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Sustainability software and data company Ecometrica has teamed up with Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) to de-risk the investment in the UK biomass energy industry by combining a powerful computer model with state of the art mapping software that will help fire up the UK's energy crop industry, with potential to unlock tens of millions of pounds of new investment.
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DONG Energy has entered into an agreement to divest its waste-fired Måbjerg combined heat and power (CHP) plant near Holstebro to the Danish utility companies Struer Forsyning Fjernvarme and Vestforsyning Varme.
Thomas Dalsgaard, executive VP of DONG Energy Thermal Power, says: 'The divestment is part of our strategy to focus on the central power stations in Denmark. With the agreement…
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Renmatix, a technology licensor for the conversion of biomass into cellulosic sugar, has acquired existing assets of the former Mascoma 56,000ft2 manufacturing facility in Rome, New York.
The new feedstock processing facility is dedicated to the first step in conversion to cellulosic sugar (from different types of biomass materials) utilising proprietary Plantrose process conditions. The facility…
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Phoenix Energy's joint venture, North Fork Community Power's project has been awarded a $4.9 million (€4.4 million) grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), which will be used to build biomass gasification plant, as well as research into the emerging field of forest biomass utilisation.
The plant will consume biomass sourced from forestry and fuel reduction activities from areas…
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US-headquartered wood pellet manufacturer Enviva Partners has closed its initial public offering of 11,500,000 common units representing limited partner interests at $20 (€18) per common unit.
The number of common units issued at closing included 1,500,000 common units that were issued pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional common units. The common…
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In Hawaii, the US Department of the Army has launched a 45-day public comment period on its draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the construction and operation of a proposed 50MW renewable energy plant.
Hawaiian Electric Company will build, own, operate and maintain the plant – known as the Schofield Generating Station– on over 8 acres of land leased from the Army.
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The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) has released a new draft standard which is an 'add-on certification module' to the RSB standard for biofuels and bio-products.
Entitled 'Low iLUC Risk Biomass Criteria and Compliance Indicators', compliance with this new standard means producers will be able to demonstrate that biomass was produced with no indirect impact on food production or…
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Republic Services, an industry leader in US recycling and non-hazardous solid waste, has announced a new landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) project located at Sunshine Canyon Landfill near Los Angeles, California. The 20MW renewable energy project is capable of generating enough electricity to power nearly 25,000 area homes.
'Landfills play a more consequential role in society now than ever before,'…
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Synthetic biology company Intrexon and FuturaGene, a wholly owned subsidiary of Suzano Papel e Celulose – the second largest producer of eucalyptus pulp in the world – have entered into an exclusive collaboration to increase biomass in eucalyptus and poplar trees.
The collaboration will utilise Intrexon's platform to design complex, innovative gene constructs and FuturaGene's…
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Sweden-headquartered Cleanergy, a specialist in the development, manufacture and deployment of energy solutions, has announced the first deployment of its GasBox at a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Germany.
Cleanergy's GasBox, which is at the heart of its complete combined heat and power (CHP) system, has been developed to generate electricity and heat from the methane gas being emitted…
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Verbio Vereinigte BioEnergie AG has successfully commissioned a site for the production of biomethane at Schwedt, Germany. The new plant uses a new internally generated technology to manufacture biomethane from 100% straw.
The development of this technology is supported by the European Union's NER 300 subsidy project, providing funding of up to €22.3 million over the period from 2014 to…
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AEK AG, a Swiss wood pellet manufacturer and subsidiary of energy provider AEK Energie, has started building a biomass drying facility at its pellet production site in Balsthal, Switzerland.
The new facility, which will cost a total of 9 million Swiss Francs (€8.5 million), will dry the raw biomass material before it is used to produce wood pellets.
In a statement, AEK said: 'Dry raw…
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Glenfarne Asset Company (GAC), a subsidiary of New York-based privately held energy and infrastructure firm Glenfarne Group, has launched Prime Energia which will establish a 400MW portfolio of power plants in Chile through a mix of brownfield acquisition and greenfield development. Prime Energia's recently acquired 50MW brownfield backup power plant in Chile is part of a broader 750MW power…
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Business energy company GDF Suez Energy UK has been awarded two new power purchase agreements (PPAs) – one by BWSC East Anglia (formerly ICENI Energy) and one by Templeborough Biomass Power Plant (formerly Brite Partnership (North East)).
The first agreement is to buy electricity generated by the Snetterton biomass plant in Norfolk when it opens in late 2016. Operated by BWSC East Anglia…
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In Japan, Nippon Paper Industries and Mitsubishi have agreed to establish Nippon Paper Ishinomaki Energy Center, an electric power generation company that will build and operate a renewable power plant using a combination of biomass and coal in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture.
The new company will set up the electric power generation facility on the Hibarino site owned by Nippon Paper…
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