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Keenan Recycling has celebrated full national waste collection coverage in the UK, despite nationwide driver shortages.
The waste management firm, which reduces the amount of waste going to landfill by collecting and recycling organic material, has invested over £4 million in new trucks in the last 12 months, adding six new depots, and recruiting around 25% more drivers.
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Industry associations and businesses in the UK anaerobic digestion (AD) sector have written to COP26 President Alok Sharma, urging him to support the industry.
Organisations including ADBA, CNG Fuels, the National Farmers’ Union, Severn Trent and the Energy Networks Association are among the signatories of the letter, which highlights AD’s potential in achieving net zero.
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Water company Aqualia is now producing biogas at the Guijuelo wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Spain.
The new biofactory project in Salamanca, north-western Spain, transforms waste generated by the agri-food industry, together with sludge from the WWTP, into energy, biofuels, bioplastics and biofertilisers.
The 3,000 tons of biowaste treated at the facility, originating from local…
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A new research and demonstration facility aimed at accelerating the development of low-carbon, market-ready bioenergy products and carbon-negative energy systems has opened at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Building on work conducted at UBC’s Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) over the past 15 years, the $8 million (€5.3 million) Biorefining Research and Innovation Centre…
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Green sources of CO2 captured at bioenergy with carbon and capture and storage (BECCS) and green gas plants could bolster the UK's CO2 supply, according to the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA).
Volatile global gas prices have demonstrated the urgent need to diversify and decarbonise the UK’s domestic energy system, said the Association. Industry group Oil &…
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Arla Sweden and Gasum have decided to expand their current biogas partnership, following increased support for the industry from the Swedish Government
On 17 September, the government announced biogas production investment support of kr500 million (€49 million) by 2022, followed by kr700 million (€68 million) by 2023-2024, proposed in the autumn budget this year. The government suggested…
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KPA Unicon will supply a 40 MW bio-boiler plant to Adven, an energy and water solutions provider in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
Under the contract, KPA Unicon will deliver the boiler plant to the Naantali harbour area in western Finland. Delivery includes the 10 MW Unicon Renegrate bio-boiler plant and back-up and peak load boilers (2 x 10 MW).
The facility will use renewable…
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Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC), a global power plant operation and maintenance and technical service provider, has signed a major contract with district heating company Fjernvarme Fyn for the gas conversion of an old coal-fired boiler unit at its facility in Odense, Denmark.
Unit 7 at Fyn Power Station, originally built by Burmeister and Wain Energy, will act as a peak…
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Energy infrastructure company Redexis will supply renewable gas (biomethane) to Zaragoza Transport Consortium buses in the city of Zaragoza, the capital of Spain’s Aragon region.
The new Scania buses are operated by Alsa Agreda in its gas station at the Zaragoza Taxi Cooperative Service Station. The station is connected to the Redexis gas pipeline network, ensuring the renewable origin of…
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Ireland needs a ‘whole of energy’ approach to the future, including repurposing the gas network to carry biomethane and hydrogen, Ervia’s CEO, Cathal Marley, told a conference last week.
Ervia provides strategic national gas and water infrastructure and services through its subsidiaries, including Gas Networks Ireland (GNI). The company appointed Marley as CEO earlier this month.
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FortisBC Energy has reopened its RNG programme to customers, following a temporary pause due to soaring demand.
FortisBC first launched the RNG initiative in 2011 and was the first utility in North America to offer RNG to its customers as a simple way to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. As more customers saw the value of RNG as a carbon-neutral energy source, demand for RNG outpaced…
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Drax Group has partnered with the National Farmers Union (NFU) of England and Wales to identify opportunities to scale-up perennial energy crop production.
The Climate Change Committee previously stated that if the UK is to meet its decarbonisation objectives, a ‘substantial area’ of energy crops must be planted each year to deliver the low carbon renewable fuel required over the coming…
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Bioenergy Insight speaks to EQTEC’s CEO, David Palumbo, about gasification, the green recovery, and hydrogen’s role in a net-zero future.
Could you tell our readers about yourself and your background in the energy industry?
Over the last 15 years, I have founded and co-founded several companies across various industries, particularly in finance and technology. In the last six years,…
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Dutch energy storage company VTTI has acquired a bioenergy project on an industrial site in Tilburg, the Netherlands, from Re-N Technology Group.
Following the acquisition, announced on 11 August, VTTI will construct a new state-of-the-art bioenergy facility of industrial scale and is expected to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2023.
The new facility will have a nominal capacity of…
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EQTEC has acquired a second decommissioned waste-to-energy plant in Croatia and will convert it into a biomass gasification facility.
The 1.2 MWe facility in Karlovac was acquired through Synergy Projects, a joint venture between EQTEC and its Croatian project development partner Sense ESCO. The move follows the company’s recent acquisition of a similar plant in Belišće.
Located in the…
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