Oct 18, 2016
Murphy & Sons finishes completes first construction phase at £138m Cramlington CHP plant
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Oct 17, 2016
Wind and solar power are likely to be less expensive than biomass to replace coal in the UK, a new study released today says.
Published by the US Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and conducted by London-based Vivid Economics, the study says the “truly clean”, renewable forms of energy also will help the UK reduce carbon pollution and meet its goals... [Read More]
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Oct 14, 2016
The University of Northampton’s new Waterside Campus in the UK will use sustainable technology for heat while dramatically reducing its CO2 output.
The University has employed sustainable energy expert Vital Energi to deliver the energy solutions for the new campus, opening in 2018.
The contract will see Vital Energi deliver an energy centre which will use woodchip... [Read More]
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Oct 14, 2016
Japanese power supplier eRex’s plans to construct two new power plants by 2020 are set to make the company Japan’s largest biomass power producer.
The plants will be built in Okinawa and another location in western Japan under a recently compiled medium-term business plan, the Nikkei Asian Review newspaper reports.
Construction is projected to begin... [Read More]
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Oct 7, 2016
JFE Engineering Corp. has won an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for a 75MWe biomass power plant in Japan.
The plant will be constructed for MOE in Mitsubishi Paper Mills Hachinohe works and it’s scheduled to commence operation in the first half of 2019.
It will generate an annual 5.3 billion kWh of electricity from wood chips, palm kernel... [Read More]
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Oct 5, 2016
The US Endowment for Forestry and Communities has re-launched of the Wood2Energy.org wood bioenergy facility database and mapping tool, the most comprehensive database of its kind in North America.
Wood2Energy.org aims to develop a database and mapping tool that aggregates facility level data to deliver a unique perspective of the wood bioenergy industry.
With separate,... [Read More]
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Oct 5, 2016
Brazil's power regulator Aneel has revoked the winning status of a 28.5MW biomass project from the energy auction held on 21 August, 2015.
The project was proposed by Brazilian Clealco Acucar e Alcool, which planned to build a plant using sugarcane bagasse as energy source.
The decision was made by Aneel's Special Tender Committee (CEL), the body responsible... [Read More]
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Oct 4, 2016
Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU), the fifth largest energy producer in Florida, has switched to burning biomass in the aftermath of a mechanical failure at the company’s Deerhaven coal plant.
The fuel swap had already been in the plans earlier due to a previous breakdown, but the Deerhaven incident caused the company to hurry the decision along.
But the change... [Read More]
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Oct 3, 2016
EnMass Energy, a US-based green biomass start-up founded in 2015, is commencing its first large-scale biomass energy development project.
EnMass, headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, takes crop waste and turns it into clean and sustainable electricity for rural communities, helping them reduce energy poverty and mitigating climate change.
Pakistan possesses... [Read More]
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Sep 27, 2016
The state of Punjab in India has the potential to generate 2GW of electrical power from biomass alone, a state secretary says.
According to Anirudh Tewari, principal secretary for industries, commerce, and renewable energy in the Government of Punjab, biomass is an important part of the northern Indian state’s energy market.
“One area of renewable energy which... [Read More]
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Sep 21, 2016
The European Commission (EC) has approved support for a combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Vilnius, Lithuania, under EU state aid rules.
The project will be financed by the European Investment Bank through the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), along with state aid granted by Lithuania.
"The Lithuanian project to build a CHP plant in Vilnius is a good... [Read More]
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Sep 21, 2016
In the US, California State Legislature has passes a bill that is expected to help the state’s ailing biomass facilities by setting a mandate for wood waste-based energy production.
The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown by 30 September, requires the state's largest utilities to get 125MW of biomass power from dead trees in high... [Read More]
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Sep 20, 2016
UK energy and environmental investment company Newbridge Energy will install three wood chip-fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) units in northern Wales.
The move comes after the company reported receiving a "multi-million pound" investment from Iona Capital.
The three units, to be situated in the town of Ruthin, will have a combined capacity of 3MWe and 12MWh, and they... [Read More]
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Sep 20, 2016
Testing will begin at a 20.2MW Northwest England biomass power plant, which is expected to start commercial operation in April 2017, developers say.
The 147,000 tonnes-per-year capacity waste wood biomass facility is being developed within the 180-acre Mersey Multimodal Gateway project – a logistics hub to the west of Liverpool – by Danish firm Burmeister &... [Read More]
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Sep 15, 2016
The upsurge in the consumption of fuel derived from biomass, wood, and waste heat is likely to boost the installation of combined heat and power (CHP) across the globe.
Transparency Market Research (TMR) forecasts the global CHP installation market to exhibit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.38% between 2014 and 2024.
The prospects for CHP installations have improved... [Read More]
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Sep 14, 2016
Finland’s export credit agency Finnvera will contribute £100 million (€120m) to the funding of the planned Teesside biomass plant in the UK.
Finnvera is the second Finnish player pitching into the project, as the circulating fluidised bed boiler and the flue gas cleaning system are delivered by Amec Foster Wheeler Energia.
The construction of the... [Read More]
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Sep 8, 2016
Finnish technology developer Valmet and Danish energy utility Hofor Energiproduktion have signed a contract regarding delivery of a biomass-fired boiler plant and related biofuel storage and conveyor systems.
The equipment will be delivered to Hofor's new Amagerværket heat and power plant in Copenhagen.
The order is included in Valmet's third quarter 2016 orders... [Read More]
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