Sep 16, 2021
Aemetis signs pipeline interconnection agreement with PG&E
Pellets News
Sep 16, 2021
Network Rail has completed work on a £2.1 million (€2.46 million) project to repair and strengthen a bridge used by Drax Group.
Aire Bridge in North Yorkshire is used by 100 freight services transporting materials to and from Drax Power Station on average each week.
Over the 10-day blockade, Network Rail staff removed more than 100 metres of track so that a new... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 15, 2021
Two new large recycling vehicles powered entirely from food waste-derived biogas are now in operation in the west of England.
The biogas-fuelled vehicles are powered from the food waste they collect, and now service cafes, restaurants, schools and offices.
They are the latest addition to the expanding fleet of ‘Bio-Bees’, which have served the city of Bristol... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 15, 2021
Chevron U.S.A., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, has signed definitive agreements to form a joint venture (JV) with Mercuria Energy Trading (Mercuria).
Mercuria is one of the world’s largest integrated energy and commodities companies and has partnered with Chevron to own and operate American Natural Gas (ANG) and its network of 60 CNG stations across the US.
Chevron... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 15, 2021
The foundation stone of Metsä Fibre’s Kemi bioproduct mill was laid on 13 September, with the company confirming the project is progressing according to plan.
Totalling €1.6 billion, the investment in the Kemi bioproduct mill is the largest in the history of Finland’s forest industry. Operating entirely without fossil fuels, the mill will produce around 1.5 million... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 15, 2021
Summit Natural Gas, based in Yarmouth, Maine, will receive a portion of $64.7 million in funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a dairy biogas project.
Summit’s digester project is among 22 projects chosen by the DOE focused on producing cost-effective, low-carbon biofuels. US Senator Susan Collins, of Maine, and Representatives Chellie Pingree... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 14, 2021
LS Power and The Landfill Group announced that construction has started on an RNG project at a landfill in South Carolina.
Enerdyne Power Systems, a Landfill Group company based in Charlotte, is building the state-of-the-art RNG project at the Twin Chimneys Landfill site. The Twin Chimneys Power Producers (TCPP) project is expected to achieve commercial operations by... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 14, 2021
Rice Acquisition Corp (RAC), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the energy transition, has announced its stockholders have approved the business combination of Aria Energy and Archaea Energy.
The merger, valued at an estimated $1.15 billion (€973 million), will create an industry-leading RNG platform, dedicated to reducing carbon emissions through landfill... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 14, 2021
B2B renewable energy supplier Haven Power, part of Drax Group, is changing its name to Drax.
Haven Power was acquired by Drax Group in 2009 and supplies more than 20,000 large industrial and commercial customers with over 12 TWh of renewable-sourced electricity annually – equivalent to the annual power use of more than 3 million homes.
With the rebrand, Drax aims... [Read More]
Biomass News
Sep 13, 2021
Belvedere, a super-premium vodka company, has opened an ‘ambitious’ biomass capture facility on-site in Poland.
Belvedere was the first spirits distillery to receive a grant from the European Commission to pilot the unique biomass technology.
With the inauguration of the plant on 9 September, three years since it received the grant, Belvedere announced an accelerated... [Read More]
Pellets News
Sep 10, 2021
Drax is calling for UK businesses of all sizes to join the UK’s first bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) supplier engagement programme.
The company will host a series of nationwide events throughout 2022 in partnership with the West & North Yorkshire and Hull & Chambers of Commerce, as well as further events across the wider North, Midlands,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 10, 2021
Cayuga RNG, a joint venture (JV) between UGI Energy Services (UGIES) and Global Common Energy, has entered into an agreement to develop its second RNG project in upstate New York.
The JV’s first project is being developed at Spruce Haven Farm, a dairy farm in Cayuga County in New York’s Finger Lakes region. This project incorporates an existing anaerobic digester... [Read More]
Features
Sep 10, 2021
“The North East is a fantastic example of how one area with a very rich, heavy industrial heritage in mining and coal can completely reinvent itself.” — Bioenergy Insight speaks to Fiona Macleod, newly-appointed managing director of Lynemouth Power in Northumberland, UK.
Could you tell our readers a bit about yourself and your background?
I was born and raised... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 10, 2021
Aemetis has received building permits from Stanislaus County in California to construct the next phase of dairy biogas digesters in the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester Project.
The project will be connected via a 32-mile private pipeline to the Aemetis ethanol plant near Modesto, connecting dairy RNG facilities.
“In addition to the California Environmental... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2021
Starwood Energy Group (Starwood) has entered into an investment partnership with BerQ RNG, a premier developer of RNG projects in the US and Canada.
The new platform will develop and acquire RNG projects in all stages, from early development to operating projects. The platform will be majority-owned by Starwood and operate under the name BerQ RNG.
Based on Oakville,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2021
Host and Birch Solutions (Birch) have signed an exclusive partner agreement to market Host’s biogas technology alongside Birch’s services and operations in the UK.
Birch is an established AD plant service operator, with capabilities including biogas plant optimisation. Bioenergy technology provider, Host, headquartered in the Netherlands, has over 350 bioenergy... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2021
Online supermarket Ocado Group has signed a deal to open another CNG refuelling station in the UK, using a higher biomethane blend.
In January 2019, Ocado became the first UK retailer to self-fund the purchase of an on-site grid-connected gas refuelling station at its depot in Hatfield. The new facility, at the firm’s Dordon Customer Fulfilment Centre in Warwickshire,... [Read More]
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Moeve has announced a €600 million investment plan for the construction of up to 30 new biomethane plants by 2030
During the signing ceremony, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, announced a donation of USD 1.5 million for prefeasibility and detailed engineering studies
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