At Cannington Cold Stores' 45,000 tonne Bridgwater site in Somerset, UK, Veolia has installed a 2MW biogas combined heat and power (CHP) plant. This adds to four existing 324kW CHPs it has already successfully installed at the site. The biogas solution has been supplied by Cogenco, Veolia's package CHP team and is fuelled by waste food, helping the chilled food storage... [Read More]

Construction has started on a new 44.2MW biomass power plant in Snetterton. The plant, known as Snetterton Renewable Energy Plant, is being developed by Eco2 and Iceni Energy. Using straw as its feedstock, the plant will have capacity to generate enough electricity to meet the needs of 82,000 homes and the potential to become an electricity connectivity point for Snetterton... [Read More]

BlueRock Energy, a privately held energy solutions company, and ReEnergy Black River have entered into a services agreement to support the delivery of power from ReEnergy's 60MW Black River bioenergy facility to the Fort Drum US Army installation in New York. Under the agreement, BlueRock Energy is performing load forecasting, scheduling and delivery services from the... [Read More]

A wood pellet plant, built and started-up by mechanical engineering company Hekotek in November 2014, has reached the designed output capacity of 30,000 tonnes per year. The plant, owned by Lesresurs and being operated by Rusforest Management Group, is located in the Irkutsk region of Eastern Siberia. The wood pellets are produced from sawdust and pulp chips generated... [Read More]

Renewable energy company Tamar Energy has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with EDF Energy for its current 11MW generation portfolio. The PPA covers Tamar Energy's first five anaerobic digestion plants, at Basingstoke, Hampshire; Holbeach, Lincolnshire; Retford, Nottinghamshire; Halstead, Essex and Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. The PPA was signed with EDF... [Read More]

Renewable fuel producer UPM has started commercial production at its renewable diesel biorefinery in Lappeenranta, Finland. The UPM Lappeenranta Biorefinery is based on a hydrotreatment process developed by the company, and produces approximately 120 million litres per year of renewable UPM BioVerno diesel. UPM's BioVerno diesel, which is produced out of crude tall oil,... [Read More]

If heat and power plants that burn forest woodchips acquire these chips from optimised supply chains, they can obtain better quality biomass and lower their total acquisition costs. This is according to a study by Ramoll Finland, commissioned by Miktech Oy. An optimised supply chain includes comprehensive and real-time management features for biomass, resources and conditions. 'The... [Read More]

Waste-to-product business, Shanks Group, has announced that Iris Solutions, a consortium led by Orgaworld Canada, part of Shanks' Organics division, has been selected as the preferred proponent for the Surrey Biofuels Processing Facility project in Canada. Shanks will build the plant, which will process 115,000 tonnes of residual kitchen and garden waste from Surrey each... [Read More]

A biogas plant complete with gas upgrading facility has been installed for Icknield Gas in Oxfordshire, UK. Construction began in June 2014 and was complete in six months; since 12 December Icknield Gas has been feeding green energy into the existing Southern Gas Networks grid. Using a combination of pig slurry, farm by-products and energy crops, the facility is able to... [Read More]

Clean Energy Fuels, a provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, has sold its majority interest in the McCommas Bluff biomethane production plant in Dallas, Texas to minority interest owner Cambrian Energy for approximately $40.6 million (€34.2 million). Clean Energy will continue to have the right to market and sell biomethane produced at the... [Read More]

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a loan of up to €7 million for the construction of a new biomass boiler plant in Prijedor, a municipality in the north west of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This will be EBRD's first investment in renewable energy in the region. The operator of the plant is Toplana AD Prijedor, the majority of which... [Read More]

The Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP) has announced that five certification bodies have been accepted as applicants and are now able to progress towards achieving SBP-approved status. These applicant certification bodies are BM Trada, Bureau Veritas Latvia, Control Union, NEPCon and NSF. The SBP framework of standards and processes enables producers of woody biomass... [Read More]

UK-based anaerobic digestion (AD) specialist Clearfleau has revealed its energy output results for the plant it built for global food and beverage supplier Nestlé, one year after commissioning. Clearfleau designed and built the onsite bioenergy plant for Nestlé's Fawdon confectionary factory, near Newcastle, which is helping Nestlé develop environmentally... [Read More]

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, with help from Waste Services of the Bluegrass, is converting methane from a local landfill into renewable electricity to power Toyota's Georgetown assembly plant. Scheduled for completion in early 2015, the project will provide enough power to produce 10,000 vehicles annually, but it will also lead to improved air quality, reducing... [Read More]

Wheelabrator Technologies has announced the close of its $1.94 billion (€1.6 billion) acquisition by Energy Capital Partners from Waste Management. A definitive agreement for the sale was previously announced in July 2014. Wheelabrator creates clean, renewable energy from everyday residential and business wastes, and will operate as a standalone company. Wheelabrator... [Read More]

Vencor International has entered into an agreement to produce torrefied wood pellets, or bio-coal. The agreement follows the company's recent announcement that testing performed on its torrefied wood pellets exceeded the strict requirements of its international client. The five-year agreement is with Vega Biofuels, and will see Vencor provide bio-coal to Vega for shipment... [Read More]