Latest Biofuels and bio-energy company news
Ukraine seeks to reduce its current dependency on gas imports. To address the issue, a number of initiatives are being taken which are aimed at boosting energy efficiency, introducing energy saving technologies and renewable energy resources. The feed-in tariffs effective since April 2009, rank among the highest in Europe, which considering the saturated European market, makes Ukraine especially luring for the foreign investors in the field. As forecasted by the government, in the next 3-4 years... [more]
Greenpeace and Facebook will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation, and develop programmes that will enable Facebook users to save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions (1).
The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its datacentres with clean energy instead of coal (5). As a ... [more]
Verta Energy Generation Limited, the Four Rivers BioEnergy Inc electricity generation subsidiary, has successfully installed and operated its first electricity generator, utilizing the Cummins 1,250 KVA (1MW) diesel generator that it purchased last week and Verta’s customized generator fuel as its feedstock. Verta is planning to progressively install additional generator units in its UK Plant’s Energy Centre in stages.
Verta has selected the 1 MW unit for its first generator, to allow flexibi... [more]
Research and Markets has added Frost & Sullivan's new report "European Biomass Power Plants Market" to their offering. This analysis is available through the Energy & Power Growth Partnership Services programme.
This study covers the European biomass power plant market with detailed analysis on revenues and forecasts for the same. It also discusses some of the more important issues facing the market in the form of drivers and restraints along with a competitive structure of the industry and g... [more]
Foster Wheeler AG has announced the successful start of commercial operation of a large-scale, 125 MWe (385 MWth), circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) boiler island delivered to Kaukaan Voima Oy, in Finland. Kaukaan Voima Oy is owned by Pohjolan Voima Oy (PVO) and Lappeenrannan Energia Oy.
The new biomass unit fires a combination of biomass and peat and has the capability to fully fire either fuel, supplying process steam and electricity to the adjacent UPM-Kymmene Corporation's pulp and paper m... [more]
According to Fitch Ratings, the prospects are good for renewable energy development in Latin America and the Caribbean, even as development across the region remains in the early stages and information on clean power initiatives is limited. There is growing interest from Latin American governments to promote renewable technologies, and most countries possess abundant renewable energy sources such as wind, small hydro, biomass and solar.
Fitch believes the absence of robust regulatory framewor... [more]
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