J V Energen’s newly installed carbon capture facility in Dorset, UK was officially opened by the Prince of Wales on 9 June. The facility supplies green CO2 to its new joint venture business BioCarbonics, having been captured from a full-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) and biomethane-to-grid plant. The CO2 produced at J V Energen’s Rainbarrow Farm AD plant is processed... [Read More]

Drax Group will use Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering’s (MHI) carbon capture technology under a long-term contract. The agreement for Drax to use Mitsubishi’s Advanced KM DCR process™ would be the largest deployment of negative emissions in power generation anywhere in the world. The contract, which combines UK innovation and world-leading Japanese technology,... [Read More]

Blue Planet Environmental Solutions, based in Singapore, has acquired Qube Renewables, a firm specialising in biogas systems. Marking its third acquisition this year, Qube Renewables has a successful track record in designing, building and deploying small-scale energy generating systems powered by biogas. These systems are especially suited to rural areas or developing... [Read More]

Altri’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenvolt – Energias Renovaveis, has agreed with Equitix Group to acquire Tilbury Green Power Holdings. Tilbury Green Power owns a fully operational biomass power plant with a net design capacity of 46.3 MW located in the port of Tilbury, Essex, UK. Ownership will be split between the firms, with Greenvolt taking 51% and 49% going... [Read More]

Biodegradable wastes will be collected from a new £20 million (€23 million) cheese project in Wales and turned into biogas. Thanks to Welsh Government funding, the new project – Mona Island Dairy Factory - will produce Welsh and continental cheeses in a 25,000 square-foot facility based in Mona Industrial Park on Anglesey. A £3 million (€3.4 million) grant... [Read More]

Wessex Water trucks powered by sewage and food waste will hit UK roads this summer. Each truck converted from diesel to biomethane achieves a carbon saving equivalent to removing more than 100 cars from the road. Following in the footsteps of Bristol’s famous ‘poo bus’, which was the first in the UK to powered by biomethane, the new heavy goods vehicles (HGVs)... [Read More]

Tanjung Bruas Port, a member of MMC Group, has started wood pellet shipments from its terminal in Melaka (Malacca), Malaysia. This marks the first-ever shipment of wood pellets through the port. A total volume of 10,200 tonnes of pellets was shipped from Tanjung Bruas Port on 29 April and arrived safely in the Port of Gunsan, South Korea, on 9 May. Going forward, pellet... [Read More]

An eight-unit apartment complex with a biomass district heating system has been opened in Yellowknife, Canada. The Northwest Territories Housing Corporation (NWTHC) announced the opening at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on 4 June. The $2.2 million (€1.49 million) building will be the first public housing in Yellowknife to use a biomass district heating system. The... [Read More]

Irish firm Henderson Foodservice has unveiled a new £16 million (€18.5 million) warehouse facility and announced anaerobic digestion (AD) plans. The new facility forms part of an ongoing re-development of Henderson Group’s Mallusk complex, which began last year. The Foodservice team has accelerated the move to the 190,000 square-foot ambient and chilled distribution... [Read More]

AvantiGas, part of UGI International, has received its first delivery of bio-LPG from Ekobenz under their new partnership. Ekobenz specialises in the catalytic conversion of bioethanol to bio-gasoline and bio-LPG. Based in Poland, it is the first and currently only company in Europe that has successfully commercialised bio-LPG production based on advanced bioethanol... [Read More]

Greenleaf Power, backed by Denham Capital, has secured $36.7 million (€30.1 million) from East West Bank in biomass project funding. The financing for Greenleaf Power’s project was secured through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenleaf Biomass Holdings, and marks one of the largest biomass power project financings in North American history. The funds will be... [Read More]

The critical role of legislation in tackling the UK’s food waste crisis With the UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) capacity continuing to rapidly increase, Philip Simpson, commercial director at ReFood, discusses the role legislation needs to play in slashing national food waste figures and explains why a landfill ban is critical to long-term success. Recent figures... [Read More]

Liquind 27/4 and EnviTec Biogas have signed a contract for the sale of bio-LNG. The bio-LNG will be produced in a new liquefaction plant, which will be built by EnviTec in Güstrow, Germany. Liquind is in charge of organising the transport and distribution of bio-LNG to heavy-duty customers at its truck fuelling stations. EnviTec is already operating a biogas production... [Read More]

SUEZ Group and Airex Energy have partnered to industrialise the recovery of biomass residues into biochar. The two companies will combine their expertise to provide solutions to regions and industries on their path towards carbon neutrality. The biochar – a stable form of organic carbon – produced will be essential to the resilience, vitality, and fertility of urban... [Read More]

California fleets with bio-CNG achieved carbon negativity in 2020, according to Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) and the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition). Ninety-two percent of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in California last year was RNG. According to data from the California Air Resources Board, the annual average carbon... [Read More]

Washington State Department of Corrections has received $388,000 (€319,000) to convert its old oil and propane furnaces and boilers to run on biomass. The funding was allocated by the Washington State Department of Commerce through the Wood Energy for Public Facilities programme, part of the state’s Clean Energy Fund (CEF). It is the first CEF project aimed at... [Read More]