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Aug 22, 2012
Biomass plants get new regulations in Massachusetts
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Aug 23, 2012
Global engineering and technology company Chemtex has won a partnership with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build a new advanced biofuels plant.
Backed by a federal-private partnership and earmarked to open in 2014, the biorefinery will create 315 jobs and produce cellulosic ethanol from energy crops. The location of the site is believed to be Sampson County,... [Read More]
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Aug 23, 2012
A 2.4MW biogas plant being constructed in Pomerania, Poland has announced the next phase of its project.
The plant, being built by Weltec Power, will have a 50m³ dosing feeder and four storage tanks up and running by the summer of 2013, which will help feed substrates into four 4,438m³ stainless-steel fermenters.
Plant operator NEWD will ferment the potato waste of a... [Read More]
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Aug 23, 2012
European energy giant RWE has claimed it will be cutting 2,400 jobs across the continent amid a drop in profits registered by its UK arm nPower.
RWE nPower’s first-half profits fell by just over 9% to £251 million ($317.5 million) compared to the same time last year, this despite the company raising its 6.5 million British electricity and gas customer energy... [Read More]
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Aug 28, 2012
Algae-based green crude oil producers Sapphire Energy’s first phase of its Green Crude Farm, which it claims is the world’s first commercial demonstration algae-to-energy facility, is now operational.
The construction of this first phase began on 1 June last year and was completed on time and on budget. The facility aims to produce 1.5 million gallons... [Read More]
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Aug 28, 2012
The total amount of dry bulk handled in the Port of Rotterdam fell by 8.7% to 39.4 million tonnes in the first half of 2012.
Agribulk (grains, seeds, animal feed ingredients) throughput was down by a tenth to 4.1 million tonnes. The port puts these numbers down to an increase in the price of products on the world market and also that a few packages won from Amsterdam last... [Read More]
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Aug 28, 2012
Developer of second generation biofuels technology TMO Renewables has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the authorities of Heilongjiang, China.
The MoU will see TMO provide long-term large volume biomass feedstock supply for future biofuel production facilities from Heilongjiang State Farm, the largest state owned farming corporation in China.
The MoU is also the... [Read More]
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Aug 28, 2012
Energy company Centrica has come out and clarified the potential output of a proposed biomass power station.
There was confusion over the plant’s potential capacity as Cumbria County and Barrow Borough Councils believed it to be 90MW, whereas a letter to the Planning Inspectorate had it penned at 80MW.
‘We have made it very clear in our Preliminary Environmental... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 20, 2015
Greenlane Biogas has signed a distribution agreement with Sysadvance, a Portuguese company specialising in advanced gas separation systems that utilise pressure swing adsorption (PSA) technology.
The agreement will allow Greenlane to distribute Sysadvance products in Canada, the US and Mexico, and will see the two companies work together to integrate their systems to offer... [Read More]
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Aug 9, 2012
Second generation ethanol producer Fulcrum BioEnergy has been awarded a $105 million (€85 million) loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture.
The finalisation of the loan guarantee, which was awarded to the company's Sierra BioFuels Plant to be built in Storey County in Nevada, US, means Fulcrum will secure bank financing. This, combined with Fulcrum's... [Read More]
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Aug 9, 2012
ENCE has awarded engineering and technology group SENER a turnkey contract for the construction of its biomass power plant in Mérida, Spain.
The new facility will consist of a renewable energy generation facility, producing 20MW of power from energy plantation trees, including poplar and eucalyptus crops.
The contract includes the design, procurement, construction... [Read More]
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Oct 19, 2015
BMW South Africa's Rosslyn plant in Pretoria — where the car manufacturer’s 3 Series is built — has made a partial switch to renewable energy produced by the South African biogas company Bio2Watt.
The two companies signed a power purchasing agreement in 2014, which set the ground for the first project of this kind in South Africa.
According to the German... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 19, 2015
Greenko Energy Holdings, an affiliate of Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, has proposed acquisition of Indian renewable energy company Greenko Group’s majority interest in its Mauritius-based holding firm, Greenko Mauritius, for about £162.8 million (€222.7 million).
Greenko is a mainstream participant in the growing Indian renewable energy... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
In the US, Rollcast Energy – a developer of clean, renewable bioenergy projects – has received a $250,000 (€202,000) grant as part of the US Forest Service Woody Biomass Utilization Grant Program.
The funds have been awarded to the company's LaGrange, Georgia-based Greenway Renewable Power project, construction on which will start next year before start-up... [Read More]
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Aug 14, 2012
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted Parts 79 and 80 registration to Ineos New Planet BioEnergy (INPB), a joint venture between Ineos Bio and New Planet BioEnergy, for the production and sale of bioethanol from non-food waste materials.
This notice of registration comes as building of the Indian River BioEnergy Center has finished and is going through... [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
