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Raizen, Brazil's largest sugar and ethanol company has announced it will build its second biogas plant, with a production capacity of 71,233 m³/d (2.5mn cf/d) of biomethane. The company has signed long-term contracts with fertilizer producer Yara and auto manufacturer Volkswagen for the totality of the production. Yara said it would use 20mn m³/d of biomethane output for the production of…
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Checchi Capital Advisers has bought a new position in shares of sugar and bioenergy specialist, Bunge. Checchi has acquired 2,538 shares of the basic materials company’s stock, valued at approximately £188,800. A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in the business. McIlrath & Eck lifted its position in Bunge by 120.6…
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Danish fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) reached a €375 million first close for its new CI Advanced Bioenergy Fund (CI ABF). The fund, which has a target size of €1 billion, will focus on equity investments in advanced bioenergy infrastructure in Europe and North America. It enables institutional investors to contribute to the energy transition and participate in the…
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Reynolds Logistics has committed to a five-year biomethane delivery contract renewal with Gasrec. The agreement will see Reynolds Logistics continue to collect biomethane from the Grain LNG terminal on the Isle of Grain and deliver it to Gasrec’s growing number of refuelling facilities around the UK. Reynolds Logistics has taken delivery of two more ADR specified Volvo FM LNG 6x2 tractor…
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AGL Australia will acquire Energy360, a provider of biogas plants for commercial and industrial customers. AGL operates Australia’s largest electricity generation portfolio, with an operated generation capacity of 10,984 MW, and is the country’s largest private investor in renewable energy. AGL’s chief customer office, Christine Corbett, said zero-emissions gases like biomethane have…
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WM, a large North American waste management company, has shared plans to invest $825 million (€783 million) in its renewable energy footprint from 2022 to 2025 by expanding its RNG infrastructure. With the investment, WM’s network of RNG facilities, landfill gas-to-electricity plants, and other beneficial use projects are estimated to generate enough renewable energy to supply the…
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Delorean Corporation (Delorean) has been awarded the contract for Yarra Valley Water’s second food waste-to-energy plant in Victoria, Australia. Delorean’s Engineering Division will design, build, operate, and maintain the anaerobic digestion (AD) facility for Yarra Valley Water. The facility will be one of the largest of its kind in Victoria, diverting around 50,000 tonnes of food waste…
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Greencoat Capital has acquired Margam Green Energy Plant (MGEP) – a waste wood-fired biomass plant in South Wales, UK from Glennmont Partners. MGEP has been operational since May 2019 and is one of the UK’s largest biomass plants, with a processing capacity of around 290,000 tonnes per year of waste wood. The facility’s net capacity of 41.8 MW can offset around 150,000 tonnes of CO2 per…
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Nestlé has switched 75% of its truck fleet from diesel to bio-LNG. The food and beverage giant will now make its deliveries around the UK and Ireland emitting up to 95% less carbon, marking a significant step towards Nestlé’s commitment to be net zero by 2050. Nestlé has been exploring solutions to reduce its carbon emissions in its transport and logistics network since 2017. The fuel…
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Anaergia has commissioned its Easy Anaergia Ambiente RNG facility in Pontinia, Italy. The facility can process 36,450 tons of landfill-diverted food scraps and other organic waste each year and convert it into over 3.2 million m3 of RNG, to be injected into the region’s gas pipelines. The new plant will also treat the remaining digestate to create 4,500 tons per year of high-quality…
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Duke Energy has invested in two projects to convert landfill gas into RNG in North Carolina. The two projects, named Foothills Renewables and Upper Piedmont Renewables, will be located in Caldwell County and Person County, respectively. Each project is expected to produce roughly 500,000 dekatherms (Dth) of RNG every year. The combined 1 million Dth is equivalent to the average natural gas…
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UK-based Stobart Energy, which processes waste wood into biomass fuel, has been renamed as Esken Renewables. The company supplies around 1.7 million tonnes of fuel to dedicated biomass plants across the UK. The fuel is used to generate renewable energy equivalent to the annual domestic electricity needs of 2% of the population. The name change follows parent company Esken’s decision to…
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A new research project designed to unlock the potential of sustainable shrimp production in the UK plans to co-locate production with anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities. The project, led by experts at the University in Exeter in partnership with the University of Reading and Rothamsted Research, has received a multi-million pound funding boost. The research, which also includes 11…
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CPM, a manufacturer of pellet mills, pelleting equipment and automation products, has launched new technology to improve wood pellet mill efficiency. The company’s patented Twin Track technology has been developed after a decade of research to reduce energy demand, ensure consistent pellet quality, and boost mill capacity. Twin Track uses two rollers inside the pellet mill, and each…
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