Latest Biofuels and bio-energy company news
The world's largest fleet of ethanol buses operates in the greater Stockholm area, where Stockholm County Council has set the goal that at least 50 percent of all passenger traffic will employ renewable fuels by 2012.
Ethanol accounts for around 90 percent of renewable vehicle fuels available today. It is the most cost-effective such fuel in the market in terms of availability, infrastructure and access to tried-and-tested technology
Scania has received an order for 158 buses from public ... [more]
KBR has been chosen to provide engineering services for a pilot plant designed to produce fuel from algae. It was recently announced that the plant, to be located in South East Queensland, Australia, is to receive approximately USD$1.3m of funding from the Queensland Government.
KBR will provide engineering services for the project. Construction is planned to begin in August and the plant is expected to be operational within six months. KBR will provide a range of services, including design f... [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]
Swedish EcoEnergy has signed a memorandum of understanding with Changzhou Xinbei District Government and Jiangsu Guoyu Electric Co Ltd. regarding building local waste-to-energy facilities in the Changzhou Xinbei district. This is yet another important milestone for EcoEnergy after establishing a development project with the Ukraine Government and the acquisition of KMW Energi.
In the memorandum of understanding, Changzhou Xinbei Government express support for EcoEnergy to invest and build a w... [more]
Kreido Biofuels, Inc. has jointly announced with Four Rivers BioEnergy Inc. that Kreido has agreed to sell substantially all of its assets to Four Rivers.
Kreido is selling the specified assets for $2.8 million in cash, the assumption by Four Rivers of $260,000 of Kreido purchase orders and contracts, 1,200,000 Four Rivers shares of common stock and warrants to purchase up to 200,000 Four Rivers shares of common stock, exercisable at $8 per share for a period of five years. The shares issued ... [more]
AREVA has won two major contracts for a total amount of €30 million to build turnkey bioenergy power plants in Germany and Belgium.
Evonik New Energies, a utility company, has awarded AREVA the construction of a biogas power plant in Kirchwalsede, Germany. Up to 30,000 tons of vegetable and animal residues will be used per year in a horizontal fermenter and a post-fermenter for the biogas production.
The biogas combined-heat-and-power will generate in total 1.43 MWe of electric power. In p... [more]
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