Toronto Zoo’s biogas plant is now operational, transforming manure and food waste into bioenergy and fertiliser. ZooShare, a community cooperative led by Daniel Bida, pitched its proposal to zoo officials in October 2010. The concept had already been introduced in Munich but had not yet been trialled in North America. According to Toronto.com, getting ZooShare’s... [Read More]

SCA, a major forest owner in Sweden, has invested SEK 50 million (€4.9 million) to reduce its pellet mill's environmental impact. The investment into the Härnosänd pellet mill will also reduce ‘discomforts’ for the neighbouring community. Since 1992, the Härnosänd site in Murbergsviken, northern Sweden has been producing wood pellets made from sawdust from... [Read More]

Volvo Cars’s manufacturing facility in Torslanda, Sweden, is now ‘climate-neutral’. Volvo Cars counts a manufacturing site as fully climate-neutral when it registers no net increase in the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere as a result of the electricity and heating used by the plant. The Torslanda facility, the company’s oldest site,... [Read More]

EnviTec Biogas and Liqvis have signed an agreement for the supply of bio-LNG. EnviTec Bioenergie Güstrow, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EnviTec Biogas, will start supplying Liqvis with bio-LNG from the third quarter of next year. From autumn 2022, bio-LNG will be produced at the biogas plant in Güstrow. To date, this plant has been used to produce biomethane and... [Read More]

Gasrec is celebrating a milestone achievement after collecting the 10,000th tanker load of LNG from the National Grid facility on the Isle of Grain (Grain LNG), east of London. Demand for LNG in the road transport sector has rocketed in recent years as operators continue to seek out environmentally-friendly alternatives to diesel. The off-grid industrial sector has... [Read More]

Cory has been awarded £12.1 million (€14 million) through the UK Government’s Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) for a major district heating project. The £1.6 million (€1.86 million) commercialisation grant and £10.5 million (€12.2 million) construction loan will support the development of one of the UK’s largest heat networks, delivered by Vattenfall,... [Read More]

Ductor and Enagás have formed a new partnership to explore biogas opportunities in Spain. The two companies reached an agreement for an undisclosed but ‘substantial’ investment by Enagás Emprende, a corporate venture arm of Spanish gas infrastructure company, Enagás. Enagás Emprende invests in and accelerates start-ups and innovative technologies in the field... [Read More]

BayoTech and IBMS Group will launch the UK’s first renewable hydrogen project using biomethane from food waste as a feedstock. The project will produce 1,000 kilograms of renewable hydrogen per day to fuel zero-emission vehicles in London and Surrey. The partnership timed its public debut to support the launch of the CBI’s ‘Seize the Moment’ initiative and... [Read More]

Ronja Capital II, Stette Invest and Kjølås Stansekniver have collectively acquired a 23.3% stake in Norwegian biogas company, Hyperthermics. Hyperthermics delivers compact systems that work as ‘boosters’ in biogas production, as well as systems that produce saleable proteins from different types of biomass. The technology was developed to increase biogas yields... [Read More]

The Koehler Group is planning to fully convert its plant in Oberkirch, Germany to biomass. The €60 million project will enable the firm to produce the energy it needs for its paper production operations with wood chips, green waste and mill residue. This means the fuel will be CO2-neutral, as well as a renewable raw material sourced from the region. Koehler’s... [Read More]

The UK is setting an example to the rest of the world in transitioning from coal to net-zero using bioenergy, according to the authors of a new report. ‘Electric Insights: Q1 2021: Britain’s Transition from Coal to Biomass to BECCS’, an independent report by academics from Imperial College London for Drax Electric Insights, has shown that the UK is the largest... [Read More]

Glennon Brothers, a third-generation family timber processing firm, has entered into an agreement with SHV Energy to buy Balcas. Balcas operates a sawmill in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, producing quality sawn timber products for the fencing, landscaping, agricultural, construction, and pallet and packaging sectors. The company also operates two... [Read More]

Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority in Utica, New York, has recovered 11.5 million pounds (approximately 5,750 tons) of food waste since its launch in 2019. The $3.4 million (€2.7 million) Food2Energy facility opened in May 2019 and recovers food waste, which makes up 22% of all municipal solid waste sent to landfill, furthering the region’s goal to conserve landfill... [Read More]

Hive Energy has acquired 50% of Dutch green energy company, DBG Group, to develop biogas projects. This partnership marks UK-based Hive’s latest progression in its mission to create transformational change for a cleaner future through partnering with circular economy companies. In the first waste-to-energy project of the partnership, the companies will process... [Read More]

Australian energy infrastructure firm, Jemena, is calling for a renewable gas target to help achieve the country’s net-zero goals. Jemena’s managing director, Frank Tudor, said a renewable gas target would likely replicate the success of the renewable energy target (RET) which helped to spur the development of renewable technologies in the electricity sector. “This... [Read More]

The UK Government has given a £166.5 million (€192 million) cash injection to the development of green technology. The multi-million-pound investment, awarded to innovators, business, academics and heavy industry across the UK, will accelerate the delivery of the game-changing technologies needed to further drive the UK’s climate change ambitions while creating... [Read More]