waste management
10 November 2010
Solena Group, a zero-emission bioenergy company, has signed a letter of intent with Rentech for the use of its proprietary Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuel technology in Solena’s bio-jet fuel project, GreenSky.
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10 November 2010
US-based Harvest Power, a developer of renewable energy and compost facilities for organics recycling, will receive up to $4m over two years from the government of Canada’s Clean Energy Fund.
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8 November 2010
UK-headquartered waste management business Sterecycle is considering carrying out an initial public offering in 2011, a spokesperson for the company told NewNet.
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27 October 2010
Hybrid fuel technology company Clean Power Technologies has secured a grant from the UK government that covers the first phase of its £1m investment plan roadmap to commercialise its unique waste heat recovery technology by the end of 2011.
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19 October 2010
Two offshoots of the London Green Fund, which was announced last year by the Mayor of London to help meet the UK capital’s low carbon targets, are expected to be established in the first few months of 2011.
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8 October 2010
The Mountgrange Real Estate Opportunity Fund (MoREOF), a £300m fund targeting UK property and related assets, managed by Mountgrange Investment Management (MIM), has invested £16.75m to facilitate the next phase of the development of a site near Peterborough, UK, for the construction of a large-scale waste to biomass power generation plant.
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15 September 2010
Waste treatment and renewable power company Sterecycle has been awarded planning permission for a Combined Heating and Power (CHP) plant and potentially an Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plant on the site of its existing waste treatment facility in Rotherham, UK.
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6 September 2010
OSS, a UK-based recycler of waste lubricating and fuel oils that are reprocessed for use in power plants, is to be sold from its private equity owner Dunedin, according to reports.
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3 September 2010
European wind energy heavyweight Acciona Energy’s second foray into straw biomass combustion has been connected to the power grid, spearheading its development portfolio of upcoming biomass projects in Spain.
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23 August 2010
China Recycling Energy (CREG), which provides technology to produce energy from waste, has secured funding through a strategic cooperative agreement with state-owned financial institution China Cinda Assets Management.
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19 August 2010
Private equity fund Summer Street Capital Partners has completed an equity investment of an undisclosed value in New York corporate recycling service provider Action Environmental Services, which will enable the company to acquire assets in the city from waste management company Republic Services.
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19 August 2010
Quercia, an affiliate of UK company Neales Waste Management, has entered into a partnership to use ENER-G Natural Power’s biomass generation technology to convert methane from its landfill waste project into an estimated minimum of 1136kW of power.
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11 August 2010
Waste-to-energy company Novo Energies has entered into an agreement with Precision Pipe and Vessel to acquire the exclusive worldwide rights to a hybrid gasification technology that converts plastic and tyre waste into energy products.
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9 August 2010
Attero Recycling, an Indian e-waste recycling start-up, has attracted a $3.3m Series B investment from new backer Granite Hill India Opportunities Fund, and current shareholders IndoUS Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurveston.
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30 July 2010
The transport industry will increase its uptake of waste-to-energy fuels as the need to reduce emission from the sector gets stronger, according to an industry expert.
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28 July 2010
The escalation of landfill tax in the UK and government incentives to encourage waste-to-energy projects means the opportunity for small- and medium-sized waste contractors has never been greater with Scotland preparing for its largest plant to date, according to consultancy Wardell Armstrong.
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27 July 2010
Waste-to-energy company Monsal has secured £14m in expansion capital from asset manager FourWinds Capital Management’s Water Resources Fund.
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26 July 2010
Waste heat-to-energy technology group Tri-O-Gen has raised €4.5m in financing to fund the continued deployment of its Organic Rankine Cycle technology across Europe.
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22 July 2010
Private India-based company Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services has agreed to sell stakes in its waste management and renewable energy unit in the $400m sale of eight per cent of its shareholding, according to reports.
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21 July 2010
Energy and chemical company Air Products told NewNet it has received broad support for its plan to build a 49MW waste-to-energy plant in northeast UK.
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