Work has started on the construction of the first biomass power plant in the state of Texas. The groundbreaking ceremony for the start of the project has just taken place hosted by Aspen Power in Lufkin, Texas. The Lufkin Biomass Power Plant will have a maximum capacity to produce 50MW of renewable energy sourced electricity. [...] Read more »
Biomass | Portbury Dock Renewable Energy Plant
New plans have been announced by energy giant E.ON to invest around £300 million in a new biomass power plant 12km from Bristol. The biomass power plant will be called the Portbury Dock Renewable Energy Plant and is expected to have a maximum capacity to produce 150MW which would be enough electricity to power 200,000 [...] Read more »
Biomass | Bio Golden Raand Power Plant
Construction has begun on a new biomass power plant at the Northern Netherlands port of Delfzijl. The site is a 7 hectare piece of land and when it is completed the power plant will be capable of producing 50MW of electricity by using 300,000 metric tons of recycled wood. The project is being developed for [...] Read more »
Biomass | Klamath Falls Biomass Power Plant Oregon
A proposed wood waste burning biomass power plant in Klamath Falls Oregon is nearing the point of winning approval. The project is being developed by Klamath Falls Bioenergy, a subsidiary of Northwest Energy Systems and will send its final application to a state regulatory agency. The waste that will be burned within the power plant [...] Read more »
Biomass| Taylor Biomass Montgomery Project
Taylor Biomass Energy intends on constructing an integrated biorefinery at its Montgomery site in New York. The planned process will recover biomass from waste materials that would otherwise be used as landfill, convert them to a high value synthesis gas and then convert this sythesis gas along with other thermal energy into ethanol and electricity. [...] Read more »
Biomass | Nikopol Power Plant, Bulgaria
A new biomass-fuelled combined heat and power plant is being planned for the town of Nikopol on the Danube River sitting in the north of Bulgaria, right on the Bulgaria/Romania border. The biomass power plant will have a capacity of 15MW with a further 45MW available for heating. The project will cost Bulgarian energy and [...] Read more »
Biomass | Melbourne Ontario Power Plant
A new biomass and bio-gas facility in Melbourne, Ontario, Canada has been planned for construction by Genco Corporation. The company plans to construct the 11.4MW facility in two stages with the first stage producing 5MW until the remainder comes on-line. The project falls under the Renewable Energy Standard Offer Pricing scheme which means the power [...] Read more »
Biomass | Tilbury Docks Power Plant
A new waste to energy biomass power plant has been given the approval for construction at a disused site at Tilbury Docks in Essex. The power plant will be fuelled by a combination of waste and biomass products and is expected to have a capacity of producing 60MW of electricity. The biomass portion of the [...] Read more »
Biomass | Nacogdoches Power Project
Biomass is the latest renewable energy source to be targeted by a Texas power company in the push to meet renewable energy targets. Austin Energy will seek approval to build a biomass power plant in Sacul, East Texas. Supporting their chances is a 20 year, $2.3 billion power supply agreement with Nacogdoches Power. Nacogdoches will construct, [...] Read more »
Biomass | Plainfield Renewable Energy Biomass Plant
Tentative approval has been given by the state Department of Environmental Protection for a proposed woodburning power plant in Plainfield, Connecticut. It is planned that the Plainfield Renewable Energy Biomass Plant will burn construction and demolition debris, old wood pallets, brush and stump plus other scrap wood. The result is hoped to be the creation [...] Read more »