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Jan 22, 2016
UK to promote use of energy from renewable sources
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Apr 8, 2011
A gasification plant in the Isle of Wight, UK, has become the first waste-fuelled gasification or pyrolysis plant to receive Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs).
Under the 2003 Renewable Obligation Order (ROO), the plant receives ROCs for each megawatt hour of electricity it generates from the renewable portion of waste (typically more than 60%).
Ofgen granted full... [Read More]
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Apr 8, 2011
Germany-based biogas plant manufacturer Weltec Biopower is developing its second biogas plant in the city of Limbaži, Latvia.
Upon completion the plant will generate 500kW power. The 3,500m3 fermenter will feed in the power from July 2011 and plans for expanding the plant with another fermenter are already underway.
The biogas facility will handle 3,500 tonnes of cattle... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2011
Energy supplier Sprague Energy of White Plains, New York, in the US, and privately owned Biodico have launched a pilot programme – Bio Genset – that will encourage the use of biodiesel and biodiesel blends in diesel-powered generators and power units, with a goal to reduce emissions from diesel fuel generators, decrease the dependence on foreign oil and promote... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2011
In Athens, Georgia, US, Maine Woods Pellets has been fined $31,220 (€21,590) after breaching the terms of its air emission license.
According to the monthly enforcement report, issued in March 2011 by the Department of Environmental Protection, Maine Woods Pellets will pay the fine in monthly installments after it did not correctly operate its air pollution systems.
The... [Read More]
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Apr 11, 2011
In Tilbury, England, UK, energy company RWE npower may be able to keep its 1,050MW coal-fired power plant open beyond 2015 as the company has been working to convert it to a biomass power station.
Under European law, RWE npower and eight other power stations will be closed down in 2015 due to a European acid rain directive. However, following a conversion project which... [Read More]
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Apr 12, 2011
The maximum amount of woody biomass utilised in power plants for the generation of green electricity is to be reduced in Nova Scotia, Canada.
In a bid to preserve the forests in the province, while at the same time meeting renewable energy goals, the provincial government announced that waste wood levels are to be cut by 30%, reducing the biomass cap from 500,000 tonnes... [Read More]
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Apr 12, 2011
In Malaysia, Japan-based Mitsui & Co. has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sime Darby and power company Tenaga Nasional.
The venture will see the three companies carry out a feasibility study into the use of producing power from biogas at palm oil mills.
It is hoped that the MoU, which was signed on 4 April 2011, will increase the use of renewable energy... [Read More]
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Jan 21, 2016
UK-based renewable energy firm Ecotricity has submitted a planning application for a proposed anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Winchester, UK.
The plant will be located at Sparshot College in Hampshire and is expected to be the firm's first AD facility located in the UK. In a statement, the company said the partnership will inject around £60m into the local... [Read More]
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Mar 28, 2011
In the UK, South West Devon Waste Partnership, a collaboration between Plymouth City Council, Torbay Council and Devon County Council, has signed a deal with Mannhiem, Germany-based renewable energy firm MVV Umwelt.
The deal will see MVV Umwelt provide a 25-year residual waste treatment solution for the region. The company is planning to build a 245,000-tonne waste-to-energy... [Read More]
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Mar 28, 2011
Located in Texas, US, biofuel company KiOR, which is building three plants in Mississippi, has found a buyer for its renewable oil that will be produced at its Columbus-based facility, due to begin operations in 2012.
Tuscaloosa's Hunt Refining, a petroleum refining company, will purchase the renewable crude oil, converted from wood chips.
'The announcement is an important... [Read More]
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Mar 28, 2011
UK-based wood pellet supplier Forever Fuels is investing £2 million (€2.3 million) that will double the company's capacity to supply wood pellets in England and Wales.
The investment will see Forever Fuels invest £1 million in five distribution depots and £1 million in seven pellet-delivery vehicles.
The depots will be installed at sites near Carmarthen,... [Read More]
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Mar 29, 2011
Georgia Biomass, a subsidiary of Europe-based utility firm RWE Innogy, is expected to open its wood pellet plant later this year.
Located in Ware County, Georgia, US, the production facility will manufacture 750,000 tonnes of pellets annually from locally sourced waste materials.
According to the interim director of the Okefenokee Area Development Authority, the new plant... [Read More]
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Mar 29, 2011
It has been in pipeline for over three years, but now a 350MW-a-year biomass-fired power plant can move on to the next stage of development after it was found that it would not affect local residents' health.
Proposed for Port Talbot in Wales, UK, biomass power plant developer Prenergy submitted an application in August 2010 to change some conditions to the Environmental... [Read More]
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Jan 22, 2016
A 5MW farmer-owned anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Suffolk, UK, has selected HRS Heat Exchangers to supply a new system to pasteurise its digestate — the organic biofertiliser produced by the process.
Agri-Gen, which is based near Woodbridge in Suffolk, is owned by a consortium of six local farmers who locally grow some 22,000 acres of arable and root crops, such... [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
