Cogeneration, combined heat and power news articles 
Greenpeace and Facebook collaborate to promote renewable energy
Greenpeace and Facebook will collaborate on the promotion of renewable energy, encourage major utilities to develop renewable energy generation, and develop programmes that will enable Facebook users to save energy and engage their communities in clean energy decisions (1). The news comes two years after Greenpeace launched its global Unfriend Coal Campaign (2, 3), enlisting 700,000 online activists (4) to call on Facebook to power its datacen... [more]
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh's biogas plant takes high-solids organic material and turns it into heat and electricity
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has dedicated the first high solids dry fermentation anaerobic digester (HSAD) in the Americas. On average, 2,320,000 kWh will be generated annually, providing 8 percent of the University’s electricity needs on its campus. The biogas plant, owned by the University, is designed and constructed by BIOFerm™ Energy Systems, a member of the Viessmann Group. The plant is part of the University’s plan to achieve... [more]
Pigs, cows and chickens power English village
The future of community energy is being pioneered near the small English village of Hatherop where a power station using biogas or 'digester gas' was recently commissioned. Powered by agricultural biomass, including chicken litter, cow dung and pig slurry, residents benefit from this low cost alternative to oil, coal and foreign gas. Hatherop is one of the first villages in the United Kingdom to benefit from power derived from chicken litter,... [more]
Babcock and Wilcox Vølund supplies equipment for the expansion of a waste-to-energy combined heat and power plant in Sweden
Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S has been awarded a contract worth more than $30 million to design and supply a boiler, combustion system, emissions control components and other equipment for the expansion of a waste-to-energy, combined heat and power plant in Lidköping, Sweden. B&W Vølund is one of the world's leading suppliers of equipment and technologies designed to convert household waste and biomass into thermal energy. The waste-to-energy ... [more]
Opcon Bioenergy optimistic about the bioenergy market in the Czech Republic
Opcon Bioenergy has taken a first repeat order for plants for recycling of waste heat within bioenergy applications in the Czech Republic. The order for delivery of flue gas condensation equipment, including treatment system, to an additional district heating plant operated by TTS in the city of Trebic, follows on from the breakthrough into the Czech Republic made by the company last summer. The plant is expected to increase energy efficiency... [more]
Other Cogeneration, combined heat and power news and reviews
Tecogen Cogeneration Systems Chosen for Far Rockaway Apartment Building Renovations
WALTHAM, Mass., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tecogen Inc. today announced that two of its Tecogen CM-75 cogen units will be installed as part of a renovation project in the Far Rockaway area of Queens, ...
ANALYSIS: Belarusian leader commemorates Chernobyl by waxing enthusiastic about nuclear power, but why would ...
MOSCOW – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has announced Belarus would be willing to build a second nuclear power plant (NPP) – in addition to the site Russia’s Rosatom is already building in that country. The announcement came, controversially enough, on the day when Belarus and the rest of the world commemorated the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986.
Farmers turn to alternative energy despite money, time, risks and obstacles
Farmers, the self-described new green pioneers, are increasingly turning to alternative energy to lower costs, solve problems, boost efficiency and shrink their environmental footprint.
Ceramic Fuel Cells - 3rd Quarter Results
Monday 23 April 2012 Cashflow Report and Trading Update for the March Quarter Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (AIM / ASX: CFU) a leading developer of high efficiency and low emission power products for homes ...
Calpine Reports First Quarter 2012 Results, Raises 2012 Guidance
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Dirty Bums, Clean Energy and the Battle Over Demand Response
A few weeks ago, I had dinner with a guy who was trying to buy a struggling toilet paper company on the East Coast. By the time we finished desert, I had learned more about the pulp and paper industry than I expected I ever would. But two factoids stuck
Honda "smart home" showcases off-the-grid energy solutions
Honda has unveiled a demonstration house in Saitama, Japan, to showcase and test its new Honda Smart Home System (HSHS). Featuring a line-up of innovative energy production, management and conservation solutions, the company hopes HSHS will free homeowners from the constraints of on-grid living somewhat, give them a leg up on self-sufficiency when disaster strikes and help reduce carbon dioxide ...
