PIC Group has been awarded the operation and maintenance (O&M) agreement for the Eagle Valley Clean Energy Biomass plant in Gypsym, Colorado, by Eagle Valley Clean Energy. Under the terms of the $8 million (€6.7 million) O&M agreement, PIC Group, a global power and energy service provider, will provide a standards-based approach to O&M services, along... [Read More]

Energy technology firm Baker Hughes has invested in Electrochaea, a company developing novel proprietary biomethanation technology. Through its investment, Baker Hughes will enhance its broader carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) portfolio and provide an integrated solution for customers across the CO2 value chain to enable the production of low-carbon synthetic natural... [Read More]

Gasum has partnered with FlixBus to supply biogas for its new bus operating between the capitals of Sweden and Norway. The bus, operating between Stockholm and Oslo, is a Scania vehicle and will start operating on its new route at the beginning of July. As a 100% renewable fuel, biogas supports FlexiBus’ climate strategy. FlixBus’ owner FlixMobility is known... [Read More]

The Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) has urged the UK Government to recognise the value that waste wood biomass adds to the UK’s efforts to decarbonise when developing its Biomass Strategy 2022. In its response to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) call for evidence consultation, the WRA stressed that there is a limit to the... [Read More]

Host has developed a high-tech bioenergy plant with innovative NO-NOx thermal energy conversion of residual wood and waste streams. Developed over a decade, this development of technology results in the lowest measured emissions in the Netherlands, said Host, and a state-of-the-art product – the ‘very welcome modular bioenergy combined heat and power plant of the... [Read More]

With COP26 on the horizon, there is an opportunity for the UK to bolster its bioenergy potential, writes Colin Ley. This is a massive year for the UK bioenergy industry with the impact of the COVID-19 recovery, Brexit-inspired trade battles, and COP26 combining to create upsides and downsides in pretty much equal measure. While the whole world is coping with the... [Read More]

Delta Biofuel has shared proposals for a $70 million (€58.8 million) biomass fuel pellet facility in Louisiana, US. Governor John Bel Edwards and Delta Biofuel’s CEO Philip Keating announced that the company is evaluating Iberia Parish in Louisiana for the planned renewable fuel plant. The facility would produce biomass fuel pellet made from residual sugarcane fibre,... [Read More]

Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) in Goa, India has revealed plans to generate more electricity from treating wet waste after a successful trial at a biomethanation plant installed by the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) in 2019. The municipality will tender work for two more biogas plants, which are likely to be set up in the next six... [Read More]

The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has submitted to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson the UK AD and Biogas Industry Climate Declaration, whereby the industry commits to doing everything in its powers to reduce carbon emissions and reach net-zero goals. With this declaration, the UK AD and biogas sector wants to send a ‘clear message’ to the... [Read More]

A ‘pioneering’ pig farm in North Carolina, US has reported a 10%+ increase in its biogas yields by investing in two new chopper pumps. Soon after Butler Farms opened just over 25 years ago, the owner quickly wanted to reduce its environmental impact, culminating in the development of its own pig manure-powered biogas plant in 2011. As a contract grower that takes... [Read More]

An industrial-scale landfill gas-to-biomethane plant has been inaugurated in Genoa, Italy. Green energy company Asja oversaw the conversion of the existing electricity production facility into an advanced biomethane production plant. The plant, built and managed by Asja, under concession from waste management firm AMIU Genoa, entered into operation at the end of... [Read More]

Southwest Gas has invested in several RNG projects in Arizona and California. The firm is working with RNG developers to interconnect various RNG projects across its service areas with Southwest Gas’s facilities. There are currently four projects in Arizona and one in California that are approved and will take RNG to market shortly, the company said. Together,... [Read More]

Mercer Celgar, a pulp and paper mill in British Columbia, is working to facilitate and increase fibre utilisation with help from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC). The company, which also produces bioenergy to power its operations and serve homes in the area, is working in the Kootenay-Boundary Forest Region with $3 million in funding from FESBC. The funding... [Read More]

EnviTec Biogas has commissioned a third EnviThan biogas upgrading plant in Estonia. Following the construction and commissioning of two EnviThan facilities in Tartu and Vinni, the third facility in Oisu was completed on schedule, taking just six months from signature to handover. “Our customer here again was AS EG Ehitus, a subsidiary of gas network provider AS... [Read More]

Time is running out for realistic climate commitments, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said in its latest progress report. In what the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) described as a ‘sobering’ report, the CCC said while the UK Government has made ‘historic climate promises’, it has been too slow to follow these with delivery. This... [Read More]

Dutch wood pellet imports reached a new high in 2020, totalling $511 million (€427 million), or 2.76 million metric tons (MMT). Figures released by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service on 26 April showed the US was the leading non-EU supplier of pellets to the Netherlands in 2020. The report shows the current share... [Read More]