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The Sustainable Resources Verification Scheme (SURE) has been approved by the European Commission as a voluntary scheme that enables economic operators within the bioenergy industry to show compliance with the legal requirements of RED II.
Under the revised Directive (EU) 2018/2001, the EU sustainability criteria have been extended to cover biomass for heating and cooling and power generation.…
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Enbridge Gas and the Ontario Waste Management Association (OWMA) have announced a pilot RNG project to decarbonise waste collection trucks.
More than 40% of Ontario’s waste sector expenditures are related to transportation costs, which are expected to rise. With a fleet of 3,650 waste collection and haulage vehicles in Ontario which consumes approximately 130 million litres of diesel per…
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Synthica Energy has entered the permitting phase for a new anaerobic digestion (AD) facility development in Kentucky, US.
The facility in the heart of Kentucky’s distillery region will focus on converting distillery by-products (stillage) from the state’s growing bourbon industry into RNG. The project is expected to be completed in late 2024 and will process approximately 200,000 tons of…
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Drax, Eco Verde Energy, Privilege Finance, and Future Biogas are among the finalists of the 2022 British Renewable Energy Awards.
More than 100 finalists have been chosen across 16 categories in the awards, hosted by the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA). The categories range from Installer of the Year through to best Young RE Professional.
“I am absolutely…
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Bjørn Halvard Knappskog, CEO of alternative fuel producer Arbaflame, highlights the benefits of increased biomass use in a volatile market.
Over the past year, Europe has faced the highest energy prices in recent memory, almost quadrupling across most markets. Governments have stepped in to reduce the impact on consumers. In Norway, for example, the government is directly compensating…
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Waste Connections of Canada, with the support of Enbridge Gas, has unveiled plans to build a new RNG facility in Ontario, Canada.
The facility will be constructed at the Waste Connections Ridge Landfill in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent. The RNG will flow through new and existing Enbridge Gas infrastructure to transport it to market.
Waste Connections will invest over $50 million (€59…
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Tidewater Renewables (Tidewater), headquartered in Calgary, Canada, has entered into a strategic RNG and feedstock partnership with Rimrock RNG and Rimrock Cattle Company (RCC).
RCC and its affiliates are one of the largest cattle feeding operations in North America. The partnership will secure feedstock supply for both Tidewater’s RNG and Renewable Diesel business units while accelerating…
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A new ‘biofactory’ developed in Wales will support local farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The innovative anaerobic digestion (AD) system was unveiled by Biofactory Energy and Coleg Cambria Llysfasi, supported by Ambition North Wales. It is one of three low-carbon initiatives jointly funded by a £500,000 (€597,000) grant from the Welsh Government via its Whole System…
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Solariant Capital, a renewable energy investment and development company headquartered in California, has agreed to sell its 50 MW Tahara Biomass Power Plant project.
A consortium of Japanese companies including Japan Petroleum Exploration Co, Shizouka Gas & Power Co, Tokyo Energy & Systems, Kawasaki Kinkai Kisen Kaisha, Daiichi Jitsugyo, and Iwatani Corporation have entered into an…
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Plans for a biogas refuelling station in Bangor, Wales, have been recommended for approval.
CNG Fuels, which operates bio-CNG refuelling stations across the UK, submitted the plan for a facility in Parc Bryn Cegin to serve fleets of specially adapted HGVs. The site has been empty for 20 years.
According to a report by Business Live, planning officers commented: “The proposal is for the…
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By Colin Ley.
Less than three weeks ago, I was working towards my early-March deadline with every intention of celebrating the return to more normal production and trading patterns than we’ve seen since Covid emerged at the end of 2019. Looking at the US market, in particular, there were definite signs of an upturn in bioenergy optimism and investment, driven in part by President Biden’s…
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Aemetis Biogas has completed testing of its $12 million (€11 million) dairy biogas-to-RNG upgrading and compression facility in California.
The biogas upgrading unit is co-located at the Aemetis Advanced Fuels Keyes ethanol plant near Modesto and adjacent to the utility natural gas pipeline.
The full system mechanical commissioning process for the biogas-to-RNG facility has been…
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Groupe Lebel will build a new wood pellet plant in Quebec’s Cacouna municipality.
The first phase of the plant’s operations will begin in 2023 with an annual capacity of nearly 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets. Groupe Lebel aims to ship the majority of its production to growing international markets.
“The plant will help us optimise our growth plan,” said Louis-Frédéric Lebel,…
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Drax will deliver a series of events that will provide UK Businesses with information on how they could win contracts to deliver its BECCS technology.
The company is teaming up with Worley, its engineering, procurement, and construction partner; UK energy sector business development organisation NOF, and the West & North Yorkshire and Hull & Humber Chambers of Commerce to deliver the…
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A new platform for the trading of green gases, such as biogas and hydrogen, has been launched in Austria.
The Central European Gas Hub (CEGH), a fully consolidated company of OMV Group, launched the CEGH GreenGas Platform with plans to expand it into central and Eastern Europe.
Green gases like biogas and hydrogen will make a significant contribution to the decarbonisation of the energy…
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