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The US Army intends to award a long-term contract to ReEnergy Holdings, a biomass energy producer that generates energy from renewable materials. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy, in coordination with the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force (EITF), issued a notice of intent to award to ReEnergy Holdings for the purchase of up to 28MW of electricity from the renewable energy biomass…
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Zilkha Biomass Energy, a provider of biomass solutions, and pulp and paper technology supplier Valmet have signed a five-year collaboration agreement in the field of steam exploded black pellets. The purpose of the agreement is to bring steam exploded black pellets to the market for the production of renewable heat and power. The parties will work together to develop a joint global…
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The global market for anaerobic digesters and landfill gas equipment was estimated at almost $4.5 billion (€3.3 billion) in 2013, according to a new report from BCC Research. In the report, 'Waste-Derived Biogas: Global Markets for Anaerobic Digestion Equipment', BCC says it projects the market to grow to $7 billion by 2018. The production of renewable, sustainable energy is expected to…
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Iona Capital, together with Scotia Gas Networks (SGN), has invested in Keithick Biogas for the development of a gas-to-grid anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Scotland. The project, which will be the first of its kind in Scotland, is expected to commence operations later this year. The AD plant is being supplied by German company MT-Energie, while SGN will provide the gas upgrading plant and will…
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Arla Foods is set to become the UK's first zero carbon dairy after opening a bio-based liquefied natural gas (bio-LNG) filling station at its £150 million (€182 million) site in Aylesbury, UK. The bio-LNG will be used to fuel Arla's fleet of trucks, with the first 10 dual-fuel vehicles to be put into operation this month. Gasrec, a supplier of liquefied gas fuel to the transportation…
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The New York Green Bank has started operations and will work to stimulate private sector financing to accelerate the transitions to a more cost-effective, resilient and clean energy system. The NY Green Bank is the largest bank of its kind in nation. Governor Andrew Cuomo made the announcement, declaring the bank is now seeking proposals from private sector lenders, investors and industry…
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A biogas liquefaction plant has opened in Oslo, which will convert household food waste into biomethane for use as renewable fuel for the city's buses. The facility, which was built by gas handling and liquefaction technology developer Wärtsilä and opened on 12 February, is operated by biowaste treatment company Cambi on behalf of Waste-to-Energy Agency (EGE) and the city of Oslo. EGE…
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Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has committed to a $25 million (€18.2 million) equity investment in Rennovia, a privately held company which develops catalysts and processes for the production of renewable feedstock-based chemical products. Speaking about the investment, ADM VP of renewable chemicals Kevin Moore says: 'There is significant and growing demand for chemical products made from…
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A new collaboration between automotive supplier Magna and Italy-based intellectual property company Bio-on will see the two companies start R&D activities on the use of bio-plastics for the automotive industry. Bio-on has developed a new bio-plastic through the use of naturally occurring bacteria which feed off the by-products of sugar beets. During the fermentation process, the material is…
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Energy company Fortum has announced it will invest €40 million in a new combined heat and power (CHP) plant under development by its associated company Turun Seudun Energiantuotanto (TSE). The new plant, planned for Naantali in Finland, will cost a total €260 million and come online in the third quarter of 2017. It initially will be able to handle a combination of biomass, recycled…
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A consortium made up of clean technology company Topell Energy, three electricity companies – Essent, Nuon and GDF Suez – and the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) has completed a large-scale co-firing test with biomass at the Amer power plant in the Netherlands. The test, conducted under the 'Top consortium for Knowledge and Innovation Bio-based Economy (TKI BBE)…
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Results of a third-party peer-reviewed life cycle assessment (LCA), entitled Greenhouse Gas and Energy Life Cycle Assessment of Pine Chemicals Derived from Crude Tall Oil and Their Substitutes, has found diverting crude tall oil (CTO) into biofuel production throughout Europe will not have a significant effect in either reducing carbon emissions nor fossil fuel consumption. CTO is a sustainable…
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Whisky producer Glenfiddich has received planning permission from local councillors to build an anaerobic digestion plant at its distillery in Dufftown, Scotland. The AD facility will turn waste products generated from the company's distilling process into biogas. This biogas will either be cleaned and injected into the national gas network, or converted into 3.5MW of electricity and sold to the…
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Up to $12 million (€8.8 million) in financial support is available from the Department of Energy (DoE) to advance the production of carbon fibre material from non-food based renewable feedstocks such as agricultural residues and woody biomass. The DoE says carbon fibre derived from biomass could be cheaper to make and possess greater environmental benefits than traditional carbon fibre…
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