Drax Group has completed the sale of Drax Generation Enterprise Limited, which holds four combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power stations, to VPI Generation Limited. Following the sale, Drax no longer operates any CCGTs and on 31 March will end commercial coal generation, with formal closure of its remaining coal assets in September 2022. The £193.3 million (€214... [Read More]

The Carbon Capture Coalition has submitted a memo to US President Biden’s climate team, providing a targeted list of climate, energy, infrastructure, and related federal policy recommendations for the first 100 days of the new administration and 117th Congress. A “broad suite” of policies will be needed to commercialise carbon capture and removal technologies... [Read More]

Black Dog Biogas, the owner and operator of an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Newport on the Isle of Wight will supply renewable electricity to Vestas, a wind blade manufacturing facility. The project, led by Black Dog Biogas and its manager Earth Capital, will supply low-carbon electricity to Vestas’ 221.2 square-foot plant. The facility employs more than 600... [Read More]

Vow ASA, a specialist provider of decarbonisation technology and ArcelorMittal, a major steel and mining firm, have partnered to build a biogas plant in Luxembourg. The two firms signed a strategic memorandum of understanding to build a biogas plant that will reduce CO2 emissions produced during the steelmaking process. Vow ASA’s subsidiary ETIA and ArcelorMittal... [Read More]

Bioenergy Insight spoke to Dr Paolo Frankl, head of renewables at the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Facilitator of the Biofuture Platform, about the organisation’s Flagship World Energy Outlook 2020 report and what it means for bioenergy. Biomethane, low-carbon hydrogen, and CCUS have been highlighted as possible solutions for greenhouse gas abatement, including... [Read More]

The UK Court of Appeal has upheld the planning approval for Drax to build a major gas power plant in North Yorkshire. ClientEarth, an environmental charity, first took the UK Government to court over the decision to approve the plant in November 2019, arguing that the Secretary of State’s approval was ‘unlawful’, based on ‘misunderstanding of energy planning... [Read More]

The UK’s flagship Green Homes Grant needs improvements for the scheme to be successful, according to the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA). Recently, energy installers and consumers have described the problems they have had in accessing the grants. The REA’s CEO, Dr Nina Skorupska CBE, has urged the government to resolve outstanding administrative... [Read More]

Renewables overtook fossil fuels as the main source of electricity in the UK in 2020, new analysis has revealed. A record 42% of the UK’s electricity was generated by renewables in 2020, compared to 41% by fossil fuels. Bioenergy generated 12% of the UK’s electricity. Think-tank Ember announced the major milestone today, showing that fossil gas was forced to... [Read More]

The European Investment Bank (EIB) must accept ClientEarth’s request for an internal review of a biomass power plant project in Spain, the EU General Court has ruled. The construction project in Galicia, known as the Curtis project, was among the successful projects in a tender procedure for renewable energy projects organised by Spain in 2016. The promoter of the... [Read More]

The winners of the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology’s (REA) British Renewable Energy Awards have been announced. Now in its 15th year, the award winners were revealed in a prestigious virtual event on 26 January. The awards demonstrated the ‘amazing work’ undertaken on the road to net-zero and celebrated the achievements of companies and individuals... [Read More]

MET Group, through its 51% joint venture PEPO Energy, has launched a 1.2 MW biogas plant in Serbia. PEPO Energy, a joint venture between Swiss energy firm MET Group and Arhar Teh, a local firm in the north-eastern Serbian town of Novo Milosevo, has commenced operations at the green energy plant which uses agricultural biomass for biogas production, in turn generating... [Read More]

Around 15 million school dinners have been discarded following new lockdown restrictions in the UK. Primary and secondary schools have closed across the UK in the nation’s third lockdown. With perishable meal items and ingredients ordered weeks in advance, schools across the UK have had no choice but to discard tonnes of perfectly edible food. Unfortunately in... [Read More]

A new policy paper by the Gas for Climate consortium has been published, providing an analysis-based rationale on why an 11% renewable gas target is needed to meet the EU’s climate goals. The paper follows last year’s Gas for Climate Gas Decarbonisation Pathways 2020-2050 report, which showed how additional policy measures are needed to scale-up biomethane and green... [Read More]

Frozen food distribution firm Reed Boardall has installed a new bio-LNG refuelling station at its base in Boroughbridge, UK. Owned and operated by Gasrec, the fully-scalable, skid-mounted station designed by Dutch LNG firm LIQAL will fuel an initial fleet of 30 Volvo FH LNG 6x2 tractor units. The opening of the site is a major step in Reed Boardall’s strategy to transition... [Read More]

Taaleri, a Finnish wealth management firm, and energy company Savon Voima have collaborated to build a new biocoal plant in Joensuu, Finland. The companies plan to build the biocoal plant on Savon Voima’s liksenvaara power and heat plan site. Taaleri has signed an agreement with Savon Voima on the purchase of services and the lease of the site and of certain equipment. Additionally,... [Read More]

US company Aries Clean Energy has changed its name to Aries Clean Technologies, with a refined focus on the conversion of wastewater biosolids into renewable energy and useful by-products. Unsafe disposal of biosolids can contaminate clean water supplies, representing a big problem for municipalities, business, people, and the planet. Every year, the US alone produces... [Read More]