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MPC Capital, a German investment company, is set to construct an 18MW biomass power plant in Brazil.
The plant, which will be fed by rice husk, will be built in the city of Itaqui, Rio Grande do Sul state.
Building is projected to start in 2016 with an investment of BRL208 million (€51.2m).
The Itaqui plant, with an annual processing capacity of 140,000 tonnes of rice husk, is MPC’s…
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Construction has begun on the Hairy Hill biorefinery in Canada which is to turn farmers’ grain into ethanol whilst at the same time producing power for the grid.
The construction marks the second phase of the development, which already features a biogas plant that produces 1MW for the power grid from manure and other waste.
That facility is expected to cost about $50 million (€38…
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A Californian county has decided to produce 100% renewable energy for county facilities.
Sonoma County has signed a year-long agreement with 3 Phases Renewables to produce all of its electricity from renewable sources, generating 15% of it from biomass.
Seven county facilities in Santa Rosa and Petaluma will be powered from biomass throughout this year, with the rest being powered by wind…
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An African renewable energy company has secured $5 million (€3.8 million) in fundraising to develop its first biomass energy project on the continent.
Takoradi Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of Africa Renewables and a biomass producer and trader, received the funding from Standard Chartered Bank in Ghana.
The money will be used to double the company’s biomass exports to Europe by 2016,…
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A new plant in Plymouth, UK is to open, converting 40,000 tonnes of wood waste into renewable heat and electricity annually, which should reduce CO₂ emissions by around 16,500 tonnes a year.
Three companies, MITIE's Asset Management, O-Gen UK and the Una Group are working together on the development, under the name of O-Gen Plymtrek.
During construction, about 50 jobs are expected to be created…
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Monsanto and Novozymes have announced a new acreage target for 2025 that will guide the companies’ microbials business for the next decade.
The two partners in The BioAg Alliance are develop new microbial solutions for global agriculture and project that their products will be used on 250-500 million acres globally by 2025, equivalent to 25-50% of all US farmland.
Currently the…
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The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has provided bioenergy company Vaskiluodon Voima Oy with €18 million to build a gasification plant in Vaasa, Finland. The total project cost is expected to be about €40 million.
The facility will produce 140MW and is to be connected to a power plant that is already established, allowing for the coal from the old plant to be substituted by domestic…
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Bioenergy company ZeaChem has been awarded a $232.5 million (€176 million) loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to build a biorefinery that will convert biomass into sustainable fuels and chemicals.
It will be the company’s first commercial size cellulosic biorefinery and will use woody biomass and agricultural residues to produce bio-based fuels.
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Scientists from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Sustainable Bioenergy Centre (BSBEC) have uncovered a series of genes which could help grasses being breed with better characteristics for bioenergy production.
The genes help to better develop the wood part of the grass, called the fibrous, such as what is in rice and wheat. In understanding how these genes…
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UK-based Malaby Biogas has received a loan from an anaerobic digestion (AD) fund, Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), which will go towards building a new plant.
The facility will be based in Wiltshire, and as Bioenergy Insight reported last month, will be built on a former 12 acre smallholding site.
The £800,000 (€960,000) loan will be used for the construction of the plant,…
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The Namibia city of Windhoek plans to upgrade the main sludge treatment system at a local water works, installing new gas engines and improving the existing biodigestors. These biodigestors will be closed off, so that the harmful gases do not escape into the air and are instead used to generate power.
This electricity will be made from biogas that is created throughout the process. Pierre van…
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Biomass power generation capacity is predicted to grow by more than 86GW by 2021, a rise from the current 58GW, and representing a total investment of more than $100 billion (€78 billion), according to Pike Research.
If a more aggressive implementation campaign is put in place to build on the bioenergy resources, capacity could hit 115GW, which is an investment of more than $135…
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German Pellets is to build and operate a combined heat and power (CHP) plant in northern Italy in a joint venture with a local company.
German Pellets says Italy is a good location to build the plant as the conditions are favourable thanks to the feed-in tariffs that come from electricity derived from CHP plants.
Up to €0.28/kW hour can be paid for renewable energy that is generated for the…
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Australian company Algae.Tec has signed a 50/50 joint venture (JV) with Chinese company Shandong Kerui.
Working together, the companies will build a 250-module algae biofuels facility in China, in which both companies will pay half to cover costs.
The module system at the facility will be enclosed and the way the algae will be cultivated is meant to give it a high yield per acre, whilst at…
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