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Feb 26, 2013
EPA approves advanced biofuel pathway for camelina
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Feb 26, 2013
UK-based Tilbury power station has been given the thumbs up to upgrade its facilities.
The plant was due to be closed permanently in October after it used up its full allocation of operating hours imposed after opting out of the 2008 EU directive. This was also despite providing more than half the UK’s renewable energy after converting to biomass in 2010.
The use... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 16, 2015
Greenlane Biogas, a global supplier of integrated biogas upgrading solutions, has received a contract to provide engineering services to CR&R Waste & Recycling for its biogas-to-renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Perris, California.
Greenlance will detail a design solution to make the RNG produced at the CR&R facility conform to the Californian Rule 30... [Read More]
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Feb 27, 2013
Canada-based Viridis Energy (VE) believes its Scotia Atlantic Biomass plant will begin wood pellet shipments this autumn.
VE anticipates the plant will be fully staffed and ramped up production could deliver 25,000 tonnes to European markets by September.
‘We are ramping up production slower than anticipated due to some delays relating to industry subsidies in the... [Read More]
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Feb 28, 2013
UK-based Midland Bioenergy (MB) has added a new heat log briquette to aid domestic and commercial environments.
The UK is aiming for a 15% renewable energy input from renewables by 2020 and home owners can be supported by the Renewable Heat Premium scheme that offers £950 (€1,100) towards the cost of an installed biomass boiler.
‘Currently just 1.5% of... [Read More]
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Mar 1, 2013
US-based renewable energy company Ameresco has completed its first operational year at its renewable energy fuelled cogeneration facility at its Savannah River site (SRS).
The facility came online in conjunction with the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) single largest renewable Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC), awarded to Ameresco in 2009 to finance, design,... [Read More]
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Feb 8, 2013
UK-based logistics company AV Dawson has signed a 40-year deal to site a waste-to-energy plant at its Riverside Park base in Middlesbrough.
Greenlight AD Power’s energy plant is the first project in the UK to benefit from the government’s Green Investment Bank (GIB) with funding of £8 million (€9.3 million) matched with private sector funding.
It... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2013
A new report looking at renewable energy use in New Zealand believes the potential for industry and economy boosts is huge.
The report, published by Greenpeace and based on scientific modelling by experts in New Zealand, Europe and Australia, states its economy could be given a multi-million dollar injection and create thousands of jobs via bioenergy and geothermal industries... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2013
It has been confirmed that Philippines-based Eastern Petroleum will begin construction of a biomass plant this year.
The power facility represents EP’s first venture into the biomass sector and will cost $60 million (€44.7 million). Construction is hoped to begin in the third quarter and be fully operational in 2015.
‘We, through our subsidiary Eastern... [Read More]
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Feb 11, 2013
International polymer producer Invista Technologies and biotechnology Arzeda will collaborate on the development of new technologies for bio-derived processes.
The agreement will combine the two companies’ technologies in order to further co-develop platforms to ultimately develop new bio-derived processes for a range of products. The initial focus of the collaboration... [Read More]
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Feb 12, 2013
A European water treatment plant is being powered by a feedstock more typically found on the dinner table.
Sauerkraut, particularly the juice, is mixed with specific bacteria to make methane and CO2 which powers turbines at the Bassin de l‘Ehn water treatment plant located in Northern France.
Jerome Fritz, director Bassin de l‘Ehn Water Treatment was quoted... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 17, 2015
The Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP), an industry-led initiative by major biomass energy producers, is asking interested parties to provide feedback on draft regional risk assessments (RRA) for the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
RRAs are a key part of SBP’s focus on identifying and mitigating any risks associated with sourcing feedstock... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2013
Technology supplier Metso is to supply Bioenergeticheskaya Kompaniya with a complete biomass-fired combined heat and power plant in Syktyvkar, Russia.
The 4MW CHP plant will use bark and wood residues from a Syktyvkar-based sawmill among other biomass. The produced power will be distributed to the local grid and heat will be used in the internal belt dryer.
‘Sawmill... [Read More]
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Sep 17, 2015
Viessmann, a German manufacturer of heating, industrial, and refrigeration systems, has begun marketing synthetic natural gas (SNG) produced from surplus renewable electricity by means of a biological power-to-gas method for the first time in the world.
The first plant of its kind to produce this type of SNG went into operation at the beginning of March this year, and... [Read More]
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Feb 13, 2013
Harare City in Zimbabwe has been told to welcome a Ministry of Energy and Power Development biogas project by the government.
The city council has been reported as being wary of the project but local government, rural and urban development officer Ignatius Chombo says fears of gas explosions were ‘unfounded’.
‘I hereby direct that the council cooperate... [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
