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Feb 8, 2013
Akuo Energy increases biomass presence in France
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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]
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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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Feb 14, 2013
A waste-to-fuel project spearheaded by Canada-based Green Energy Solution Industries has appointed a gasification technology provider.
GESI will work with International Technologies to bring the plant, to be located just outside Edmonton, online. It will be powered by old or disused railway ties of which GESI believes there are 1,800 per kilometre of track in Alberta alone.
International... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2013
US-based New Biomass Energy is expanding as it sees its third bulk shipment of torrefied wood pellets depart for Europe recently.
The delivery of 4,000 tonnes was produced at NBE’s plant in Mississippi and will end up at various coal-fired plants throughout Europe.
The plant is currently increasing its production capacity, dependent on the energy density of the pellet... [Read More]
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Jan 31, 2013
A new £8 million (€9.3 million) anaerobic digestion (AD) facility is well under development in County Durham, UK.
Emerald Biogas claim the commercial food waste facility, to be based at Newton Aycliffe industrial estate, will be the first in the north east of England. It will process 50,000 tonnes of food waste a year sourced across the north east and generate... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2013
New levels of support for renewable energy have been announced by the Northern Ireland government.
From 1 April, under a revised Northern Ireland Renewables Obligation, new large-scale biomass CHP plants are eligible for an additional six months support from the government.
‘The additional six month eligibility period for eligible biomass stations, which retains... [Read More]
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Feb 1, 2013
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached a settlement for Clean Air Act violations by the Thermal Energy Development Partnership (TEDP).
The settlement totalled $145,000 (€106,500) as TEDP’s biomass power plant in California “failed to properly operate and maintain emission monitoring equipment”.
TEDP’s monitoring equipment... [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
