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Nov 8, 2011
ReEnergy Holdings acquires biomass facilities
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2015
EnviTec Biogas has begun the construction of an EnviThan gas upgrading plant for WEFRI, a Danish agricultural company.
The plant, with a capacity of 524m³, will be built in the Jutland town of Hammel and is scheduled to go online by summer 2016.
As feedstock the plant will process grass silage, sugar beets, straw, chicken manure, and glycerine, and the produced gas... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 8, 2015
The South American country of Uruguay is now generating 95% of its power from renewable sources.
While Uruguay has no nuclear power plants and has not built new hydropower in 20 years, biomass, wind, and solar power are booming.
The massive shift to renewable energy was triggered by the country’s need to break away from its dependence on foreign oil, which in 2000... [Read More]
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Nov 8, 2011
The first US commercial flight to be powered by biofuels derived from algae has flown from Houston’s IAH airport to Chicago’s O’Hare airport.
The microbially-derived biofuel, called Solajet, was manufactured by Solazyme and is a 60% petroleum-derived jet fuel.
Solazyme has signed a letter of intent with United Airlines to produce 500,000 tonnes of renewable... [Read More]
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Nov 8, 2011
Viaspace Green Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with Seema Energy in Thailand to grow ‘giant king grass’ to power Seema’s proposed 90MW biomass plant.
Giant king grass is similar to sugarcane but it is not a food crop and develops cellulosic characteristics rather than sugar strands. Viaspace believes the grass has the highest energy yield... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2015
German manufacturer Weltec Biopower has begun the construction of its second anaerobic digestion plant in South Korea.
Work at the site, located in Gyeonggi-do province about 80 km north of the capital Seoul, started in October and the 450kW biogas plant is to go live in the early summer of 2016.
The plant will have the capacity to process 100 tonnes of organic waste a... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 7, 2015
The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul has granted preliminary licenses to ten biomass projects in order to increase its renewable energy output.
The Environmental Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul (Imasul) gave the licenses to a total of 535.75MW worth of eucalyptus-based biomass projects.
The 10 schemes, with a combined investement of $734 million (€679m), will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 4, 2015
The Aberystwyth University in Wales, UK and the supply chain specialist Terravesta are running new trials to examine how the energy crop miscanthus survives in water-logged land and its effect on the soil after flooding.
The trials come some 18 months after the floods which devastated the Somerset Levels and are being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research... [Read More]
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Nov 14, 2011
Oneida Seven Generations (OSG) has been given approval by the US Department of Energy (DoE) to build an electricity plant to run on waste in the City of Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin.
The US state previously received nearly $55.5 million (€40.6 million) under a federal grant, and will give a $2 million loan to OSG from the funds.
Municipal solid waste is to be... [Read More]
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Nov 15, 2011
Laidlaw Energy Group, a renewable energy company, has acquired a biomass-fired power plant in Susanville, California, US.
Renergy and Natural Energies formerly owned the idle facility, which is able to generate 12.5MW of electricity. Both companies will become equity shareholders in Laidlaw Energy.
Laidlaw will spend around one year and $20 million (€14.7 million)... [Read More]
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Nov 15, 2011
Varn Wood Products is to build a new wood pellet production plant next year, utilising waste pinewood from its sawmill facility in Hoboken, Georgia, US.
The company is scheduled to break ground on the project in Q2 2012, with startup slated for the end of 2012.
The plant will be able to manufacture 80,000 tonnes of wood pellets annually, but this could be expanded to 120,000... [Read More]
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Nov 15, 2011
AD plant developer Farmgen has started operations at its plant at Dryholme Farm, West Cumbria in the UK.
The biogas plant cost £4 million (€4.7 million) to install and started supplying electricity to the national grid on 4 November. The project was partly financed by Nuclear Management Partners, which supplied a £350,000 grant.
The plant converts locally... [Read More]
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Nov 15, 2011
At the end of November, energy company E.on will break ground on a £120 million (€140.6 million) biomass-fired power plant in Tinsley, Sheffield, UK.
According to the project's final plans, which have now been announced, the plant will produce up to 30MW from UK-based waste wood only. This is enough to power 40,000 homes when it comes online in mid-2014.
The... [Read More]
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Nov 15, 2011
Turkey producer Bernard Matthews is looking to become more self-sufficient with the installation of a biogas plant at its factory in Suffolk, UK.
The £4 million (€4.7 million) AD plant will produce heat and power for the factory's onsite operations from 28,000 tonnes of poultry effluent, blood fluids and fat.
It is hoped the new facility will supply 13% of the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 4, 2015
The announced £1.15 billion allocation for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) budget by 2021 could quadruple the number of UK biomethane plants.
The forecast, released by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), says that the Chancellor George Osborne’s spending review could support the construction of an additional 140 biomethane plants.
These... [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
