Feb 19, 2025
Venue cancels CycleØ’s community meeting to discuss Kildare biomethane plant
Biogas News
Feb 19, 2025
Data released by the American Biogas Council (ABC) shows that last year was a record year for the sector.
In the 12 months ending in December, 125 new biogas projects came online, representing over $3 billion in new US investments.
New projects in 2024 exceeded new projects in 2023 by 17%, while total investment in those projects increased by 40% compared to investment... [Read More]
Features
Feb 18, 2025
Audra Low, group head of client coverage at Clifford Capital, explains investment prospects in South East Asia.
Clifford Capital was established in 2012, with support from the government of Singapore. This was facilitated via a policy mandate that addressed infrastructure financing gaps for Singapore-based companies and projects with a nexus to Singapore.
“This policy... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 18, 2025
On Friday 31 January, the local MP for St Austell and Newquay visited the Fraddon anaerobic digestion plant, which is operated by Material Change in Higher Fraddon, St Columb in Cornwall.
Noah Law MP spoke to industry guests at the Eden Project about the need for the UK government to ensure biogas meets its potential in delivering Britain’s clean energy needs.
Commissioned... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 17, 2025
Bharat Petroleum Corp has partnered with the National Sugar Institute in Kanpur, India, to develop sweet sorghum as a feedstock for the production of bioethanol.
Bharat Petroleum is allocating INR 500 million for research and development, said the company.
This funding is being earmarked to optimise sweet sorghum yields, enhance agricultural practice and generate efficient... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 17, 2025
Green Earth Institute (GEI), Nippon Paper Industries and Sumitomo have reached an agreement to establish a joint venture company, Morisora Bio Refinery LLC, which will focus on the production and sale of bioethanol and biochemicals derived from woody biomass.
Establishment of the joint venture is scheduled for March 2025.
The agreement will bring the construction of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 17, 2025
Poland's first odourless biomethane plant has began operation.
The facility, which is located on the premises of the Agricultural Experimental Farm in Brody, belongs to the University of Life Sciences in Poznań.
The 0.499 MW electric installation will produce approximately 650 thousand m3 of biomethane compressed to bioCNG and sold as transport fuel per year.
The biomethane... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 14, 2025
As Europe's second-largest gas transmission operator, NaTran is adapting its facilities to enable the injection of renewable gases into the French grid.
Its Clemessy experts carried out a design-build project to install and commission a biomethane injection station at Fontaine-le-Dun, in order to connect TotalEnergies' new biomethane production site (BioNorrois) to the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 14, 2025
VIDA bioenergy has announced the groundbreaking on its second UK facility, VIDA bioenergy Wormslade, marking another step in the company’s mission to deliver sustainable energy in the countries where their plants are located.
When operational, the plant will provide enough energy to heat over 5,000 homes annually, said the company.
Construction has commenced, and completion... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 13, 2025
The Noida authority will set up a biogas plant to recycle the waste in an animal shelter located in Sector 94 of the city, officials announced.
The move is aimed at recycling the excrement at the Sector 94 animal shelter to avoid odour pollution.
There are at least 1,000 cows and other animals in Sector 94, meaning that managing waste is a challenge.
The health department... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 13, 2025
The Wood Recyclers’ Association has called for urgent clarity over future support for waste wood-powered biomass plants after the government acknowledged the important role that the technology has to play.
In a written statement, Energy Minister Michael Shanks announced support for large-scale biomass plants, including Drax, to transition to carbon capture and storage... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 12, 2025
Nedgia, the Naturgy group's gas distributor, has increased its biomethane injection capacity by more than 30% over the last year, with a total of eight biomethane plants already connected and in operation.
These facilities have the capacity to produce a total of 226 gigawatt hours of this renewable gas, an amount that avoids the emission of 40,500 tons of CO2 into the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 12, 2025
The VITAGRO Group of companies has begun exporting Ukrainian biomethane to the European Union.
The group's biomethane plant, which was built between 2022 and 2024, started production in September 2024.
Until that time, the company was injecting biomethane into Ukraine's gas transmission system.
ERU, together with its partners, will transport the biomethane from the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 12, 2025
px Group, an operator of several critical infrastructure sites in the UK and Europe, has secured an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contract for Tees Renewable Energy Plant (Tees REP).
The contract marks px Group’s further expansion into the biomass power generation industry.
Located in Tees Valley, one of the world’s largest purpose-built pellet biomass power... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 11, 2025
Poland's Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski has unveiled a six-pillar plan that aims to accelerate economic growth through transforming energy, investing in modern technologies and infrastructure.
Domanski said that transitioning to clean energy is vital for Poland's economic future.
The Polish government will therefore allocate 65 billion zloty (€15.5 billion) over... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 11, 2025
Following the withdrawal of guidance on the use of biomethane certificates in the GHG Protocol, over 145 companies and trade associations from around the world have issued a public joint letter to the governance bodies of the GHG Protocol calling for the key role of market-based instruments to be recognised in the Protocol’s Scope 1 inventory.
The GHG Protocol is the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 11, 2025
Evero Energy (Evero), a leading waste-wood-to-energy and BECCS company, has announced its strongest quarter to date, increasing net exported power to provide 113,000 MWh of clean electricity to the national grid and local industrial partners.
The company’s Ince, Mersey and Lisahally waste wood biomass plants achieved consistently high availability and generation hours.
In... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 10, 2025
Electricity produced from bioenergy has bounced back after production issues last year, with energy hitting 9.7TWh in the third quarter of 2024, waste-to-hydrogen company Compact Syngas Solutions has revealed.
Analysing government data, it found that maintenance outages at three large power stations were blamed for the fall in last year’s figures, explaining a 23% increase... [Read More]
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