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Confectionery manufacturer Mars Wrigley is investing around $800,000 for a biomass boiler in its Antipolo factory as it looks to switch to renewable energy sources.
“We have a project approved for next year where we will move away from using diesel completely and we will move to biomass. It will be the first time that we will be 100 percent renewable energy,” Mars Wrigley Antipolo factory…
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Warminster Town Councillors have voted unanimously to object to plans to develop 84 new homes next to the Malaby Biogass bio-digester plant at Bore Hill Farm, reported The Wiltshire Times.
The developer L&G Modular Homes wants to build the 84 new and associated landscaping, access and drainage works at a 3.86-hectare site off the Deverill Road.
The site comprises part of an allocated site…
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The MP for Bassetlaw, Brendan Clarke-Smith, witnessed first-hand the important role that waste wood plays in the circular economy during a visit to R Plevin & Sons’ wood recycling site in Nottinghamshire on 14 October.
The visit came as the Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) officially launched a nationwide MP Engagement Project, intended to improve understanding of wood recycling among…
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Biogas is a necessary resource in the energy supply of the future —as well as for heating homes. This is the assessment of Associate Professor Philip Fosbøl from DTU Chemical Engineering, who researches technology to upgrade biogas and remove CO2 and unwanted substances such as sulphur before it is sent into the natural gas grid.
According to the trade association Biogas Danmark, Danish…
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EverGen Infrastructure has announced that construction has commenced at its Core RNG Expansion Project at Fraser Valley Biogas (FVB).
FVB, located in Abbotsford, British Columbia, has been in operation since 2011 and is the original producing renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Western Canada to supply FortisBC’s network. The facility combines anaerobic digestion and biogas upgrading to…
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On 18 October Yuba Water Agency approved more than $4.2 million in funding to support a major water and wastewater infrastructure expansion project in south Yuba County, US, and a planned forest biomass plant and business centre in the foothills.
Two loans, one for $2.6 million to the City of Wheatland and a second for $1.55 million to Olivehurst Public Utility District will be used to complete…
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Shell is among a number of companies joining a second bidding round to acquire Danish biogas producer Nature Energy, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as energy firms race to boost low-carbon businesses.
The sale is due to close by the end of this year and could value Nature Energy at around $2 billion, the sources said.
It comes amid growing interest in biogas, which is…
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A newly-built biomass heating plant worth €6.5m was put into operation in Novi Pazar, in southwestern Serbia, the country's energy ministry said.
The construction of the plant was financed by German development bank KfW, with support from Switzerland, the energy ministry said in a statement posted on its website on Tuesday.
The project is part of a partnership with KfW Bank and 22 public…
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KPA Unicon and ERBUD Industry, a leading energy and industrial company in Poland, have signed a contract to replace a Pfeifer & Langen-owned coal-fired sugar plant in Miejska Górka, Poland, with a Unicon MST steam gas boiler - which will use natural gas as a fuel, and have a total capacity of 56 tph. This will result in enhanced energy efficiency.
Pfeifer & Langen is one of the most…
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CPL Industries continues to expand its entry into the steel and energy-intensive foundation industries, accelerating its delivery campaign to Liberty Steel’s Electric Arc Furnace facility at Rotherham.
ecoke®, developed by CPL Industries during the final months of 2021, is a manufactured solid fuel containing a minimum of 30% fully renewable, sustainably sourced, biomass. According to CPL…
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On 18 October the Israeli climate-tech company HomeBiogas was awarded the World Sustainability Award in the field of Circular Economy for their innovative waste-to-energy solutions that tackle climate change by reducing methane emissions and providing clean energy to thousands of people around the world.
HomeBiogas develops on-site systems which enable households and businesses to turn their…
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TC Energy has announced a $29.3 million (€29.7m) investment in a renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility near the Jack Daniel Distillery in Tennessee, US.
The facility is owned by Lynchburg Renewable Fuels, and will produce RNG with a carbon intensity score that is 50% lower than natural gas - saving up to 16,000 tonnes of CO2e/ year. The project is being developed by 3 Rivers Energy…
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Georgia and two partner institutions have been awarded a $15.8 million (€16m) grant over five years from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to reengineer poplar trees (Populus sp. and hybrids) to be used as a sustainable energy source, reported UGA Today. The grant forms part of a larger $178m (€180.8m) DOE initiative to develop…
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The Southern African Biogas Industry Association (Sabia) has laid out its industry advancement priorities after undertaking an in-depth review of the industry’s challenges over the last 18 months, reported Engineering News.
Some of these challenges include South Africa's government direction on biogas, access to funding, regulations and feed-in tariffs, developing the market and limited…
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A partnership between Heriot-Watt University and Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas has been launched in Edinburgh, to develop cost-effective technologies for the production of hydrogen from agricultural and animal waste.
The £1 million research project will initially focus on utilising the estimated four million tonnes of waste and by-products created by distilleries in the UK and the…
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