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 »
Biomass | Talisay City, Philippines
Negros Occidental, in partnership with Ventures Factors of the Philippinnes have signed a power supply agreement with the First Farmers Holding Corp. The electricity will be sourced from a new bagasse biomass co-generation power plant in Talisay City. The biomass power plant will be capable of generating up to 21MW of renewable source electricity and [...] Read more »
Biomass | Longview Fibre Biomass Power, Washington
A new addition to the production of electricity using biomass as the energy source has been proposed by Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging in Washington. The company is seeking state permits in a bid to boost the production of onsite biomass energy. The plan proposed by Longview Fibre is to increase the efficiency of its [...] Read more »
Biomass | Tallahassee Renewable Energy Center
Florida’s first biomass power plant is currently in the early development stages with the state’s Department of Environment and Protection waiting on answers to its questions from the project’s developers, Biomass Gas & Electric LLC. The biomass power plant, which will be called the Tallahassee Renewable Energy Center, will be capable of producing up to 42 MW of [...] Read more »
Biomass | Tacoma Biomass Power Plant
Forest products company Simpson Investment Co. have announced that they will be building a co-generation power plant at a cost of $100 million at its Tacoma Tideflats paper mill in Washington. The biomass power plant will burn sawmill and paper mill waste products, debris from logging sites and other wood residuals to generate up to [...] Read more »