The facilities are being developed by West Perth, Australia based New Energy Corporation. According to CEFC CEO, Oliver Yates waste management has been a growing issue in Australia for all levels of government and with recycling rates remaining fairly constant, the country will need to seek solutions to its increasing dependence on landfill. The investment firm expla...
According to the company - a subsidiary of Waste Management (NYSE: WM) - residents will be able to ask questions and find out more about the proposed waste to energy facility located in North Wales, as it begins a series of consultations in the area this Friday. The company explained that the energy recovery facility, which is being proposed for development on a form...
The proposal from Ballast Phoenix (BPL), to take ash from Viridor’s waste to energy plant at Runcorn (read WMW article), have been given the green light by Halton Council. Despite receiving 10 objections to the facility – according to a report by the Liverpool Echo – the development control committee met and gave approval to the plans. The £452 million Runcorn deve...
The company said that it is an important milestone for the project, which when built will provide a power to the grid and steam to the DS Smith paper mill at Kemsley in Kent. “This allocation, along with the planning consent and environmental permit, make the K3 CHP Energy Recovery Facility a very real and deliverable project,” commented Paul Green, Wheelabrator Technol...
According to the company it will provide an environmentally sustainable method of waste disposal and produce green power in the process. The waste to energy plant, which is expected to enter service early next year will generate up to 300 kW of electricity. PHGE explained that the power will provide for the plant’s internal power needs as well as contribute electricity...
Managed by SITA UK - a part of Suez Environnment (Paris: SEV, Brussels: SEVB) the site was once the busiest in Europe, received over 2000 truckloads of waste each day at its peak, with deliveries coming from homes and businesses in and around Birmingham. According to SITA there is now around 35 million tonnes of waste buried on the landfill. The official closure of th...
The Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre is being built in St. Dennis, which is located in the centre of the county of Cornwall and is scheduled to start operation in 2016. Yokogawa explained that it will supply controls for the waste to energy facility’s boilers and all auxiliary facilities at the plant. These include the CENTUM® VP integrated production control system and...
The company explained that the Margam Green Energy project will be capable of processing waste wood, including contaminated wood and fuel containing metals, with no pre-treatment. The plant will have a capacity of 280,000 tonnes per annum, generating 40 MW of energy. Earlier this week , renewable energy company - Eco2 Ltd - announced the sale of the Margam Green Energy...
Researchers from institutions including Lund University in Sweden have taken a step closer to producing solar fuel using artificial photosynthesis. In a new study, they have successfully tracked the electrons’ rapid transit through a light-converting molecule The current study aims to find a way to make fuel from water using sunlight, which is the basic principle of p...
Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday unveiled an ambitious plan to make LA the most sustainable big city in the U.S. over the next two decades, a place where people ride bikes, board buses and trains, and even walk to get around. Drinking water would come from local sources instead of faraway imports. Solar panels would glimmer from rooftops like the lights at a Hollywood...
South Africa is constructing 3,916 MW of new renewable-energy capacity under the country’s 20-year energy plan, the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme. Also, in Medupi and Kusile, the country is constructing two $18.8-billion coal-fired powerplants with a capacity of 9,564 MW. The projects have attracted a mix of international engineerin...
Contractors are used to fueling these reliable workhorses of the construction jobsite and forgetting about them, at least until they need refueling. But Seattle-based Planetary Power may be attracting new attention to these machines with its still-unreleased solar-powered generator, SUNsparq. The SUNsparq generator uses a proprietary lithium-ion battery system to store s...
AvaLAN to offer their thousands of IoT deployments a solution for remotely powering devices Madison, AL – AvaLAN Wireless, leaders in secure, fail-proof wireless connectivity, today announced the availability of their new remote solar power kits. These Remote Power Kits are designed for applications where power is needed but unavailable. “The AvaLAN Wireless Remote...
For Immediate Release: The Pundit PL-200PE employs state-of-the-art pulse echo technology to extend the ultrasonic application to objects where access is restricted to a single side. Features • Single side determination of slab thickness • Detection and localization of voids, pipes, delaminations and honeycombing • Advanced echo tracking helps identifying the main ...
Public health experts evaluated the impact of four different renewable energy or energy efficiency installations in six locations in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes regions and came up with a model to simulate and compare the climate and health benefits of each of the 24 scenarios. Depending on the site and installation, they found that benefits ranged from US $5.7 mill...
A number of companies shy away from building wind-powered systems in northern regions, even though the wind blows with great power there. To begin with, weather conditions represent a Herculean challenge: Aerodynamic properties deteriorate when an ice layer forms on the rotor blades as temperatures drop to the below-zero range under freezing storm conditions. The turbine...
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB in Ilmenau are developing information technology to make water power generation systems more efficient. The Advanced System Technology (AST) department is creating simulation and optimization models that consolidate external factors such as weather data, water levels and...
Let’s face it: Overhead transmission lines are not always accepted by the public. For various reasons, many people do not really like these highways of electricity. For one, they are not the prettiest of sights on the horizon. As they march across mountains, pile across prairies, dash through deserts – all in the service of transmitting power from generating stations ...
Recycling fracturing fluids is big business, but ridding water of dissolved solids is expensive and generates a waste stream of its own. Brackish water is often found in the salt-laden formations bordering gas reservoirs, and can be used for some wells. An ongoing problem, however, is the growing competition for water sources. Agriculture and energy producers are alre...
The Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear reactor in Tennessee is slated to join the fleet in December 2015, but with only four other new nuclear power plants in the works, the industry needs to keep existing facilities operating longer to ensure uninterrupted electricity supply throughout the U.S. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) originally licensed reactors to operat...
A technology innovation, however, purports to tackle these technological challenges head on and add more utility. Dubbed the Sunflower, the high concentration photovoltaic thermal (HCPVT) solar technology system from Airlight Energy borrows from existing and established technologies to create a hybrid system that can generate electricity at high conversion rates, capt...
