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Mar 3, 2010
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Biogas News
Apr 28, 2016
A UK anaerobic digestion (AD) energy farm in Hampshire has secured £13 million (€16.7m) of funding from the HSBC bank to expand.
Andover-based Yelspa of Apsley Farms will use the HSBC funding to expand its AD plant, which will capture CO2 to use in the food and beverage industry.
Yelpsa comprises of a 1,050ac farming operation in the heart of Hampshire and,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 28, 2016
The government of the Dominican Republic has inaugurated a 30MW biomass plant, the first one connected to the country’s National Interconnected Electric System (SENI).
The San Pedro BioEnergy co-generation plant uses sugarcane bagasse as feedstock, and its construction was carried out by Spain's Cobra Group over a period of two years.
Empresa... [Read More]
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Mar 8, 2010
Gas and electricity provider Duke Energy could soon be issued with renewable energy certificates after asking regulators in North Carolina to register two of its plants as sustainable energy facilities.
In 2007 the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law stating that all plants in North Carolina must use renewable resources to generate a portion a the energy they... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2010
As with many countries reduced demand for diesel in the past few months has had an impact on the sector in the Czech Republic. And added to this future blend rates are not yet set.
Total production capacity in the Czech Republic is about 300,000 tonnes a year but use is only around 40%.
The government proposal which has been sent to the Czech Parliament suggests a change... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2010
The German biogas market accounted for nearly 70% of the global/European total in 2009.
Estimates put its worth at $1 billion (€735 million). The German market fell 80% in 2008, however, pushed by the close succession of the global financial crisis, rising energy crops prices, and the revision of the German Renewable Energy law (EEG).
New analysis from Frost &... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2010
Biomass-based cogeneration plants are springing up in Punjab, India.
Sukhbir Agro Energy is planning to set up two paddy processing and co-generation power plants in Ferozepur and Mansa districts of Punjab with capital outlay of Rs 250 crore (€4 million) under a project scheme of the Punjab government.
The project in Ferozepur envisages setting up of 80 tonnes per... [Read More]
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Mar 9, 2010
European mid-market investment specialist BLM Partners has invested €10 million in biogas and bioelectricity producer agri.capital.
agri.capital based in Munster, Germany is one of Europe’s largest biogas producers, operating 49 sites with an installed generation capacity of 36MW.
Germany is Europe’s largest producer of biogas.
Biogas is produced in a microbial... [Read More]
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Mar 10, 2010
The Australian Government will make changes to the country's Renewable Energy Target plan.
Starting in January 2011, the existing scheme will include two parts – the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) and the Large-scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET).
These revised arrangements will deliver on the Government’s 20% by 2020 Renewable Energy Target (RET)... [Read More]
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Mar 11, 2010
Questions of doubt are being expressed with regards to Delta Electricity’s plans to use plant material for biomass at one of its power stations.
Delta’s Wallerawang power station in New South Wales, Australia may start burning biomass as part of a budding $250 million (€183 million) co-firing project. Delta has already planted mallee eucalypt trees with the idea... [Read More]
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Mar 12, 2010
By the end of March 2010 the UK government will have officially released the sustainability model for biomass and biofuels that the UK will abide by.
David Kidney, the energy minister, explained that the UK is following in the footsteps of the European Commission, which published its sustainability recommendations in February of this year. Work on the UK guidelines has... [Read More]
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Mar 12, 2010
In the UK, Malaby Biogas is waiting for the go ahead from Wiltshire council after plans for a biogas plant have now been submitted and validated.
The company is the anaerobic digestion (AD) division of property development firm Malaby Martin and wants to create a 680kW biogas refinery at Bore Hill farm, near Warminster, UK. The proposals, if accepted, will see the introduction... [Read More]
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Mar 15, 2010
US-based Vega Promotional Systems has signed a five-year agreement with ECEM Salzburg Energy and Environment Consulting to sell its biocoal.
Vega is currently building a 40,000 square foot biomass production plant in Georgia, US, that when completed will process biomass to produce 125,000 tonnes of biocoal every year.
Austria-based ECEM has agreed to purchase 100% of... [Read More]
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Mar 15, 2010
In March Stockton Borough Council in the UK will decide whether to give a multi-million pound green energy plant the go-ahead.
The £150 million (€165 million) renewable energy refinery would burn around 400,000 tonnes of pine kernel to produce 49MW of power annually. The electricity generated will be exported to the National Grid via a sub-station at North Tees and... [Read More]
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Mar 17, 2010
A sewage work upgrade project planned by UK utility provider Thames Water will also introduce an anaerobic digestion process, where solid waste is broken down in enclosed tanks in the absence of oxygen.
This process forms biogas which can be used to generate renewable energy, and it is intended to produce enough energy to power the entire site.
Thames Water began the... [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
