WELtec BioPower Builds Plant in France
FRANCE - In early 2012, WELTEC BIOPOWER started building a 526-kW biogas plant in Saint-Nicolas-du-Tertre, Brittany, about 60 miles northwest of Nantes. The plant is equipped with a fermenter...

WELTEC Biogas Park Construction Starts in Arneburg
GERMANY - In March 2012, WELTEC BIOPOWER started building one of Germany‘s largest biogas refinery in Arneburg, Stendal District, Saxony-Anhalt. The facility will create jobs and benefit the...

FuturaGene Appoints Grants and Alliances Manager
UK - FuturaGene, a leader in the enhancement of yield and sustainability of woody crops for plantation forestry, biopower and biofuel markets, has appointed Dr. Mark Elless as Grants and Alliances...

Hamworthy Lands Contract for Biogas Plant
UK - Hamworthy Oil & Gas Systems has secured its first contract for a biogas liquefaction plant with Norwegian company Cambi AS, a specialist in biowaste treatment.

North America: Where's the Snow?
ANALYSIS - There has been virtually no snow up in Canada, no snow in the northern US Plains, and the Upper Midwest has seen only two snow events this winter and neither was hugely significant,...

Chesterfield BioGas Appoints MD
UK - Biogas upgrading and refuelling equipment manufacturers Chesterfield BioGas Ltd (CBG) has appointed Stephen McCulloch as Managing Director.

Big Dutchman Co-Founder Passes Away
GENERAL - Jack DeWitt, who founded Big Dutchman in 1938 with his brother, Dick DeWitt, passed away at his home in Zeeland, Michigan on January 6th, 2012.

Xergi Sign Contract With US Municipal Corporation
DENMARK & US- Xergi has signed a contract with the Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (MMPA) for the establishment of a new biogas plant in the United States. The biogas plant, Hometown BioEnergy,...

Energy Farms Commercialise Miscanthus Cultivars.
US - New Energy Farms (NEF) has established an agreement with Performance Plants Inc. to commercialise new high yielding elite clones of Miscanthus energy crop.

Magna Announces New Facility in Arizona
US - Magna International Inc. announced this week that its Cosma International operating unit will strengthen its manufacturing presence in the renewable energy market by opening a manufacturing...

China New Energy to Acquire Boltech
CHINA - China New Energy Limited, the engineering and technology solutions provider to the bioenergy sector, announces that it has signed a Letter of Intent with Guangzhou Zhongke Tianyuan Regeneration...

Algae Farm Selects LumiGrow LED Horticultural Lighting
US – Algae Farm, a pioneer in the indoor cultivation of high yield algae oil, residual biomass and algal biomass, is implementing the LumiGrow LED solution at its facility based on the Houston...

WELTEC Opened Sales Office in Magdeburg
GERMANY - In September, WELTEC Biopower opened a sales office in Magdeburg. The new office in the „House of Agriculture“ in the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt enables more customer proximity...

Barsikow Up and Running
GERMANY - Biomethane processing has started at the biomethane refinery in Barsikow, Brandenburg: Since- mid October, the power generated by the micro gas turbines has been fed into the public...

Weltec Biopower Build Biogas Plant in Record Time
CZECH REPUBLIC - By 2015, biomass is to become the Czech Republic‘s primary source of renewable energy. Accordingly, there is a high demand for biogas plants among investors and operators,...

Chesterfield BioGas Expands After-Sales Team
UK - Biogas upgrading and refuelling equipment manufacturers Chesterfield BioGas Ltd (CBG) has made two appointments to boost its installation and project maintenance team in response to more...

Impacts of Changing Biofuel Policies on Production Agriculture
US - The question that often is asked is: What is the impact of changing biofuel policies on production agriculture? The answer requires solid data, and so does the question on evaluating production...

Chesterfield BioGas Fuels Vehicle Trial
UK - Chesterfield BioGas Ltd has delivered a bulk gas road trailer to the London Borough of Greenwich to serve as a temporary refueling facility under the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Grants...

Conference Looks at Developing Biogas Projects
US - Case studies on how the challenges to developing profitable biogas projects can be overcome will be a feature of the Biogas USA East & Midwest Conference in Chicago later this month.

World Biofuels Markets Brazil 2011
BRAZIL - Shell, BP, Bunge, LS9, Dow and Amyris are collectively investing more than $20 billion into advanced, sustainable biofuels in Brazil.

WELTEC Builds 1MW Biogas Plant in Hungary
HUNGARY - In April, WELTEC BIOPOWER started building a biogas plant in Szeged, Southern Hungary.

Chesterfield BioGas Extends Upgrade Technology and Marketing Agreement
UK - Chesterfield BioGas Limited (CBG) has reached a revised, exclusive agreement with Greenlane® to market and manufacture biogas upgrading equipment in the UK and Eire.

WELTEC BIOPOWER Builds Biogas Plant in Latvia
LATVIA - WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH is establishing its second biogas plant in Latvia in Limbazi, a city located about 50 miles north of Riga.

Hessia Coached into Age of Regenerative Energy
GERMANY - WELTEC BIOPOWER is the producer of the entire process technology including the gas feed-in and gas processing technology for Central Hessia's largest biogas plant in the municipality...

CKade Expands to SE Asian Biomass Markets
MALAYSIA - Dutch based CKade BV is to open a representative office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.