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Panasonic Spearhead Development of a Sustainable Smart Town

Panasonic Corporation and eight other companies that are spearheading advanced environmental initiatives through eco-conscious urban development and smart city projects today announced they will work together to implement a smart town concept called "Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town (Fujisawa SST)" which showcases Panasonic's "entire solutions" business model in full scale to the world.

26 May 2011

Stobart to Develop Green Energy Power Station for Iggesund

The Biomass Division of Stobart Group has lately contracted an accord valued around £90 m with Iggesund for developing a green energy power station on the energy coast of Britain.

26 May 2011

Luleå University of Technology forms Swedish Gasification Centre for Biomass Research

Luleå University of Technology has announced the formation of the Swedish Gasification Centre (SFC), a new research center that will concentrate on biomass gasification study considered to be important for the manufacture of green clean fuels from biomass.

26 May 2011

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Develops Biobutanol

Researchers working at the Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering in SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) are studying methods to convert wood into green biobutanol.

26 May 2011

UOP Supplies Green Jet Fuel for U.S. Air Force Aircraft Demo

UOP, a Honeywell company, has supplied the green jet fuel to power two F-16 aircrafts of the U.S. Air force in a Thunderbirds demo held at the Joint Base, Andrews, Md. During a Joint Services Open House held on 20th and 21st May, two Thunderbird aircrafts flew utilizing a 50/50 mix of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel produced using camelina-based biofuel and petroleum-based jet fuel.

26 May 2011

Georgia Tech Partners with Ford Motor to Develop Green Eco School Bus

Georgia Tech and Ford Motors have developed an innovative "Green Eco School Bus”.

25 May 2011

Cellana Gets Funding to Formulate New Algae-Based Animal Feed

Cellana, a Hawaii-based company engaged in the development of algae-based biofuels and bioproducts, has obtained a three year grant of $5.5 million through a competitive selection process to formulate a protein supplement as a spin-off product from algae during the biofuel production process and to establish its dietary and economical value in cattle feeds.

25 May 2011

Opcon Bioenergy to Supply CHP Plant to Falbygden Energi

Opcon Bioenergy, an auxiliary of Opcon, the energy and ecological technology group, has declared the contracting of a final accord with Falbygden Energi to supply a new combined heating and power plant (CHP) utilizing bioenergy source to Marjarp, Falköping.

25 May 2011

Oxford Catalysts Group Employs Microchannel Reactor Technology for Biofuel Production

The Microchannel reactor technology developed by Oxford Catalysts Group, a UK- based company, is expected to be utilized in a 50 barrel per day (bbl/d) plant in Brazil.

25 May 2011

Weltec Biopower Building a Biogas Plant in Hungary to Run Off Pig Manure and Maize Silage

In April, WELTEC BIOPOWER started building a biogas plant in Szeged, Southern Hungary. The client and operator is Zöldforrás Energia, a subsidiary of the Hungarian power supplier DÉMÁSZ. The 1 MW plant, which comprises two CHPs with an output of 600 kW/h each, will generate power and heat from pig manure and maize silage starting from end of 2011 on.

23 May 2011