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Oct 19, 2012
Land Energy opens 60,000-tonne wood pellet plant
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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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Oct 5, 2015
Energy ministers from the G20 countries and heads of international organisations affirmed their commitment to renewable energy at the first-ever G20 Energy Ministers Meeting in Istanbul on 2 October.
The high-level participants endorsed an 11-point communiqué, including the adoption of a renewable energy toolkit, which provides options for G20 countries to take... [Read More]
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Oct 5, 2012
A wood recycling business in Nottinghamshire, UK has submitted planning application for a biomass energy facility.
The new Plevin and Sons facility would be based in Elkesley and could potentially generate 1.6MW of electricity and 8MW of heat via 25,000 tonnes of wood waste as feedstock.
‘The proposed biomass CHP plant would be carbon neutral and offset 25,000 tonnes... [Read More]
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Oct 8, 2012
A new biogas-fired CHP plant has opened in Konopnica, Poland.
Polish biogas technology firm Bioenergy Project officially put the 1.99MW facility online on 5 October, and it was constructed on a turnkey basis with Technika Energetyczna, a division of Italy-based cogeneration and green energy concern Gruppo.
The plant is believed to produce 17,000MW of heat and 16,800MW... [Read More]
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Oct 8, 2012
Thailand-based oil refiner Bangchak Petroleum’s president Anusorn Sangnimnuan says it is set to invest heavily into two biodiesel projects.
Sangimnuan revealed that Bangchak will invest THB1.2 billion (€30.2 million) and double its capacity of pure biodiesel, or methyl ester, to 600,000 litres per day at its Ayutthaya plant.
That move is set to cost THB800 million... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2012
A biogas plant has been caught up in a mystery surrounding multi-coloured honey being made by bees over in France.
Northeastern French beekeepers were recently confounded after reaping honey made on their farms that appeared blue and green in colour, which they couldn’t sell.
It was eventually deciphered that the bees must have been collecting sugary waste from biogas... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2012
The UK government will ask entrepreneurs and businesses to bid for a share of a £2 million ($3.2 million) fund aimed towards bioenergy production via UK wetlands.
A forecast made under a Bioenergy Strategy back in April believes technology could meet between 8 and 11% of the UK’s total primary energy demand by the end of the decade. The scheme will aim to use... [Read More]
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Oct 9, 2012
A second round of government funding applications for on-farm biomass projects is set to close next month in Northern Ireland.
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Biomass Processing fund will close on 30 November, but is open to all individual or groups of farmers as it aims to encourage installation of biomass-fuelled technologies to help agricultural... [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
