Leyline Renewable Capital has partnered with PurposeEnergy to convert Ben & Jerry’s dairy waste into clean water and power. Leyline, a provider of pre-construction debt and equity capital for renewable energy development, will facilitate the development of the SAINT project in St Albans, Vermont, that will anaerobically convert industrial food waste, including... [Read More]

Severn Trent Green Power has secured a contract extension with Oxfordshire County Council to process its household food and garden waste until 2029. The partnership, which began in 2009, will see Severn Trent continue to treat Oxfordshire’s food waste at its Cassington and Wallingford anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities. Between them, the two plants treat around... [Read More]

In the last two years, grocery retailer ICA Sweden has greatly increased its use of biogas, going from zero to over 2,500 tonnes in 2020. In 2021, ICA Sweden will increase its biogas use to approximately 3,200 tonnes, reducing CO2 emissions by 10,000 tonnes compared to if the vehicles were run on diesel. ICA is one of the biggest owners and operators of biogas-fuelled... [Read More]

Casella Waste Systems and Rudarpa officially broke ground on a new landfill gas-to-RNG facility in New Hampshire, US on 19 May. The new processing facility, to be built at the North Country Environmental Services disposal facility I Bethlehem, is designed to capture the landfill gas which is currently being flared and separate it into marketable gases, focusing on methane... [Read More]

Projects selected for Phase 1 of the UK Government’s direct air capture and greenhouse gas removal programme have been revealed. In June last year, the Prime Minister announced up to £100 million (€115 million) of new research and development funding to help develop direct air capture technologies in the UK. As part of this, the innovation competition seeks to... [Read More]

Macquarie Capital Principal Finance has acquired Evercreech Renewable Energy, a greenfield anaerobic digestion (AD) development in the UK. Macquarie Capital’s investment will fund the end-to-end construction of the plant, which is expected to begin injecting green gas into the UK’s national gas network by early next year. It will become part of the company’s... [Read More]

In Riga, Latvia’s capital, Justsen Energiteknik recently completed a major district heating project, one of its largest projects to-date. In Latvia, Justsen Energiteknik recently completed a very special project, one of its largestever biomass projects, at a district heating facility. Justsen had previously worked on various projects with engineering design experts... [Read More]

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has announced plans to procure a newbuilding Panamax bulker to transport woody biomass for energy as its main cargo, in light of increased demand. The new vessel’s specifications are in pre-compliance with the Energy Efficiency Design Index - the environmental regulations that will be adopted in 2025. The specifications also call for reinforced... [Read More]

Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners (FEIP) and JLEN Environmental Assets Group have acquired a 90% equity shareholding in Energie Tecnologie Ambiente (ETA). The companies have each acquired a 45% shareholding in ETA. The seller, Marcegaglia Investments, has retained a 10% stake. Operational since 2012, ETA is a 16.8 MW energy-from-waste (EfW) power plant that... [Read More]

Active Energy Group (AEG), headquartered in London, is building a second production plant for its alternative CoalSwitch™ pellets in Maine, US, the company revealed in a recent update. AEG is currently expanding production of its alternative CoalSwitch pellets in the US, including the development of its initial pellet production facility in Lumberton, North Carolina.... [Read More]

WSSC Water commissioners have approved an 18-year contract with Washington Gas (WGL) for a renewable natural gas (RNG) project. The contract is for the construction and installation of approximately 900 feet of natural gas pipeline and related infrastructure to supply natural gas to, and convey RNG from, WSSC Water’s Piscataway Bioenergy facility in Accokeek, Maryland,... [Read More]

Air Liquide has launched its first green bond issue, by raising €500 million dedicated to financing and refinancing the development of sustainable projects, including biogas, hydrogen, and oxygen. This operation is in line with the company’s first SRI-labelled bonds, which the firm had issued as early as 2012 to finance the expansion of its Home Healthcare business.... [Read More]

DMT Environmental Technology has been acquired by Broadview Energy Solutions. DMT's shareholders, E.H.M Dirkse Beheer BV and NV NOM, have decided to sell 100% of their holdings to Broadview, a Dutch company that is active in the field of liquefied natural gas distribution. With the new shareholder, DMT will continue to develop and expand its business. It will continue... [Read More]

Aemetis Biogas, a subsidiary of Aemetis, has started constructing a dairy biogas cleanup and compression unit in California. The biogas cleanup unit at the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester project will produce RNG that meets utility gas pipeline standards and will be used as a transportation fuel. Construction crews began site preparation and excavation this... [Read More]

Amp Americas has announced a deal with Equilibrium and Green Gas Partners (GGP) to operate and manage their dairy RNG project in Arizona. The project, in operation since 2018, was developed by Equilibrium, an investment firm in carbon transition infrastructure, and GGP. It is designed to capture dairy waste from around 30,000 milking cows across three dairy farms to... [Read More]

Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) is building a second Kompogas plant in Greece’s Peloponnese region. The Swiss cleantech company was awarded the contract to deliver the core module for a Kompogas® plant in the region. This will be the second plant constructed on behalf of Terna Energy on the Green peninsula. Following on quickly from the contract to supply two Kompogas... [Read More]