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Oct 6, 2015
£138m Cramlington biomass project achieves financial close
Biomass News
Oct 6, 2015
Gas and electricity company Belgian Eco Energy (Bee) has announced that Veolia will be responsible for the operation of its Ghent, Belgium-based biomass-fired power plant when it comes online in 2019.
The plant, construction on which is due to begin in the first quarter of 2016, will produce 215MW of renewable electricity from woodchips, making it one of the largest in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 6, 2015
Greenlane Biogas has signed a contract with Promus Energy, a project development company focusing on renewable and sustainable technologies, to provide an integrated biogas upgrading solution for a dairy farm located in Yakima County, Washington.
Included in the solution is the supply of a Totara+ biogas upgrading unit and additional process equipment to deliver pipeline... [Read More]
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Oct 3, 2012
Consent was given today by the UK government for the construction of a 60MW energy-from-waste generating station in Cheshire.
The proposed development in Northwich will generate enough power to supply 80,000 homes and create a total of 500 jobs during the construction period and a further 50 permanent operating posts.
‘It is essential we have a balanced energy mix... [Read More]
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Oct 4, 2012
Operations have begun at the largest biomass driven CHP facility in France this month.
The 69MW plant is based at paper manufacturer Smurfit Kappa Group’s Biganos-Facture facility in the south west.
It will convert over 500,000 metric tonnes of tree bark and fines from its pulp screening process to produce electricity, which will be purchased by EDF Energy, and up... [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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Oct 10, 2012
Clean chemical developers Global Bioenergies (GB) claims to be able to demonstrate a direct way of producing propylene from renewable sources.
GB believes the market for propylene stands at $93 billion (€72.2 billion), mainly through the packaging and car industries, and that currently there is no known natural pathways leading to propylene in microorganisms.
‘Designing... [Read More]
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Sep 21, 2012
A UK-based biomass fuels producer and supplier has been forced into administration after failing to meet debt repayments to creditors.
Silvigen, established in 2005 and based in North Humberside, began successfully processing woodwaste into fuel for co-firing in coal-fired power plants from 2006.
Despite winning contracts with UK power generating companies to supply them... [Read More]
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Sep 24, 2012
India is set to see some new biomass power projects up and running thanks to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the Haryana state government.
The MoU has been signed with four independent power producers to set up five biomass projects each producing up to 51MW of power via an investment of Rs230 crore (€33.3 million).
Haryana has been heralded as a leading... [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
