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Rentech Announces Conference Schedule for October 2010
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rentech, Inc. (NYSE AMEX:RTK) today announced its conference schedule for October 2010. October 14, 2010 Infocast 5th Annual Biomass Finance & Investment Summit 2010 Developing and Financing Municipal Solid Waste-to-Energy Projects Panel Washington, D.C. Presenter: Dan Cohrs, Executive Vice President & CFO Speaking ...
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PetroBio Joins Euroheat & Power
We are pleased to welcome PetroBio as a new member of Euroheat & Power. They are a Swedish-based, family-owned company and a member of the VYNCKE family, which develops and supplies innovative burner technology and combustion solutions. Their burners efficiently combust gaseous, liquid or pulverized fuels; or a combination of one of these, with a capacity of 2 to 50 MW. The PetroBio Burner ...
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EPRI Selects GBB for an Evaluation of Municipal Solid Waste-to-Energy Power Plants
Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) announced today that a detailed engineering and economic evaluation for the use of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) as fuel in the generation of power utilizing various conversion technologies and parameters has been initiated for the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) after being selected through a formal procurement process. The ...
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Clarke Energy Participate in Renewable Energy India Expo 2022
Clarke Energy’s offices in India participated in Renewable Energy India Expo 2022, held from 28-30th September 2022 at India Expo Centre. The event, which was held in Greater Noida, State of Uttar Pradesh, saw a huge number of project developers and consultants showing interest in our biogas to power and biogas upgrading solutions. Abhijit Rajguru – Deputy General Manager Marketing, ...
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Rubbish can power Africa’s cities
Energy generated from rubbish could power an estimated 40 million households across Africa by 2025, proposes a study. Using existing data on refuse and urban population growth, the researchers measured the total energy potential of all Africa’s urban solid waste from both incineration and methane produced from landfill sites. “Our analysis shows that waste, and in particular ...
By SciDev.Net
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Anaerobic Digestion Says: Waste to Energy and Biomass set to be the recipients of huge capital injections up to 2020
Cascadia Capital, specialist investment bankers, corroborate this view – They believe that technologies capable of converting municipal solid waste to energy are ready for commercialization and will replace incinerators and landfills as the primary option for municipal solid waste. So the opportunity for technologies such as AD and gasification are clear. But the challenge of providing ...
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Covanta Holding Corporation to Present at the Deutsche Bank 2012 Clean Tech, Utilities and Power Conference in New York, NY
Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA) ("Covanta" or the "Company"), a leading global owner and operator of Energy-from-Waste ("EfW") projects, is scheduled to participate in the Deutsche Bank 2012 Clean Tech, Utilities and Power Conference in New York, NY on Monday, May 14, 2012. Sanjiv Khattri, Executive Vice President and CFO, will be speaking at 4:55 pm (Eastern). A live webcast of ...
By Covanta
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The UK paves the way for energy recovery from biomass and waste
According to the UK Waste Strategy landfilling waste is the worst environmental option. The methane it produces is a potent greenhouse gas, 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Consequently, the Landfill Directive calls for a 50 percent reduction of the biodegradable municipal waste that is dumped at increasing costs. Energy recovery from biomass and waste is going to play an important role ...
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World Bioenergy Association (WBA) elects two new vice presidents
WBA had its annual steering committee meeting, general assembly and board meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on 9th June 2015. During the meeting, Dr Benard Muok, Director of Program, ACTS (African Centre for Technology Studies), Kenya and Dr Tanay Sidki Uyar, Professor, Marmara University, Turkey were elected for one year as new vice presidents of WBA. They join the team of Douglas Bradley (Canada), ...
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ADB supports clean waste-to-energy project in the PRC
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement to lend up to $200 million to China Everbright International Limited to develop waste-to-energy plants in secondary cities across the People's Republic of China (PRC). It will mark ADB’s first private-sector municipal solid waste management project. Effective disposal of municipal solid waste is a serious environmental challenge in the ...
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Covanta completes first stage in the acquisition of Veolia’s North American energy from waste business
Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE:CVA) (“Covanta” or the “Company”), a world leader in the development, ownership and operation of Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facilities and other renewable energy projects, today announced that it has successfully completed the first stage in the previously announced acquisition of Veolia’s North American EfW business. The businesses being acquired in this stage of ...
By Covanta
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EA approves application to export RDF for first time - update
Refuse derived fuel (RDF) is to be exported for the first time after the Environment Agency recently approved an application for the move. Shanks Waste Management will export 40,000 tonnes of the fuel pellets to Holland and Germany in the next 12 months to be used as feedstock in energy from waste facilities. RDF is made from treated municipal solid waste, which adds calorific value, making it ...
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Launch of Mersey green solution
Renewable energy firm New Earth Energy, and Biossence, the UK division of environmental investors, have combined forces to create a new venture – Mersey Green Solution. Funded through individual investors the venture hopes to develop, finance and operate an infrastructure to treat, and recover energy from, a range of municipal and commercial wastes. The first project will be based near the ...
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Climate protection and energy efficiency with raw material waste
At this year’s “waste to energy” event representatives from environmental departments, municipal waste management officers, and industry specialists can obtain comprehensive information on sustainable waste disposal and production of bioenergy. The international exhibition and conference takes place for the fourth time at the Bremen Exhibition Center on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 December 2008. ...
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Order for EfW Plant in Thailand
A consortium formed by Hitachi Zosen Corporationand KPN Green Energy Solution Co., Ltd.(KPN), engaged in the engineering of renewable energy plants in Thailand,has received an order from WPGE Phetchaburi Co., Ltd. (WPP) for an Energy-from-Waste plant comprising a stoker-type waste incinerator with a processing capacity of 476tons per day and power output of 7,900kilowatts. Project outline ...
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Agreement brings 2nd “green” energy generation plant to Ada county’s renewable energy industrial park
In their first official act related to the formation of the Ada Renewable Technology Industrial Complex (ARTIC) at Ada County’s Hidden Hollow Landfill, the Board of Ada County Commissioners has signed an agreement with Dynamis Energy, LLC (www.dynamisenergy.com) to design, build and operate a state-of-the-art waste to energy plant that converts Municipal Solid Waste (household trash) and ...
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Government decides not to increase incinerator bottom ash tax
The Treasury is dropping its proposals to increase the rate of landfill tax paid on incinerator bottom ash. Last year (April 2009), the Treasury launched a consultation entitled Modernising Landfill Tax Legislation and proposed to tax incinerator bottom ash at the higher rate for active waste, which is currently £48 per tonne, as opposed to the lower rate for inactive waste which is currently ...
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Aker Solutions Starts Pioneering CO2-Capture Project in Norway
The project is the first of its kind globally for a waste-to-energy plant and comes after Aker Solutions in December signed a contract with the city government. The project is funded by Gassnova, the state enterprise that supports the development and demonstration of technologies to capture carbon dioxide (CO2). "This is pioneering work with significant potential as the world focuses on finding ...
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From Waste to Value - Vendors, Buyers, Energy Consumers Meet at the EBW Expo & Conference in Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA / Alpen, Germany - While many still regard waste as a liability, an increasing number of proponents of clean, domestically available fuels see it as an asset. Energy recovery from waste can help reduce the dependence on oil imports and protect the environment.At America's first international exhibition and conference on 'energy from biomass and waste', EBW, manufacturers of ...
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CleanTech Biofuels, Fiberight Agree to Create Municipal Solid Waste to Cellulosic Ethanol Demonstration Plant
St. Louis, MO – CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. (OTC: CLTH), an early-stage provider of technology to convert municipal solid waste into sustainable biomass for renewable energy production, has announced a joint research agreement with Fiberight, LLC (Fiberight), to establish the anticipated yields and operating costs from using biomass produced by CleanTech Biofuels (CleanTech) for the ...
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