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Jun 29, 2010
Utility shuns biomass for natural gas
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Jun 29, 2010
In Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, green energy provider Pacific BioEnergy is currently expanding its wood pellet plant, which has now reached the halfway point.
The expansion of the plant will cost in the region of $24 million (€19.7 million), making it the largest of its kind in Canada and the second largest in North America after northern Florida.
The... [Read More]
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Jun 29, 2010
Forth Energy’s £360 million (€444.8 million) biomass plant proposed for the city of Leith in Scotland, UK, is facing criticism after reports claim it will not be carbon neutral until the year 2050.
The current belief centres on the fact that biomass plants are green as the wood they burn to produce power is replaced.
However a US report by the Manomet Centre for... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2010
Canada-based forest products provider Tolko Industries has signed a contract with Ottawa-based Ensyn Technologies to build an CA$80 million (€63.8 million) plant to generate electricity from sawdust and other wood waste at a Tolko Industries’ sawmill in High Level, Aberta.
The joint venture is the world's largest commercial project of its kind, using fast pyrolysis... [Read More]
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Apr 14, 2016
Blue Sphere Corp., a North Carolina-based independent power producer that develops, owns and manages energy-to-waste (EfW) facilities globally, announced it has signed an exclusive term sheet to acquire a 1MW waste-to-energy biogas plant from Agrilandia Societa Agricola in Tortona, Italy.
As proposed in the term sheet, US firm Blue Sphere shall acquire a 100% interest... [Read More]
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Apr 14, 2016
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has delayed a decision whether to grant planning permission for an experimental plasma arc gasification facility in Nottinghamshire, UK, stating it was "not yet in a position to decide".
The £70m (€88m) facility, proposed by Waste2Tricity and Peel Environmental, would also include a materials recovery... [Read More]
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Apr 13, 2016
Foresight Group, an independent UK infrastructure and private equity investment manager, will invest £3.5 million (€4.4m) from Foresight AD EIS Fund to construct an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant on the Mapledurham Estate, near Reading in Berkshire, UK.
The 499kW plant will generate approximately 3,600 MWh of renewable electricity per annum, enough to power... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
Following plans to open the most up to date coal and biomass power plant in the city of Czestochowa, Poland, Finland-based energy company Fortum looks set to continue constructing facilities within the nation.
In addition to the €130 million power plant with a generation capacity of 120MW of heat and 64MW of electricity, Fortum is also planning to build a combustion... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
Farmer-owned cooperative AG Processing’s (AGP) ethanol producing facility located in Hastings, Nebraska, US, has received a $275,000 (€226,000) grant from the Nebraska Energy Office.
Combined with $50,000 of the company’s own funds the grant is expected to go towards reducing the amount of natural gas used at the site.
Following the transformation of its anaerobic... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
Renewable energy firm Solutions Using Renewable Energy (SURE) is planning to invest up to $90 million (€74.3 million) within the next two years that will see the construction of a number of biogas-to-energy power plants in the Philippines.
Using a combination of debt and equity, including funds from Asian Development and the World Bank, the top priority on SURE’s... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
With only a handful of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in operation throughout the UK, energy company Future Biogas is set to add to these numbers with plans to build an AD plant on the outskirts of Norwich county.
The biogas plant will produce electricity from maize grown on approximately 1,000 acres of land and a local farmer who will grow the maize for the plant has... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
If granted permission, a proposed biomass plant in Kent, UK, is due to convert thousands of tonnes of waste wood into heat and power.
A joint venture between German Evonik New Energies and renewable energy firm HES Biopower, Biomass Power’s facility will utilise a yearly supply of 160,000 tonnes of wood for the generation of 25MW of power.
35MW of low-grade steam... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2010
UK-based bioethanol producer Ineos Bio has received a £7.3 million (€8.77 million) grant from One North East and the Department for Energy and Climate Change towards the £52 million construction cost of its advanced bioethanol from waste plant.
The plant, to be located at the Ineos Seal Sands site in the Tees Valley, is designed to produce 24,000 tonnes per year (30... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2010
Biogas power plant operator RuBa Energie has signed an agreement to purchase grass from clean energy company Viaspace.
As part of the agreement, a test plot of five acres of Viaspace Giant King Grass was planted at the RuBa facility in Kevelaer, Germany, on 6 June 2010.
The goal of the collaboration with RuBa is to produce an alternative, high yield, non-food feedstock... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2010
New York-based Laidlaw Energy Group’s subsidiary Laidlaw Berlin BioPower will sell its energy from its proposed wood-fired power generation facility to Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH).
Once operational the 70MW biomass facility in Berlin, New Hampshire, will be the largest wood-burning power plant in the state.
The long-term power purchase agreement must be... [Read More]
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Proceeds from the bond sale have been used to refinance $40 million of Gevo RNG’s outstanding 2021 green bonds
SIAAP (Greater Paris Sanitation Authority) and SUEZ have officially inaugurated a new state-of-the-art biogas production unit at the Seine Aval wastewater treatment plant in the Paris metropolitan area
Natural State Renewables has announced a key strategic partnership with Axens as part of its plan to produce carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from surplus forest biomass
