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Mar 11, 2013
UK pellet storage project presses on
Biomass News
Sep 14, 2015
Porvoo Energy aims to increase its production capacity for district heat at its site in Loviisa, Finland, with the construction of a new boiler plant.
Work at the €7 million expansion to the plant, which will see the use of renewable fuels on energy production increase from 70% to 90%, has already begun.
KPA Unicon will supply the site with a Biograte 10MWth biomass... [Read More]
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Mar 12, 2013
Gulf Coast Renewable Energy will locate a $25 million (€19.2 million) wood pellet plant in Mississippi, US.
CGRE says the plant will be situated on 40 acres in George County and should create around 30 new jobs. Construction will take 14 months and a request for help with adding an access road is currently pending.
Over 150,000 tonnes of pellets a year will initially... [Read More]
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Mar 12, 2013
Norwegian investment company Byggleverandørene has added a wood pellets plant to its portfolio in Lithuania.
The Biowood Nordic plant cost LTL 4 million (€1.1 million) to construct via almost LTL 2 million of EU and government aid received under the scheme supporting migration of farming companies towards non-farming activities.
‘It is a new plant, built... [Read More]
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Mar 13, 2013
Two international organisations have signed an memorandum of understanding to share and develop bioenergy sectors this March.
Rotterdam Biomass Commodities Network (RBCN) and the Wood Pellet Association of Canada will now cooperate together by sharing knowledge and organising biomass events.
‘RBCN is an organisation dedicated to strengthening and promoting the Dutch... [Read More]
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Mar 15, 2013
According to a report by Wood Resource Quarterly the exportation of logs and lumber from North America to China fell by 17% to $2.1 billion (€1.6 billion) last year.
Despite this recent decline, timberland owners in the US and lumber companies in Canada have greatly benefited from China’s increased wood consumption over the past five years. The report says 2012... [Read More]
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Mar 15, 2013
Danish firm Burmeister and Wain Scandinavian (BWS) has been given planning permission to build a new biomass power plant in Widnes, UK.
The proposed plant is believed to be able burn 147,000 tonnes of wood a year via truck deliveries to generate around 20MW of energy and 3.5MW of heat energy.
The project was passed by council officials as it is based on ‘environmentally-friendly... [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]
Biomass News
Sep 14, 2015
Biomass Energy Enhancement (BEE), a Utah, US-based biomass technology provider, has developed a new biomass fuel manufacturing process that could replace coal in power plants without the need for equipment upgrades.
The new process, developed over the past seven years, enables biomass fuel to be utilised in traditional coal-fired power plants as a direct replacement for... [Read More]
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Sep 16, 2015
Turboden, part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and provider of organic rankine cycle (ORC) turbogenerators for distributed power generation employing renewable sources and waste heat, has signed an order with Starwood, producer of medium density fibreboard (MDF), for a new cogeneration plant in Bursa, Turkey.
The Turboden ORC system will produce 5.5MW of electric... [Read More]
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Feb 26, 2013
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) has responded to the news that the EPA finalised its rule approving camelina oil as a new low-carbon feedstock under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)
'This decision adds to the growing list of biodiesel feedstocks that meet the EPA's standards for advanced biofuel and gives us yet another option for producing sustainable, domestic biodiesel... [Read More]
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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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Indonesian gas distributor PT Pertamina Gas Negara Tbk (PGN) has signed an agreement with NeutraDC Singapore (NDSG) to provide biomethane for forthcoming data centre projects in Singapore
Once cleared, the site will be redeveloped into an Energy, Biochar and Carbon (EBAC) plant – a pyrolysis facility designed to convert plant matter into biochar, renewable electricity and heat
Swedish tanker owner Furetank has announced it will run its European fleet on renewable biogas throughout 2025, marking a major step towards fossil-free shipping
