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Sep 16, 2011
Agrokor to build biogas plant with EBRD loan
Biomass News
Dec 17, 2015
Construction work has officially begun at Glennmont Partners’ Port Clarence Renewable Energy Plant in Stockton-on-Tees, UK.
Once completed, the £160 million (€220m) plant will burn 250,000 tonnes of waste wood annually to produce 40MW of combined heat and power.
Commercial operations at the plant are expected to begin in 2018.
The project was originally... [Read More]
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Sep 19, 2011
British Columbia, Canada-based Viridis Energy, an alternative energy company, has started supplying its wood pellets to sustainable energy solutions provider Abellon Clean Energy in Italy.
This is Viridis' second European customer, but the company is about to embark on a third agreement and is scheduled to begin shipping wood pellets to Switzerland within the next month.
Viridis... [Read More]
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Sep 19, 2011
Weltec Biopower, a German biogas plant manufacturer, has completed the construction of its fifth plant in the Czech Republic.
Located in Příložany, the plant converts pig manure, grass silage, maize silage, crop silage and grain waste into 366kW of renewable energy, which is fed into the grid.
Completed by Weltec in four months, the plant comprises a 2,500m3 stainless... [Read More]
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Sep 19, 2011
In the US, River Basin Energy is developing a commercial-scale biocoal production plant, which it expects to break ground on later this year.
When the facility comes online in 2012 it will produce more than 100,000 tonnes a year of biocoal.
River Basin Energy already owns a demo-scale biocoal plant in Laramie, Wyoming. This partially commercial-scale facility has the capacity... [Read More]
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Sep 20, 2011
Canadian Biofuel held a grand opening ceremony on 17 September for its new wood pellet and briquette production plant.
Located in Springford, Ontario, Canada, the plant has been under development for six years and Canadian Biofuel finally began construction in April. Production is expected to start by the end of the year, when it will manufacture 1,500 tonnes each month... [Read More]
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Sep 20, 2011
In Anglesey, Wales, UK, a biomass-fired power plant has been given the go ahead.
Anglesey Aluminium Metal Renewables proposed the 299MW plant and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) approved it in September.
The power station will be built at Penrhos Works in Holyhead. When it is operational it will generate enough renewable electricity for around 30,000... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 5, 2016
Two green companies, Abutec and Roeslein Alternative Energy, are teaming up with Smithfield Foods to convert gas from animal waste into renewable energy.
Roeslein's partner, food producer Smithfield, houses nearly two million pigs through nine facilities, and they produce enough manure to make 2.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
Renewable energy specialist Roeslein... [Read More]
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Sep 1, 2011
Energy company Dong Energy, along with local companies, is developing a consortium called Måbjerg Energy Concept.
The consortium has been established to examine the feasibility of bioenergy projects and determine which ones will be profitable. These projects include building new plants and upgrading existing ones.
All the projects will utilise locally sourced biomass... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 5, 2016
Bioenergy France 3, the French arm of Spanish biofuels producer Ambene, has obtained permission from local officials to build a 41MW biomass-fired cogeneration plant in the south of France.
According to SeeNews, the plant will be constructed in the Torremila industrial zone of Perpignan.
At the end of December, the Pyrenees-Orientales prefecture gave the green light to... [Read More]
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Sep 6, 2011
London, UK-headquartered Africa Renewables (AfriRen) is establishing a woodchip supply chain project in Ghana using old, local rubber trees.
As part of the initiative, AfriRen will utilise redundant rubber trees from the Ghana Rubber Estates (GREL) plantation, turning them into woodchips before marketing them to Europe-based utility companies and energy traders.
'The redundant... [Read More]
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Sep 6, 2011
General Electric (GE) is the newest member of a consortium set up to research and develop biomass-based aviation fuel.
In addition to GE, the association consists of Virgin Australia, Renewable Oil, the Future Farm Industries CRC and Dynamotive Energy Systems, of Canada. Together the companies are looking to mallee eucalypt trees as a feedstock for producing commercial... [Read More]
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Sep 6, 2011
Biomass imports to the UK are expected to soar, as the nation's supply of domestic biomass is not enough to fulfil the demand of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED).
Currently 74% of the bioenergy industry is supplied with domestic feedstocks, but this is expected to shift to 81% imported biomass as the UK strives to meet the RED. Under the RED, 15% of energy is to come... [Read More]
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Sep 6, 2011
Three renewable energy companies have formed a partnership to develop and run a biogas plant in Columbia, South Carolina, US.
The new anaerobic digester will convert 48,000 tonnes of organic waste matter into 3.2MW of biogas power.
German plant engineering company Eisenmann will supply its anaerobic digestion technology to the project, while US companies W2E Organic Power... [Read More]
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Sep 6, 2011
Gazprom, Russia's largest natural gas company, is switching to biomass.
The company has installed four 6MW biomass boilers at its Severoonezhsk-based 24MW plant.
Speaking about the project, David Poveda, director of Spain's Nova Energia Group, says: 'The four global boilers use wood waste with a moisture content of 50% or higher, which in many cases are completely covered... [Read More]
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