Dec 16, 2022
UK Bressingham plant rejected by South Norfolk Council
Biogas News
Dec 16, 2022
Vision RNG has announced a Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) agreement with the Laurel Ridge Landfill (a subsidiary of Waste Connections) in Corbin, Kentucky, US.
The project will use produce 450,000 MMBtu of RNG annually that will be injected into a nearby natural gas transmission pipeline. This RNG will be used by various customers across the US for transportation fuel and... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 15, 2022
Danone has announced the commissioning of a biomass boiler at the company’s spray drying plant located at Balclutha, in the Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island.
Combined with the use of 100% renewable electricity at the plant, CO2 emissionsare expected to be reduced by 95%, helping underpin Danone’s ambition to become a net-zero carbon company by 2050.
Danone’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 15, 2022
Over 150 biogas digesters have been built across Zimbabwe to be used as a source of renewable energy, according to a senior government official.
Public Service Commission (PSC) secretary Dr Tsitsi Choruma said the country will keep building biogas digesters because they are "cost effective and technologically smart" means of producing energy.
"Green energy sources in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 14, 2022
Renewable energy firm Acorn Bioenergy has unveiled proposals which, if given the green light by Moray Council planners, would see two plants built in Moray, one near Hill of Rathven by Buckie at the junction of March Road and the A98 and other at Longmorn, on the outskirts of Elgin, reported Grampian Online. The Buckie plant would occupy around seven hectares of land.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 14, 2022
The governments of Ontario and Canada are investing more than $11.3 million (€10.6m) to expand CHAR Technologies’ facility in Thorold to produce renewable natural gas (RNG) and biocarbon – creating the largest facility of its kind in Canada. It will be the only RNG facility in the country to exclusively use woody biomass. Expanding CHAR’s Thorold facility will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 14, 2022
Construction on the third phase of a bioenergy recycling project in Shanghai, China, began on 11 December.
With an investment of 1.65 billion yuan (€222 million), the third phase of the Shanghai bioenergy recycling centre will cover nearly 20 hectares in the Laogang ecological and environmental protection base in Pudong New Area.
The project, scheduled for completion... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 13, 2022
Turkey's energy ministry has started the implementation of a micro project, which envisions farmer-obtained animal waste from three cows as being able to produce enough natural gas to eventually meet cooking needs.
The project has been launched in 17 cities as a pilot study, and it aims to support farmers unable to access gas in rural areas.
Turkish Electromechanic Industries... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 13, 2022
The Romande Energie Group, which owns the Enerbois biomass plant in Rueyres (Vaud canton), Switzerland, has announced it is expanding in this field by investing in Proxipel - a start-up offering a solution producing pellets from biomass material.
Biomass is a useful source of clean energy for advancing the energy transition that is so vital for
The Enerbois plant in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 13, 2022
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €40 million loan agreement with recycling company Renewi to invest in recycling in the Netherlands and Belgium.
The funding will be divided between three key projects. The first is the construction of three new high-tech sorting lines for residual, commercial and industrial waste in Flanders, Belgium, allowing more materials... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 12, 2022
Last week, Mainspring, Yolo County staff and stakeholders gathered to celebrate and recognise their partnership, according to Daily Democrat.
Mainspring, a clean power generation provider, announced that the product will run on biogas produced by the landfill to generate electricity that can be used for site operations and exported to the grid. Landfill biogas, a natural... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 12, 2022
A leading planning officer has recommended plans for an anaerobic digestion plant in Bressingham should be refused, giving campaigners cautious hope, reported Diss Express.
Planning officer Tim Barker made his recommendation to South Norfolk Council, with a report echoing the concerns set forth by groups and individuals opposed to the plans for Deal Farm.
So far, 363... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 12, 2022
Cypark Resources said its indirect subsidiaries have been awarded feed-in approval certificates from the government to carry out biogas projects with a total capacity of 2.7 MW in Johor and Terengganu, Malaysia.
The feed-in approval certificates were awarded by the Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Seda) for a period of 21 years, Cypark said. Tenaga Nasional will... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 12, 2022
A new £4.8M project funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to increase biomass crops grown in the UK, will launch at Low Carbon Agriculture Show at the NAEC, Stoneleigh, on 7 February 2023.
Biomass Connect is a new initiative that intends to showcase best-practice and innovations in biomass feedstock production at sites across the... [Read More]
Features
Dec 12, 2022
Bioenergy Insight spoke to Kevin Vandewalle, sales director at VYNCKE, who gave a comprehensive picture of its business model, its agility during challenging times and ongoing technological innovations.
VYNCKE was established in 1912 in Flanders by Louis Vyncke, a blacksmith by trade. As Flanders’ flax industry was flourishing by the 1920s, so demand for steam boilers... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 9, 2022
The flexible Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant, supplied and built by the technology group Wärtsilä for the German public utility SachsenEnergie, has been commissioned and handed over for commercial operation. The plant was extensively tested to verify its reliability and performance before the hand-over in November 2022, the company said, and it will supply both 94... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 9, 2022
A European-Union (EU)-imposed ban on imports of woody biomass from Russia has resulted in a seven-fold spike in Turkey's exports of wood pellets to EU Member States.
This has caused concern that the bulk could be recertified material from Russia, Montel reported.
The embargo was imposed in April 2022 as part of the EU's fifth round of sanctions against Russia. At that... [Read More]
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Proceeds from the bond sale have been used to refinance $40 million of Gevo RNG’s outstanding 2021 green bonds
SIAAP (Greater Paris Sanitation Authority) and SUEZ have officially inaugurated a new state-of-the-art biogas production unit at the Seine Aval wastewater treatment plant in the Paris metropolitan area
Natural State Renewables has announced a key strategic partnership with Axens as part of its plan to produce carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from surplus forest biomass
