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Brazil’s Energisa has acquired 83.3% of Agric Adubos e Gestão de Resíduos Industriais e Comerciais, a Santa Catarina state company that composts industrial organic waste to produce biofertiliser, reported BNAmericas. The operation involved the payment of R$6.5 million (€1.2 million) and a capital contribution to the company of R$53.5 million (€9.9 million). The capital will be used for…
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Synthica Energy, an energy transition platform that designs, builds, owns and operates large-scale, contracted anaerobic digestion facilities to convert pre-consumer organic waste into renewable natural gas (RNG), has closed on a large equity investment from the Infrastructure Business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs). The new capital will help grow Synthica’s…
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A team of researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) is studying ways to generate renewable energy from dairy farm waste to charge electric vehicles. Wei Liao, a professor in MSU’s Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) and the director of MSU’s Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC), led a demonstration workshop on 19 July showcasing the novel…
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BioEnergy, a German company that provides technology and engineering design for biomass-based gas plants, has entered the Indian market in partnership with a Noida-based start-up, Gruner Renewable Energy (GRE). A welcome & greetings ceremony was held in Nagpur, India, on 5 August, which invited partners, attendees, media representatives and guests. The ceremony commenced with traditional…
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A biomass plant in Teesside, North East UK, backed by Macquarie has secured emergency funding of £80 million (€92 million) to avert an “imminent cashflow crisis”, reported The Times. The Tees Renewable Energy Plant has raised additional funding as it seeks to relaunch operations following delays and setbacks to the £1 billion (€1.1 million) project. The plant is one of the largest of…
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Sumitomo Corporation  has signed an agreement with Axens North America, a bioethanol technology provider, and Allotrope Partners, a US clean energy advisory and investment firm, for a joint project to study the commercial production of bioethanol derived from woody biomass in California state. According to Sumitomo, bioethanol is currently gaining a reputation on a global scale as a renewable…
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Insolvency proceedings for biogas trader bmp greengas were initiated on 1 August, with a restructuring plan to occur "due to the dramatic change in the procurement situation" - as a result of market shifts and the fall-out from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This meant that the firm was unable to meet its obligations to its customers. The Association of Municipal Companies (VKU), which represents…
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Saipem, a leading company in the engineering, drilling and construction of major projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors, and Stockholm Exergi, the district of Stockholm's energy company, have signed a Letter of Intent for a large-scale CO2 capture plant to be installed at Stockholm Exergi's existing bio-cogeneration plant located in the Swedish capital. Saipem's scope of work covers…
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WM, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Veriflux, a US EPA-funded technology platform, have demonstrated that food and organic waste can be tracked from restaurants, cafeterias and other sources to the point where it is used to offset the consumption of fossil fuels. A four-month pilot project in 2022 overcame multiple data, logistic and business obstacles and…
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Renewable energy company Sunview Group Bhd has aborted plans to venture into the biogas renewable energy industry after it terminated the proposed acquisition of Provectus Bioenergy Sdn Bhd. Provectus Bioenergy is engaged in the operation of generation facilities that produce electric energy. In a bourse filing on 3 August, Sunview stated that the termination was a result of the parties'…
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Global sustainable energy producer EDL and key project stakeholders Republic Services, NW Natural Renewables and Pennant Midwest have commenced operations at the Limestone Renewable Natural Gas Facility (RNG) near Youngstown, Ohio in the US. EDL has upgraded an existing landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) power plant to an RNG facility near Republic Services’ Carbon Limestone Landfill. The new…
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Japan’s Nihon Toyo and Vietnam’s Power Engineering Consulting JSC 2 (PECC2) have agreed to cooperate in a trial production of biomass pellets, reported Vietnam News. Nihon Toyo, a subsidiary of Japanese giant Toyo Group, and PECC, a part of national utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN), will cooperate in establishing a production line deploying a high-temperature, high-humidity hydrolysis…
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IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank, has signed an agreement with the government of Switzerland to start the second phase of the Sustainable Cities programme, which supports green urban infrastructure development in emerging markets. IFC’s Sustainable Cities programme provides assistance to subnational governments and private sector partners, helping them attract investments and…
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UGI Energy Services, has acquired GHI Energy (GHI), a Houston-based renewable natural gas company. GHI is a leading renewable natural gas (RNG) marketer in California, a state with one of the most robust carbon credit trading programmes in the US. GHI is primarily focused on providing vehicle fleets with RNG by coordinating supply from a portfolio of sources across the country. UGI Energy…
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