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A Labour environment group has asked the UK government to reconsider support for Drax's biomass plant in Selby, reported PoliticsHome.
The Labour Climate and Environment Forum (LCEF) observed that Drax's plant is the country's 'single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide'.
In the US, the company was found to have breached environmental regulations 'over 11,000 times'.
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Dark Green Group, an independent renewables developer, has unveiled plans to be the first company in the UK to build a fleet of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in urban locations.
It is developing up to 12 AD plants over the next five years, on urban industrial sites, which together could process over 700,000 tonnes of organic waste per year and power up to 80,000 homes with green gas.
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Brazil has changed its National Biofuel Policy Act to ensure independent producers of biomass used for biofuels benefit from Decarbonisation Credits (CBIOs).
The Law changes the existing Renovabio framework, in which only biofuel producers had access to revenue generated by the sale of CBIOs.
The new wording establishes that such revenue be shared with the producers of biomass used in the…
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Vogelsang USA, the inventor of the rotary lobe pump with elastomer-coated lobes, is highlighting PreMix, the most advanced digester feed system in the world.
Built on decades of leadership in the biogas industry in Europe, Vogelsang said the PreMix system sets a new standard for feedstock preparation and efficiency, revolutionising the biogas sector with its innovative design.
At the heart of…
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It’s the new year and Bioenergy Insight is hard at work preparing for this year’s International Biogas Congress and Expo, which takes place on 24-25 June at the Hotel Plaza in Brussels.
The European biomethane sector expects €25 billion in private investments by 2030, according to European Biogas Association analysis. The market’s huge potential means that a vast range of industry…
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Kanadevia Inova, a global leader in solutions for the energy transition and circular economy, has announced the acquisition of London-based Iona Capital Limited (ICL), along with a portfolio of 11 renewable gas plants in the UK and a substantial pipeline of projects globally.
The acquisition accelerates the evolution of the Kanadevia Inova business beyond a business sevelopment, EPC and plant…
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Petrobras launched its first call for proposals for the acquisition of biomethane on 6 January.
The company said this initiative is aligned with its objectives of decarbonising its operations and performing with a robust and competitive portfolio of gas offerings with products containing a lower carbon footprint.
The initiative foresees the receipt of offers for firm contracts with deliveries…
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Maurice Markerink, managing director of EnviTec Plant Construction, and Stefan Laumann, head of gas upgrading go into detail about the EnviThan gas upgrading system.
EnviTec – a family-owned business – is Germany’s largest biogas producer, as it owns and operates 80 plants there and 7 abroad. It covers the entire value chain for biogas production, including the planning and construction of…
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Dairygold Co-operative Society has received planning permision approval for a biomass plant in Mitchelstown, County Cork in Ireland.
The works will involve a single-storey woodchip boiler building, with a parapet height of 16.236 metres, and a stack height of 24.735 metres above ground level.
Over 30 conditions accompany the planning permission - including limiting the facility to processing a…
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Balti Biometaan OÜ and OÜ Selja are planning to build a modern green gas plant in the Selja area of Estonia.
The aim of the project is to produce biogas from local raw materials (biodegradable waste, waste of agricultural origin and biomass of various origins), purify green carbon dioxide from it, and obtain biomethane as the final product.
The final location of the Selja biostation, more…
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CM Biomass has appointed Simon Plagborg as its new CEO, effective today (6 January).
Since December, Ask Michael Munck has been the interim CEO for CM Biomass, one of the world’s largest suppliers of wood pellets and biomass.
Ask Michael Munck will reassume his position as Group CFO at CM Biomass.
“We were looking for a profile that had the right commercial and leadership qualifications,…
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RENOVA's Tokushima-Tsuda biomass plant in Japan resumed regular operation on 22 December, and is continuing stable operation.
The facility, which is owned by its consolidated subsidiary Tokushima-Tsuda Biomass Power Plant G.K., is powered by wood pellets and palm kernel shells.
The facility began operations in December 2023, but experienced operational problems the following year.
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Brazil’s Orizon Valorização de Resíduos has agreed a US$43 million (€41.7 million) financing deal with Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (BNB) to construct a biomethane plant, reported BN Americas.
The plant, which will be located in Pernambuco state, is in the advanced construction stage.
With a capacity of 130,000m3/d and the company has a contract with Copergás - Pernambuco's gas…
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The Irish government's COFORD Council for Forest Research and Development has published a paper that recommends future policies to support an expanded role of forest-based biomass.
The paper, entitled "Forest Based Biomass and Modern Bioenergy, Moving to Net Zero", complements and rounds out an earlier series of COFORD statements on the role of forests and forest products in climate change…
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Anaergia's Canadian subsidiary, Anaergia DB Inc., has entered into an integrated technology supply contract with PepsiCo Alimentos to provide its high-efficiency digestion technology and integrated biogas conditioning and upgrading technology at PepsiCo’s food production facility in Funza, part of the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá, Colombia.
The biogas system supplied by Anaergia will convert…
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