A decision by the Norwegian Parliament to equalise biogas with hydrogen and electricity has provided a boost for the country’s bioenergy sector. The Norwegian Parliament’s decision in May to equalise biogas with electricity and hydrogen in all public policies was undoubtedly a major step forward for the bioenergy industry in Norway and also, potentially, for the... [Read More]

FortisBC Energy is now receiving carbon-neutral RNG from Alberta-based Lethbridge Biogas. Following the expansion of its facility to add a biogas upgrading system, Lethbridge Biogas has signed an agreement to provide FortisBC with up to 350,000 gigajoules of RNG annually. This is FortisBC’s third source of RNG from outside of British Columbia to date, as the firm... [Read More]

Clare County Council in Ireland has given the green light for the construction of a biomass plant in Stonehall. In September 2020, Carbon Sole Group submitted plans for the construction of a biomass processing and storage area, a gasification and methanation facility for the production of advanced biofuels, and a gasification and combined heat and power facility. Carbon... [Read More]

ArcelorMittal Ghent has chosen to use biocoal from Dutch company Perpetual Next in its steel production process. The company is starting a pilot to use biocoal as a high-quality partial replacement for fossil coal. The partnership between Perpetual Next and ArcelorMittal in Ghent starts with an initial delivery of 30,000 tonnes of biocoal to the Ghent blast furnace,... [Read More]

TruStar Energy, an OPAL Fuels company, has signed a contract with CITY Furniture to build three RNG fuelling stations and supply fuel. TruStar will manage the development, construction, and service in Miami Gardens, Ocoee, and Plant City, Florida. Under the contract, OPAL Fuels will supply the company with 7.75 million gasoline gallon equivalents of RNG over the terms... [Read More]

Greenlane Renewables’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America, has signed a total of $12.8 million (€8.7 million) in contracts for biogas upgrading systems for US RNG projects. One of the contracts involves the supply of one of Greenlane’s membrane separation biogas upgrading systems for a project owned by an international energy company. Greenlane... [Read More]

The World Biogas Association (WBA) has responded to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, stating that anaerobic digestion (AD) is 'dangerously overlooked' as an immediate climate solution. The WBA has renewed its call for the potential of the biogas industry to be ‘urgently unlocked’ so that it can help deliver the “rapid reductions... [Read More]

Gasification solutions firm EQTEC has acquired a 1.2 MWe waste-to-energy gasification plant in Croatia. EQTEC acquired the facility in Belišće through Synergy Projects, a joint venture (JV) between the EQTEC and its Croatian project development partner, Sense ESCO. Originally commissioned in 2016, the plant was built around EQTEC’s proprietary and patented advanced... [Read More]

UK resource and waste management company FCC Environment has been growing energy crops for biomass fuel at its old landfill and quarry sites. The company, based in Northampton, has been planting Miscanthus grass, also known as elephant grass, at several of its old sites across the UK that it has restored following their closure. FCC recently harvested this year’s... [Read More]

Black Sheep Brewery in Yorkshire has signed a three-year deal with biogas producer Warrens Group. The agreement will support the Masham-based brewery by generating a new income stream from the by-products of the brewing process, the Yorkshire Post reported. Warrens Group, based in Newton Aycliffe, is one of the first food waste recycling firms in the UK to power... [Read More]

Green Gas Day 2021, the UK’s largest gas-to-grid industry gathering, will take place in Birmingham on 9 September. After the 2020 edition was moved due to the pandemic, this year’s event will take place in-person at Birmingham’s National Motorcycle Museum. The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) and CNG Services have been running Green... [Read More]

UK timber frame manufacturer SO Modular has installed new machinery at its facility in South Wales, including production lines, a treatment tank and a biomass boiler. The development of the facility in Neath began in April 2020 and is set to open at the end of the summer. Once completed, with all the new machinery installed and running, the site will immediately be... [Read More]

Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) has partnered with Genecis Bioindustries to develop, scale and integrate a novel biotechnology platform to upcycle food waste into premium sustainable plastics, using anaerobic digestion (AD). NGen, the industry-led organisation behind Canada’s advanced manufacturing supercluster, announced $6 million (€4.06 million) in... [Read More]

Using its patented technology, Norwegian firm Arbaflame is producing black pellets derived from bio-waste to replace or co-fire with coal. Arbaflame, owned by Norwegian investment company Pemco, has pioneered what it describes as the ‘next generation of wood pellets’. The company has spent 10 years and invested around NOK 550 million (€52.6 million) in developing... [Read More]

Australian firm Sweetman Biomass (SBM), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sweetman Renewables, has signed a waste biomass supply agreement with a ‘leading Japanese conglomerate’. The 20-year binding supply agreement will secure the supply of waste biomass to help power Japan with renewable fuel. SBM will export 60,000 tonnes per annum of green woodchip to a power plant... [Read More]

Capstone Green Energy (formerly Capstone Turbine Corporation) has received a contract for a microturbine system to operate grid-connected on biogas at a wastewater treatment facility in Central America. The new Capstone Signature Series C1000S system, slated to be commissioned in November, is expected to allow the site to reduce the amount of electricity needed to be... [Read More]