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Feb 2, 2010
Mitsubishi and Weyerhaeuser to invest in biomass plant
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Feb 3, 2010
New Delhi, India-based Mavens Biotech is planning to set up three biomass power plants with a total capacity of 30 MW.
The Rs 700,000,000 (€10.8 million) investment on the proposed power project is likely to be met with internal accruals and debt, M D Kanther, chairman of the company, says.
The company reported net sales of Rs 37.14 crore in the nine month ending... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2010
UK utility provider British Gas will build five biomethane demonstration projects to inject purified biogas into the UK’s national gas grid for use by consumers.
The projects are due to come online in mid-2010, with the first biomethane project seeing the construction of a plant to purify raw biogas from Thames Water’s Didcot sewage works.
Thames Water and Scotia... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2010
The UK is proving a popular site for biogas projects – Germany-based MT-Energie has now begun construction on two 1MW biogas plants in southern England.
The plants, one north of Oxford and the other near Bognor Regis, are nearing completion and both should be operational by Q2.
Support such as Feed-in Tariffs, two ROCs offered for anaerobic digestion and the possibilities... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2010
The UK is getting greener with its launch of renewable energy tariffs starting from April.
The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC)’s system will offer a comprehensive system of tariffs for biogas injected into natural gas pipelines, and renewable heat.
Renewable heat technologies meet just 0.6% of UK heat demand, but by 2020 the government aims to meet... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2010
The Port of Rotterdam figures for 2009 show there was a substantial decline in the handling of soyabean oil, sunflower oil and rapeseed oil.
Biofuels (biodiesel, ethanol and ETBE) were also down. The moderate sugar harvest put pressure on Brazilian exports of ethanol. This was compensated for partly by imports of ethanol from Spain and France via Rotterdam.
Imports... [Read More]
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Feb 3, 2010
The construction of three new plants could soon be underway in Hungary. With a draft government decree issued last month making one of the refineries a priority project, the process of obtaining the necessary documentation will be decreased.
The new plants are to be built in the Hungarian towns of Dunaföldvár, Kaba and Dunaalmas. Already a priority project, the facility... [Read More]
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Feb 4, 2010
California-based Promethean Biofuels will open its biodiesel plant on 19 February in Temecula.
The Promethean Biofuels refinery will convert used cooking oils into 1.5mgy of biodiesel.
Built next to a recycling facility, the majority of this 17,000-square foot plant has been constructed using reclaimed resources. Ideally situated nearby to a community recycling utility,... [Read More]
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Jan 20, 2010
A first-of-its-kind refinery is to be constructed in Hugoton, Kansas, US, using crop waste as its feedstock.
It is thought that 2,500 tons of corn stover, wheat straw and switchgrass will be consumed daily, using around 10-12% of the biomass within a 50-mile radius. The company will spend around $13 million (€9.2 million) a year on biomass.
This profit-making plant... [Read More]
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Jan 20, 2010
Based on statistics published by The Forestry Commission, Yorkshire and the Humber is the top region in the country for the installation of biomass heat boilers.
With 290 out of the 1,960 in England today, this figure is up 45 since last year.
Responsible for protecting, growing and promoting the sustainable management of woodlands and forests, The Forestry Commission... [Read More]
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Jan 21, 2010
In Wisconsin, US, a state-funded $250 million (€178 million) project aims to convert a coal-fired power plant to one that primarily burns biomass.
The project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison faces hurdles, however, in getting off the ground greenly.
Upfront construction costs will be higher than other alternatives that were considered. No infrastructure exists... [Read More]
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Jan 21, 2010
In the UK REG Bio-Power, a subsidiary of Renewable Energy Generation (REG), has announced two biomass-powered energy projects.
REG Bio-Power will start construction of a new oil processing facility at Hockwold in Norfolk, England.
This will allow REG Bio-Power to process around 15,000 tonnes of waste vegetable oil 100 a year, enough to operate around 15MW of renewable... [Read More]
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Jan 21, 2010
The fifth largest utility company in Europe, and the continent’s biggest polluter, is planning to build a biomass facility in the US.
Germany-based RWE’s facility will produce wood pellets for burning in the Amercentrale plant owned by its Dutch unit Essent.
The coal-burning power company will build a plant in the southern state of Georgia for €120 million to produce... [Read More]
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Jan 21, 2010
The 3rd annual Biofuels International expo & conference Europe will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from 5-6 May 2010. With over 400 attendees in 2009 the event promises to be even bigger and better.
Another exciting development for Biofuels International expo & conference Europe is the introduction of a third afternoon stream which in addition to the Biodiesel... [Read More]
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Jan 22, 2010
In China’s southern Hainan province, China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) has begun the first government-run project to produce biodiesel using jatropha feedstock.
CNOOC is China’s largest offshore oil and gas producer, and got the go ahead from Beijing in July 2008 to use jatropha in its plant.
The refinery can produce 60,000 tonnes of biodiesel every year.... [Read More]
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