Jun 24, 2016
BWSC begins building biomass plant in UK
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Jun 23, 2016
The £25 million Guardbridge Energy Project in Scotland moved a step closer to completion when the Vital Energi project team took delivery of a 6.5MW biomass boiler furnace.
The furnace made the 1,300 mile journey from Sweden, where it was manufactured at Jernforsen’s facility in the remote town of Järnforsen.
The biomass boiler and furnace is 10m high,... [Read More]
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Jun 17, 2016
Finnish tyre company Nokian Tyres has joined a joint venture for building the Nokianvirran Energia biomass power plant in order to ensure the supply of eco-friendly and cost-efficient energy.
The plan to transition to renewable fuels and the rising operating costs of natural gas boilers were other important factors in the decision.
With the new biomass power plant, renewable... [Read More]
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Jun 15, 2016
Finnish regional power utility Lahti Energia has received a €75 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to construct a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant.
The new Kymijärvi III plant, to be located in the city of Lahti in southern Finland, will initially produce 150MW of district heat from certified forestry biomass.
The facility will also... [Read More]
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Jun 14, 2016
Honduran Green Power Corp. (HGPC), has inaugurated a “one of a kind” 43MW biomass plant Honduras’ Sula Valley.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez described the $130 million (€115.4m) plant as unique on the world scale during the opening ceremony.
About 11,418 acres of king grass, together with weevil affected pine wood, African palm tree rachis,... [Read More]
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Jun 9, 2016
Valmet has received an order from energy firm Kotkan Energia to modernise the turbine automation and to supply a new turbine controller to the Hovinsaari biomass-fired power plant in Kotka, Finland.
The new automation will be started up in September to improve turbine reliability and availability.
The order was included in Valmet's first quarter 2016 orders received. The... [Read More]
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May 20, 2016
Researchers from the Agro-Energy Group at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have used geographic information systems to assess the potential use of the residual biomass of bananas produced in the province of El Oro, based in the south east of Ecuador, for bioenergy applications.
According to the academics, results show that the use of this... [Read More]
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May 18, 2016
Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP) has announced that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), Canada has become the third ‘SBP-approved’ certification body.
The SBP is a certification scheme designed for woody biomass, mostly in the form of wood pellets and wood chips, used in industrial, large-scale energy production.
PwC has provided evidence that it meets the... [Read More]
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May 18, 2016
The University of Montana received $1.4 million (€1.24m) from the US Department of Agriculture and US Department of Energy’s Biomass Research and Development Initiative.
Researchers will use the grant to identify and overcome the barriers to using biomass from fuels-reduction and forest-restoration treatments.
University of Montana forestry Professor Beth... [Read More]
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May 17, 2016
Mahachai Green Power Co., a Thai-German joint venture, and DPCleanTech Group, a biomass energy provider, have announced the completion of the first high temperature high-pressure biomass power plant, which converts coconut waste into energy.
The plant is specifically designed for the simultaneous combustion of all forms of coconut waste (husk, shell, bunch, fronds,... [Read More]
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May 13, 2016
The UK's Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking partners for a new biomass pre-treatment project, which intends to improve the feedstock process.
The organisation has called for expressions of interest from organisations that could develop and demonstrate a pre-treatment system incorporating biomass chipping, screening, washing and drying.
After finding a suitable... [Read More]
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May 12, 2016
Fortum Värme, jointly owned by the energy company Fortum and the City of Stockholm, has inaugurated its new biomass-fired combined heat and power plant (CHP).
When the plant, located in Värtan, Stockholm, starts commercial production in the autumn, it will use forest residues and wood waste to produce district heat for nearly 200,000 households.
Daily consumption... [Read More]
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May 12, 2016
Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, is to build a satellite that that will measure forest biomass to assess terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes.
The Biomass satellite is the European Space Agency’s (ESA) next Earth Explorer mission, with a launch scheduled for 2021.
According to Airbus Defence and Space, the spacecraft will... [Read More]
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May 9, 2016
Chinese gas equipment manufacturer Guangdong Chant Group is expanding to bioenergy with a planned biomass cogeneration facility in Eastern China.
The 80MW plant, to be located in the city of Yongcheng in the Henan provice, will require an investment of 500 million yuan (€67.4m) and it will be completed in two phases.
Each phase will see the installation of a 130t/hr... [Read More]
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May 4, 2016
Ingenio Montelimar, a Nicaragua-based renewable energy firm, officially launched a 38-MW biomass plant in San Rafael del Sur city, according to media reports.
The facility is named ‘Green Power’. It will use bagasse as raw material. Bagasse is the fibrous matter that remains after sugarcane or sorghum stalks are crushed to extract their juice.
The... [Read More]
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May 3, 2016
The global biomass power market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 6.5% until 2022 due to government support, according to a new report by Transparency Market Research.
The market research agency published a study entitled Biomass power generation.
According to the report, the biomass power generation market will increase from a valuation... [Read More]
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Apr 29, 2016
Covanta, a US waste management firm, has announced that the company’s biomass assets have been idled and this has negatively impacted on its first quarter revenue results for its energy division.
In a statement, Covanta said: “Energy revenue from non-energy-from-waste (EfW) operations decreased by $13 million, primarily driven by an $11 million decrease... [Read More]
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