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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has released guidance documents and policymaking tools to assist governments in ensuring rural communities can benefit from bioenergy development and also that biofuel crop production does not threaten food security or impact negatively on indigenous peoples. Deforestation due to land conversion is also an issue of concern.
'Development of bioenergy…
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Finnish project management services provider, Dovre Group is to invest approximately €1.4 million in Sararasa Biomass's renewable energy expansion. The money will go towards an Indonesian plant that makes pellets from woodwaste materials, which is also owned by Stahl Capital.
'Our intention is to work together with Sararasa on other biomass-to-energy projects in the future,' says Janne…
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Biomass CHP is building a new demonstration plant in Wilton, Wiltshire after receiving a £100,000 investment.
The company's wood-chip gasification process can produce renewable heat and energy without generating any liquid effluent that would need to be disposed of and treated. The investment is to develop this system and comes in the form of the Finance for Business North East Proof…
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Plymouth University is working with New Generation Biogas, a Devon, UK, company, to hone the design of its anaerobic digestion (AD) system.
By giving New Generation Biogas (NGB) access to its facilities and expertise, Plymouth University (PU) has helped the Totnes-based firm observe the microbes that transform waste close-up and understand what makes them thrive.
NGB used the world-class…
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Energy efficiency and renewable energy company, Ameresco, together with the US Department of Energy (DOE) have completed the successful operational startup of the DOE's new Biomass Cogeneration Facility in Aiken, South Carolina.
The new 34-acre renewable energy facility located on Savannah River Site (SRS), was constructed over a 30 month period, with the investment of over 600,000 hours of…
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RuralAus has announced that its planned 10MW biomass power plant, located on Kagaroo island will create 30 new jobs.
The Perth, Australia-based forestry group intends to power its sawmill with the proposed plant, which will convert facility waste into power.
It will require governmental funding in order to run the operation at the scale desired, and the company is hoping to receive a grant…
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Skogforsk, the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, is to collaborate with Grand Rapids-based Itasca Community College (ICC), on a research program developing methods, systems and technology within the bioenergy sector in Minnesota.
The research will focus on the forest-based biomass supply chain, with the aim to increase efficiency and quality.
Skogforsk focuses on research areas such as…
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Solid Energy business Nature's Flame has stopped production of pellets at its oldest and smallest plant located in Rolleston, Canterbury, New Zealand.
Due to its age and size, it was deemed uneconomic to upgrade the facility, as the cost of ensuring reliability and safety would be too high. Furthermore forestry in the area is reportedly waning.
Therefore the company is focusing on its…
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Vechta-based Weltec Biopower has started building one of Germany's largest biogas plants in Arneburg, Stendal District, Saxony-Anhalt.
The plant will use four fermenters, six digestate storage units, and one liquid reservoir to produce about 6 million m3 of biomethane (more than 700 cubic metres/hour) every year that will then be fed into the natural gas grid.
'This biogas refinery, which will…
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Biomass heat and power company Imperative Energy, has received an investment from North West Fund (NWF4EE), which will now take a minority stake in the company to continue to help with future development.
Imperative Energy has plans to deploy more than £200 million (€239 million) into building biomass heat and CHP plants and has also recently received funds from the Environmental…
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An anaerobic digestion (AD) facility built in South Kirkby, West Yorkshire, UK, has been hit with a four-month delay in becoming fully operational.
The hold-up could add several millions of pounds to the commissioning budget at the plant that has already had £750 million (€1.06bln) invested to it.
Shanks, the UK waste-to-product company responsible for running the plant in a 25-year…
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Renewable Energy Group (REG) has announced its financial results for the 2011 fourth quarter and full-year.
The company achieved record 2011 Adjusted EBITDA (for the year) of $107 million and record revenues (for the year) of $824 million, compared to $8 million and $216 million, respectively, in 2010. Furthermore, the 2011 fourth quarter saw an increase of 126% to the number of gallons…
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Plans to build 2 biomass power plants in Yorkshire have been discarded by electricity generator Drax.
Drax's initial plan, announced back in 2008, was to invest £2 billion (€1.49 billion) constructing 3 biomass power stations located respectively in Immingham, Selby and the third in an unconfirmed location, potentially Hull. The scheme in Selby was cancelled along with plans for the…
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Universal Bioenergy, a publicly traded independent diversified energy company, has announced that it set a new record in sales revenue for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011. Reaching over $71.74 million, it is an estimated 73.75% mark up on the results taken at the period in 2010.
These results are however preliminary and unaudited, but the company expects the formal audit to be completed…
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