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Vermont Wood Pellet (VWP), a US-based pellet producer, has won a share of a $750,000 (€572,500) grant provided by the Working Lands Enterprise Fund.
The company has said its $38,153 windfall will be spent on upgrading its equipment to increase production output and overall efficiency by reducing the amount of waste made during the process.
Its facility turned out 15,500 tonnes of hardwood…
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A new facility scheduled for operation in September will use sugar beet pulp to produce biogas in Moldova.
Südzucker Moldova (SM), a sugar producing company, will house the new bioenergy facility at its sugar factory in Drochia to allow for ‘maximum use of waste resulting from the extraction of sugar from beets, which will be converted to "green" and organic fertilisers’.
The…
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Pulp company Waggeryd Cell in Sweden has invested SEK 60 million (€6.3 million) in a biomass boiler in order to replace liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) with bioenergy as energy source for the flash dryer.
The ground work is just about to start, with the mounting of the boiler scheduled for March 2016 and the start-up for September.
The mill’s emission of fossil carbon dioxide will be…
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A biogas boiler has been installed at the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) in Lalitpur, Nepal as it aims to encourage local renewable energy consumption.
The gas produced by the 1m3 capacity facility will power the Centre’s canteen for two hours a day via household waste feedstock.
Govindraj Pokhrel, AEPC executive director, was quoted as saying he hopes the town will eventually…
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A German scientist believes forests in Tasmania could hold a key to bountiful bioenergy production.
Andreas Rothe, from the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan, has spent five months studying the region and ascertained that waste from those forests could generate millions of dollars worth of bioenergy.
He estimates more than 3 million tonnes of biomass per person could be sourced, via…
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A division of Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby has signed a pact with state-run power producer Tenaga Nasional (TNB) to establish a joint venture that will generate power from agricultural waste.
Sime Darby Plantation will hold a 51% equity stake in the proposed joint venture, and the remainder will be held by TNB Energy Services.
The proposed joint venture, which is currently subject to…
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One of the most powerful people on Earth, US President Barack Obama, gave a passionate address on climate change on 25 June during a visit to Georgetown University in Washington DC.
Obama wants to cut carbon pollution and reduce global warming and told an audience of students and visitors: ‘I refuse to condemn your generation, and future generations, to a planet that is beyond…
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Renewable energy business Abengoa has inaugurated its demonstration plant that uses waste-to-biofuels technology.
The plant, located in Babilafuente, Spain has a capacity to treat 25,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste, from which it will obtain up to 1.5 million litres of bioethanol via a fermentation and enzymatic hydrolysis treatment.
Manuel Sánchez Ortega, CEO of Abengoa, said during…
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A new multi-million dollar wood pellet plant has been tentatively announced for Mississippi, US.
The $115 million (€88.1 million) facility is slated to be housed at George County industrial park and will aim to produce around 500,000 tonnes of pellets a year. That figure is according to management from Florida-based Green Circle Bioenergy (GCB), the company attached to the…
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Waste-to-biofuels company Enerkem has closed another round of financing to increase its total equity investment for 2013.
It closed on CN$50 million (€36.4 million) to bring its yearly financing total to $87 million. As part of this drive, institutional fund Investissement Quebec has joined the seven other investors, including Waste Management of Canada, all of whom have increased their…
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A new biogas plant in Germany has been commissioned and has been supplying to the public grid since May.
The Weltec Biopwer facility, based in the industrial region of Altmark, took eight months to construct and consists of four digesters, six digestate storage units and a liquid reservoir. It produces 1,650m3 of raw biogas an hour, 250m3 exclusively for the heating needs of the plant…
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Home owners in Solwezi, Zambia will be connected to biogas stoves thanks to a project run by the Devolution Trust Fund (DTF).
DTF will connect 120 households through the North-Western Water and Sewerage company at a cost of KR2.2 million (€307,850). It has built five biogas units, a decentralised waste water treatment plant and sewer network to connect the project.
The DTF is also targeting…
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UK-headquartered Green Biologics (GB), an international biotechnology company, has announced collaboration and planned investment in facilities with US business Easy Energy Systems (EES).
The collaboration will result in the modification of Easy Energy’s ethanol demonstration plant in Iowa to produce renewable n-butanol and acetone.
‘We’ve been working with Easy Energy for…
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It has been reported the Tanzania domestic Biogas Programme (TDBP) is to spend $21 million (€16.1 million) to create an infrastructure supporting new 50 enterprises.
In a statement TDBP said the project is being worked with the Centre for Agriculture Mechanisation and Rural Technology and is a component of the Africa Biogas Partnership Programme, funded by the Netherlands government.
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UK waste-to-energy BioWayste has signed a six year contract with recycling business Brocklesby to provide green electricity and heat via its anaerobic digestion (AD) technology.
BioWayste will run and manage a £2 million (€2.3 million), 40,000 tonne per year AD plant based on Brocklesby’s seven acre site in Yorkshire. Six reactors, along with combined heat and power engines, will…
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