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Mar 26, 2013
Lignin-based fuels the aim for Maersk
Biogas News
Sep 14, 2015
Construction of North America’s first closed-loop fully-integrated organics waste management system is underway at the Orgaworld Surrey site in the city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
The construction began earlier this year on the biofuels processing facility, which will convert kitchen and yard waste into renewable natural gas to fuel Surrey’s rubbish... [Read More]
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Mar 27, 2013
The Canadian government has awarded the village of Telkwa a grant to retrofit a municipal building with a biomass heating system.
The grant comes in at CA$680,230 (€522,375) and the facility will burn waste wood from a nearby forest. As well as the municipal building, heat will also be provided to a nearby business, a school and four residences.
‘Building clean... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2013
Associated British Ports (ABP) has signed a 15-year contract with Drax Power which will see terminal investments of up to £100 million (€118 million) to handle wood pellet shipments at its Humber ports of Hull and Goole.
The move will support Drax Power’s conversion to a low carbon electricity producer through replacing coal with sustainable biomass. Its... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2013
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) believes its country’s farmers will grow the most corn since 1936 as growers look to take advantage of high prices driven by last year’s drought.
A forecast of 97.3 million acres of corn is set to be sown in 2013 to help boost dwindling supplies, while soyabean plantings have been placed at 77.1 million acres. Wheat crops... [Read More]
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Apr 2, 2013
Malaysia-based Wah Seong Corporation (WS) is to expland its renewable energy division via plans to build biomass generated power plants in Asean, South America and Africa.
The first two plants at the head of the push would be delivered into Congo and Cambodia, tentatively based at 5MW and 10MW of power respectively.
‘Usually, the cost to build a plant is between... [Read More]
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Apr 22, 2013
German Pellets is set to start constructing a $300 million (€229.9 million) plant in Central Louisiana, US this April.
The proposed 1 million tonne capacity a year plant will be located in the town of Urania and is expected to employ 80 people once completed. This is the second renewable project to hit Central Louisiana after Sundrop Fuels announced a new plant of... [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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Apr 4, 2013
In Canada the Centre Technologique des Résidus Industriels and FPInnovations will jointly research the potential production of biocoal from forest residues.
It is a three year project funded to the tune of CN$1.8 million (€1.3 million) by five relevant companies.
‘The competitiveness of the forestry industry depends on its ability to explore new markets... [Read More]
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Mar 18, 2013
More biogas plants are set to be introduced in the eastern province of Holguin, Cuba this year.
Thirty-five new facilities, specially adapted to handle the estimated mass and volume of animal waste produced by private swine producers, will produce methane to help power food plants.
The are already 32 biogas facilities in the province producing around 8,750 cubic metres... [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
