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Wyke Farms, the UK’s largest independent cheese producer and a renewable energy producer, has recorded its highest turnover to date. The cheesemaker, which has an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility, reported a turnover of £107 million, having benefited from substantial growth in export sales to the EU and the rest of the world, up by almost 20%. Wyke Farms’ 100% Green strategy continues…
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Pinnacle Renewable Energy announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2020, reporting a 27.8% revenue increase compared to the same period in 2019. Revenue in Q4 2020 was $116.9 million (€76.3 million), up by $25.4 million (€16.5 million) on Q4 2019. The company’s net loss was $2.5 million (€1.6 million) in Q4 2020 compared to $3.1 million (€2 million) in 2019. The net…
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Gasrec will increase the size of its bio-LNG tanker fleet by 300% over the next 12 months. The company’s efforts will help to meet the rapidly growing demand from transport and logistics companies for a lower cost and more sustainable alternative to diesel. Gasrec recently took delivery of its third cryogenic trailer from Bradford, UK-based M1 Engineering, and has two more in build for…
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Host has ‘stepped up’ the investment and operation of its bioenergy systems in the Netherlands. By investing in its own biogas facilities in Boornbergum, Host allows farmers with sufficient manure or agricultural feedstock available all year round to realise a biogas plant at its site, without the financial investment. Host has a strong foothold in small-scale manure-to-RNG plants in…
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Drax Group has announced its 2020 results, reporting a 7% increase in pellet production and a further £2 million (€2.3 million) in adjusted EBITDA compared to 2019. The company’s adjusted EBITDA from continuing and discontinued operations increased by £2 million (€2.3 million) to £412 million (€477 million), including the £60 million (€69 million) impact of COVID-19 on the…
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Deciding to build an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Pontefract that can accept a wide range of feedstocks has ‘paid off’ for a UK firm. Feedstock flexibility has enabled Lanes Farm Energy’s AD facility to continue functioning throughout its first year of operations, despite the challenges posed by COVID-19. Ted Sultan, director at the plant, explained that the difficult decisions…
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Vogelsang grew its revenue by around 7% in 2020, driven by growth in agricultural technology and biogas markets. The company, based in Essen, Germany, grew its revenue to €134 million, despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. By launching new products such as the XRipper XRG macerator for sewers and the UniSpread universal linkage, and adding greater working widths for its…
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The Coalition for the Energy of the Future has unveiled its first seven concrete actions, including on biogas and hydrogen, and welcomed three new members. Launched in late 2019, the Coalition aims at accelerating the development of future energies and technologies to sustain green energy models and reduce the impact of transport and logistics on climate change. Airbus, a pioneer of…
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C-Capture has completed an £8 million (€9.3 million) funding round supported by existing shareholders Drax, IP Group, and bp Ventures, with additional funding from the British Business Bank’s Future Fund. The company, which designs chemical processes for the capture of CO2, said the investment reflects is confidence of the C-Capture board in its ‘ground-breaking’ technology and the…
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Biogest is to build a 190 kW agricultural and food waste biogas plant in South Korea. The project, close to Daegu in the south of the country, will be developed with HC Energy and DoBangYukJong Farm and is supported by the Changnyeong-gun city office. The Biogest PowerRing biogas plant, fed with pig slurry and food waste, will be an important reference plant to attract other local projects.…
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Bio-LNG provides ‘significant’ greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions and is already being introduced in shipping, according to SEA-LNG. Just 10% of drop-in bio-LNG with LNG provides around two years of additional compliance under Poseidon Principles measures, a global framework for the decarbonisation of shipping. Both fuels can be used interchangeably with existing LNG infrastructure and marine…
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FPT Industrial has helped an Italian winery to produce the world’s first zero-emissions wine, using biomethane. The company helped Fontanafredda, a winery founded by the first King of Italy in 1858, by supplying two New Holland TK Methane Power crawler vineyard tractors with biomethane-fuelled FPT Industrial F28 natural gas engines. The tractors will work in the Vigna La Rosa cru that…
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BioStar Renewables’ San Bernardino Organic Energy Solutions (OES) waste-to-energy project site has completed synchronisation with Southern California Edison’s distribution system. The company’s OES plant will divert 100,000+ tons of pre-consumer food waste per year from the Coachella and Lambs Canyon landfills. The project will generate 20,000,000+ kWh of electricity – enough to…
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BrewDog has signed off on a £14 million (€16.2 million) investment into an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility at its headquarters in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. According to a LinkedIn post by BrewDog’s CEO and co-founder, James Watt, the AD plant will convert BrewDog’s organic process waste to site-generated biomethane, replacing all of its grid gas, and reduce its water usage by more than…
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