Yoshinobu Kusano, executive advisor & director of Renova’s biomass fuel department, shares his thoughts on plans to phase down coal. “Coal is being phased down.” This was the message from COP26 in Glasgow. The Japanese Government, together with other participants at the conference, pledged this official commitment to the world. To hold this commitment, biomass... [Read More]

A UK council is expanding its food waste recycling pilot to more homes this spring. North East Lincolnshire Council started collecting food waste weekly on one of its bin rounds in April 2021. Households in the pilot area received a lockable outdoor bin and a small kitchen caddy to collect the waste, which is then sent to an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Hemswell,... [Read More]

Bio2Watt will supply South African Breweries (SAB) with renewable energy generated from livestock waste as part of a new power purchase agreement. Bio2Watt is currently building a 4.8 MW biogas plant - the Cape Dairy Biogas Project - at Morester’s Vyvlei Dairy Farm, which sells milk to South African food group, Clover. The facility will handle waste produced by 7,000... [Read More]

Brazil’s government has announced measures to encourage the production and use of biomethane. During a launch ceremony held on 21 March in Brasilia, Minister of Mines and Energy, Bento Albuquerque, signed a decree including investments in biomethane under Brazil’s Special Regime of Incentives for Infrastructure Development, and exempting new projects from Program... [Read More]

Active Energy Group’s CEO, Michael Rowan, speaks to Bioenergy Insight about the recent testing of its CoalSwitch™ fuel and plans to increase production. Active Energy Group (AEG), headquartered in London, has been busy developing its innovative CoalSwitch™ fuel to help utilities cut emissions. In April last year, Bioenergy Insight spoke with the company’s... [Read More]

Capstone Green Energy Corporation (Capstone) will provide a microturbine system for a US landfill gas-to-energy project. Vergent Power Solutions, Capstone’s distributor for the Upper Midwest, New England, and Eastern Canada, contracted the company to provide a 1 MW microturbine system to be installed in a landfill gas-to-energy project for a solid waste facility in... [Read More]

UK fertiliser prices are rising towards £1,000 (€1,180) per tonne, up from £650 (€770) last week, as a result of gas price increases. The price increase is exacerbated by the fact Russia is the world’s biggest exporter of synthetic fertiliser, supplying more than a fifth of urea, a key fertiliser used in the UK. According to food waste recycling firm, Warrens... [Read More]

JSW Cement has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Punjab Renewable Energy Systems to use agricultural waste for bioenergy in its cement manufacturing operations. Punjab Renewable Energy Systems is an Indian bioenergy company focused on biomass aggregation and supply chain management providing fuel to biomass power facilities. Under the MOU, Punjab Renewable... [Read More]

Vattenfall’s new 110 MW biomass heat plant in Sweden has been inaugurated and entered operation. The Carpe Futurum facility in Uppsala can use wood chips, recycled biomass and bark in various combinations. It will reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 200,000 tonnes per year, compared with when peat and other fossil fuels were used. The plant is located in Vattenfall’s... [Read More]

Freight transport company XPO Logistics has started to take delivery of 76 Volvo FM trucks running on biogas and biofuel. The new 6x2 tractor units will be used exclusively on XPO’s contract with building materials supplier British Gypsum. The trucks will play a crucial part in the two companies’ commitment to a cleaner, more sustainable future. Twenty-three trucks... [Read More]

A town in Devon has become the first in the UK to get all its gas supply from biogas. Locals in South Molton now receive all their gas and nearly half their electricity from the anaerobic digestion of animal waste. South Molton’s AD facility, Condate Biogas, uses crops and poultry waste to create enough renewable energy to provide gas to the entire town, which... [Read More]

Active Energy Group (AEG) has achieved a chain of custody and controlled wood certifications compliant with Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards for its new clean energy pellet. This new designation is part of AEG’s continuing commitment to sustainability across its business, from supply chain to production to the impact of the fuel itself. CoalSwitch™... [Read More]

Charlotte Morton, chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA), has called on the UK Government to phase out Russian natural gas and oil imports and highlighted the potential of biomethane. In an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Morton highlighted how increasing production of biomethane could not only provide an additional... [Read More]

EverGen Infrastructure Corporation (EverGen) has entered into a letter of intent (LOI) to acquire a 67% interest in an Alberta-based RNG facility. EverGen signed the LOI with Grow the Energy Circle (GrowTEC), a general partner of CKPPQ Farms, to acquire interest in the biogas facility and work with GrowTEC to develop and expand the renewable gas output at the facility. GrowTEC,... [Read More]

Danish company Nature Energy has acquired land in Farnham, Quebec, to build its first-ever biogas plant in North America. The large-scale facility will convert biomass from local agricultural production, industry and institutions into RNG for the Quebec grid. The plant is expected to produce 20 million m3 of RNG, corresponding to a reduction of 80,000 tons of CO2. “It’s... [Read More]

A bid to use animal waste to feed a new anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in East Lothian, Scotland, has been rejected. The developers of the planned AD plant at Bangley Quarry, north of Haddington, applied to have a condition barring them from using animal by-products (ABPs), including chicken litter, farm manure and cattle slurry, lifted, after being approached by... [Read More]