Sep 5, 2024
Pellet producer Canfor closes sawmills in British Columbia
Biomass News
Sep 5, 2024
px Group, a Teesside-based infrastructure solutions business, has been awarded an operations and maintenance contract by green energy solutions company Gren at its combined heat and power station in Nottingham, England.
The 6.8MWe biomass-fired combined heat and power station is designed to provide sustainable green electricity for over 10,000 homes.
px Group will have... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 4, 2024
Anaergia Singapore, a subsidiary of Anaergia, has been selected to design and build the Jeju Bio Energy Biogas Plant in Jeju Island, South Korea.
Based on the initial specifications, the award amounts to approximately C$25 million, and it is subject to a number of routine conditions, including the client obtaining final financing for the project.
The Facility is expected... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 4, 2024
Ukraine is set to launch seven biomethane projects by the end of this year, with an annual production capacity of 111mn cubic metres, according to Heorhiy Heletukha, head of the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine.
The announcement was made during an online event, where Heletukha detailed the upcoming projects across several regions of Ukraine.
The largest of these is the... [Read More]
Features
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]
Biogas News
Sep 3, 2024
1Vision Biogas AB - a joint venture between St1, HitecVision and Aneo - has acquired St1 Nordic Oy's biogas assets.
Earlier this year, 1Vision Biogas announced 100% ownership of Biokraft International AB, a leading liquefied biogas producer in the Nordics.
1Vision Biogas is integrating the two entities into one company with the ambition of becoming the leading biogas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 3, 2024
The Melbourne Water and John Holland-KBR Joint Venture has won an Earth Award for an innovative biogas handling system that supports the conversion of sewerage treatment gases into electricity, providing around 30% of the energy needed for Melbourne's Eastern Treatment Plant (ETP).
The Civil Contractors Federation Victoria Earth Awards is an annual event that recognises... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 3, 2024
Gensol Engineering Limited, in partnership with Matrix Gas & Renewables Ltd has secured a contract worth ₹164 crore to develop India’s first bio-hydrogen project, reported Energyworld.
The consortium emerged as the lowest bidder for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of the project, which will convert 25 tons of bio-waste into 1 ton of hydrogen... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 2, 2024
Energy company Gasum is collaborating with Hapag-Lloyd to supply their container vessels with liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) during a two-year tender period.
Earlier this year, Hapag-Lloyd, one of the world’s leading container shipping companies, won the first tender by the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA) for ocean shipping based on waste-based bio-LNG... [Read More]
Policy News
Sep 2, 2024
bp America's Cherry Point Refinery in Blaine in Washington State will receive a federal grant of $26,763,504 to build infrastructure and buy equipment to allow it to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for the first time, using renewable biomass feedstocks.
bp estimates being able to produce 10 million gallons of SAF per year.
The large federal grant was awarded... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 30, 2024
Socogas has announced it will open its first plant for biomethane production.
The company has acquired a plant in Sorbolo-Mezzani in Italy, which already produces biogas, and will be converted into biomethane with a capacity of 400 cubic metres per hour and installed power of 1.7mW.
Agricultural biomass will be supplied from companies local to neighbouring territory.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 30, 2024
The production of biogas totalled 3,310 terajoules (TJ) in the last year, according to Statistics Finland.
Of this amount 2,940 TJ was consumed and the remaining 370 TJ (11%) was flared, reported Daily Finland.
The amount of biogas delivered from production plants to consumption declined by 1% compared to 2022.
Biogas production on landfill collection sites dipped by... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 30, 2024
On 31 August, Ørsted shut down its last coal-fired combined heat and power plant, Esbjerg Power Station, located in the Western part of Denmark.
Having previously been one of Europe's most coal-intensive companies, since 2006, it has reduced its coal consumption significantly.
It has achieved this by reducing its number of heat and power plants, as well as conversions... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 29, 2024
Ofgem has announced that Drax misreported data relating to biomass imported from Canada, and that the energy giant would pay £25 million to its voluntary redress fund, reported Reuters.
According to the investigation, Drax failed to implement adequate data governance controls on biomass imports from Canada between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022.
However, Ofgem said... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 29, 2024
The government of Canada and the government of Quebec have announced $26,448,693 in joint financial assistance to support Énercycle, for its project to develop a new organic waste recovery centre using biomethanisation and composting.
In addition to diverting approximately 35,000 tonnes of organic matter from disposal per year, this project will reduce greenhouse gas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 29, 2024
Nedgia, the Naturgy Group's gas distributor, has signed 45 contracts for connection to biomethane plants for the injection of renewable gas into its gas distribution network.
The injection capacity linked to these requests amounts to 2,400 GWh/year, equivalent to the gas consumption of nearly half a million homes in Spain.
By autonomous community, Nedgia has signed a... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 28, 2024
Do North, Forestry Accelerator, Ecostrat and the BDO Zone Initiative have issued an investment grade BDO Zone ‘A’ Rating for Caledonia County, Vermont.
Caledonia County’s BDO Zone rating for 726,000 bone dry tons per year of woody biomass is the first rating in the State of Vermont and extends a 75-mile drive distance from the centrepoint in Lyndonville, VT.
Caledonia... [Read More]
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted Nortegas Group a framework financing of up to €80 million to enable group subsidiary Nortegas Renovables to finance the construction of biomethane plants in Spain and launch a digital operations centre
This facility is supported by the the UNDP-GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) and the Mauritius Research and Innovation Council (MRIC)
Clariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, has announced that its MegaMax catalyst has been selected for a China biomass gasification-to-green methanol project
