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Jun 17, 2011
UK's largest waste food handling plant opens
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Jun 17, 2011
Woodpecker Energy UK, a provider of domestic and commercial biomass boilers, welcomes the announcement of the £860 million (€972 million) Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), saying that businesses, farmers and the public sector could effectively benefit from free installation of biomass heating systems and free fuel for 20 years.
The first scheme of its kind, the... [Read More]
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Jun 20, 2011
In the US, energy provider DTE Energy has revealed plans to convert its Stockton, California-based coal-fired power plant – the Port of Stockton District Energy Facility (POSDEF) – to fire on 100% biomass.
The plant will generate 45MW of renewable power from wood waste, tree trimmings and agricultural residues.
'The plant conversion to biomass energy advances... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2011
Production has stopped at the Georgia Biomass wood pellet plant in Waycross, Georgia, US, after an explosion on 20 June 2011.
The incident occurred at around 8am. No one was injured.
'It did extensive damage to the processing end,' says Dennis Keen, Ware County fire chief. 'They'll probably be down an extended period of time.'
Georgia Biomass is a subsidiary of Germany's... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2011
In Canada, the Toronto Zoo is planning to build a $5.4 million (€3.76 million) biogas power plant on site that will generate power from zoo animal excrement.
The zoo will partner with Toronto-based ZooShare Co-operative to get the project off the ground. ZooShare will then fund the project, as well as design, develop, build and operate the plant, which will be located... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2011
Russia is turning to biogas in a bid to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
According to the Energy Ministry, Russia has the potential to generate 66 billion m3 of biogas a year from agricultural waste. This could produce 110 billion KW/h of electricity, 1 billion GJ of heat or 8.7 billion gallons of petrol or diesel.
The Energy and Agriculture Ministries are now urging... [Read More]
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Jun 21, 2011
Construction on a proposed biomass plant in Rothschild, Wisconsin, US, is due to begin shortly, after Domtar, a paper company behind the proposal, agreed to certain conditions.
The plant, which is a joint venture between Domtar and energy firm We Energies, was originally announced back in September 2009. According to Craig Timm, manager of public affairs at Domtar, the... [Read More]
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Jan 13, 2016
Wyke Farms, a UK-based independent cheese and milk producer, has signed major new deal with supermarket giant Sainsbury's to supply the retailer with green gas generated at its dairy farm in Somerset.
The milk producer will supply Sainsbury's with biogas from its anaerobic digestion (AD) plant alongside its cheese and butter products.
The company said the deal would see... [Read More]
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Jan 13, 2016
Canada-based renewable energy firm StormFisher Environmental has acquired an anaerobic digester, called London Energy Garden, from Ontario firm Harvest Ontario Partners.
Chris Guillon, vice president of StormFisher Environmental, said: "These developments open up even more opportunities to serve the organic waste processing needs of the region."
The facility, which was... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2011
Under RENEW LA, a scheme designed to help the US state of Los Angeles send 0% of its waste to landfill, a new waste-to-energy plant is being developed in the region.
Los Angeles has now started contract negotiations with Green Conversion Systems (GCS), which will design and construct the plant.
Domestic waste designed for the tip stands at around 3,300 tonnes a day in... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2011
The owner of the Kawasaki biomass-fired power plant in Yokohama, Japan, could potentially open another in Fiji.
Company officials from the Japanese plant and Fiji's President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau met on 21 June 2011 to discuss the possibility of setting up a biomass plant in the country.
Fiji is an ideal country in which to develop a bioenergy industry, due to the high... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2011
In Scotland, UK, a wood pellet production plant is being developed that, when operational in March 2012, will produce wood pellets.
Land Energy is behind the project, which will come to realisation on a site previously occupied by a textile factory. Work at the site is scheduled to get underway in July 2011.
Based in Belfast, Ireland, Lagen Construction will be responsible... [Read More]
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Jun 24, 2011
Wood pellet manufacturer Biomass Secure Power is developing a torrefied wood pellet plant in British Columbia, Canada.
The production facility will have an annual production capacity of 500,000 tonnes of pellets, made from wood harvested by the company itself. A small portion will come local logging businesses.
One hundred per cent of the pellets produced at the site will... [Read More]
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Jun 27, 2011
In France, bioenergy firm Meta-Bio Energies has broken ground on a biomass-to-biogas plant in Bel-Air de Combrée.
The new biogas plant will handle around 23,000 tonnes a year of biomass, including food, agricultural and municipal waste, and convert it into 1MW of energy – enough to benefit around 4,000 households.
Electricité de France will purchase... [Read More]
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Jan 14, 2016
The US-based Florida Keys islands may use gasification technology to convert waste into electricity, according to media reports.
According to news website Waste360, Monroe County, which encompasses Key West and about 95% of the rest of the Keys islands, is finalising a contract with Annapolis, Maryland-based Energy3 LLC to build a gasification plant capable of processing... [Read More]
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