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Peterborough Renewable Energy (PREL) has received approval from the Department of Energy to build the first Energy Park in the UK, which will eventually generate enough green electricity to power 60,000 homes. The Energy Park will be built in Peterborough and achieve 4,000 MW of biomass power needed to meet the renewable requirement for 2020 for the UK. The UK needs to generate 15% of its…
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Construction on one of the UK’s largest biomass to power generation projects is getting closer following environmental approval. UK-based MGT Power plans to build a 295 megawatt (MW) wood-fuelled power station at Teesport, which received Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) consent from the Marine and Fisheries Agency (MFA). This formal consent together with its associated licences enables…
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The Hungarian Development Bank’s ELMIB plans to build a HUF 9 billion (€32.6 million) wood industry waste-fuelled power plant in Salgótarján. The plant will generate 200,000 GJ of heat, or enough for 60% of the city's district heating demand, and 12.5MW of electricity, enough for all 20,000 of the city's homes. The project is due to be online in Q4 2012. ELMIB recently started…
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Following the opening of its factory in October this year, Brazilian company Grupo Ypioca is set to produce ethanol from sugarcane. The Jaguaruana factory has installed capacity to produce 50 million litres of ethanol a year, or 90 million litres of the sugarcane derivative cachaca, making it the world's largest manufacturing facility of cachaca. ‘There is no industry more modern than…
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Florida, US-based clean energy company Clenergen is making India greener. Clenergen’s Chennai, India-based subsidiary has closed terms to acquire a 1.5 MW biomass power plant in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu. One of India’s national demonstration projects, the plant is expected to be operational before the end of the year. The plant was stopped in 2007 because of operational cash flow constraints…
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Renewable Energy Group Seneca has purchased Nova Biofuels Seneca’s biodiesel plant in Illinois, US. The plant has a capacity of 60 million gallons a year. REG also bought Nova Biosource Technologies. Earlier this year, REG purchased three large biodiesel plants: Western Iowa Energy, (30 mgy); Central Iowa Energy (30 mgy); and Blackhawk Biofuels 45 (mgy).
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Dan Bulzan from the NASA Glenn Research Centre will be giving the industry an update on renewable aviation fuels at the upcoming Biofuels International Canada expo & conference on 28-29th October in Montreal, organised by leading publication Biofuels International magazine. The ability to fly conveniently and efficiently between nations has been a catalyst for the global economy and has…
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While chemical businesses may be waning in Teesside, north east England, UK, a green light is shining bright. Ensus has built a £300 million (€326 million) wheat-based bioethanol plant, whose by-products will be used to produce animal feed and carbon dioxide for the soft drinks industry. The plant could be ready by the end of Q4 One million tonnes of wheat will be brought in from…
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Biodiesel has always been second to ethanol in Brazil, but now it is getting the fast-track treatment. The Presidency of the Republic expects B5 to expand production of biodiesel to 2.4 billion litres in 2010, strengthening the Brazilian world leadership in renewable energy in commercial scale. Initially the nation envisaged a four-year wait until 2013 for a mandatory B5 blend, but 'it…
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Jatropha is fast-proving the gem of the biodiesel feedstocks, and now one African producer has manufactured its first batch of the renewable fuel. Biofuel Africa, based in Ghana, has produced 10 tons of biodiesel, about 50 barrels from its plantations in its home country. The production was realised from 650 hectares of the plant, from one-year-old seeds. The vegetable oil produced from…
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The UK's Renewable Energy Association (REA) anticipates there is potential for bioethanol production in the UK to rise by 20 times its current level by 2020, and biodiesel to rise by three times. The association's recent report finds there is a major opportunity to increase production of biofuels in the UK in order to deliver targets set in the European Union's Renewable Energy…
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Reports reach us from Stockholm, Sweden, that an annual cull of thousands of rabbits is fuelling a heating plant. The so-called Biofuel Bunnies cause mayhem in the capital’s green spaces, so the 3,000 culled this year are providing green energy to homes instead. Hunter Tommy Tuvunger says: ‘Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough, a contractor comes and takes them…
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Global Alternative Fuels (GAF) will expand its biodiesel plant in El Paso, Texas, US, from 5 to 20 million gallons a year. The expansion also includes installing equipment to process grease thrown out by restaurants without having to blend the grease with refined soyabean oil. This and the higher processing capacity reduces production costs significantly. The first phase of the biodiesel…
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