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Norway: Biogas equal to electricity and hydrogen in all policies
The Norwegian Parliament voted on important proposals for the biogas market in May. The Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment have for some time discussed policies and incentives to increase production and use of biogas, and one of the important discussions have been to equalize biogas with electricity and hydrogen in all public policies. Both on a national level and locally. The ...
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American Biogas Council Praises House Introduction of the GREEN Act
The Ways and Means Committee in the House ot Representatives has released a discussion draft of the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act including several provisions that support the biogas industry. The Committee describes the bill as "a comprehensive approach to tackling climate change by using the tax code to extend and expand renewable energy use and reduce greenhouse gas ...
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The South African Sugar Technologists Association Congress
The South African Sugar Technologists’ Association is the organisation for individuals that are interested in the technical aspects of the sugar industry in South Africa. This industry is doing very well in South Africa as well as worldwide. It is a big sector that also has to deal with high energy costs. Due to unreliable grids in Africa, other ways to produce power are of much interest. ...
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SEaB Energy’s MUCKBUSTER Micro Anaerobic Digestion Technology is Centrepiece for 6 leading UK University teams entering dynamo enterprise challenge 2012
SEaB Energy (SEaB), the global market leader in on-site containerised anaerobic digestion is providing the technology content and business challenge to entrepreneurial students from universities in the South UK who are preparing to take part in a competition to hone their business skills and promote eco-friendly energy production. Sixty students from 6 universities will compete in this ...
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Senate Interior Appropriations Bill Requires EPA to Act on eRINs
The RFS Power Coalition today applauded the passage of H.R. 3055 (116), the Senate's Interior Appropriations bill. The Interior-EPA portion of the spending package includes a provision led by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) requiring the EPA to take swift action on existing eRIN applications: Electric Pathway.—The Committee notes the backlog of applications under the Renewable Fuels Pathway ...
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First African grid-connected biogas-powered electricity plant comes online in Kenya
Africa’s first biogas-powered electricity producer to sell surplus electricity to a national grid has come online at a Kenyan commercial farm. The Gorge Farm Energy Park, located in the market town of Naivasha, produces 2MW of electricity and heat to cultivate 1,740 acres of vegetables and flowers, with enough surplus power to feed 5,000-6,000 rural homes. The farm, roughly 76km away ...
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Clarke Energy and Jenbacher Increasing New Zealand’s Green Energy Using Biogas
Clarke Energy was recently involved in a project supplying EnviroWaste Services Limited with a fourth Jenbacher biogas engine, the Jenbacher J320. The installation of the fourth engine allows EnviroWaste to increase the utilisation of the biogas that is generated within the Hampton PARRC landfill. This reduces the carbon footprint and increases green energy supply across New Zealand’s ...
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Reaping Profits from Landfill Biogas
Biogas is a versatile energy carrier with potential to satisfy power and fuel demand across a range of end-use applications while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from a diverse array of organic waste streams. Biogas' flexibility, growing demand for waste treatment processes, and an increased focus on greenhouse gas mitigation are generating demand on a worldwide basis. Methane gas produced ...
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Plessis Gassot, Landfill Gas District Energy Scheme Opening
Electr’od demonstrates the principle of circular economy. The system transforms non-recyclable waste from municipalities and commercial operations into renewable energy (electricity and heat) which is then re-used by those same local citizens and companies. Developed by Veolia, in cooperation with Dalkia and Clarke Energy, Electr’od was launched today by Bernard Harambillet, CEO of ...
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Most Kenyans say no to cleaner energy, study finds
The majority of Kenyans are unwilling to abandon their traditional energy sources in favour of cleaner or renewable ones, unless their incomes rise significantly, a study has found. Last month (21 September) the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, announced US$50 million to subsidise the provision of clean, environmentally-friendly cooking stoves in developing countries to reduce deaths ...
By SciDev.Net
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Fact sheet on Biogas - An important renewable energy source
“Biogas” is a gas produced by anaerobic fermentation of different forms of organic matter and is composed mainly of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Typical feedstocks for biogas production are manure and sewage, residues of crop production (i.e., straw), the organic fraction of the waste from households and industry, as well as energy crops including maize and grass silage. ...
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New Biogas Plant Makes France More Self-Sufficient
A new biogas plant is now on the way in the village of Ennezat near Clermont Ferrand in central France. This will be another step towards making France more self-sufficient in both renewable energy and environmentally friendly fertiliser The plant is owned by the farmer Jean-Sebastien Lhospitalier who initiated the project and energy company Groupe LANGA. The facility is being delivered by the ...
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RWE wins GreenTec Award 2015
Smart Country takes Europe’s most important environmental and economic award 1000 guests attend festive gala at the Berlin Tempodrom RWE Deutschland’s model project Smart Country takes the GreenTec Award 2015 in the category “Energy“. On Friday night at the Berlin Tempodrom, CTO Dr. Joachim Schneider, on behalf of the energy company, received the award which the ...
By RWE AG
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Jenbacher Engines Helping to Convert Landfill Biogas into Renewable Electricity
Clarke Energy continue to emerge as a leader in the renewable energy and biofuel sector. Working together with LMS Energy and the Brisbane City Council, Clarke Energy has supplied LMS Energy with a 1.1MW Jenbacher biogas engine which has been installed at the Rochedale landfill site in Brisbane. The new Jenbacher engine forms part of a total 7MW install that will generate approximately 18,250MWh ...
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Ghana `must embrace biogas`
Ghana's policymakers should embrace abundant and clean biogas as a source of energy, to curb its reliance on dwindling wood resources for fuel, say researchers. The country has huge potential for producing biogas, including the technical expertise to construct almost 280,000 biogas plants, but it faces many obstacles in achieving this, according to a study published in the May issue of Renewable ...
By SciDev.Net
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Biogest is building another Gas2Grid- biogas plant in the UK and is expanding the network of service contracts throughout the UK
Biogest is building another Gas2Grid- biogas plant in the UK and is expanding the network of service contracts throughout the UK Biogest is building its fifth gas to grid biogas plant in the UK Biological and technical service is already supporting 18 plants throughout the UK Vienna / Dumfries: Biogest receives another contract for the construction of a gas to grid biogas plant in the UK. ...
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EPA Recognizes Ahold USA as a Top Green Power Partner
Ahold USA, based in Quincy, Mass., was recognized by EPA as one of the nation’s top 100 purchasers of Green Power. As part of EPA’s Green Power Partnership, more than 1,300 organizations are purchasing billions of kilowatt-hours of green power annually, avoiding carbon pollution equal to that created by the electricity use of more than 2.5 million American homes. Ahold USA operates ...
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IFAT CHINA + EPTEE + CWS 2010: Wide-ranging applications for biogas – significant potential for expansion
The production of biogas, in particular in small, decentralized systems, has been common in China for decades. Last year around one in ten families in the rural regions of China cooked with biogas. The majority of this environmentally-friendly fuel was produced on a very small scale in the 18 million independently operating domestic plants. A further 1.4 million households were supplied with ...
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EnviTec Biogas reports record sales for 2011
2011 was an exceptional year for the German biogas industry and, hence, for EnviTec Biogas AG [ISIN: DE000A0MVLS8]. Last year, some 1,100 new biogas plants with an electrical output of approx. 440 megawatts (MW) went on line in Germany. Some 17 percent of these plants were built by EnviTec Biogas, which has thus increased its market share. A total of 7,000 biogas plants meanwhile produce approx. ...
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Lord Redesdale: show marks a big week for AD
Anaerobic Digestion is central to getting Britain back on track with climate change targets, according to the industry’s representative body, which is holding its annual trade show and conference on 6-7 July 2011. ADBA Chairman and Liberal Democrat peer Lord Redesdale said: “The CCC’s third progress report showed how anaerobic digestion can make a serious contribution to the ...
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