Enviva will supply wood biomass from its manufacturing facilities in the US Southeast to Electric Power Development Co’s (J-Power) coal-fired power plants in Japan. Through a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Tokyo-based J-Power, Enviva will build new infrastructure to produce and deliver up to 5 million tonnes of sustainable wood pellets to permanently... [Read More]

Clean Energy Fuels Corp has broken ground on an RNG digester at Del Rio Dairy in Texas. This marks the first in a joint venture with TotalEnergies to produce the ultra-clean transportation fuel, which will be negative carbon-intensive. All the RNG fuel produced at Del Rio Dairy in Friona will make its way into Clean Energy’s nationwide network of RNG stations. Once... [Read More]

Bioenergy accounted for around 3.52 million of the total 12 million global renewable energy jobs in 2020, down from 3.58 million in 2019. Figures released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) showed that the renewable energy sector employed 12 million people, directly and indirectly, in 2020. The number has continued to grow globally, with the solar... [Read More]

North East England Chamber of Commerce has called on the UK Government to support the region’s potential to be a world leader in energy production as part of its ‘levelling-up’ policy. Chamber members Northumbrian Water, EDF Energy, and Lynemouth Power, a biomass facility, all contributed to the Chamber report. Expertise from these three companies included generating... [Read More]

SGN Commercial Services (SGN) has been chosen to support biogas upgrading at BrewDog’s site in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The company will provide gas measurement entry unit pipelines and utilities installation and project management services to the multinational brewery firm. BrewDog has ambitions of becoming the world’s most sustainable drinks company – targeting... [Read More]

A pilot run by DHL Freight with Shell to trial bio-LNG on three haulier trucks has proven a success. The pilot, which started in June, aimed to sustainably reduce CO2 emissions in road freight transport for DHL’s customer, pump manufacturer Grundfos. In the first five months, the volume of bio-LNG lifted has reduced 87 tons of CO2 equivalent. This corresponds to the... [Read More]

Scientists from UK utility Thames Water, in partnership with the University of Surrey, have ‘perfected the art’ of transforming sewage into green electricity at peak times. The UK uses the most power between 4pm and 7pm, when many families are at home using energy-hungry appliances like ovens, dishwashers and kettles. At this time of day, particularly during the... [Read More]

In 2020, wood pellet production in Europe was up 4% from the previous year, and was 34% higher than in 2016, according to recent figures. Data released by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe revealed that despite the increase, production has not kept up with consumption, resulting in higher net imports to the continent over the past few years. To fill... [Read More]

Archaea Energy’s subsidiary, Archaea Holdings, has entered into a 21-year RNG purchase and sale agreement with Northwest Natural Gas Company (NW Natural), which serves around 2.5 million people in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Under the agreement, NW Natural will purchase the environmental attributes generated by Archaea related to up to one million MMBtu of RNG... [Read More]

Yorkshire Water is working with Anglian Water to ensure sludge can be treated efficiently, using anaerobic digestion (AD). As part of the short-term partnership, sludge will be transported from Anglian’s treatment works in Great Billing to Yorkshire Water’s wastewater treatment facilities. Yorkshire Water can accept the additional sludge after increasing its treatment... [Read More]

Workers at the MGT Teesside biomass plant in the North of England were told to stay away from the site as fire crews tackled a major blaze yesterday. Smoke was seen pouring from one of the silos at Tees Renewable Energy Plant. The plant owner, MGT Teesside, said the fire was caused by ‘smouldering fuel’. According to Teesside Live, Cleveland Fire Brigade is now... [Read More]

OPAL Fuels has celebrated the ribbon-cutting ceremony of its new Sunoma Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Facility at Paloma Dairy in Arizona. OPAL Fuels is a merger of Fortistar’s leading RNG production and renewable transport fuel distribution portfolio companies. The new facility will produce 1.6 million gasoline gallon equivalents (GGE) of renewable vehicle fuel... [Read More]

The City of Richmond in British Columbia is piloting a programme to collect leftover household cooking grease and convert it to RNG. The $115,000 (€80,100) pilot will collect grease, such as from deep frying or frying foods like meats and vegetables, from up to 10 multi-family complexes (around 500-800 units) for one year. By collecting and converting the grease,... [Read More]

Capstone Green Energy (Capstone) announced its distributor in Romania - Servelect - will provide a CHP system to a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operator. The new utility grid-connected system will be built for Compania Aquaserv using one Capstone C600S microturbine and one C200S microturbine. All the energy produced on-site at the plant in Mures County will be... [Read More]

Clean Energy Fuels Corp and bp have announced their joint venture (JV) will build on previously announced plans to finance and develop new projects at dairy farms, starting in the US Midwest. Located in South Dakota and Iowa, the dairy farms – with more than 30,000 cows – have the estimated potential to convert methane produced from waste into more than 7 million... [Read More]

The CMA CGM Group has partnered with ENGIE to decarbonise the shipping industry. Together, the companies will work to advance the energy transition by championing the industrial-scale production and distribution of synthetic methane and bio-LNG. The long-term strategic and industrial cooperation has the ambition to support the development of a synthetic methane production... [Read More]