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Oct 16, 2012
PDM granted planning permission for 4MW biogas plant
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Oct 16, 2012
Felda Global Ventures Holdings is developing a renewable energy plant in Malaysia that will turn palm oil mill effluent (POME) into biogas.
The RM8 million (€2 million) pilot plant will be built in Kota Tinggi, Johor by technology company Weida Bhd, who says construction will be completed within four months.
The biogas will be used to generate 2MW of electricity that... [Read More]
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Oct 16, 2012
Indonesian utility company PT PLN and US-based technology firm General Electric (GE) have signed a letter of intent to develop a biomass-fired power plant.
The $5 million (€3.8 million) pilot facility, to be located in Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara, will generate 1MW of renewable power from eucalyptus- and acacia tree-derived woodchips. It is expected to begin... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 5, 2015
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has announced that a group led by ADAS, which includes E4tech, RDI Associates, Crops for Energy and Imperial College Consultants, will work on its new project to refine current estimates of available UK land that can be used for the production of crops and forestry for bioenergy.
The ETI is investing £156,000 (€210,000)... [Read More]
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Oct 5, 2015
In Japan, Sumitomo Corp., a power producer and supplier, has announced plans to build a 50MW biomass-fired power plant in Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture through its wholly owned subsidiary Summit Energy Corp. The plant will become a new source of power supply for Summit Energy's electric power retail business.
The Sakata biomass power plant will be built in the Sakata... [Read More]
Pellets News
Oct 5, 2015
Lignetics, the largest residential wood pellet manufacturing company in the US which now has a production capacity of approximately 550,000 tonnes a year of wood pellets, has acquired the assets of GF Funding (whose facility was formerly known as Geneva Wood Fuels), expanding its footprint into Maine and upper New England.
Lignetics has wood pellet manufacturing plants... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2012
Food producer, distributor and marketer Del Monte is developing a Sh963.4 million (€8.65 million) biogas plant at its pineapple farm in Thika, Africa.
Designed to generate 5MW of renewable electricity, the plant, expected to be the largest of its kind in the nation, will be consumed on site helping to save Del Monte millions in electricity costs. Any excess electricity... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2012
Biomass energy supplier Land Energy's new multi-million pound wood pellet production plant, based in Girvan in Ayrshire, Scotland, is operational.
The facility has the capacity to manufacture 60,000 tonnes of wood pellets a year using locally-sourced timber from sustainable forests and sawmills within a 50-mile radius of the plant. This is enough to benefit more than 15,000... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2012
Clean energy project developer Punjab Biomass Power says it hopes to establish a number of rice straw-fired biomass plants with a total capacity of 96MW by 2017, Bloomberg reports.
The first of these will cost 800 million rupees (€11.65 million) and is planned for the north of Punjab state. Punjab Biomass Power, 51% of which is owned by Infrastructure Leasing and... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2012
Covanta Energy's expansion of the H-Power renewable power plant in Honolulu in Hawaii has finished.
The $302 million (€232 million) project has increased the plant's handling capacity by 900 tonnes to 3,000 tonnes per day of municipal solid waste (MSW). A third boiler has also been installed.
Covanta Energy began expanding the facility at the end of 2009, before which... [Read More]
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Oct 22, 2012
Technology supplier Metso is to provide a Swedish combined heat and power plant with a biofuel-fired boiler.
The plant, based in Torsvik and owned by Jönköping Energi (JE), is expanding and the new 100MW unit will serve to help meet district heating and electric power needs of Jönköping municipality.
The expansion the CHP plant represents a significant... [Read More]
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Oct 23, 2012
Some biomass-related projects in the US are set to benefit from a new multi-million investment by the USDA’s Rural Energy for America Programme (REAP).
REAP hopes to aid ranchers, farmers and small rural businesses fund renewable energy systems and energy-efficiency improvements. The new investment is $16 million (€12.3 million) and is earmarked for 244 projects.
Grants... [Read More]
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Oct 23, 2012
Schools in India are set to benefit from plans by Kochi to introduce biogas plants to help convert waste into heat and power.
Kochi will work with Suchitwa Mission to provide the systems to both government and aided schools under the umbrella theme of ‘My City, My Pride’, part of the Suchitwa Varsham waste management programme.
‘The biogas plants will... [Read More]
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Oct 23, 2012
After six years of research and development BioPower Systems is set to construct its pilot demonstration plant just off the coast of Port Fairy, Australia.
The plant has received a combined funding of AU$10.6 million (€8.4 million) from the Australian and Victorian governments and BioPower Systems has also sealed a new strategic partnership with large Chinese industrial... [Read More]
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Oct 23, 2012
The UK government’s u-turn on financial support for small-scale anaerobic digestion plants has been welcomed by many up and down the country.
In its review of support for renewable energy published in July, the government had proposed removing ROC support for small new anaerobic digestion plants from 1 April 2013.
But the u-turn now means facilities that produce... [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
