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Bonsucro

Bonsucro, formerly the Better Sugar Cane Initiative, is a global non-profit certifying sustainable sugarcane production for sugar, ethanol, and molasses; its certified cane was about 6.5% of global production in 2021-22.

Bontang LNG Terminal

The Bontang LNG Terminal is an LNG export and processing facility at Bontang, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, operated by PT Badak NGL with a capacity of 11.85 Mtpa.

Boone North No. 1 Surface Coal Mine

The Boone North No. 1 Surface Coal Mine is a surface coal mine near Ashford in Boone County, West Virginia, most recently operated by Raven Crest Contracting and now mothballed.

Booster transformer

A booster transformer, also called a buck-and-boost transformer, is a transformer whose secondary is connected in series with a power line to boost or buck the voltage.

BOR-60

BOR-60 (БОР-60, for Fast Experimental Reactor) is a sodium-cooled fast-neutron experimental reactor at RIAR in Dimitrovgrad, Russia, operating since 1969 as a test bed for fuels and materials while supplying 12 MW of electricity.

Boralex Inc.

Boralex Inc. is a Canadian renewable power producer based in Kingsey Falls, Quebec, operating wind, solar, hydro, and storage assets in Canada, France, the US, and the UK.

Borealis Oil Field

Borealis is an onshore conventional oil field on the western edge of the Prudhoe Bay Unit on Alaska's North Slope, discovered in 1969 and producing since 2001.

Borehole thermal energy storage

Borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) stores heat or cold in soil or rock via closed-loop pipes in borehole arrays, allowing heat collected in one season to be used in another.

Borneo Indobara Coal Mine

The Borneo Indobara coal mine is a large open-pit thermal coal mine in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, producing medium-to-high calorie thermal coal for Indonesian power stations and export to India, China, and ASEAN.

Borodinsky Coal Mine

Borodinsky Coal Mine (Бородинский разрез) is the largest open-pit coal mine in Russia, working brown coal in the Kansk-Achinsk basin of Krasnoyarsk region since 1949.

Boron injection

Boron injection is the deliberate addition of boric acid solution to a nuclear reactor's primary coolant circuit to add negative reactivity, for routine management or emergency shutdown.

Borssele nuclear power plant

The Borssele nuclear power plant (Kerncentrale Borssele) is a Siemens-designed pressurized water reactor in Zeeland, the Netherlands' only operating commercial nuclear plant, supplying about 4 percent of its electricity since 1973.

Boryeong LNG Terminal

Boryeong LNG Terminal (보령LNG터미널) is a liquefied natural gas import and regasification terminal in Boryeong, South Korea, opened in 2017 by GS Energy and SK E&S.

Boryeong power station

Boryeong power station (보령 발전소) is a multi-fuel power complex in Boryeong, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, operated by Korea Midland Power, with coal, LNG, and renewable capacity totaling about 4,400 MW.

Boscán Oil and Gas Field

The Boscán Oil and Gas Field is a giant heavy-oil field in western Venezuela's Zulia state, discovered in 1946 and producing about 10° API crude near Lake Maracaibo.

Boston-Power

Boston-Power Inc. was a lithium-ion battery manufacturer founded by Christina Lampe-Önnerud in 2005 and based in Westborough, Massachusetts, known for Sonata notebook cells and Swing cells for electric vehicles and utility storage.

Boswell Energy Center

Boswell Energy Center, also known as the Clay Boswell Plant, is a coal-fired power station on the Mississippi River in Cohasset, Minnesota, operated by Minnesota Power.

BOTAŞ

BOTAŞ, the Petroleum Pipeline Corporation, is Türkiye's state-owned oil and gas pipeline company, founded in 1974 to carry Iraqi crude and now dominant in gas imports.

Botryococcus braunii

Botryococcus braunii is a colony-forming green microalga, described in 1849, that secretes long-chain hydrocarbons into an extracellular matrix rather than storing oil inside its cells, making it a leading candidate for algal biofuel research.

Bottoming cycle

A bottoming cycle generates electricity from waste heat rejected by another process or heat engine, as in combined cycle plants, where it follows the gas turbine topping cycle.

Boubyan Petrochemical Company

Boubyan Petrochemical Company (شركة بوبيان للبتروكيماويات) is a Kuwaiti holding company founded in 1995, the first private-sector investor in Kuwait's petrochemical sector, holding stakes in Equate and TKOC.

Bouillante Geothermal Power Station

The Bouillante Geothermal Power Station is a geothermal power plant in Bouillante, on Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, commissioned in 1986 and still the only operating geothermal plant in the Caribbean.

Boundary Dam power station

Boundary Dam power station is a coal-fired power station near Estevan, Saskatchewan, owned by SaskPower; opened in 1959, it became the first commercial coal plant with carbon capture in 2014.

Bounty Minerals

Bounty Minerals, Inc. is a private Fort Worth, Texas natural gas minerals company, founded in 2012, that owns about 65,000 net mineral acres across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Bovanenkovo gas field

Bovanenkovo (Бованенковское) is a giant natural gas field on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia, Russia. Operated by Gazprom, it holds reserves of 4.9 trillion cubic meters and has produced commercially since 2012.

Bovanenkovo-Ukhta Gas Pipeline

The Bovanenkovo–Ukhta gas pipeline (Бованенково — Ухта) is a Gazprom trunk system carrying gas from the Yamal Peninsula's Bovanenkovskoye field to Ukhta, with the first line operational since 2012.

Bowen Basin

The Bowen Basin is a Permian sedimentary basin in central Queensland, Australia, containing the country's principal black coal deposits and forming the world's largest metallurgical coal export province.

Bowline Point power station

Bowline Point power station, also called the Bowline Generating Station, is a 1,242 MW gas- and oil-fired power plant in West Haverstraw, New York, on the Hudson River.

Boxberg power station

Boxberg power station (Kraftwerk Boxberg) is a lignite-fired power station in Boxberg in the Saxon district of Görlitz, Germany, operated by LEAG; its 2,575 megawatts make it the largest plant in LEAG's Lusatian fleet.

Bøyla

Bøyla is an oil field in the central Norwegian North Sea, about 28 kilometers south of Alvheim, discovered in 2009 with production starting in January 2015.