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Jan 24, 2012
True Green Energy produces pellets for energy production
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Jan 24, 2012
DSM and POET have joined forces to convert a facility into its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the US, which will be based in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
The POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels joint venture will produce 20 million gallons of ethanol in the first year, growing to about 25 million gallons the year following.
The plant is due to come online in the... [Read More]
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Nov 19, 2015
MPC Capital, a German investment company, is set to construct an 18MW biomass power plant in Brazil.
The plant, which will be fed by rice husk, will be built in the city of Itaqui, Rio Grande do Sul state.
Building is projected to start in 2016 with an investment of BRL208 million (€51.2m).
The Itaqui plant, with an annual processing capacity of 140,000 tonnes of... [Read More]
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Jan 27, 2012
Construction has begun on the Hairy Hill biorefinery in Canada which is to turn farmers’ grain into ethanol whilst at the same time producing power for the grid.
The construction marks the second phase of the development, which already features a biogas plant that produces 1MW for the power grid from manure and other waste.
That facility is expected to cost about... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
A Californian county has decided to produce 100% renewable energy for county facilities.
Sonoma County has signed a year-long agreement with 3 Phases Renewables to produce all of its electricity from renewable sources, generating 15% of it from biomass.
Seven county facilities in Santa Rosa and Petaluma will be powered from biomass throughout this year, with the rest being... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
An African renewable energy company has secured $5 million (€3.8 million) in fundraising to develop its first biomass energy project on the continent.
Takoradi Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of Africa Renewables and a biomass producer and trader, received the funding from Standard Chartered Bank in Ghana.
The money will be used to double the company’s biomass... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
A new plant in Plymouth, UK is to open, converting 40,000 tonnes of wood waste into renewable heat and electricity annually, which should reduce CO₂ emissions by around 16,500 tonnes a year.
Three companies, MITIE's Asset Management, O-Gen UK and the Una Group are working together on the development, under the name of O-Gen Plymtrek.
During construction, about 50 jobs... [Read More]
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Nov 18, 2015
Monsanto and Novozymes have announced a new acreage target for 2025 that will guide the companies’ microbials business for the next decade.
The two partners in The BioAg Alliance are develop new microbial solutions for global agriculture and project that their products will be used on 250-500 million acres globally by 2025, equivalent to 25-50% of all US farmland.
Currently... [Read More]
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Jan 30, 2012
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has provided bioenergy company Vaskiluodon Voima Oy with €18 million to build a gasification plant in Vaasa, Finland. The total project cost is expected to be about €40 million.
The facility will produce 140MW and is to be connected to a power plant that is already established, allowing for the coal from the old plant to be substituted... [Read More]
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Jan 31, 2012
Bioenergy company ZeaChem has been awarded a $232.5 million (€176 million) loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build a biorefinery that will convert biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals.
It will be the company’s first commercial size cellulosic biorefinery and will use woody biomass and agricultural residues to produce... [Read More]
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Jan 31, 2012
Scientists from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Sustainable Bioenergy Centre (BSBEC) have uncovered a series of genes which could help grasses being breed with better characteristics for bioenergy production.
The genes help to better develop the wood part of the grass, called the fibrous, such as what is in rice and wheat. In understanding... [Read More]
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Jan 17, 2012
The Namibia city of Windhoek plans to upgrade the main sludge treatment system at a local water works, installing new gas engines and improving the existing biodigestors. These biodigestors will be closed off, so that the harmful gases do not escape into the air and are instead used to generate power.
This electricity will be made from biogas that is created throughout... [Read More]
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Jan 17, 2012
Biomass power generation capacity is predicted to grow by more than 86GW by 2021, a rise from the current 58GW, and representing a total investment of more than $100 billion (€78 billion), according to Pike Research.
If a more aggressive implementation campaign is put in place to build on the bioenergy resources, capacity could hit 115GW, which is an investment of... [Read More]
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Jan 17, 2012
German Pellets is to build and operate a combined heat and power (CHP) plant in northern Italy in a joint venture with a local company.
German Pellets says Italy is a good location to build the plant as the conditions are favourable thanks to the feed-in tariffs that come from electricity derived from CHP plants.
Up to €0.28/kW hour can be paid for renewable energy... [Read More]
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Jan 18, 2012
Australian company Algae.Tec has signed a 50/50 joint venture (JV) with Chinese company Shandong Kerui.
Working together, the companies will build a 250-module algae biofuels facility in China, in which both companies will pay half to cover costs.
The module system at the facility will be enclosed and the way the algae will be cultivated is meant to give it a high... [Read More]
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A new voucher scheme has been launched by the Supergen Bioenergy Hub, based at Aston University’s Energy and Bioproducts Institute (EBRI)
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a loan of up to €264 million to Snam to support the construction of new infrastructure dedicated to integrating biomethane production plants into Italy’s national gas transmission system
