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Enagás will launch BioLNG supply service at the company's regasification terminals in Barcelona and Huelva, which will allow this decarbonised fuel to be loaded onto tankers and ships, enabling the company to continue advancing in its mission to contribute to the European decarbonisation objectives. This service, which will come into operation in March, is one of the first in Europe to use…
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India should look to biomass to ensure the energy transition to hydrogen, said Maurits Van Tol, CEO of Catalyst Technologies, a division of Johnson Matthey (JM) one of the global leaders in sustainable technologies. Talking to businessline during India Energy Week 2025, he said: “When you look at cleantech for India, there are a few things that that I would like to highlight. First of all,…
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VIDA bioenergy, a fully owned subsidiary of VTTI B.V., has announced that its facility in Glentham, UK, has injected its first biomethane into the UK’s National Transmission System. The plant will produce over 60 GWh of biomethane annually, which is enough energy to heat over 5,200 homes. Located in the county of Lincolnshire, the Glentham facility processes organic waste streams…
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Anaergia's Singapore subsidiary has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) to supply technology and equipment to JGC Holdings Corporation (JGC) for a renewable natural gas (RNG) project. The equipment to be provided by the company under the LOI includes Anaergia’s feedstock pretreatment solution, anaerobic digestion with its digester design for high throughput and efficiency, and digestate…
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TESS Holdings' subsidiary, PT PTEC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (PTEC), held a ground-breaking ceremony for a biomass plant last month, in West Java, Indonesia. Biomass fuel will be derived from agricultural crop residues. TESS established PTEC in Indonesia in 2018, as a research and development base in Indonesia, to best explore how to process agricultural crop residues into biomass pellets. It…
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From March, Sainsbury's plans to transform food waste into fuel for a number of its HGV trucks. The supermarket will produce biofuel directly from food waste, which will power 30 trucks at its Emerald Park distribution Centre - half the site's fleet. According to Sainsbury's, this will save over 3,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, equivalent to the yearly electricity consumption of 1,950…
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Germany's Federal Network Agency for electricity and gas (the Bundesnetzagentur), set the price ceilings for biomass and biomethane auctions to be held in the next 12 months at the same levels as last year. The maximum price that can be bid for new biomass installations remains 19.43 cents per kilowatt hour and that for existing biomass installations 19.83 ct/kWh. The maximum price for…
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Data released by the American Biogas Council (ABC) shows that last year was a record year for the sector. In the 12 months ending in December, 125 new biogas projects came online, representing over $3 billion in new US investments. New projects in 2024 exceeded new projects in 2023 by 17%, while total investment in those projects increased by 40% compared to investment in projects opened in the…
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CycleØ's planned community meeting to discuss its proposed biogas plant in County Kildare, Ireland has been pulled. It was due to take place today (19 February) at the Clanard Hotel in Athy. The venue cancelled the booking because it received information that disruption and disorder was planned 'by a few individuals intending to attend the event.' The new date and location of the event will…
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On Friday 31 January, the local MP for St Austell and Newquay visited the Fraddon anaerobic digestion plant, which is operated by Material Change in Higher Fraddon, St Columb in Cornwall. Noah Law MP spoke to industry guests at the Eden Project about the need for the UK government to ensure biogas meets its potential in delivering Britain’s clean energy needs. Commissioned in 2014, Fraddon…
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Audra Low, group head of client coverage at Clifford Capital, explains investment prospects in South East Asia. Clifford Capital was established in 2012, with support from the government of Singapore. This was facilitated via a policy mandate that addressed infrastructure financing gaps for Singapore-based companies and projects with a nexus to Singapore. “This policy mandate was expanded in…
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Poland's first odourless biomethane plant has began operation. The facility, which is located on the premises of the Agricultural Experimental Farm in Brody, belongs to the University of Life Sciences in Poznań. The 0.499 MW electric installation will produce approximately 650 thousand m3 of biomethane compressed to bioCNG and sold as transport fuel per year. The biomethane plant in Brody is…
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Green Earth Institute (GEI), Nippon Paper Industries and Sumitomo have reached an agreement to establish a joint venture company, Morisora Bio Refinery LLC, which will focus on the production and sale of bioethanol and biochemicals derived from woody biomass. Establishment of the joint venture is scheduled for March 2025. The agreement will bring the construction of a semi-commercial plant at…
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Bharat Petroleum Corp has partnered with the National Sugar Institute in Kanpur, India, to develop sweet sorghum as a feedstock for the production of bioethanol. Bharat Petroleum is allocating INR 500 million for research and development, said the company. This funding is being earmarked to optimise sweet sorghum yields, enhance agricultural practice and generate efficient juice extraction and…
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