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Two Italy-based companies are to develop a 30MW biomass plant in the country's Ravenna region. The Powercorp project, a joint venture between Enel Green Power and Seci Energia, will be built on an industrial site previously occupied the Eridania sugar refinery. Fuelled by locally-sourced woodchip, the plant will have an estimated total annual output of 222GWh. The €126 million facility will…
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Greenergy Holdings is reported to be selling its 60% stake in a company building an 18MW biomass power plant in Negros Occidental, a Philippines province, to a German hedge fund. The company has agreed to sell its stake in Biomass Holdings, which is developing the P3.5 billion (€56.16 million), bagasse-fired power generation plant, to ThomasLloyd Cleantech Infrastructure Fund GmbH, according…
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Solvay, a renewable technology company, says it has produced industrial-scale volumes of torrefied biomass. The new business will be run by the recently established Solvay Biomass Energy, a joint venture between Solvay and the US company New Biomass Energy (NBE). The torrefied biomass is being produced at NBE's facility in Quitman, Mississippi. Current production of 80,000 tonnes per year will be…
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North America-based consumer packaging firm RockTenn and forest products business Simpson Lumber Company have signed an agreement whereby RockTenn will acquire the Simpson Tacoma Kraft paper mill for approximately $343 million (€246.6 million). The Tacoma Kraft Mill located in the US state of Washington, operates a 55MW biomass cogeneration facility that was completed in 2009 and sells…
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Britain's largest turkey producer, Bernard Matthews, has announced it will roll out 179 biomass boilers for installation in 21 of its turkey farms in Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire in a project deal with renewable energy solutions specialist Lumicity. The project will reduce carbon emissions at the farms and allow Bernard Matthews to achieve fuel savings against its current costs. As well as…
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Geopower Energy, an alternative energy developer, has closed a private debt facility of $5 million (€3.6 million) to acquire a joint venture interest in the Blue Mountain biogas project located in the US state of Utah. The note was subscribed by accredited private investors. Geopower used a portion of the capital to acquire the interest in the project and will use the remainder of the funds…
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Global Business Power (GBPC) has plans to build a biomass power plant in the Philippines province of Negros Occidental, with a feasibility study expected to be completed in the third quarter this year. The company will join with Roxas Holdings to undertake the project, while Pöyry Energy, a consulting and energy company, is undertaking the feasibility study to determine its viability. Once…
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Zilkha Biomass Energy, a renewable energy company providing the first commercially available water-resistant wood pellet, has agreed to license its Zilkha Black Pellet technology to Cate Street Capital, a developer of green technology companies. Thermogen Industries, the pellet manufacturing subsidiary of Cate Street Capital, will use Zilkha's patented proprietary process to produce black pellets…
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A biomass plant in Dagenham, UK, previously owned by green power firm TEG Group has been handed over to new owners TEG Biogas. The group will provide ongoing operating and maintenance services to TEG Biogas under a 15-year contract, with annual revenues of approximately £1.3 million. The Dagenham facility will process 50,000 tonnes of food and green waste per year via both…
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Albioma, a French biomass group specialising in generating electricity from sugarcane waste in France's overseas territories, has launched its first two biogas plants to capitalise on new regulations in the country. The group opened two biogas plants in the region – with capacities of 2 and 0.5MW respectively - around Poitiers in 2013 and has plans to open three or four more this year. Its…
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British independent renewable energy developer RES has announced it is ceasing work on its £300 million (€362.1 million) biomass power station project at the Port of Blyth in Northumberland. RES' decision follows the withdrawal of a key project partner in late 2013 due to ongoing uncertainty in UK energy policy. The company says the government's 'inconsistent' support for dedicated…
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A new study by the University of Georgia has found that European power plants burning wood pellets imported from the southern US to generate electricity are emitting 50% less greenhouse gases than when traditional fossil fuels are used. European power utilities must meet a legal mandate by 2020 which requires at least 20% of all energy consumed in the European Union to come from renewable…
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UK-based pellet fuel supplier Midland Bio Energy has announced ambitious plans for its business this year. The company recently moved into a new, larger premises around 10 miles from its previous site. Its 6000 ft2 is located in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. 'The building we now occupy is less than four years old; with all the benefits a new building can offer,' says managing director Andrew Brindley,…
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Three biomass plants worth a total of PHP3.3 billion (€53.3 million) are to be constructed in the Philippines province of Bukidnon. Each power plant, costing PHP1 billion each, will have the capacity to produce 10-MW of electricity to boost the power supply requirements of the feed millers in the province and its neighbouring areas. The Department of Energy (DOE) approved the operating…
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