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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 [...]

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Biomass | Tees Renewable Energy Plant

The British Government has given its consent for the £500m Tees Renewable Energy Plant which will be a biomass power plant with an expected capacity of 296MW. The plant will be located in Teesport and will produce enough electricity to power around 600,000 homes.
This makes the Tees Renewable Energy Plant, when it is brought online [...]

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Biomass | Milltown Biomass Power Plant Air Quality Permit Application Released

The local residents concerned about the proposed Milltown biomass power plant may have more cause for trepidation after an air-quality permit application was released indicating what the expected emissions from the plant would be. Estimates put the level of nitrogen oxide at 245 tons per year, carbon dioxide at 226 tons per year and just [...]

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Biomass | Charter Street Heating Plant, WI

The UW-Madison Charter Street Heating Plant is currently a coal fired power plant but it is about to undergo a $251 million overhaul with the elimination of the coal use at the facility and replacing it with biomass and natural gas boilers. The facility currently burns 108,000 tons of coal each year providing steam and [...]

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Biomass | Brig y Cwm Project

American waste firm Covanta Energy has announced that it plans to construct a 70-MW biomass power plant in Merthyr, Wales creating energy from waste. The target date for operations to begin is 2014.
The Brig y Cwm project, will consume approximately 825,000 tons of waste per year. The estimated cost of the plant is approximately £400 [...]

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Biomass | Milltown Power Plant

A state-of-the-art 28 megawatt biomass-to-electricity facility is to be built by Liberty Green Renewables just to the north of Milltown in Crawford County, Indiana. The project is scheduled to begin in around 20 months time with engineering and other work that needs to be completed before construction can begin.
The plant will be fed by woody [...]

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