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Apr 12, 2013
Wastewater plant to introduce in-house sustainable power project
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Apr 12, 2013
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has announced a shortlist of companies vying for £2.8 million (€3.3 million) in funding to build an energy-from-waste gasification demonstrator plant.
ETI launched the competition in 2012 to find a company to design ‘the most economically and commercially viable, efficient energy from waste gasification demonstrator... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 10, 2015
Western Energy Systems, GE’s distributed power business, and San Francisco-based Phoenix Energy have signed an agreement for GE to provide equipment for an integrated biomass gasification solution to power a bioenergy plant in North Fork, US.
The North Fork facility is the next in a series of bioenergy plants that Phoenix Energy is building in California.
GE’s... [Read More]
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Apr 15, 2013
The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) has changed its name following a recent meeting of its delegates.
The organisation is now known as Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials to reflect its expansion of scope to apply its standards to biomass that is being used for other products in addition to biofuels.
‘There is a large range of biomaterials including bio-plastics,... [Read More]
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Apr 15, 2013
A UK charity, the Gorning Heath Almshouses, has used a National Lottery grant to purchase a biomass boiler to help heat its buildings.
The £50,000 (€58,600) windfall was put towards a £155,000 system that will burn wood pellets on behalf of the charity to heat low-cost housing for 17 pensioners. The almshouses, which are nearly 300 years old... [Read More]
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Apr 15, 2013
The Colorado Economic Development Commission has dangled a multi-million dollar carrot in front of biomass company Cool Planet Energy Systems (CP) to try and entice it to the state.
CP, a California-based start-up, claims to have a petrol generating process via biomass and plant waste that does not need to rely on federal subsidies.
The CEDC hopes $3 million (€2.3... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2013
Bioenergy plant operator Katrinefors Kraftvärme (KK) is set to build a new CHP plant in Sweden with local municipal energy company VänerEnergi.
This will be the second plant involving KK, a 50/50 joint venture owned by Metsä Tissue (MT), and it will be based in Mariestad near a MT mill. Construction is slated to start this April and be operational by the... [Read More]
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Apr 16, 2013
The first commercial biogas plant in South Africa is nearing construction in Bronkhorstspruit.
Project development company Bio2Watt will build, own and operate the 3MW capacity facility, which it aims to have online by the end of spring 2014 latest.
The Bronkhorstspruit location allegedly provides the project with proximity to key fuel supplies, grid access and sufficient... [Read More]
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Apr 17, 2013
Norwegian finance minister Sigbjørn Johnsen officially inaugurated a biorefinery demonstration plant at Borregaard’s production facility in Sarpsborg this April.The demo plant started preliminary operations last summer, followed by normal operations in the first quarter of 2013. The plant uses proprietary Borregaard technology and aims to produce cost-effective... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 11, 2015
A Leicester, UK, farm that invested in an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in 2012 has installed two additional tanks and more than doubled its energy output, with multi million pound funding support from Yorkshire Bank.
The Shropshire family are third generation farmers based in Huncote, Leicester, with their business employing 55 people and specialising in livestock and... [Read More]
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Apr 23, 2013
Seaweed Energy Solutions (SES) has reached an agreement to acquire 100% of Danish company Seaweed Seed Supply (SSS) to reinforce its position in large-scale seaweed cultivation for renewable energy.
SSS´ goal of increasing production to 100,000 tons by 2017 from the current 5,000 tons capacity can now become a reality via this purchase.
SES technology will be introduced... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2013
The Zimbabwe Electricity Regulatory Authority has received license application to build a biomass power plant from Lurosa Investments.
The proposed 2MW facility would generate electricity from timber waste feedstock in the east of the country. Zimbabwe currently uses more electricity than it produces at peak times (2,000MW against 1,200MW).
It has been reported that 70,000... [Read More]
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Apr 3, 2013
Waste heat-to-power equipment supplier Gulf Coast Renewable Energy (GCRE) reveals it is to double capacity at its wood pellet manufacturing plant in Georgia, US.
A new facility earmarked for Copiah County has also been mooted and both projects should make a combined total of 80 new jobs.
The original facility in Lucedale will double its pellet capacity from 160,000 to... [Read More]
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Apr 3, 2013
The government secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram, India has opened a new biogas plant in the city.
The plnt took Bio Flame-Biogas and Energy less than a month to install and in was inaugurated by chief minister Oommen Chandy towards the end of March.
The facility can turn 100kg of food waste from the secretariat canteen into around 10kg of heat and power which will be... [Read More]
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Apr 4, 2013
Energy provider Enel Green Power (EGP) and Italy-based SECI Energia have signed an agreement for the acquisition by EGP of 50% of Powercrop, a Maccaferri Group business dedicated to biomass energy conversion. With this acquisition, EGP will aim to develop biomass energy across a short supply chain with SECI by constructing five new facilities with a capacity of 150MW each.... [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
