Dec 17, 2024
px Group takes helm of another biomass plant
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Dec 10, 2024
Colin Ley gives an overview of the sector in Africa and Asia.
Any assessment of bioenergy prospects across Africa and Asia is almost certainly destined to be at least 40% wrong. By the same token, the vast and diverse nature of both continents means that the same assessment will likely be 40% correct, with the 20% in the middle best described as entering ‘toss-up’... [Read More]
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Dec 3, 2024
BMW Group Plant Steyr is switching entirely to district heating for warmth, as the Austrian engine facility utilises heat from a nearby biomass plant. Bioenergy Insight finds out more.
For over 40 years, BMW has built diesel and petrol engines at BMW Group Plant Steyr. It recently announced that it is switching to renewable heat sources.
Tanja Hornbachner, energy manager... [Read More]
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Nov 26, 2024
Marc Fetten, founder and owner of GreenGasUSA, tells Bioenergy Insight about the company’s approach, growth and partnership with Wayne-Sanderson Farms.
Fetten founded GreenGasUSA (GreenGas) four years ago, with the mission of reducing as many carbon emissions as possible via the production of renewable natural gas (RNG), and other renewable energy commodities.
Today,... [Read More]
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Nov 19, 2024
Bioenergy Insight learns more about the recently announced partnership to develop four RNG projects in the US.
Bright Renewables is a global technology provider for biogas upgrading systems, CO2 liquefaction plants, and Bio LNG & Bio CNG solutions. Its US head office is located in Vancouver, Washington, and it has sold around 35 biogas upgrading units in the country.... [Read More]
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Nov 8, 2024
Urszula Szalkowska, managing director, Europe EcoEngineers, outlines the challenges and opportunities for US suppliers.
The European energy sector’s landscape is evolving rapidly, particularly in the biomethane market. The European Commission's recent deployment of the Union Database (UDB) signifies a crucial step toward the transparent traceability of renewable fuels... [Read More]
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Nov 5, 2024
BE&E examines how to maximise a pellet mill’s profitability.
Warren Buffett is quoted as saying: ‘Price is what you pay. Value is what you get’. Never a truer statement, said BE&E. Its conveyors aren’t cheap. To which its customer replied: ‘I can’t afford cheap’. After decades in the business, this mill owner had learned that cheap costs more than... [Read More]
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Oct 29, 2024
Colin Ley analyses the market in Canada.
Bioenergy use in Canada could more than double in step with the country’s drive towards net-zero by 2050 according to market projections compiled by the Canada Energy Regulator (CER).
Growth for bioenergy from its current 7% share of the country’s energy mix is forecast to be more rapid when viewed from a Canada net-zero... [Read More]
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Oct 21, 2024
Vogelsang outlines some of its innovative machines that enable effective recycling.
The circular economy is growing in the UK. As people and businesses consciously step away from a linear manufacturing process to a circular model, considerably less waste is being disposed of at the end of its life.
Rather than being a fad or ‘greenwashing’, companies and local authorities... [Read More]
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Oct 7, 2024
In 2021, Berkes acquires Burmeister & Wain Energy (BWE), a company with almost 180 years of history and solid experience in the design and manufacturing of steam boilers. This acquisition has represented a turning point for Berkes, enabling the company to enter new markets and expand its footprint across Europe and other strategic regions.
The acquisition of BWE has... [Read More]
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Oct 1, 2024
Yaniv Scherson, Anaergia Services’ chief operating officer, expands upon the organisation’s recently announced partnership with the City of Riverside, California.
Anaergia Technologies has entered into a technology supply contract with the City of Riverside, California, to upgrade anaerobic digestion wastewater infrastructure at the Riverside Water Quality Control... [Read More]
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Sep 24, 2024
Tom Ferencevic president and CEO of Fitec Biogas tells Bioenergy Insight about the company’s innovative projects.
Fitec Biogas performs process design work and supplies process equipment to clients that own and operate anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities. Its client base is primarily in the agricultural, agri-food and urban organic waste markets.
The organisation provides... [Read More]
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Sep 13, 2024
Bioenergy Europe outlines what to expect at this year’s European Bioenergy Future (EBF) conference.
On November 20-21, the bioenergy community will convene at BluePoint Brussels for the European Bioenergy Future (EBF) conference, a cornerstone event in the renewable energy sector organised by Bioenergy Europe.
The 2024 edition arrives at a pivotal time, just months... [Read More]
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Sep 9, 2024
ReFood’s commercial director, Philip Simpson, outlines some of the company’s innovative work, as well as the climate in the UK.
ReFood is a food waste recycler that operates across Europe. In the UK it provides collection and disposal services to hundreds of businesses operating across the food supply chain, recycling 480,000 tonnes of food waste every year at our... [Read More]
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Sep 3, 2024
Jim Thomson, vice chair & US power, utilities and renewables leader at Deloitte delves into the organisation’s recent report A ripe time for municipal gas and waste renewable natural gas partnerships
Deloitte recently released a new report that highlights how renewable natural gas (RNG) can revolutionise the landscape for public gas utilities.
Over a year ago,... [Read More]