Mar 29, 2021
SWEN Capital Partners, SFP Group acquire Dutch biomethane plant
Biogas News
Mar 29, 2021
Veolia Water Technologies Italia has been awarded a contract to engineer and procure a new wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).
Riso Scotti, a major Italian rice production company, commissioned the plant for its factory in Pavia, Milan. Biogas produced during the treatment process will be reused within a ‘circular and integrated production cycle’.
With a treatment... [Read More]
Features
Mar 26, 2021
The early signs of the Biden Administration are encouraging for the bioenergy industry.
Bioenergy leaders in the US once again have a President in the White House who believes in climate change and is committed to doing everything within his power to combat its impact on the world.
While it is impossible, at this stage, to calculate what such a commitment will mean... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 26, 2021
UK food waste recycler Andigestion has been awarded an eight-year contract by Gloucestershire County Council to process around 24,000 tonnes per year of household food waste.
The waste will be taken via kerbside collection to Andigestion’s Bishops Cleeve site, where it will help generate 31,000,000 kWh of renewable energy annually – enough to power 2,500 homes.
Andigestion... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 26, 2021
Volvo Cars’s manufacturing plant in Daqing, China, is now powered by 100% climate-neutral electricity, with 83% coming from biomass.
With the addition of the Daqing plant, the company’s global manufacturing network is now powered by close to 90% climate-neutral electricity, a key step towards its goal of making its manufacturing operations climate-neutral by 2025.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 26, 2021
A grant from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC) is helping to convert wood fibre to generate electricity.
The funding will allow speciality transport company Valley Carriers to bring 24,000 cubic metres of wood fibre into the city of Merritt to be utilised as bioenergy instead of burning it in slash piles.
Valley Carriers initially explored an opportunity... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 25, 2021
Seville’s iconic oranges are being transformed into biogas under a new initiative.
Emasesa, a public water company, is running a pilot project to generate clean energy from the bitter oranges the city is famous for, at its wastewater treatment plant (WWTP).
Currently, the streets of Seville are home to around 50,000 orange trees and the forecast for the orange... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 25, 2021
Sulzer will supply pumps and mixers to a new €1.6 billion bioproduct mill project in Finland.
Metsä Fibre, part of the Finnish forest industry company Metsä Group, which specialises in wood-based bioproducts such as pulp, sawn timber, bioenergy, and biochemicals, and Sulzer Pumps Finland, signed an agreement for the supply of process pumps, medium-consistency pumps... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 25, 2021
CNG Fuels has started building Scotland’s first public access renewable biomethane refuelling station for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs).
The new station, near Glasgow, will allow fleet operators to run their vehicles on low-carbon fuel, support net-zero plans, and save money. It will refuel up to 450 lorries per day when it opens in November, enabling HGVs to make low-carbon... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 25, 2021
Resource management, recycling, and energy recovery firm Cory has deployed Infor enterprise asset management (EAM) to support expansion plans, including a new anaerobic digestion (AD) facility.
Already live at its main facility in Belvedere, London, with transfer stations and other sections of the business to follow, the platform created by business cloud software firm,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Mar 24, 2021
Drax Group has contributed £728 million (€844 million) towards the economy in the North of England and supported 6,600 jobs across the region, according to a new report.
The independent analysis by Oxford Economics measured the economic impact of Drax’s UK operations, which includes Drax Power Station near Selby in North Yorkshire, the country’s biggest renewable... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 24, 2021
Gasum has delivered the first liquefied biogas (LBG) shipment to its customer Essity, a Swedish hygiene and health company.
Already a liquefied natural gas (LNG) customer, Essity will now test renewable LBG to make its operations and products completely fossil-free. By replacing natural gas with biogas, Essity’s tissue production facility in Lilla Edet will become... [Read More]
Features
Mar 24, 2021
The UK Government’s plan to end the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) this month will leave manufacturers without a financially viable green alternative to generate heat for many crucial industrial processes, according to biomass installation specialist NerG.
Ending the non-domestic RHI could force businesses to seek out cheaper, non-renewable sources of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 23, 2021
Weltec Biopower recently commissioned a biogas plant near Turku in south-western Finland.
The 250 kW plant runs entirely on liquid manure from nearby livestock farms and belongs to a group of three pig farmers. Weltec partnered with its long-standing Finnish partner, Doranova, on the project.
Both the farm structure and the location of the pig farms present an ideal... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 23, 2021
The Heineken Brewery in Manchester, UK is turning wasted beer into biogas.
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) predicts around 87 million pints will have been thrown away as a result of pub closures during the pandemic, equivalent to almost £331 million (€384 million) worth of beer.
As part of its ‘Brewing A Better World’ sustainability strategy, Heineken... [Read More]
Other News
Mar 23, 2021
Innovative green projects creating the next generation of electric trucks and hydrogen-fuelled buses are set to secure jobs and cut carbon emissions thanks to over £54 million (€62.6 million) in funding allocated by the UK Government.
On 22 March, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng announced that three projects in Cwmbran, Warwickshire, and Ballymena will receive... [Read More]
Other News
Mar 23, 2021
From this week, 50,000 UK homes will be upgraded with green improvements from a £562 million (€650 million) government fund.
The funding will enable over 200 local authorities across England and Scotland to fund a nationwide upgrade of the UK’s least energy efficient and fuel-poor homes, helping to reduce carbon emissions and support green jobs.
According to... [Read More]
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