In India, the city municipal corporation for Coimbatore has selected a private firm based in Pune to set up a bio methanation plant with a capacity to process 5 tonnes of vegetable and other organic waste. The plant will use the resulting biogas for use by local community kitchens and to power street lights. According […]
Cash from Trash: The Heroes from Vero are making renewable fuel in commercial quantities from ag waste and MSW in South Florida. The Digest speaks with INEOS Bio CEO Peter WIlliams and COO Mark Niederschulte about the world’s first facility to convert waste to fuel and electricity. In Florida, INEOS Bio announced that its Indian […]
In Canada, the city of Vancouver, British Colombia is looking for international companies to bid on a new high-tech garbage incineration and gasification system. One contract will be for a waste-to-energy incinerator that can handle at least 500,000 tons. The other, which will be open to company with alternative technologies, will be for 100,000 tons. […]
In Indiana, it appears that Powers Energy of America no longer plans to build a $300 million trash-to-energy plant in Schneider despite several years of having an option on buying the planned location. The lot has recently been put up for sale after the option expired, leaving local officials with the impression that the project […]
In the UK, Shentongroup has launched a new waste-to-energy generator that can run on any combination of diesel, biodiesel, natural gas, or biogas that can then be fitted with a control system that enables any excess electricity to be exported to the national grid. An option to provide hot water via the Hexpac heat exchanger […]
A conversation with Waste Management’s Tim Cesarek — looking at WM’s strategic investment goals, methods and progress Over the past two years, Waste Management has made a formidable series of investments in technologies for converting municipal solid waste into energy and other bio-based products, among them S4, Enerkem, and Terrabon. This past week, WM announced […]
In the Canada, the city of Surrey is negotiating the construction of a biofuel plant that will convert the area’s green and food waste into biofuels for local vehicles, the first of its kind in British Columbia. The plan is part of the city’s strategy to develop sustainable transportation. More on the story.
In the UK, a new study by Bloomberg New Energy Finance says that biofuels from plant and municipal solid waste could supply 65% of Europe’s gasoline supply, or 24 billion gallons, by 2020. At least 100 of the refineries could be built per year beginning in 2013. Roberto Rodriguez Labastida, co-author of the study on […]
