The Swiss company CO2 Energie AG has commissioned Hitachi Zosen Inova to construct an installation to separate and liquefy renewable carbon dioxide at an existing biogas plant. This renewable by-product will be made available for industrial purposes, avoiding the use of fossil carbon dioxide, and contribute to global climate protection and decarbonisation efforts in a... [Read More]

Zero-emissions transport and energy infrastructure company Nikola Corporation has joined forces with OPAL Fuels to develop hydrogen fuelling stations and use RNG in hydrogen production. OPAL Fuels, which specialises in delivering RNG and renewable fuelling infrastructure for heavy-duty truck fleets, will work with Nikola to co-develop and co-market hydrogen refuelling... [Read More]

Residents of a village in Bressingham, Norfolk are attempting to block the development of a biogas plant. Around 70 residents attended a meeting to oppose the completion of Deal Farm Biogas – an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Kenninghall Road. Deal Farm Biogas will be an agricultural by-products, crop and manure biomethane-to-grid project located near the town... [Read More]

Andrius Smaliukas, CEO of Baltpool, talks to Bioenergy Insight about biomass trading, SBP certification, and sustainability. Baltpool International Biomass Exchange (Baltpool) is an online trading platform, where buyers and sellers meet to trade in biomass and timber products. Currently operating in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland,... [Read More]

Construction of EnviTec Biogas’s eighth plant in China is well underway, just five months after signing the contract with East China Engineering Science and Technology. The detailed design of the plant, which will produce 37,000 Nm3 per day of biogas, including the upgrading technology at the city of Tunliu in the province of Shanxi, is complete. The plant’s four... [Read More]

Drax is just one of 12 companies selected to take part in the UK Government’s Global Investment Summit next week. The event, hosted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Royal Family, will showcase the opportunities for investment in the UK, demonstrating the government’s commitment to ‘building back better’ post-COVID. Drax will showcase its multi-million-pound... [Read More]

WELTEC BIOPOWER (Weltec) has entered into a service partnership with Bristola, based in Iowa, US. The common goal is to promote the expansion of renewable energies by building and servicing efficient biogas plants. Both firms have over 20 years of experience in the industry. During this time, Weltec has designed and built over 350 biogas and RNG plants in 25 countries... [Read More]

Xebec has signed the first set of task orders under an agreement with Brightmark RNG Holdings to provide 18 BGX-Biostream™ units. The master service agreement signed with Brightmark RNG, a joint venture between Brightmark and Chevron U.S.A., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, will see the units used to produce and market dairy biomethane. These first task orders... [Read More]

Nacero has launched a new RNG acquisition platform – Nacero NEON™. Nacero NEON is the strategic growth engine for the production of Nacero Green Gasoline™, an affordable net-zero carbon footprint gasoline (petrol) for everyday drivers. Methane is 80 times more harmful over 20 years than CO2. A significant amount of global warming is caused by fugitive and flared... [Read More]

Repsol has produced renewable hydrogen using biomethane as a raw material for the first time. The renewable hydrogen was used to manufacture fuels with a low carbon footprint, such as petrol, diesel, or kerosene for aviation. Ten tons of renewable hydrogen was produced at Repsol’s Cartagena Industrial Complex from 500 MWh of biomethane, preventing emissions of... [Read More]

RWE has invested £200,000 (€234,900) on new noise abatement technology for its Markinch Power Station in Fife, Scotland. The 55 MW combined heat and power (CHP) biomass plant can generate power for 100,000 homes and has been operational since 2015.  Most recently, RWE invested in a state-of-the-art Energy Centre that provides heat to the Glenrothes Energy Network... [Read More]

DMT Environmental Technology (DMT) will be the biogas upgrading technology provider for the first collaboration between Thames Water and SGN Commercial Services in the UK. As one of the two contractors selected, SGN was awarded an eight-year framework, valued at £70 million (€82 million), by Thames Water. Additionally, SGN will design, construct, operate and maintain... [Read More]

Panama City Commission in Florida has approved Panama City Port Authority’s $26 million budget for major projects, including wood pellet storage. The projects will focus on expansion, economic development, and job creation, with Mayor Greg Brudnicki voicing his support for the projects. “The port is a real economic engine for the city, it has been for years,”... [Read More]

A ‘ground-breaking’ collaboration with a unique workforce development component will help bring new technologies to the bioenergy industry in the US. The Integrated Biochemical and Electrochemical Technologies (IBET) to Convert Organic Waste to Biopower collaboration will be led by the University of Michigan and U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory,... [Read More]

Al Rawabi, a dairy company based in the United Arab Emirates, has announced its large-scale biogas facility is now operational. A first of a kind project in the Middle East, the plant will recycle organic waste from Al Rawabi’s operations into clean energy. According to the Khaleej Times, the facility will generate 1.3 MW of green energy. “As a responsible sustainable... [Read More]

CPL Industries has launched its new Ecoke product range, partly using biomass, for industrial firms looking to accelerate their decarbonisation. Ecoke is a manufactured fuel containing 30% sustainably sourced biomass. The new fuel also has significantly lower carbon emissions – up to 30% lower when compared to traditional fossil-based coke and anthracite with comparable... [Read More]