community facilities.
The plant was built by a consortium of Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 22, 2014
The GwyriAD anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Caernarfon, developed and operated by Biogen, is the first in Wales to achieve certification under REAL's not-for-profit Biofertiliser Certification Scheme (BCS).
The plant converts food waste into renewable electricity and a co-product called digestate, otherwise known as certified biofertiliser.
The plant, which will turn... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 23, 2014
NPG Energy, a subsidiary of Enovos Luxembourg, has inaugurated its NPG BIO II biogas plant at the Deurganckdok at Antwerp Port. Inauguration of this renewable facility is the first of three openings to come over the coming year.
Speaking about the plant, which took 10 months to build, NPG Energy CEO and co-founder André Jurres says: 'The plant is primarily fuelled... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 25, 2014
Canfor is planning to construct two pellet production plants, one at each of its sawmill sites located at Chetwynd and Fort St. John in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
The plants, which will have a combined production capacity of 175,000 tonnes of wood pellets, will be developed and operated in partnership with Vancouver-based wood pellet fuel supplier Pacific... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 25, 2014
Pressure Technologies has acquired the business and certain assets of New Zealand-based biogas-to-grid technology developer and supplier, Greenland Biogas Holdings.
The deal was announced following the completion of detailed due diligence and once Pressure Technologies agreed to the terms of the acquisition.
Greenlane's applications are used to capture biogas released... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 9, 2015
Blue Sphere Corp., a clean energy company that develops, manages and owns waste-to-energy projects, has broken ground on its waste-to-energy project in Johnston, Rhode Island in the US.
The plant will produce 3.2MW of clean energy from uneaten food that would normally end up in local landfills. That electricity will then be sold to the national grid to provide power to... [Read More]