Oct 21, 2021
Australia consults on national reforms to support renewable gases
Biogas News
Oct 21, 2021
The British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) has approved FortisBC’s RNG offtake agreement with EverGen Infrastructure Corp’s (EverGen) anaerobic digester expansion project.
According to EverGen, Canada’s RNG infrastructure platform, the agreement concerns its wholly-owned subsidiary, Net Zero Waste Abbotsford (NZWA) - a composting and organic processing facility... [Read More]
Pellets News
Oct 21, 2021
Drax is beginning a major planning consultation to seek the public’s views on its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) proposals.
The announcement follows the publication of the Government’s Net Zero Strategy, which outlined how vital engineered greenhouse gas removal (GGR) technologies, such as BECCS, could be in delivering the UK’s decarbonisation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 20, 2021
British Columbia (BC) is investing in renewable gas capture at a Vancouver landfill.
The Province is investing $4.28 million (€2.98 million) to expand the Vancouver landfill gas capture system through the CleanBC Industry Fund, with matching funds from the City of Vancouver.
Vancouver landfill is a 320-hectare site owned by the City of Vancouver. Approximately... [Read More]
Pellets News
Oct 20, 2021
Enviva has welcomed a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) for a more rapid transition to net-zero carbon emissions, a tripling of public investments in clean energy technology, and a growing role for ‘modern bioenergy’.
The IEA World Energy Outlook report, released last week, is designed to provide independent, objective, scientific assistance... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 20, 2021
Agri-Cycle (ACE) has announced a new food waste recycling partnership with the Greater Upper Valley (GUV) Solid Waste Management District in Vermont.
ACE currently provides food scrap recycling for several Vermont businesses, including supermarket chain Hannaford, and is seeking to work with more. Its operations include plans to manage the compost site at the GUV Solid... [Read More]
Policy News
Oct 20, 2021
The UK Government’s long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy has been welcomed by the renewable energy sector, but does not address the need for a multi-technology approach to heat decarbonisation.
While the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) described the newly published strategy is ‘good news’ for domestic heat decarbonisation, it also... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 19, 2021
Irish natural gas distribution and supply company, firmus energy, has partnered with Granville Eco Park to decarbonise its fleet.
Firmus energy will initially use a jointly branded van, currently being fuelled by Granville’s renewable biomethane gas produced at its anaerobic digestion plant in Dungannon to showcase the sustainability credentials of CNG technology,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 19, 2021
Rio Tinto, a multinational metals and mining corporation, is developing innovative new technology to deliver low-carbon steel using sustainable biomass in place of coal.
Over the past decade, Rio Tinto has developed a laboratory-proven process that combines the use of raw, sustainable biomass with microwave technology to convert iron ore to metallic iron during the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 19, 2021
Ohio, US-based Babcock & Wilcox’s (B&W) renewable segment has agreed to to jointly develop a biomass-to-hydrogen clean energy project in Victoria, Australia with Port Anthony Renewables.
The project will utilise B&W’s BrightLoop™ technology. Once completed, the plant is expected to be part of the largest green hydrogen hub in southeastern Australia.
BrightLoop... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 19, 2021
Weltec Group in Germany has taken over the operations of biogas plant manufacturer AD AGRO.
Jens Albartus, director of biogas specialist WELTEC BIOPOWER, said through the merger Weltec will establish “promising synergies” in the entire value chain of biogas and biomethane.
AD AGRO was established as BD Agro Renewables by the Big Dutchman Group in May 2006. In... [Read More]
Pellets News
Oct 19, 2021
The East Coast Cluster (ECC) has been named as one of the UK’s first carbon capture, storage and utilisation clusters following a successful bid to the UK Government.
The ECC is made up of both Zero Carbon Humber and Net Zero Teesside, supported by the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) - a collaboration between bp, Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell and Total.... [Read More]
Policy News
Oct 19, 2021
The UK’s biomass heat industry has urged the government to stop ignoring and excluding rural off-grid communities in heat decarbonisation plans.
The urgent call was made by the UK Pellet Council (UKPC) and Biomass Heat Works! following the announcement of the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy was announced, including a £450 million (€533 million) boiler... [Read More]
Features
Oct 18, 2021
A look at how to reduce fines — the broken pieces of wood pellets — and improve pellet quality, with Biomass Engineering & Equipment.
It’s no secret: fines lower pellets’ value. Too many fines can result in a customer or port authority rejecting a supply of pellets altogether. These concerns are why manufacturers do their best to screen their pellets. But,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 18, 2021
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) is the first utility in Maryland to gain regulatory approval for the use of RNG in its gas distribution system.
Approval of BGE’s RNG tariff from the Maryland Public Service Commission comes as Maryland’s first RNG plant, owned and operated by Bioenergy Devco, nears completion in Howard County.
Bioenergy DevCo’s food... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 18, 2021
SoCalGas’ biomethanation reactor system will be used to help produce renewable energy as part of a power-to-gas demonstration at a dairy digester in Maine.
The power-to-gas process converts renewable electricity into hydrogen. The biomethanation reactor converts the hydrogen and biogenic CO2 into methane that can be used on-site or injected into the grid. The system... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 18, 2021
Vitol will acquire a minority equity stake in Waga Energy, collaborating on landfill RNG projects.
The arrangement between Dutch energy and commodity trading company Vitol and Waga Energy, which specialises in RNG recovery from landfill waste, forms part of the equity sale associated with Waga Energy’s current IPO on Paris Euronext.
Two billion tonnes of waste... [Read More]
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The Régie des matières résiduelles du Lac-Saint-Jean (RWM) and Waga Energy have announced the signing of an agreement to implement an RNG production project at the Hébertville-Station engineered landfill site (ELS) in Quebec
Waste-to-hydrogen producer Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) will be creating 200kg of hydrogen from waste to power a 40-day sea trial of a zero-emission marine hydrogen engine
