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Mar 24, 2014
GE joint venture to build biogas plant in Malaysia
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Mar 24, 2014
DTE Energy's biomass plant in northern California, US, has begun operations.
The plant, located on the site of a former coal-fired power facility, will use around 320,000 tonnes of woody biomass fuel a year to generate 45MW of power.
Biomass for the facility will be primarily derived from urban wood waste, tree trimmings and agricultural processes.
DTE purchased the site,... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2014
Greenergy Holdings is reported to be selling its 60% stake in a company building an 18MW biomass power plant in Negros Occidental, a Philippines province, to a German hedge fund.
The company has agreed to sell its stake in Biomass Holdings, which is developing the P3.5 billion (€56.16 million), bagasse-fired power generation plant, to ThomasLloyd Cleantech Infrastructure... [Read More]
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Mar 24, 2014
Eternity Capital, a specialist in funding for waste management and environmental services companies in the UK and Europe, has started constructing an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility for producing biogas from agricultural and food waste in Cornwall, UK, with an investment of £9.6 million (€11.4 million).
The new facility will be built in collaboration with... [Read More]
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Mar 25, 2014
Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) has plans to install 14 biomass boiler projects in 2014.
Six of these projects, located in the Galena, Kake, Ketchikan, Haines, Minto and Yakutat regions, will use $20 million (€14.4 million) from the state's Renewable Energy Fund.
Biomass boilers, designed to heat buildings, can be fuelled with cord wood, wood chips or wood pellets and... [Read More]
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Mar 27, 2014
UTS Biogas, a subsidiary of sustainable energy solutions company Anaergia, has commissioned a new biogas facility in Dagenham, London, UK, for TEG Environmental.
The 1.5MW facility, utilising a combination of anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting technology, is located in the London Sustainable Industries Park.
Thanks to this combination of technologies, the facility... [Read More]
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Jul 22, 2015
Saxlund International, a fully-owned subsidiary of the energy and environmental technology group Opcon, has received an order for the delivery of a biomass handling system.
The system will be delivered for Babcock & Wilcox Vølund, Denmark, for a green energy project in Margam – Port Talbot, between Swansea and Cardiff in South Wales, UK.
The scope of the... [Read More]
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Mar 31, 2014
Forth Energy, a joint venture between SSE and Forth Ports, says it is not continuing with plans to develop the Grangemouth and Rosyth biomass-fired power plants in the UK.
Both projects have gained consent from the Scottish government and Forth Energy is investigating options to attract other developers to take the projects forward.
As previously reported by Bioenergy... [Read More]
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Mar 31, 2014
Biogas company Methalandes of France is developing what will be the nation's largest anaerobic digestion plant to date in the town of Hagetmau.
The facility will be able to handle waste products from the agricultural and food sectors in order to produce 37.8 million kWh of electricity.
The construction contract for the new project has been awarded to Xergi; the company's... [Read More]
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Mar 31, 2014
Swedish energy company Göteborg Energi has opened its new demonstration plant – GoBiGas – which will produce large volumes of biogas through the gasification of biomass.
The gasification technology installed at the site makes it possible to produce biofuel that will fuel 15,000 cars or 400 buses annually.
According to Kia Andreasson, municipal councillor... [Read More]
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Apr 1, 2014
Albioma, a France-based independent energy producer, has finalised its acquisition of the totality of shares in Rio Pardo Termoelétrica, a cogeneration plant situated in the São Paulo region in Brazil.
The bagasse cogeneration plant, which has an installed capacity of 60MW, was commissioned in 2009. Albioma says its 'expertise should enable significant improvements... [Read More]
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Apr 1, 2014
A new 7MW biogas power plant will be built in Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands after the project received government approval at the end of March.
Renewable energy development company Tibbar Energy is behind the project, which was granted final approval by the Virgin Island Department on Planning and Natural Resources' Division of Coastal Zone Management (CZM). The CMZ decision... [Read More]
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Apr 1, 2014
Viaspace, a grower of energy crops, has signed a contract with Mesquite Lake Water and Power to provide Giant King Grass for a biomass-fired power plant and biofuels facility in the US state of California.
Mesquite Lake is developing a biomass energy park in Imperial Valley. It has already purchased an 18MW biomass power plant, which was damaged during a 2010 earthquake.... [Read More]
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Apr 1, 2014
The Energex American-owned wood pellet production plant in Juniata County, Pennsylvania has been damaged after a fire broke out on the morning of 29 March.
The four-alarm fire and subsequent dust explosion inside a warehouse used for storing pellets is reported to have destroyed the office and sawdust warehouse, and one firefighter was taken to hospital. The processing... [Read More]
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Jul 21, 2015
Brazilian biomass plants have produced an average of 1,449 MW in the first five months of 2015, Brazil’s Power Commercialisation Chamber (CCEE) reports.
InfoMercade Mensal, a CCEE newsletter, reports the amount is up 17.5% from last year’s.
In May Brazil’s calculated biomass power capacity was 10.7 GW, which is up by 9.6%.
The state of Sao Paulo is 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
