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Muntons, a UK-based malted ingredients company, is to build a £5.4 million (€6.8 million) anaerobic digestion plant at its Stowmarket HQ. When it comes online mid-next year, the plant will treat liquid waste streams from the malt extract production process to generate up 500kWh of electricity – around 25% of Muntons' baseload requirement. The plant will also produce a fertiliser…
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Another Scottish distillery is to go green after receiving funding from the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB). Balmenach Distillery in Speyside is the third such facility to benefit from the GIB's investment in the Scottish drinks industry. The project will be financed using £5 million of funding announced last month. Balmenach itself will also contribute capital in order to install new…
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RusForest, a Swedish forestry company with operations in Russia, has sold its subsidiary, Ystad Pellets. Ystad Pellets owns a non-core wood pellet mill that has been idle for several years in Ystad, Sweden. RusForest expects to receive a total net amount of $600,000 (€446,500 million) in cash from the transaction. It has already received $200,000 of this amount from the buyer. Payment of the…
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In the US, BioCNG, a provider of biogas conditioning systems, will design and build one of these systems, along with gas pipeline, for the Persigo wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), which is jointly owned by the City of Grand Junction and Mesa County, Colorado. The BioCNG system will produce around 500 gallons of petrol equivalent per day from the WWTP digester gas, which will be piped roughly…
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PHI Group, a company focused on energy and natural resources, is to establish wood pellet factories in central and southern Vietnam after signing a memorandum of understanding with two Vietnamese wood processing companies. The initial proposed combined capacities for the joint venture wood pellet plants are around 400,000 tonnes a year. PHI says it intends to own a minimum of 51% equity interest…
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Dalkia, an energy services provider and subsidiary of Veolia Environnement and Electricité de France (EDF), and the Canadian investment fund Fengate Capital Management are joining forces to develop what will be their second biomass power plant in Merritt, British Columbia, Canada. This plant will consume 307,000 tonnes a year of biomass to generate 40MW of electricity. This production will…
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Dong Energy Thermal Power is developing a renewable energy plant near Fredercia in Denmark that will supply district heating and power to local residents. On 23 July, the Babcock and Wilcox Company (B&W) announced that B&W Vølund, a subsidiary of B&W Power Generation Group, was awarded a contract exceeding $80 million (€60 million) to build a 280MW-thermal (MWth) biomass…
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NEO Energy, a renewable energy company developing three AD plants in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the US, has signed an agreement with Himark Biogas for their design, construction and start-up. The plants will recycle food waste to produce renewable electricity and organic-based fertiliser. 'NEO's anaerobic digestion plants will recycle food waste generated by supermarkets, food processors,…
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Plans to build a £160 million (€202 million) biomass-fired power plant in Stockton-On-Tees, in the north of the UK, have been accepted and planning permission granted by Stockton Council. Port Clarance Energy, a joint venture between Eco2 and Temporis Capital, is the behind the project, plans for which were submitted in April earlier this year. The new power plant will produce 49MW a…
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Caraga Renewable Energy, a subsidiary and power generation arm of Eastern Petroleum, has been awarded a contract to operate the first phase of a 47MW biomass-fired power plant in Agusan del Norte, Philippines. Phase one of the project will generate 23.5MW renewable energy. Caraga signed the contract in the municipality of Buenavista. Expected to cost $100 million (€74 million), the plant…
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US agriculture could provide up to 155 million tonnes of crop residues and 60 million tonnes of manure for the generation of clean fuels and electricity in 2030, according to new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The UCS research found the top 10 states with the potential to use the residues left behind from crop harvest and livestock production, such as plant materials and…
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Schmack Carbotech, a supplier of complete systems for biogas projects, has been awarded a contract to build a plant, with a processing capacity of 2,000 Nm3/hr of raw biogas, in Sofielund Huddinge, Stockholm. Gas with a methane content of 97% after purification will be produced for use as a biofuel in vehicles powered by natural gas. Locally sourced organic waste and leftover cooking grease will…
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The first of eight France-based gas-to-grid (GtG) projects being developed by MT-Energie, a provider of anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas upgrading systems, has started injecting upgraded biomethane into the gas grid. According to a company statement, a group of farmers from the Champagne region are behind the eight projects in France after they decided to become 'energy entrepreneurs' last…
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AT Capital, a Singapore-based $2.5 billion (€1.8 billion) private investment fund, has invested around $40 million in renewable energy projects developed by India's Orange Group. The Orange Group focuses on biomass, as well as hydro, wind and solar energy. With plans of becoming one of the leading renewable energy companies in India, targeting 1,000MW of power generation by 2017 through…
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