A St. Helens startup wants to build a $60 million biomass electricity plant in central Oregon.
Biogreen Sustainable Energy Co. hopes to have its proposed 20 megawatt plant in La Pine operating in two-and-a-half years.
Biomass energy is created by burning organic material such as wood waste to create steam to power turbines.
Biogreen hopes to secure around [...]
By Abigail L. Ho
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 19:29:00 11/16/2008
BRITISH FIRM Green Power PLC Corp. has committed to infuse $200 million into five biomass projects that can generate an additional 87.5 megawatts (MW) of electricity.
David de Montaigne, GGPC founder and chief executive, said each of the five plants would produce 17.5 MW and cost about $40 [...]
More Than 80,000 Acres of Catfish Ponds Could Be Converted to Algae Farm Systems With a Potential Production Rate of 160 Million Gallons of Algal Oil Annually
SCOTTSDALE, AZ–(MARKET WIRE)–Nov 14, 2008 — PetroSun, Inc. (Other OTC:PSUD.PK - News) announced today that PetroSun BioFuels, a wholly-owned subsidiary, and Biomass Partners presented an Aquaculture Algae to Algal [...]
Vishal Sharma / Agra October 27, 2008
Gasifier plant to cut fuel bills by Rs 8 lakh a year; currently on subsidy.
Worried over the rising prices of liquiefied petroleum gas (LPG) and the unavailability of natural gas, some enterprising industrialists of Agra have come up with an innovative solution to tide over their fuel supply problems.
Two [...]
Run of River Power has acquired an 80% interest in the issued and outstanding shares of Pacific Northwest Biomass.
Upon completion of the acquisition, Pacific Northwest Biomass’s (PNBC) proposed 30MW biomass power plant to be located near Hazelton, British Columbia, would produce in excess of 240,000MWh per year of sustainable energy.
A total of four million shares [...]
By Aled Blake, Media Wales
A CARBON neutral power station that would provide electricity for 50,000 homes is being planned in Newport.
Welsh Power has submitted the proposals to build the £140m power station to Newport Council on a 10-acre brownfield site at the city’s docks.
Nevis Power will be designed to be “ultra-efficient” according to the company, [...]
By Mass High Tech Staff
Portland, Maine-based biopower energy research group USA Biomass has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Energy Foundation to promote the importance of renewable, biomass energy generation in meeting the nation’s growing energy needs.
USA Biomass will provide matching funds toward this nationwide outreach effort, according to the organization.
The Energy Foundation is [...]
By Michael Mattis
The largest ever U.S. biomass power plant (100 megawatts) is to be built near Austin, Texas. Austin’s city council approved a 20-year, $2.3 billion plan to purchase power from a proposed plant fueled entirely by wood waste and to be built and managed by Nacogdoches Power, LLC. The plant will run on “forest [...]
Focus on Environmental and GHG-Reducing Benefits of Biomass Energy
PORTLAND, Maine, Sep 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — USA Biomass, the nation’s leading association of biopower companies, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Energy Foundation to promote the importance of renewable, biomass energy generation in meeting the nation’s growing energy needs, while reducing our [...]
ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2008) — Scientists from the Carlos III University of Madrid have developed a system that can improve the efficiency of the conversion process of biomass to fuel gas that will contribute to the production of energy in a more sustainable manner.
One of the challenges that chemical engineers face is placing solid materials [...]
