Dec 11, 2020
96,000 hectares of UK agricultural land used for bioenergy crops in 2019
Biogas News
Dec 11, 2020
Gasum has received €30 million from Klimatklivet to establish two new biogas plants in Sweden.
Klimatklivet, or Climate Leap, is a programme for investment grants from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The two biogas plants will be built in Dalarna and Kalmar Counties.
The Borlänge, Dalarna plant will produce liquefied biogas (LBG) mainly from manure... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2020
UK supermarket giant ASDA is taking delivery of 202 Volvo FH LNG tractor units in the run-up to Christmas.
The order is believed to be the single largest ever placed in the UK for heavy trucks running on renewable fuels.
ASDA has ambitions to transition its core fleet of 1,000 tractor units from diesel to gas by 2024, after in-house trials showed running on biomethane... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 10, 2020
Active Energy Group (AEG) has been awarded a new US patent for its CoalSwitch™ process and the beneficiation of biomass.
The patent, number 10,858,607, was awarded to the UK biomass-based renewable energy and forestry firm on 8 December and will ensure the company holds the legal rights to exclude any other company from producing, selling or using the claimed CoalSwitch... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2020
Cambi and Slovenian engineering firm Riko have been awarded a €31.5 million contract to build a thermal hydrolysis sludge processing plant in the city of Lviv, Ukraine.
The new sludge treatment facility will incorporate biogas production, based on Cambi’s thermal hydrolysis process, followed by advanced anaerobic digestion.
“This project will make sewage sludge... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2020
The new Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy is a “major setback” for the decarbonisation of transport at an acceptable cost, according to the European Biogas Association (EBA).
The transport sector today releases 20% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Cost-effective and swift decarbonisation will only be feasible with the deployment of all renewable energies... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2020
Unilever, Starbucks, and the Dairy Farmers of America have joined forces with Vanguard Renewables to repurpose food waste via anaerobic digestion.
The major food industry leaders have teamed up to launch the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (FPSA), pledging to avoid or eliminate food waste first and repurpose what cannot be eliminated into renewable energy using Vanguard... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2020
Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy have completed the first RNG project through their joint venture, Align Renewable Natural Gas.
Located in Milford, Utah, the project is now producing RNG from a network of 26 family farms that raise pigs under contract with Smithfield.
The project is the first large-scale effort in Utah to capture methane from pig farming operations... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 9, 2020
Atlantic Power Corporation has announced a one-year extension of its Calstock power purchase agreement (PPA) and a final settlement of the insurance claim for its Cadillac plant.
Calstock is an approximately 35 MW biomass plant in Ontario, Canada. The offtaker under the PPA is the Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation. The PPA was originally due to expire in June... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 9, 2020
Polluting emissions in the UK must fall by 78% by 2035, according to the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) first-ever detailed route map for a fully decarbonised nation, with BECCS, energy crops, and biogas playing a key role.
The Sixth Carbon Budget (2033-2037) charts the ‘decisive move’ to zero carbon for the UK. The CCC shows that polluting emissions must fall... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 9, 2020
Pellet production has started at Pinnacle Renewable Energy’s new facility in Alberta, Canada.
Pinnacle owns 50% of the new facility in High Level and 50% is owned by Tolko Industries through a limited partnership. The High Level mill further diversifies the company’s supply base using high-quality wood fibre sourced primarily from Tolko’s sawmill in the area.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 9, 2020
Albioma’s Bois-Rouge power plant has received approval to convert to 100% biomass.
Albioma, an independent renewable energy producer operating in French overseas departments and regions, Mauritius, and Brazil, announced the complete discontinuation of coal at its flagship site on Réunion Island, following deliberation by the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE).
Conversion... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2020
Gasrec has completed a £1 million (€1.1 million) upgrade to its flagship refuelling facility in Northampton, UK, to meet the growing demand of transport operators making the switch to bio-LNG and bio-CNG.
New fuel dispensers, new supply lines, and a new fuel management system have been installed at the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT), along with... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 8, 2020
The Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) is planning to challenge hazardous waste regulations it fears will damage the UK’s waste wood supply chain.
It has also rejected the latest proposals from the UK’s four environmental regulators regarding the Waste Wood Classification project and is asking them to provide more support for the industry.
The Environment Agency... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2020
Vanguard Renewables officially opened its new organics recycling facility in Massachusetts, US, on 4 December.
The advanced organics recycling facility will de-package and process expired goods, off-spec batches, or unsafe to eat food and beverage products. The extracted food is transported to one of Vanguard Renewables’ Massachusetts Farm Powered anaerobic digesters,... [Read More]
Features
Dec 7, 2020
“This is a good time for energy sector players and governments to come together so that clean energy generation can thrive along with clean consumption with conservation.”
Blending bioenergy potential in Asia and Africa into one regional review is always an enticing challenge with the obvious invitation to compare, and contrast, what on the surface are two quite... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 7, 2020
Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has handed over its largest-ever membrane gas upgrading plant to StormFisher for a low-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) injection project in Ontario, Canada.
StormFisher has partnered with Enbridge Gas to inject the RNG into its natural gas distribution system in Ontario.
The system utilises food waste from the city of London in the southern... [Read More]
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India's state of Haryana has inaugurated a 240-tonne-per-day biomass pellet plant in Rewari. The facility was opened by Union Minister for New & Renewable Energy, Pralhad Joshi
The transition will be delivered through a 15-year partnership with Carbon AMS, a leading biomethane producer, and forms part of AstraZeneca’s flagship decarbonisation programme, Ambition Zero Carbon
Verdant is seeking approval for a $70 million (€39 million) overhaul that would see the generator run on around 700,000 tonnes of biomass each year
