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By Colin Ley.
Less than three weeks ago, I was working towards my early-March deadline with every intention of celebrating the return to more normal production and trading patterns than we’ve seen since Covid emerged at the end of 2019. Looking at the US market, in particular, there were definite signs of an upturn in bioenergy optimism and investment, driven in part by President Biden’s…
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Aemetis Biogas has completed testing of its $12 million (€11 million) dairy biogas-to-RNG upgrading and compression facility in California.
The biogas upgrading unit is co-located at the Aemetis Advanced Fuels Keyes ethanol plant near Modesto and adjacent to the utility natural gas pipeline.
The full system mechanical commissioning process for the biogas-to-RNG facility has been…
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Groupe Lebel will build a new wood pellet plant in Quebec’s Cacouna municipality.
The first phase of the plant’s operations will begin in 2023 with an annual capacity of nearly 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets. Groupe Lebel aims to ship the majority of its production to growing international markets.
“The plant will help us optimise our growth plan,” said Louis-Frédéric Lebel,…
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Drax will deliver a series of events that will provide UK Businesses with information on how they could win contracts to deliver its BECCS technology.
The company is teaming up with Worley, its engineering, procurement, and construction partner; UK energy sector business development organisation NOF, and the West & North Yorkshire and Hull & Humber Chambers of Commerce to deliver the…
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A new platform for the trading of green gases, such as biogas and hydrogen, has been launched in Austria.
The Central European Gas Hub (CEGH), a fully consolidated company of OMV Group, launched the CEGH GreenGas Platform with plans to expand it into central and Eastern Europe.
Green gases like biogas and hydrogen will make a significant contribution to the decarbonisation of the energy…
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Future Biogas will construct up to 32 new CO2 storage tanks in Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull, UK.
The park is owned and operated by px Group, an asset management company for the energy and high hazard industrial sectors.
Future Biogas will transport liquefied CO2 that it captures from its anaerobic digestion and bioenergy sites across the UK via trucks to Saltend. The facilities will…
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The UK Government’s Energy Security Strategy is “wholly inadequate” and locks the UK into more expensive, non-renewable power sources, according to the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA).
The Strategy sets out how the UK will accelerate the deployment of wind, new nuclear, solar and hydrogen while supporting the production of domestic oil and gas in the nearer…
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Drax has opened a new pellet plant in Demopolis, Alabama, bringing new jobs and economic opportunities to the town.
At full capacity, the Demopolis plant – Drax’s second pellet production facility in the state – will produce 360,000 tonnes of sustainable biomass pellets annually.
Drax’s pellet plants help support employment and opportunities across the wider forestry and lumber…
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Enviva will invest $250 million (€229 million) in a new wood pellet production facility in Bond, Mississippi.
The facility is a key component of Enviva’s growth strategy to double pellet production capacity from 6.2 million tonnes annually to around 13 million tonnes over the next five years. The plant is fully contracted under long-term take-or-pay supply contracts with customers…
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On 30 March, the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (MWMC) in Oregon, US, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate its new RNG project.
Through this project, the majority of biogas produced by the MWMC at its wastewater treatment facility in Eugene is converted into RNG and injected into NW Natural’s pipeline system.
In 2021, the construction of biogas purification…
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Bioenergy and BECCS have an important role to play in climate change mitigation, but there are concerns over sustainable feedstock sourcing and large-scale deployment, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5oC is ‘beyond reach’, the IPCC said in its…
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Aemetis has acquired an 8.5-acre property in California, close to the Aemetis Keyes renewable ethanol plant, to develop its Carbon Zero projects.
The corner property, acquired for $2 million (€1.8 million), is a strategic location for operations supporting the company’s Carbon Zero projects, including dairy RNG and CCS.
Adjacent to the existing Aemetis biogas pipeline, the property is…
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The European Commission has signed grant agreements of €1.1 billion with seven large-scale low-carbon technology projects, including a BECCS development.
Allocated via the EU Innovation Fund, the grants are funded by revenues from the EU’s Emissions Trading System.
The projects aim to reduce emissions by over 76 Mt of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) during the first 10 years of operation and…
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RNG and biofuel projects have received a share of over $12 million (€8.7 million) in funding from the Government of Canada.
The government is making investments to enhance Canada’s competitive advantage, diversify market opportunities, create jobs, and achieve its emissions reduction targets. At the GLOBE Forum 2022, Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources, announced the…
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Gary Moore, director for global business development at UNTHA shredding technology, discusses pioneering shredding systems for bioenergy production.
It may be becoming an increasingly mature market, but that doesn’t mean innovation is stifling in the world of bioenergy. Operators’ ever-more sophisticated requirements, and manufacturers’ passion to drive change through engineering, means…
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