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Brazilian power companies have contracted just under 1GW of new renewable capacity divided relatively evenly between hydropower, solar and wind and over 400MW of biomass projects in the country’s latest auction, which again underlined the impact of a weak domestic economy and low power demand. The tender, which saw a total of 947.9MW awarded encompassing 189.7MW of hydropower, 166.1MW of solar…
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Homes and institutions in Kajiado, Kenya are now benefitting from the Ministry of Energy’s new Domestic Biogas Programme. According to the Programme’s Kajiado county coordinator, Elizabeth Mbuthia, its aim is to phase out the use of charcoal and firewood. “In support of the Big Four Agenda, the Ministry of Energy rolled out the Domestic Biogas Demonstration Programme to create awareness…
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Brett Martin, the UK's largest producer of polycarbonate sheet materials has launched new, more sustainable sheet options, which it says “represent a quantum shift towards climate neutral plastic sheets produced from a certified mass balanced source with bio-based feedstock”. This new development is the result of Brett Martin's partnership with Covestro, one of the World's leading polymer…
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Construction work to expand the EnviTec Biogas premises in Lohne, Lower Saxony “is in full progress, the foundation is already poured” the company said. With the addition of an extra 640 sqm, this will mean the site then offers a total of 3,000 sqm of office space, with 750 sqm of storage. EnviTec CEO Olaf von Lehmden: "Building this extra capacity in terms of space goes hand in hand with…
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Austrian district heating supplier Kelag Energie & Waerme is planning to build a biomass power plant to supply up to 20 GWh of heat in a municipality in the country's westernmost state of Vorarlberg. Under the plan, between 15 GWh and 20 GWh of heat should be produced from biomass in the municipality of Lustenau in the medium term and supplied to between 100 and 200 buildings in the region…
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The Netherlands’ first bio-LNG plant has now achieved a production milestone of one million kilograms, enabling about four million kilometres of sustainable transport with heavy-duty trucks. For initiators Nordsol, Renewi and Shell, this is “an important proof point” that sustainable heavy-duty road transport is possible. Nordsol’s bio-LNG plant in Amsterdam was opened in October…
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Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW), a subsidiary of Japan-headed Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) has announced that it has been awarded a contract to deliver a new 77 MWth bubbling fluidised bed (BFB) boiler plant to municipal energy company Jämtkraft in Sweden. The new BFB boiler will be part of the Lugnvik plant in Östersund and will use biomass as fuel ensuring a secure supply of heat and power to…
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Greenlane Renewables has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America, has been awarded a contract for $8.7 million for a dairy manure to renewable natural gas (RNG) project in the United States owned by an international energy company. This contract is the third project that Greenlane has successfully bid within 18 months for this customer. The project owner and…
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Environmental problems caused by the population explosion such as global warming, natural resource depletion, water shortage and plastic pollution are getting severe in the world. One of the reasons for global warming is said to be carbon dioxide (CO2). Compared to petroleum derived chemical products, nature biomass derived chemical products can be considered as carbon neutral because plant…
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Greencoat Capital funds, managed by Greencoat, have agreed to acquire 100 percent of Margam Green Energy Plant (“MGEP”), a waste wood-fired biomass plant located in Port Talbot, South Wales, from Glennmont Partners. MGEP has been operational since May 2019 and is one of the largest biomass plants in the UK, with a processing capacity of c.290 thousand tonnes per annum (ktpa) of waste…
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Metro Pacific Investment Corp is eyeing to expand its businesses this year including biogas, as well as acquiring more hospitals, officials have said. During the Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Metro Pacific Investments Corp, president Augusto Palisoc said: "We are going to expand on the biogas projects that we started. We already have two operating plants and are in the process of…
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Towards making Hyderabad a self-sustainable city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to generate wealth out of waste by setting up a 20-tonne capacity biogas plant at Khaitlapur Transfer Station located in the Kukatpally zone. Transfer stations are the points where the garbage collected from households and other places is dumped temporarily before it is transported to…
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The Bioenergy Action Plan which is being developed by the Ministry of Energy aims at eliminating the use of wood for cooking in all public institutions by 2028. The principal secretary Ministry of Energy Maj. Gen. Dr Gordon Kihalangwa, while speaking at Machakos University during the official opening of the validation workshop of the National Bioenergy Strategic Action plan, gave a stark…
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The Northern Rivers Regional Planning Panel has approved a development application (DA) for a bioenergy facility to be built at the Byron Shire Council’s Byron Bay sewage treatment plant. The bioenergy facility will process 28,000 tonnes of green waste per year and convert it into renewable energy, producing enough electricity to power the plant as well as the Byron Bay STP. Excess energy…
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