Aurora Energy Solutions, a new firm owned by Usibelli Investments, has acquired the assets of Superior Pellet Fuels (SPF) and is building a ‘state-of-the-art’ wood kiln in Alaska, US. The kiln will produce clean-burning dry firewood to help the greater Fairbanks area achieve required reductions in PM 2.5 emissions. Joe Usibelli Jr, managing member of Usibelli... [Read More]

Pinnacle Renewable Energy's Williams Lake facility has started operations again following months of capital upgrades. Between upgrades at the Williams Lake facility and the work undertaken in Quesnel on Pinnacle’s Meadowbank facility, the firm has invested close to $30 million (€19.7 million) in this region over the past year. Robert McCurdy, CEO of Pinnacle,... [Read More]

A coalition of environmental advocacy groups has launched ‘Cut Carbon Not Forests’, a campaign to expose the UK’s “wasteful subsidies” for firms that burn trees to generate electricity. With the launch of the campaign, the groups hope to put pressure on policymakers to support reform. The multi-channel group, led jointly by Biofuelwatch, Dogwood Alliance,... [Read More]

Three biomethane production plant projects involving Cadent Gas remain on track despite the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The firm said the projects are on course to start sending low-carbon “gas from trash” into Cadent’s network this year, as its teams “kept the wheel in motion” during lockdown. Increasing the use of biomethane from food,... [Read More]

Gasum will open a liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied biogas (LBG) filling station near Arlanda Airport in Stockholm at the end of the year. The station is Gasum’s first in the Stockholm area. By opening a station offering LNG and LBG for heavy-duty vehicles, the company said it is responding to its customers’ needs to extend the existing station network to... [Read More]

UK bioenergy leaders seek a green response to COVID-19, by Colin Ley UK bioenergy leaders are working hard to keep the sector running in the face of COVID-19, striving to address short-term supply issues within a deeply disrupted global marketplace while also starting to focus on the industry’s ‘exit strategy’. There are obvious downsides for renewable energy... [Read More]

California, US-based ReCarbon has partnered with Australian bioenergy developer Utilitas Group to build biogas-to-hydrogen plants across Australia. ReCarbon, developer of the patented Plasma Carbon Conversion Unit – a greenhouse gas utilisation technology – announced the execution of a memorandum of understanding with the Australian company on 10 June. ReCarbon... [Read More]

Vida Group, a subsidiary of US sustainable wood products and pellets firm Canfor, is to purchase three sawmills in Sweden. Vida will buy the sawmills from Bergs Timber for CAD$43 million (€28.2 million) plus working capital. The three facilities, located in Vimmerby, Morlunda and Orrefors, will add approximately 215 million board feet to Vida’s annual capacity.... [Read More]

UK company the John Lewis Partnership is building a dedicated biomethane gas filling station. The parent company of high-end department store John Lewis and Waitrose supermarket is building the station to enable its largest heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) to use a low-carbon alternative to diesel. The organisation has also revealed it aims to stop using fossil fuels across... [Read More]

The City of Boulder, Colorado, US, has partnered with Tetra Tech and CGRS on a wastewater biogas project. Construction on the biogas use enhancement project is almost halfway complete at the city’s Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF). Biogas produced from wastewater digesters will be converted into renewable natural gas (RNG) for vehicle fuel and will be delivered... [Read More]

New data from the European Biogas Association (EBA) and Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE) shows the number of biomethane plants in Europe has increased by 51% in two years. The EBA and GIE released the second edition of the European Biomethane Map, showing the number of facilities has increased from 483 in 2018 to 729 in 2020. There are currently 18 countries in Europe... [Read More]

The US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) and the Renewable Energy Agency (REA) have hit back against claims made by think tank Ember. Ember’s report, ‘The Burning Question’, shared its research to show why the UK should end tax breaks on burning wood biomass for power, revealing that subsidies of more than £13 million (€14.5 million) are provided to major... [Read More]

ETW Energietechnik (ETW) has supplied biogas upgrading technology for a 45km gas grid in Bitburg, Germany. The newly-built biogas pipeline will collect raw biogas supplies from up to 48 biogas plants in the region. The 45km-long pipeline began transporting the gas to a central upgrading facility at the Bitburg commercial, service and leisure centre area, Flugplatz Bitburg,... [Read More]

The Railway Industry Association (RIA), the trade body for UK rail suppliers, has called for investment in green hydrogen and battery-powered trains as a way for the government to spearhead an environmentally-friendly economic recovery. The call from the RIA followed an inquiry by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Hydrogen, which provides a forum for MPs and... [Read More]

Spanish fuel company Repsol has announced two industrial decarbonisation projects involving green hydrogen and biogas. The CEO of Repsol, Josu Jon Imaz, presented the projects on 15  June that the company will undertake with the support of prominent Spanish and international partners. The facilities, to be built in the port of Bilbao and the surrounding area, will... [Read More]

Gasum has opened its 11th gas filling station in Sweden. The Ljungby station is the first station for liquefied gas and liquefied biogas (LBG) in Kronoberg County and will serve heavy-duty vehicles. The new filling station forms part of the company’s plan to build a network of 50 gas filling stations for heavy-duty vehicles by the early 2020s in the Nordics. The... [Read More]