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Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the US Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for a new pilot programme created under President Biden’s historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to support the development of biobased products that have lower carbon footprints and increase the use of renewable agricultural materials, creating new revenue streams for farmers.  This…
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Sulzer has supported Fulcrum BioEnergy, to complete the construction of the world’s first commercial-scale production plant that will convert municipal solid waste (MSW), or household waste, into renewable transportation fuels.  The plant will convert approximately 175,000 t (159,000 t) of MSW into approximately 11 million gallons (41.6 million litres) of renewable synthetic crude oil…
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On behalf of the Victorian Government, Sustainability Victoria is delivering $10 million to encourage investment in the state’s bioenergy sector – the biggest ever Victorian grant funding investment in bioenergy. The Waste to Energy Fund: Bioenergy will support projects that create bioenergy from organic waste. The output of which may be electricity, heat, gas or liquid fuels. The fund is…
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After investing €10 million over the past two years to improve its environmental performance, Lafarge France’s La Malle plant, located in Bouc Bel Air, is continuing its emissions reduction strategy by investing nearly €1 million in its equipment.  Ot said the objective is to welcome a new sulphur-free fuel from the circular economy as well as wood fines, and to reduce sulphur…
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, (MHIENG), a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has launched full-scale operation, on schedule, of a compact CO2 capture system ordered in November 2021 by Taihei Dengyo Kaisha. It is the first system of its kind to go into commercial operation. The compact CO2 capture system was installed at a 7-megawatt (MW) class biomass power plant…
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A regional biomass facility in Truckee in the US, is a step closer to reality following approval of a feasibility study by the Truckee Fire Protection District board of directors and Truckee Tahoe Airport District board of directors. Wildephor Consulting Services is being contracted to complete the study.  Truckee Fire approved going forward with the project, which will cost $120,000 for a…
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The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanamas (TTD) will establish a compressed biogas (CBG) plant in Tirumala in collaboration with Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL). The plant will be placed on one acre of land and will cost ₹12 crore, which will be split equally between TTD and IOCL. The TTD, as part of its ‘Swachh Tirumala’ programme, has already set up a municipal wet waste treatment plant in…
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Nordic biogas producer Scandinavian Biogas has been granted SEK 154m ($15m) in funding to construct a Bio-LNG (liquefied natural gas) project in the municipality of Örkelljunga, around 500km south of Stockholm. Feedstock will incorporate manure and other residual products from agriculture and food production and - with an estimated capacity of 130 GWh (gigawatt hours) - the facility will…
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Gas Networks Ireland to build Ireland’s first large-scale renewable gas injection facility in Cork. Gas Networks Ireland is expected to begin construction of Ireland’s first large-scale renewable gas injection facility next summer, the company’s chief executive officer, Cathal Marley, will tell delegates at the Energy Ireland conference in Croke Park.  Mr Marley will outline details…
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent international sanctions regime has been a game changer for global energy supplies. Whilst the price of oil and gas has soared, the effects of the conflict have also focused more attention on renewable energy sources. The UK government has already laid out its goals in terms of its net zero ambitions for the country, but much of…
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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), India, has recently clarified that it will run eight small biogas plants which it had planned to shut down, by making technological changes. On June 29, a source in India reported: “25 biogas plants set up at Rs100 were to be shut down by Pune civic body.” Kunal Khemnar, PMC Additional commissioner, and Asha Raut, head of the Solid Waste Management…
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When plants breathe in carbon from the atmosphere and store it in their leaves, branches, trunks and roots, they help the Earth maintain a carbon balance—a crucial component to a steady climate. While this woody biomass contains one of the largest pools of terrestrial carbon, changes in the magnitude of woody biomass over millennia are poorly known, with most direct observations of…
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Arbor Renewable Gas, a Houston-based company that produces renewable gasoline and green hydrogen from wood waste and forest residue, is evaluating West Baton Rouge Parish for a planned $800 million manufacturing and distribution facility employing carbon capture and sequestration emissions-reduction technology.  Operating as Magnolia Renewable Fuels, the new facility would produce renewable…
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Global technology and software company Emerson has been selected by Albioma, a French independent energy provider, to help transition its coal-fired Bois-Rouge plant to 100 percent renewable energy.   As part of Albioma’s wider mission to transition all of its existing fossil fuel plants to renewable energy, Emerson’s automation systems and software will enable the coal-fired power…
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