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May 31, 2012
UK biomass power station cleared by EA
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May 8, 2012
Italian-based Organic Rankine Cycle (OCR) specialists Turboden has announced plans to build two biomass-fuelled combined cooling, heat and power plants in the UK.
The company, which was acquired by Pratt and Whitney Power Systems in 2009, will supply one of its ORC turbo generators each to British Sky Broadcasting (BSB) and Heathrow Airport.
‘We’re proud to... [Read More]
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May 8, 2012
A new location in Lincolnshire, UK has become apparent as locals back the proposal of a new community-owned biogas plant in the area.
After a meeting in March showed overwhelming support for alternative energy supply in the town of Caistor, and with funding from the Department of Energy and Climate Change LEAF fund secured, an actual location for the proposed biogas plant... [Read More]
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May 8, 2012
The EU-Malaysia Biomass Sustainable Production Initiative (Biomass-SP) has claimed several parties are looking to invest up to RM3.5 billion (€878 million) in the country’s budding biomass sector.
Biomass-SP has said that those investing sought the help of itself and the Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation to ensure sufficient amounts of feedstock for their... [Read More]
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May 8, 2012
A five-year joint biomass project between the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and Kenya will be ready in June.
The project will help to further assist Kenya’s adoption of clean energy solutions by removing its heavy reliance on fuel wood and agricultural residue for cooking.
‘This project, which partly aims at moving the country away from traditional... [Read More]
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May 8, 2012
A district-wide heating project in Vermont, US has been awarded more grants and loans from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help continue its regeneration last week.
The project, which will cost around $20 million (€15.4 million) in total, will replace an old state-owned heating plant in the Montpelier district with a new wood biomass facility. It is... [Read More]
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May 8, 2012
Over 3,500 signatures have been gathered by protesters for a petition against a proposed biomass power station in Barrow, UK.
The campaigning group, calling themselves Furness Opposes Biomass, is against a proposed 80MW power station from integrated energy company Centrica. They have named potential health problems and destruction of the landscape as reasons why they are... [Read More]
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May 8, 2012
UK investment company Ludgate Environmental Fund (LEF) has put in a total of £14.1 million (€17.3 million) across three companies that deal in anaerobic digestion, biomass and waste heat recovery.
As part of a £76.3 million project by Tamar Energy, LEF will invest £7 million to help it fund developments of food and mixed waste anaerobic digestion... [Read More]
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Oct 30, 2015
The anaerobic digestion (AD) industry of Scotland has grown by almost 70% over the last year, new figures show.
According to the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), the country has now 27 operational AD project, which marks an increase of 69% from the situation year on.
Another 43 plants have been approved for construction and ADBA estimates that during... [Read More]
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May 10, 2012
Nova Scotia Power (NSP) officials have announced a new milestone in the construction of a CAN$208 million (€160 million) biomass cogeneration plant.
A steam turbine and generator used to produce electricity has arrived at the facility and NSP is confident it will generate about 60 MW a year via burned biomass. The combined weight of the turbine and generator came... [Read More]
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May 11, 2012
A new biodiesel plant designed and installed by Agri Process Innovations for Oswalt Bioenergy has gone from construction to full start-up within seven days in Lake Providence, Louisiana, US.
Plant manager Hal Oswalt and company owner Sonny Oswalt decided to go ahead with the 5 million gallon per year, multi-feedstock facility after sensing a real ongoing demand for biodiesel... [Read More]
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May 14, 2012
LeRay officials are in negotiations for a potential five-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with ReEnergy Holdings to make building a biomass energy plant more affordable.
LeRay plans to invest about $34 million (€26.4 million) to convert a coal-fired plant into one that produces energy using biomass materials in Fort Drum, New York. To offset those costs,... [Read More]
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May 14, 2012
The Filipino government’s energy department is to look into ‘more realistic targets’ for the country’s bioethanol production.
Energy undersecretary Jay Layug says the Philippines’s bioethanol production has remained minimal compared with demand since the Biofuels Law was passed in 2006.
‘Five years ago the government wanted us to be... [Read More]
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May 15, 2012
The Small Industries Development Board (SIDB) will launch biogas plants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan to provide both low-cost fuel and benefit economic, social and environmental sectors.
The biogas project will be funded by money from the Pakistan-Italian debt swap agreement of 2009, when Italy agreed to convert Pakistan’s $100 million (€77.8 million) debt... [Read More]
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May 15, 2012
Bangkok-based green solutions company Loxley will spend THB60 million (€1.49 million) on building a new pilot plant for algae-based biofuel.
This news comes after Loxley signed a memorandum of understanding for the development project with Bangchak Petroleum, Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding and the Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency.
‘The... [Read More]
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Indonesia’s transition towards environmentally friendly, zero-emission energy took centre stage this week as experts from seven countries convened at IPB University for high-level discussions on biomass and bioenergy
Spanish energy company Naturgy has connected Navarre’s first biomethane facility to its gas distribution network
Emvolon, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spin-off, and Montauk Renewables have announced the launch of a joint venture to convert biogas into green methanol, following the successful completion of a field demonstration project
