Rice Acquisition Corp (RAC), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the energy transition, has announced its stockholders have approved the business combination of Aria Energy and Archaea Energy. The merger, valued at an estimated $1.15 billion (€973 million), will create an industry-leading RNG platform, dedicated to reducing carbon emissions through landfill... [Read More]

B2B renewable energy supplier Haven Power, part of Drax Group, is changing its name to Drax. Haven Power was acquired by Drax Group in 2009 and supplies more than 20,000 large industrial and commercial customers with over 12 TWh of renewable-sourced electricity annually – equivalent to the annual power use of more than 3 million homes. With the rebrand, Drax aims... [Read More]

Belvedere, a super-premium vodka company, has opened an ‘ambitious’ biomass capture facility on-site in Poland. Belvedere was the first spirits distillery to receive a grant from the European Commission to pilot the unique biomass technology. With the inauguration of the plant on 9 September, three years since it received the grant, Belvedere announced an accelerated... [Read More]

Drax is calling for UK businesses of all sizes to join the UK’s first bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) supplier engagement programme. The company will host a series of nationwide events throughout 2022 in partnership with the West & North Yorkshire and Hull & Chambers of Commerce, as well as further events across the wider North, Midlands,... [Read More]

Cayuga RNG, a joint venture (JV) between UGI Energy Services (UGIES) and Global Common Energy, has entered into an agreement to develop its second RNG project in upstate New York. The JV’s first project is being developed at Spruce Haven Farm, a dairy farm in Cayuga County in New York’s Finger Lakes region. This project incorporates an existing anaerobic digester... [Read More]

“The North East is a fantastic example of how one area with a very rich, heavy industrial heritage in mining and coal can completely reinvent itself.” — Bioenergy Insight speaks to Fiona Macleod, newly-appointed managing director of Lynemouth Power in Northumberland, UK. Could you tell our readers a bit about yourself and your background? I was born and raised... [Read More]

Aemetis has received building permits from Stanislaus County in California to construct the next phase of dairy biogas digesters in the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester Project. The project will be connected via a 32-mile private pipeline to the Aemetis ethanol plant near Modesto, connecting dairy RNG facilities. “In addition to the California Environmental... [Read More]

Starwood Energy Group (Starwood) has entered into an investment partnership with BerQ RNG, a premier developer of RNG projects in the US and Canada. The new platform will develop and acquire RNG projects in all stages, from early development to operating projects. The platform will be majority-owned by Starwood and operate under the name BerQ RNG. Based on Oakville,... [Read More]

Host and Birch Solutions (Birch) have signed an exclusive partner agreement to market Host’s biogas technology alongside Birch’s services and operations in the UK. Birch is an established AD plant service operator, with capabilities including biogas plant optimisation. Bioenergy technology provider, Host, headquartered in the Netherlands, has over 350 bioenergy... [Read More]

Online supermarket Ocado Group has signed a deal to open another CNG refuelling station in the UK, using a higher biomethane blend. In January 2019, Ocado became the first UK retailer to self-fund the purchase of an on-site grid-connected gas refuelling station at its depot in Hatfield. The new facility, at the firm’s Dordon Customer Fulfilment Centre in Warwickshire,... [Read More]

Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) and Circle K have opened two new CNG stations. The two publicly accessible, fast-fill CNG stations are now open at Circle K’s forecourt in Dublin and in Limerick City. Strategically located to support prominent haulier routes, the state-of-the-art stations can fill 50 heavy-goods vehicles (HGVs) a day, with each fill taking no more than... [Read More]

Clarke Energy USA will design, supply, and install a biogas upgrading plant to generate biomethane (RNG) with BioTown Biogas in Indiana. The agreement includes a biogas engine generating renewable electricity and heat. BioTown is an existing renewable energy business expanding into the generation of biogas to be cleaned to gas grid injection standards as biomethane. Five... [Read More]

Enhanced R&D is required on biochar for its full potential to be realised, according to the Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA). The organisation described biochar production and use as an ‘emerging opportunity’ that must be embraced for its full benefit to be realised in addressing a series of challenges across many sectors in Ireland. Biochar could benefit... [Read More]

A new £450 million (€524 million) fund opened on 31 August will unlock greener ways to travel and to hear and power homes and businesses in the UK. The fund will explore ways of harnessing a new approach to energy network innovation that will keep bills as low as possible while driving the UK towards its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, and... [Read More]

Heavy-duty vehicle fleets are increasingly turning to near-zero-emissions (NZE) natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and carbon-negative RNG, according to the California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership (CNGVP). During a press conference, the organisation said NZE NGVs are available now, delivering critical and cost-effective emissions reductions throughout California, where... [Read More]

Petrobras Distribuidora (Vibra) has signed a cooperation agreement with ZEG Biogas e Energia (ZEG) to jointly develop biomethane projects. The companies aim to promote the growth of the biomethane market in Brazil, providing producers with technological solutions for the manufacture of biomethane from by-products of the industrial process that originates ethanol. Vibra... [Read More]