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Jul 30, 2014
Scottish whisky distillery latest to go green with GIB funding
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Jun 30, 2015
The UK government has announced its intention to bring private capital into the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB).
Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne comments: 'In 2012 we set up the Green Investment Bank to support important investment in the UK's green infrastructure and since then it's gone from strength to strength. That is why we can now begin exploring options... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 30, 2015
Euronext will launch a new wood pellet commodities futures contract in the autumn of 2015, subject to regulatory approval.
Aimed at producers, wholesalers and retailers, this physically-settled contract targeting the residential heating sector, will allow the industry to hedge its positions.
Wood pellets, manufactured from stem wood and untreated residues from the wood... [Read More]
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Jul 7, 2014
In the Philippines, First Quenzon Biogas – a consortium of local poultry owners – is developing a 6MW peak load biogas plant.
The plant will be delivered by Envitec Biogas, the first contract to be signed by the company in the Philippines. The plant is expected to deliver over 24 million kWh of renewable energy once construction has finished.
The project will... [Read More]
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Jul 7, 2014
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced that a €150 million framework million loan will be made available to Banco Santander Chile for financing projects contributing to climate change mitigation, especially large and medium-scale renewable energy schemes.
These projects include biomass, wind, solar photovoltaic and concentrated solar power, in addition to... [Read More]
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Jul 7, 2014
General Electric (GE) is to acquire Monsal, an anaerobic digestion and biogas company based in the UK.
In a statement, GE says the move will enable it to 'help municipalities and industrial manufacturers shift from disposing wastewater treatment by-products to generating renewable energy and other value from their streams'.
'For many years, GE has been working to further... [Read More]
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Jul 8, 2014
The German parliament approved an amended Renewable Energy Act (EEG) on27 June.
According to the new EEG, biogas production in Germany will be capped from 1 August to 100MW a year and Feed-in Tariffs will be gradually withdrawn from all new plants above 100kW.
The European Biogas Association (EBA) has criticised this decision, which it calls a 'U-turn in German biogas... [Read More]
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Jul 8, 2014
In the Philippines, Greenergy Holdings has sold its 60% share in Biomass Holdings.
Biomass Holdings, the venture of Greenergy and investment holding firm Cleantech Projektgesellschaft, last year started building an 18MW sugarcane bagasse-fired renewable energy plant. This project, which is being constructed adjacent to the existing San Carlos ethanol plant, is slated for... [Read More]
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Jul 8, 2014
Shipments of wood pellets from North America to Europe have doubled in two years, according to research compiled by the North American Wood Fiber Review, which reports that shipments reached 4.7 million tonnes last year.
In 2013, pellets with a value exceeding $650 million (€478 million) were sent to Europe, an increase of more than 250% in just two years. Two-thirds... [Read More]
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Jul 8, 2014
Viaspace, a producer of renewable Giant King Grass as a low carbon fuel for clean electricity generation, has signed a supply contract with bioenergy project developer ReSource Bioenergy to supply its energy grass for bioenergy projects in Jamaica.
ReSource, which is incorporated in New York and has operations in California and Jamaica, is working to develop a commercially... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 29, 2015
Tamar Energy, operators and developers of commercial anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the UK, has announced that two of its AD sites have achieved a key industry quality standard.
The company's AD plants at Retford, Nottinghamshire and Holbeach, Lincolnshire have been awarded PAS 110 certificates – a standard backed by WRAP and the British Standards Institute to... [Read More]
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Jul 10, 2014
ReFood, is expanding its anaerobic digestion (AD) plant located in South Yorkshire, UK.
The new extension will see the size of the plant in Doncaster doubled, making it the largest food waste AD plant in the UK to date.
Last December ReFood secured planning consent to accept 160,000 tonnes of food waste at Doncaster that would otherwise go to landfill. The plant will generate... [Read More]
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Jul 14, 2014
Per Aarsleff, a Denmark-based contracting company, has signed an agreement to develop what it is calling 'Northern Europe's largest biogas plant' on a 12 hectare plot in the Danish town of Tønder.
The contract value of the biogas plant in Tønder is approximately DKK300 million (€40 million). There is also an option to build a similar plant in Aabenraa... [Read More]
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Jul 14, 2014
Elevance Renewable Sciences, a specialty chemicals company, has created a new collaboration with Genting Plantations through Genting Integrated Biorefinery (GIB), to be located in the Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) in Malaysia.
The 25:75 collaboration between Elevance and Genting Plantations will build a 240,000 tonne metathesis biorefinery based on Elevance's proprietary... [Read More]
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Jul 15, 2014
Scotia Atlantic Biomass, a subsidiary of renewable energy firm Viridis Energy, has entered into an agreement with Halifax Grain Elevator which will see Halifax invest up to $1 million (€700,000) in the subsidiary.
Halifax Grain, a bulk grain handling and storage provider at the Port of Halifax, provides segregated storage using 365 silos ready for transport via cargo... [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
