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The first commercial-scale UK seaweed farm is scheduled to be scheduled in Argyll off the coast of Scotland in late summer 2015.
The new facility, planned by scientists at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in Oban, will be run as a demonstration project that will help shape the UK’s fledling seaweed cultivation sector.
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Indian meat processing company Allana Sons is to build a meat facility in Ethiopia, Africa, the waste from which will be converted into biogas and animal feed.
The plant will be built on 75 hectares of land and will also include an effluent treatment plant.
Commercial operations at the new $20 million (€14.8 million) project are scheduled to begin in September later this year.
The design of…
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UK on-site biogas plants increased their power generation by 40% in the last year, a survey by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has found.
According to DECC’s annual Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics, the farming sector led the rise in biogas capacity from 164MW in 2013 to 216MW in 2014.
Anaerobic digestion (AD) plants took the lead from sewage sludge in the water…
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An initial funding of $210 million (€88 million) will be invested into the NY Green Bank, a new initiative designed to accelerate green energy projects.
This funding comprises $165 million redirected from other programmes, approved by the Public Service Commission, and $45 million from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
'With this funding we will attract greater investment in New York,…
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Agricultural residues such as straw and will play an important role in helping Europe generate renewable energy through to 2020. This is according to a report published by Rabobank.
The report, 'Ag residue provides the answer to EU's Bioenergy needs', says biomass feedstocks like straw and stover will increase in popularity because rising global demand for solid biomass is expected to increase…
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Egger, an Austrian wood company, has finished building a large-scale biomass-fired power plant in Radauti, Romania, according to reports.
The new €35 million plant will generate 83MW of heat and energy from waste wood materials. The project took 13 months to build and was completed in October 2013.
The biomass facility is said to be Romania's largest to date.
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A Canada-based biogas plant co-owned by Lethbridge Biogas and not-for-profit Climate Change and Emissions Management Corp (CCEMC) has opened.
The $30 million (€21.8 million) anaerobic digester co-generation facility currently has a generating capacity of 2.8MW – enough to power 2,800 homes – but this could be expanded to 4.2MW in the future with the addition of new generating…
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Belarus plans to use sewage sludge to produce biogas, says Sergei Zavyalov, head of the department on the impact on the atmosphere and water resources at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Belarus.
According to Zavyalov, the rainfall handling technology was discussed at a meeting in the Housing and Utilities Ministry not long ago.
‘Out of four variants there was chosen the…
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Construction is due to begin at the site of a new green energy plant in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Evermore Renewable Energy says it has secured more than £80m in funding for the wood-fuelled power plant that will be built at Londonderry Port and Harbour, Lisahally.
Work will begin before the end of this year, and Evermore says operations will commence in summer 2015.
The energy firm…
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Sapphire Energy, an algae-based Green Crude oil producer, and Phillips 66, an integrated energy manufacturing and logistics company, announced a joint development agreement aimed at pushing production of algae crude oil towards commercialisation.
The US-based companies will collect and analyse data from co-processing of algae and conventional crude oil into fuels including diesel, petrol and jet…
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The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has announced that it is leading a £2.78 million (appr. €4 million) UK-based collaboration to help strengthen the UK’s position within industrial biotechnology.
The three year project – SeaGas – is working on producing bio-methane from seaweed through anaerobic digestion (AD).
The project launched in July 2015 and consists of…
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Supervisors at the Port of Pascagoula in Jackson County, Mississippi, have authorised the borrowing of up to $24 million (€17 million) for the construction of a specialised wood pellet exporting facility on Bayou Casotte.
The facility is expected to cost around $30 million, with $15 million coming from port bonds. The state has reportedly put up $10 million, and the terminal operator will…
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UK-based Gazasia is to develop an anaerobic digestion plant in the Philippines with local business Aseagas to provide clean, renewable transport fuel.
The project will create the first biomethane plant in the country, which will produce biogas from organic waste. This, in turn, will be processed to generate liquid biomethane to be used as fuel.
The initial $47 million (€34.3 million) project…
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Genera Energy, a bioenergy supply chain management company and a feedstock developer, has launched its first mobile agriculture app, Biomass.
The Biomass app was developed to serve as a mobile crop planning and learning tool for biomass farmers and landowners.
The Biomass app offers features such as a biomass crop library complete with detailed information, photos, and range maps for the most…
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