Concerns have been raised over the UK Government’s omission of bioenergy in its ‘England Trees Action Plan’. The plan has set a new target to triple woodland creation rates by the end of this Parliament and has confirmed that £500 million (€581 million) of the £640 million (€744 million) ‘Nature for Climate Fund’ will be spent on trees and woodland between... [Read More]

FCC Environment has signed a contract with East Lothian Council in Scotland to provide food waste recycling and collections. From 1 May, FCC took over the services for some 54,000 properties in East Lothian. Steve Longdon, operations director of FCC, said: “The last 14 months have been hard for everyone, but as key workers we had to carry on, proving the resilience... [Read More]

Scottish gin and whisky maker Eden Mill has announced plans for a new distillery and visitor centre, which will use bioenergy. The £8 million (€9.2 million) project, which will be based at St Andrews University in Fife, Scotland, is already well underway, according to The Courier, with around half of the money already secured to deliver the project. A local energy... [Read More]

Several UK bioenergy projects under the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will be granted a 12-month extension, in a move that supports the nation’s decarbonisation goals. The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy has increased the budget cap for non-Tariff Guarantee Extensions under the Non-Domestic RHI. Welcomed by the Association... [Read More]

International biomass exchange Baltpool has started selling sustainable biomass programme (SBP)-certified sustainable biomass that is in high demand in the market. From now on, exchange participants can trade in biomass that meets the requirements of sustainability and has a SBP certificate, which is particularly relevant to Scandinavian and Baltic companies. The certificate... [Read More]

Veolia and SUEZ have signed a combination agreement, confirming their merger, which was formally announced on 11 April. The agreement enables Veolia to acquire the strategic assets needed to pursue its goal of building a global champion in ecological transformation, while guaranteeing a coherent and sustainable industrial and social footprint for the new SUEZ, the companies... [Read More]

Southern Company Gas has taken ownership of the Meadow Branch Landfill Methane Recovery Facility, a renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in Tennessee, US. The facility is located at the Meadow Branch Landfill in Athens, run by sister company PowerSource. The plant is now operated by Southern Company Gas Renewables, a new subsidiary dedicated to growing Southern Company... [Read More]

Renewable gases such as biomethane and hydrogen will play a key role in helping Ireland meet its net-zero by 2050 target, according to a new report. The ‘Hydrogen4EU – Charting pathways to enable net-zero’ report, released on Tuesday, assessed the most effective mix of hydrogen technologies to be deployed across different geographies and sectors in Europe, including... [Read More]

Canada is now home to 279 biogas projects following a decade of ‘rapid growth’, according to recent figures. In its Canadian 2020 Biogas Market Report, the Canadian Biogas Association (CBA) reported that the sector grew by almost 50% between 2011 and 2020. The 279 projects currently operational in the country are capturing waste methane from agricultural waste,... [Read More]

CNG Fuels will open the world’s largest public access biomethane refuelling station for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) near Bristol, UK. The new station, due to open by the end of the year, will allow fleet operators to run their vehicles on low-carbon fuel, support net-zero plans, and save money. Construction has begun on the station in Avonmouth, near the M4/M5... [Read More]

Torsten Fischer has been active in the biogas sector for more than 30 years. In 1999, together with Andreas Krieg, he founded Krieg & Fischer Ingenieure, an engineering company that provides tailor-made solutions for biogas plants to clients all over the world. Most of the company’s plants are located in Germany, but it has extensive experience in dealing with... [Read More]

Gasum is developing new concepts to recover and recycle the nutrients in wastewater sludges. Biogas has a key role in recycling the nutrients in sludges and the production of renewable transport fuel as part of energy-efficient sludge processing. The processing of wastewater sludge and recovery of nutrients in concentrated, high-quality forms has been an active subject... [Read More]

Sapphire Gas Solutions, a Texas, US-based LNG and CNG solutions company, has entered the renewable natural gas (RNG) market. The firm was recently awarded the transportation and logistics contracts for seven farm-based RNG operations in central California. The farms are not connected to local gas pipeline infrastructure. This created a need to compress and deliver the... [Read More]

Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has partnered with Cesaro Mac Import (CMI) to build a Kompogas® biogas plant in Italy. The plant, which will utilise dry anaerobic digestion (AD) technology, will be built 140 kilometres south of Milan under the lead of CMI, which has extensive experience in the Italian waste management sector, for Iren Group. The installation – the 100th... [Read More]

Royal Mail is adding 29 biogas-powered trucks to its fleet. In the coming weeks, the bio-CNG fuelled trucks, will be introduced to the company’s fleet in the North West of England, in addition to the two already in operation. At 40 tonnes, the gas-powered trucks, fuelled by bio-CNG, are a similar size to a typical Royal Mail heavy goods vehicle (HGV). The vehicles... [Read More]

BayoTech has signed a memorandum of understanding with Element 2, a UK-based venture capital-backed deployer of hydrogen refuelling stations and hydrogen fuel retailer. Under the agreement, the two firms will collaborate on several projects linking hydrogen production to end-users. Initially focused on the commercial fleet transport industry, the companies will reduce... [Read More]