Built in 2017, ReFood’s plant in Dagenham, London is the newest and largest of its UK facilities. The company, which specialises in food waste recycling, has two other facilities in Doncaster and Widnes. Dawn Stephens-Borg, editor of Bioenergy Insight, and managing editor Katie Woodward, were invited to see the new facility and learn more about the many ways our food... [Read More]

Finnish firm Valmet Oyj will supply a flue gas condensing plant to Helen Ltd’s Vuosaari C bioenergy heating plant in Helsinki. The new bioenergy heating plant will be very energy efficient, according to Valmet, as the heat from the flue gases will be recovered to increase district heat production by 69MW, using its advanced technology. “Our company’s target... [Read More]

The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) released a statement announcing that it will redouble its efforts to highlight the potential of biogas following the UK Government Cabinet reshuffle last week. The Cabinet reshuffle took place on Thursday 13 February, welcoming new MPs into roles concerning the environment and climate change. Alok Sharma MP... [Read More]

Greencoat Capital has launched a new closed-ended private markets fund, Greencoat Renewable Income (GRI), for investments in bioenergy, wind, solar and renewable heat. The firm has secured £277 million (€333 million) of commitments from UK pension investors Brunel and the Trustee of the Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London (SAUL). GRI offers institutional... [Read More]

Aggreko, a global provider of mobile, modular power, is working with RE Power Group to produce renewable electricity from biogas in Thailand. Aggreko is delivering 6MW of biogas-fuelled power to provide a 'flexible, fast and cost-efficient' way of scaling-up the biogas project and delivering cleaner energy for the region. The plant’s feedstock is sourced from a... [Read More]

Biogas Marrum, a Dutch company owned by HoSt, has received the internationally-recognised Better Biomass sustainability certificate. The certificate (NTA 8080) confirms the sustainable origin of the renewable gas produced by the firm, with a carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reduction of 94.4%. It is issued to companies that produce, trade or process sustainable biomass... [Read More]

UK-based bus transportation firm First West of England has launched 77 biomethane-powered buses in the city of Bristol. The first 10 biogas buses came into operation in January 2020, refuelling at an existing biogas station that opened in 2019. As part of the company’s latest initiative, First has constructed a new gas filling station at the Lawrence Hill depot where... [Read More]

Versalis, an Italian chemical company and subsidiary of Eni, has announced that the biomass plant it acquired in 2018 has been restarted. Versalis acquired M&G’s bio companies after the firm filed for bankruptcy in Europe and the US in October 2017. The acquisition included the assets and resources related to development activities, industrialisation, technologies... [Read More]

Canadian firm XEBEC ADSORPTION, a global provider of clean energy solutions, has signed an agreement with Bähler Biogas to develop a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility. The new integrated facility, to be constructed in Québec, will process various organic wastes for the production of RNG and biofertilisers. It will process more than 45,000 tonnes of organic waste... [Read More]

California, US-based Brightmark Energy has signed a manure supply agreement with two dairy companies in South Dakota. The partnership with Boadwine Farms and Moody County Dairy will see Brightmark capture methane produced by 12,000 dairy cows and heifers to convert into renewable natural gas (RNG). It is hoped the project – named the Athena RNG project - will produce... [Read More]

A major green energy firm in the Netherlands has been granted a licence for a biogas plant. Stercore, based in the province of Drenthe, has been granted the licence by the Province of Drenthe to build a manure gasification plant in Emmen in the northeast of the Netherlands. The project will see Stercore partner with livestock farmers to collect and process manure, which... [Read More]

Southern California Gas Co (SoCalGas) has announced support for the California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) new Incentive Reservation System for the CPUC biomethane monetary incentive programme. The reservation system will help to increase transparency about available incentive funding for biomethane interconnection projects in California. According to SoCalGas,... [Read More]

A waste wood fire covering the size of a football pitch with flames soaring nearly four storeys high broke out on 14 February in Singapore. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) assisted firefighters on the scene in Choa Chu Kang in western Singapore. The fire started on an open plot of land and is believed to have been caused by waste wood left in the area by a... [Read More]

British company Active Energy Group (AEG) has applied to the state Division of Air Quality to build and operate a wood pellet plant in Lumberton, North Carolina. Work is progressing at AEG's commercial hub at the Lumberton site to facilitate the commercial production of CoalSwitchTM and second-generation biomass pellets. According to the company, during the last 90... [Read More]

Oberon Fuels, which produces ultra-low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transport fuel and propane fuel distributor SHV Energy have teamed up to accelerate the use of rDME to reduce the carbon footprint of transportation fuel. Using a 20% blend of the cleaner fuel, propane’s carbon intensity (CI) value can be reduced from 83 gCO2e/MJ to 11 gCO2e/MJ. In 2019,... [Read More]

GE has announced it will provide renewable steam technology for the high-efficiency Kamisu Biomass Power Generation plant in Japan. Under a contract signed with Hitachi Zosen, which will act as the project’s engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor, GE’s Steam Power division will design, manufacture and supply the core components of the project’s... [Read More]