Normec Group has acquired OWS, a company specialising in the digestion and treatment processes for the biological treatment of household waste organics, and the biodegradability and compostability of plastic packaging materials. OWS, based in Gent, Belgium, designs and builds municipal solid waste treatment plants using anaerobic digestion (AD) to produce compost and... [Read More]

Gasum has opened its Turku biogas plant – the first in Finland to produce liquefied biogas (LBG). The plant opened on 12 November and will produce LBG for the transport, industrial, and maritime sectors. The major expansion and modernisation of the facility in Topinoja, Turku, was one of the Sipilä’s Finnish Government’s key projects, bioeconomy and clean... [Read More]

Spanish firm Duro Felguera has won a new contract for the operation and maintenance of the ENCE biomass plant in Huelva, Andalusia. Duro Felguera, which specialises in the delivery of turnkey projects and the provision of specialised services in the energy mining and handling, and oil & gas sectors, will be in charge of the operation and maintenance of ENCE’s... [Read More]

Samoa has opened a biomass gasification plant - the first of its kind in the region. The $11.3 million Tala (€3.69 million) facility will produce 5 million kWh of electricity annually based on running the 750 kW plant at 85% of its capacity, 90% of the time. Afolau Biomass Gasification Power Plant will use wood chips, as well as weeds and invasive species like... [Read More]

Brightmark has broken ground on the Sobek Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) project, which includes the construction of new anaerobic digesters at two dairy farms in Okeechobee County, Florida. The digesters will be built on two Larson family dairy farms in the county. On completion of the project, the digesters are anticipated to generate around 171,000 MMBtu of RNG annually.... [Read More]

O.C.O Technology has teamed up with Tilbury Green Power to recycle air pollution control residues at its biomass facility in London. Carbon capture specialist O.C.O Technology has secured a five-year contract to recycle the air pollution control residues (APCr) from the renewable energy facility operated by Tilbury Green Power (TGP). The contract marks a major step... [Read More]

The city of Bergen in Norway has welcomed 125 biogas-fuelled buses. All of the MAN Lion City buses that Tide Buss AS ordered for the city will run on biogas and serve the northern part of Bergen, namely the areas of Åsane, Arna, and Osterøy, where Tide Buss took over operations in October. Svein Brakstad, head of sales bus at MAN Norway, said: “We are delighted... [Read More]

Gas Distributors for Sustainability (GD4S), the European Biogas Association (EBA), and NGVA Europe have co-signed a joint letter to the European Commission, calling on it to focus on renewable fuels, including biomethane, in the upcoming Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy. The organisations specifically called for all renewable fuels, and all relevant engine technologies... [Read More]

Impact investing firm North Sky Capital and development, technology, and operations partner Anaergia Services, are building a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at a wastewater plant in San Bernadino County, California. The RNG facility will be built at the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA) in a public-private partnership which demonstrates a... [Read More]

A project to convert human waste into a zero-emission fuel has been awarded £60,000 from Innovate UK, part of the UK Government’s Research and Innovation organisation. The ‘Make Your Poo Work For You’ project, a collaboration between Welsh Water, Cardiff Council, and local authorities and technology company Costain, will see biogas from sewage converted into... [Read More]

A new study by Veolia and YouGov revealed 77% of UK adults believe limiting climate change is the responsibility of the current generation and its leaders. The survey showed two in five UK adults said their concern about carbon in 2020 had grown over the last five years. Despite some growing concern, only 17% of those asked had faith in the UK reaching its net-zero... [Read More]

UK biomass heat leaders have welcomed the government’s decision to extend the non-domestic renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme. The UK Government and the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) will extend the non-domestic RHI for a further 12 months from March 2021. Representatives from the UK Pellet Council and Biomass Heat Works! are... [Read More]

Pinnacle Renewable Energy has reported its best quarterly performance due to record production volumes. The company reported revenues of $131.7 million (€111 million) in Q3 2020, 42% higher than the same period in 2019. Its adjusted gross margin increased by $13.8 million (€11.6 million) to $31.7 million (€26.8 million) in Q3 2020 compared to Q3 2019. Adjusted... [Read More]

Terravesta explains why Miscanthus is key to reaching net-zero in the UK by 2050. The growing global bioeconomy has an indispensable role in tackling the climate crisis, and key to delivering a low carbon economy is securing enough supply of sustainable raw materials and linking them with a near-industrial scale of various bio-based products and end-markets. Miscanthus... [Read More]

FPT Industrial (FPT), IVECO, and Snam have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the decarbonisation of transport using biomobility (biomethane and natural gas) and hydrogen. FPT and IVECO, two CNH Industrial brands that design and manufacture powertrains and commercial vehicles respectively, have signed the MoU with Snam for technological and commercial cooperation... [Read More]

Estonian firm AS EG Ehitus has ordered a third biogas upgrading plant from EnviTec Biogas. AS EG Ehitus chose EnviTec again following the commissioning and successful performance test runs for two EnviThan gas upgrading plants in six months, during a pandemic. The gas upgrading facility plus compressed natural gas (CNG) compressor unit will be put into service at... [Read More]