Independent testing of Active Energy Group’s (AEG) CoalSwitch™ pellets in the US shows the fuel burns cleaner and produces fewer pollutants than coal. The CoalSwitch fuel was produced from the waste wood residuals at AEG’s facility in Ashland, Maine, and was delivered to Utah to undergo the first phase of the extensive testing programme in the second quarter of... [Read More]

Brazilian biogas firm Geo Biogás & Tech and sugar and ethanol company UISA will build a biogas plant in the state of Mato Grosso. The project - in its initial phase - will generate electricity, biomethane and biofertiliser from sugarcane residues, other biomass and residues from local agro-industrial industries. UISA, one of Brazil’s largest biorefineries,... [Read More]

A standard biogas test plant BTP2-control with an internal gas quality measurement system has been launched by Umwelt- and Ingenieurtechnik (UIT) Dresden. The biogas test system is standardised in terms of fermenter sizes, agitator, heating, feeding, discharge and measurement technologies. Up to 10 fermenters can be integrated into one biogas test plant BTP2-control.... [Read More]

New data from NGVA Europe shows there was rapid growth in the use of biomethane as a transport fuel in Europe in 2020. With more than a quarter of the gas used in road transport being renewable, an “overwhelming amount” of Europe’s 3,810 CNG stations delivered biomethane to European consumers in December 2020. The leading countries offering biomethane as a... [Read More]

Scottish Water Horizons’ Deerdykes Bioresources Centre in North Lanarkshire, UK, has generated 50 GWh of green electricity since 2010. Deerdykes has saved more than 170,000 tonnes of carbon. The facility processes food waste through anaerobic digestion to generate green energy using a CHP engine. “The numbers are impressive but quite difficult to visualise –... [Read More]

A senior official from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) visited the University of York on 3 February to discuss its anaerobic digestion (AD) research. Tamara Finkelstein visited the university’s Department of Biology to find out about its partnership with Yorkshire Water to develop AD processes. Professor James Chong greeted the Permanent... [Read More]

By Thomas Meth chief commercial officer, Enviva. Looking at recommendations from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), every pathway to meeting decarbonisation goals that limit the impact of global warming includes woody biomass. To achieve climate targets and reach climate neutrality, industrial... [Read More]

AAK, a producer of vegetable oils and fats headquartered in Sweden, will invest SEK 500 million (€47.8 million) to install biomass boilers at its plant in Denmark. The initiative is expected to reduce the plant’s CO2 emissions by approximately 90%. The installation will also generate substantial savings, as fossil fuel will be replaced by shea meal, a by-product... [Read More]

Air Liquide will build its largest ever biomethane production unit in Illinois, US. Located in the city of Rockford, the new unit will produce biomethane from biogas from a solid waste treatment plant owned and operated by Waste Connections. It will have a capacity of 380 GWh per year, representing the largest production capacity per plant for Air Liquide. With this... [Read More]

Danish postal service provider PostNord now has 10 biogas trucks on the roads in Denmark, replacing 10 diesel-powered cars and saving approximately 850 tonnes of CO2 each year. The new trucks run on compressed biogas, produced from cow and pig manure, helping to reduce the amount of methane in the atmosphere. Biogas-fuelled trucks reduce CO2 emissions and emit less... [Read More]

Norske Skog has agreed to sell the Nature’s Flame pellets company for approximately NZD 47.8 million (€28.1 million). The Norwegian pulp and paper company has entered into an agreement with Talley’s Group, a New Zealand-based dairy, fishing, produce and food company, to sell Nature’s Flame. “Nature’s Flame is an excellent company producing high-quality... [Read More]

TotalEnergies and Veolia have agreed to produce biomethane from Veolia’s waste and water treatment facilities in 15 countries. The partners will develop and co-invest in a portfolio of international projects, with the aim of producing up to 1.5 TWh of biomethane annually by 2025. This production of renewable gas made from organic waste will be equivalent to the... [Read More]

The UK Government’s support measures to ease upfront energy costs to consumers and support energy providers is not enough to cover the dramatic price rises, the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) has warned. On 3 February, energy regulator Ofgem announced the energy price cap would increase by £693 (€827) per year – a 54% increase –... [Read More]

Snam4Mobility and OrangeGas (OG), a Dutch owner and operator of sustainable fuel service stations, have agreed to develop a new bio-LCNG (bio-LNG and bio-CNG) fuelling station in Germany. The agreement forms part of a larger cooperation project between the two companies in the sustainable mobility field. The station will be built in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia,... [Read More]

Greenlane Renewables has closed its acquisition of Airdep – a provider of biogas desulphurisation and air deodorisation products based in Vicenza, Italy. The acquisition of Airdep brings in-house an effective and proven technology to remove hydrogen sulphide (H2S) from biogas for integration with Greenlane’s portfolio of biogas upgrading systems that produce low-carbon... [Read More]

Axpo Iberia has inaugurated the first biogas plant in Spain to convert all organic waste from a livestock operation into 100% renewable biogas and electricity. Axpo Iberia, the Spanish subsidiary of Axpo, a major producer of renewable energy and a leader in energy trading, worked with family-owned Torre Santamaría dairy cattle farm in Catalonia on the project. Under... [Read More]