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Jul 1, 2013
Biogas project underway in Zambia
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Jul 2, 2013
UK-headquartered Green Biologics (GB), an international biotechnology company, has announced collaboration and planned investment in facilities with US business Easy Energy Systems (EES).
The collaboration will result in the modification of Easy Energy’s ethanol demonstration plant in Iowa to produce renewable n-butanol and acetone.
‘We’ve been working... [Read More]
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Jul 2, 2013
It has been reported the Tanzania domestic Biogas Programme (TDBP) is to spend $21 million (€16.1 million) to create an infrastructure supporting new 50 enterprises.
In a statement TDBP said the project is being worked with the Centre for Agriculture Mechanisation and Rural Technology and is a component of the Africa Biogas Partnership Programme, funded by the Netherlands... [Read More]
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Jul 2, 2013
UK waste-to-energy BioWayste has signed a six year contract with recycling business Brocklesby to provide green electricity and heat via its anaerobic digestion (AD) technology.
BioWayste will run and manage a £2 million (€2.3 million), 40,000 tonne per year AD plant based on Brocklesby’s seven acre site in Yorkshire. Six reactors, along with combined... [Read More]
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Jul 3, 2013
A loan agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the World Bank has been signed which will see $90 million (€69.5 million) additional financing for energy efficiency projects in the country.
The extra financing will cover the reconstruction costs of two combined heat and power (CHP) plants in the cities of Gomel and Mogilev.
Both CHP facilities are expected to... [Read More]
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Jun 12, 2013
It has been reported that two men passed away on 10 June while trying to rescue people caught in a gas leak at an under construction biomass power plant in Bangkok, Thailand.
According to local news reports the two men, a New Zealand engineer and a local employee, tried to save a husband and wife who had passed out in a three-storey ventilation chimney after inhaling toxic... [Read More]
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Jun 12, 2013
Sweden-based forestry company RusForest is set to work with AS Hekotek, a mechanical engineering company, to build a wood pellet production facility at its sawmill in Arkhangelsk, Russia.
The facility will have an annual capacity of 100,000 tonnes and allow RusForest to monetise its sawmill by-products by exporting wood pellets to Europe.
Total investment is estimated... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2013
The global trade of woodchips has grown year on year from 2000 to 2011, the Wood Resource Quarterly reports.
This is with the exception of 2009 when pulp production fell around 10% and the demand for wood fibre was down.
From 2009-2012 woodchip imports reached just over 31 million tonnes, a 6.5 million increase. According to the report, much of this can be attributed to... [Read More]
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Jun 13, 2013
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working to demonstrate that jet fuel can be manufactured economically and in large volumes from biomass materials such as switchgrass and has partnered with Cobalt Technology, the US Navy and Show Me Energy for the project.
The results of these tests will help decipher whether the process can be ramped... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Forest BtL Oy is developing a new biomass-to-liquid (BtL) plant on Ajos Island, Finland.
The facility will utilise wood and by-products from the wood processing industry to produce approximately 140,000 tonnes of biodiesel and naphtha.
The project is supported by the European Union NER300 funding programme for innovative renewable energy technologies.
The front-end engineering... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Developer Klamath Falls Bioenergy has withdrawn its application to build a biomass-fired power plant near Klamath Falls, Oregon, Associated Press reports.
The company said it would not have been able to meet its construction deadline of the end of 2013 due to delays in obtaining a state siting permit. This deadline was set by federal economic stimulus legislation, which... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Construction has begun on a biomass project in Maine, US. The plant will benefit two schools in the St. John Valley: the University of Maine and Fort Kent Community High School.
The biomass heating system will help both educational institutions reduce their carbon footprint while also slashing energy costs; it is expected to save more than $4 million (€2.9 million)... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2013
Moose Creek Energy's landfill gas-to-energy plant was officially opened on 7 June by energy minister Bob Chiarelli.
The 4.2MW plant is located in Moose Creek, Ontario at the Lafleche Environmental facility.
Moose Creek Energy is a joint venture between Energy Ottawa, a subsidiary of Hydro Ottawa, and Integrated Gas Recovery Services.
The facility at Moose Creek will generate... [Read More]
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Sep 2, 2015
Long Island Compost (LIC) and its American Organic Energy (AOE) affiliate are moving forward with a plan to build a $40 million (€35.6 million) facility to turn food waste into natural gas.
After delays, AOE is planning to begin construction of an anaerobic digester in Yaphank, New York state by early next year.
Accepting and separating 180,000 tonnes of food waste... [Read More]
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Jun 19, 2013
Researchers from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at the University of Illinois (UI), US are evaluating the biomass potential of woody crops and their work is making them take a close look at the Robinia pseudoacacia tree – otherwise known as the black locust.
According to UI associate professor of crop sciences Gary Kling, it has been displaying a higher yield... [Read More]
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Proceeds from the bond sale have been used to refinance $40 million of Gevo RNG’s outstanding 2021 green bonds
SIAAP (Greater Paris Sanitation Authority) and SUEZ have officially inaugurated a new state-of-the-art biogas production unit at the Seine Aval wastewater treatment plant in the Paris metropolitan area
Natural State Renewables has announced a key strategic partnership with Axens as part of its plan to produce carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from surplus forest biomass
