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		<title>Enviva and E.ON in wood pellet supply agreement</title>
		<link>http://www.renewbl.com/2012/02/07/enviva-and-e-on-in-wood-pellet-supply-agreement.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[E.ON and Enviva have entered into a wood pellet supply agreement. Enviva is to supply E.ON with 240,000 metric tons of pellets annually, for several years. The contract is to begin in 2013. Enviva will supply the wood pellets from its facilities in the Southeastern US, a region with some of the most abundant and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP invests in Cool Planet BioFuels</title>
		<link>http://www.renewbl.com/2012/01/05/bp-invests-in-cool-planet-biofuels.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cool Planet BioFuels announced that BP Technology Ventures has made an investment in the biofuels startup, as part of the company&#039;s C Round of investments. BP has this way joined General Electric, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG and North Bridge Venture Partners as investors. GE, NRG and ConocoPhillips have made a joint venture investment company in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eneco begins construction of 50 MW biomass facility in the Netherlands</title>
		<link>http://www.renewbl.com/2011/11/25/eneco-begins-construction-of-50-mw-biomass-facility-in-the-netherlands.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vladimir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eneco has begun construction of the 49.9 MW biomass power plant in the municipality of Delfzijl, in the Netherlands. The Golden Raand power plant will supply about 120,000 average households with electricity once completed. Golden Raand will use recycled waste wood as fuel for generating energy for electricity production. Its conversion capacity will be 300,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MetCap expanding IRCC power plant in Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.renewbl.com/2011/11/23/metcap-expanding-ircc-power-plant-in-turkey.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vladimir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MetCap Energy Investments (Turkey) and GE have entered into an agreement for the expansion of the Dervish integrated renewables combined cycle (IRCC) power plant in Karaman, Turkey. The project&#039;s installed power generating capacity will be doubled using GE&#039;s FlexEfficiency 50 technology. At the moment, Dervish IRCC project has 570 MW of installed capacity. The expansion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E.ON unveils new details of 30 MW biomass project in England</title>
		<link>http://www.renewbl.com/2011/11/15/e-on-unveils-new-details-of-30-mw-biomass-project-in-england.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vladimir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E.ON has announced more details about the 30 MW biomass power plant , which is going to be built at Blackburn Meadows, near Sheffield (UK). The power plant will use recycled waste wood to produce electricity. Once fully operational, the new power plant will generate electricity for about 40,000 average homes. The waste wood will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US DoE finalizes USD 132 million loan to Abengoa for bioenergy project</title>
		<link>http://www.renewbl.com/2011/10/03/us-doe-finalizes-usd-132-million-loan-to-abengoa-for-bioenergy-project.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vladimir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Department of Energy has finalized a USD 132 million loan guarantee for Abengoa&#039;s bioenergy project, the commercial-scale celluslosic ethanol plant. Abengoa Bioenergy is building the facility in Hugoton, Kansas. Abengoa&#039;s project was chosen by the US DoE for receiving the loan guarantee in late August this year. The project is estimated to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>180 MW biomass power plant unveiled in Belgium</title>
		<link>http://www.renewbl.com/2011/09/27/180-mw-biomass-power-plant-unveiled-in-belgium.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vladimir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GDF Suez, through its subsidiary Electrabel, has unveiled a 180 MW biomass plant in Belgium. The Rodenhuize power plant was a coal fired power plant in its prior life, and was converted to use biomass as fuel through a EUR 125 million investment. The new biomass power facility can produce enough electrical energy annually to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DONG Energy and partners establish bioenergy consortium</title>
		<link>http://www.renewbl.com/2011/08/29/dong-energy-and-partners-establish-bioenergy-consortium.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DONG Energy, and partners including Vestforsyning, Struer Forsyning and the waste company Nomi, have established a bioenergy consortium which will use the next 15 months to assess whether a number of bioenergy projects are feasible and profitable enough to be developed. The projects being assessed include new power plants, as well as existing plants which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abengoa receiving USD 134m US DoE loan guarantee for cellulosic biomass biorefinery</title>
		<link>http://www.renewbl.com/2011/08/22/abengoa-receiving-usd-134m-us-doe-loan-guarantee-for-cellulosic-biomass-biorefinery.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vladimir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abengoa Bioenergy, subsidiary of Abengoa, has been chosen by the US Department of Energy to be offered a conditional commitment for a USD 133.9 million federal loan guarantee for the construction of a biorefinery in the US, the first of its kind, which will use cellulosic biomass to produce renewable liquid fuel. Abengoa Bioenergy intends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bharat Renewable Energy and SG Biofuels deploying Jatropha hybrids in India</title>
		<link>http://www.renewbl.com/2011/08/11/bharat-renewable-energy-and-sg-biofuels-deploying-jatropha-hybrids-in-india.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bharat Renewable Energy, part of Bharat Petroleum, and SG Biofuels have started a program of development and deployment of elite hybrids of Jatropha, which will be harvested and used for the production of bidiesel in India. The first phase of the program is to develop a high-performing hybrid adapted to the growing conditions in various [...]]]></description>
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