A town in Norfolk, UK will become one of the first to be supplied mainly with green gas from an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant. As part of a £17 million (€19.8 million) upgrade project by Privilege Finance, 100,000 tonnes of food waste collected from local households and businesses will be processed by the AD plant, to produce green gas for use in 4,000 homes in... [Read More]

The Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA) said it is “disappointed and dismayed” that a recent report fails to recognise the potential and role of biofuels and biogas as part of transport decarbonisation plans. The Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action in Ireland (Oireachtas Committee) published its report on ‘Reducing emissions in the transport sector... [Read More]

Proparco and the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) have partnered to finance the first biomass plant with grid injection in Africa. During the visit to Côte d’Ivoire by Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Proparco, the private sector financing arm of Agence française de développement (AFD) Group, and EAIF closed a €165... [Read More]

Anaerobic digestion (AD) has been included in plans for a new Scottish distillery site. Jackson Distillers will establish the new grain distillery in the Scottish Borders to meet the growing demand for grain whisky, used for Scotch whisky blending and a Scottish neutral-grain spirit, for gin and vodka. Plans have been submitted to establish the distillery at Charlesfield... [Read More]

Future Biogas is planning to build 25 new biogas plants by 2028 with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capabilities. The news forms part of the company’s announcement that it intends to float on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. The company currently operates 10 biogas plants in the UK on behalf of various investment entities, including JLEN Environmental... [Read More]

Food company Valio and energy company St1 are establishing a joint venture (JV) to produce renewable biogas from dairy farm manure and other agricultural by-products for use as a transport fuel. The new company is targeting up to 1,000 GWh of biogas production by 2030, the amount is one-third of the biogas needed for Finland’s fossil-free transport roadmap. Significant... [Read More]

DMT Clear Gas Solutions’s RNG facility at Seabreeze Farm in Canada is now operational. The third-generation dairy farm owned by the Keulen family in British Columbia was previously using water wash technology to convert biogas into RNG. Now, the RNG facility uses DMT’s three-stage membrane separation technology, the Carborex® MS. “We’ve been making manure... [Read More]

California Bioenergy (CalBio) has brought two new dairy biomethane projects online. The South Tulare and North Visalia clusters, both located in Tulare County, are the third and fourth dairy biomethane projects brought online by CalBio in the state of California, joining Kern County and Tulare County. The South Tulare project will collect, condition, and inject gas... [Read More]

Snam4Mobility's hybrid natural gas and biomethane Toyota C-HR car will cover around 25,000 kilometres in a ‘symbolic’ journey connecting Italy and Japan. On 10 June, the ‘Rpipartiamo Insieme, Milano-Cortina-Tokyo 2021’ trip began, which will see the car embarking on a journey that will connect the cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzom, locations of the 2026... [Read More]

Colony Farm in Cambridgeshire, UK, houses a virtual pipeline to boost its biogas potential Upgraded biogas is a very efficient source of renewable energy — biomethane. Biogas can be produced from various organic resources, including agricultural waste, municipal waste, landfills, and wastewater treatment facilities. Some of these sites are in very remote areas that... [Read More]

Active Energy Group has been awarded a ‘Notice of Allowance’ for the Canadian patent for its CoalSwitch process and the beneficiation of biomass. The Notice of Allowance will ensure AEG, based in London, holds the legal rights to exclude any other Canadian company from producing, selling, or using the claimed CoalSwitch process for 17 years after the date of issuance. AEG’s... [Read More]

JLEN Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has acquired a 100% equity stake in Cramlington Renewable Energy Developments (CRED), which owns a biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant in the UK. The acquisition of CRED, for an undisclosed amount, was made on a debt-free basis and represents JLEN’s first investment in a large-scale biomass CHP facility. The plant... [Read More]

Naturgy has become the first company to inject renewable gas from landfill into Spain’s gas distribution network. The renewable gas plant, located in the Parc de l’Alba de Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, next to the Elena waste site, received a €2.2 million investment. With this installation, Naturgy demonstrates its ability to carry out this type of project... [Read More]

Markus Süßman is the head of special projects at German energy company, Danpower. Having studied energy engineering and worked in the bioenergy sector since 1992, Süßman certainly knows a thing or two about the industry. Danpower supplies heat, cooling, power and wood pellets to more than 250,000 homes, public institutions, and commercial customers in more than... [Read More]

A new biomass plant in Canada is now in full operation, providing heat and hot water to Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Burnaby campus and around half of the UniverCity community. The plant has drastically reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, said the university, making it a leader in the use of green energy with one of the smallest GHG footprints of any university... [Read More]

On 8 June, Frontline BioEnergy delivered the final module of the Stine pyrolysis plant to the project site in Redfield, Iowa. The Stine pyrolysis project, a collaboration between Stine Seed Farms and Frontline BioEnergy, will transform biomass into biochar and bio-oil. Frontline took the project from conception through detailed engineering and fabrication. Work on... [Read More]