INNIO Jenbacher will supply two gas engines for SynCraft’s wood gas power plants in Austria. SynCraft biomass power plants equipped with Jenbacher gas engines are already in operation in Austria, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, and Japan. INNIO will supply two Jenbacher J412 gas engines, each with an electrical output of 500 kW, for the two new SynCraft wood... [Read More]

Chevron U.S.A is investing an additional $20 million (€16.4 million) in Clean Energy Fuels Corp’s Adopt-a-Port initiative. Chevron has now invested a total of $28 million (€23 million) in the initiative, which provides truck operators – large fleets and owner-operators – serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with cleaner, carbon-negative renewable... [Read More]

On 29 April, Clean Energy Technologies (CETY) announced it had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ashfield Ag Resources to co-develop its initial biomass processing facility using the high temperature ablative fast pyrolysis reactor. Located in Massachusetts, US, this project will convert forest biomass waste products into renewable electricity and... [Read More]

Mitsubishi Power has received a turnkey order for a 50 MW woody biomass-fired power generation facility in Japan. Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, will provide the full turnkey solution for the plant, handling engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC), with commercial operation scheduled to commence in November 2024. The EPC work... [Read More]

Ingevity Corporation has announced a strategic partnership with and investment in GreenGasUSA, an integrated RNG solutions provider. With this investment, announced on 27 April, Ingevity now holds less than 50% ownership in GreenGas. Based in Charleston, South Carolina, GreenGas contracts with agricultural farms, landfills, and industrial and municipal wastewater... [Read More]

A multi-disciplinary team at Teagasc, a state agency providing research, advisory and education in agriculture, horticulture, food, and rural development in Ireland, has held the first online meeting of the technical working group for a new anaerobic digestion (AD) project called FLEET. FLEET will identify farm-scale, landscape-level and national-level economic and... [Read More]

Taaleri will have the right to license NextFuel’s new torrefaction technology in its planned biocoal project in Joensuu, Finland, under a new agreement. NextFuel’s new torrefaction technology makes it possible to produce a clean version of coal in less than 30 minutes, using biomass. The fuel can be produced from a variety of abundant biomass raw materials, including... [Read More]

Energy firm St1 Norge has partnered with Nor-log Gruppen and Knapphus Energi to build a network of biogas filling points in Norway. St1 Norge, a subsidiary of Nordic energy company St1 Nordic Oy, has signed an agreement with Knapphus og Biogrønn to purchase 33.33% of the shares in the company Biogas Energi Aksdal. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval. St1’s... [Read More]

Weltec Biopower is building a biomethane plant for Spanish dairy farm Torre Santamaria. Since the first 250 kW biogas plant went live in 2011, the Catalan family business has covered its entire energy demand from its residues. The farm was the first milk producer in Spain to use any residual materials to produce energy. The investment in the new renewable natural... [Read More]

Brightmark broke ground on the Caballero Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) project on 4 May. The project includes the construction of new anaerobic digesters at Caballero Dairy Farms, an 8,800 animal farm in Eloy, Arizona. On completion of the project, the digesters are expected to generate 214 MMBtu of RNG daily. The gas will be delivered into the El Paso Natural Gas... [Read More]

A US cheese company will build a new state-of-the-art cheese and whey protein processing plant and produce biogas in Dodge City, Kansas. Hilmar Cheese Company, founded in 1984, is one of the world’s largest producers of US-style cheese and whey products. The new facility is expected to create 247 new jobs and represents $460 million in capital investment. The project... [Read More]

Yarra Valley Water’s waste to energy facility has processed 100,000 tonnes of food waste, enough to fill 40 Olympic sized swimming pools. The emissions saved are equal to removing more than 45,000 cars from the road in Victoria, Australia, for a year, with enough renewable electricity produced to power Yarra Valley Water’s head office for 11 years. This major... [Read More]

Ontario’s government has released a draft Forest Biomass Action Plan for public review and comment. The plan examines innovative uses of forest biomass, mill by-products and other wood matter, with applications from heat and power generation to sustainable, low-carbon consumer products. Developing the action plan is a key commitment of Sustainable Growth: Ontario’s... [Read More]

Every home in England will receive easier and more consistent recycling collections, the government has announced. Under new plans to boost recycling and protect the environment, every household will receive separate, weekly food waste collections from 2023. Plans being considered include the introduction of statutory guidance on new minimum service standards for... [Read More]

Drax Group will begin constructing the first of three new ‘satellite’ pellet plants in Arkansas. The three plants are together expected to produce around 120,000 tonnes of sustainable biomass pellets annually from sawmill residues, supporting the company’s plans to increase self-supply to its power station in Yorkshire, UK. Drax will begin construction of the... [Read More]

Arla and its farmers are closing the loop on the renewable electricity produced on-farm, keeping the power generated within the company value chain. While some of the company’s dairy farmers engage in biodiversity projects and others provide manure for biogas, many of Arla’s cooperative farmers generate green electricity for their own farms and the public grid,... [Read More]