The World Biogas Association (WBA) has announced that it will launch a report on the global market potential of biogas during the inaugural World Biogas Summit 2019 in July.  The potential for growth in biogas markets in different regions across the world as well as on a global scale will be outlined in the report. It will build on a series of pre-existing WBA reports.... [Read More]

Hawai’i Gas, the state’s ‘only’ regulated gas utility company, announced that it has commenced operations at a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility sited at the Honouliuli Wastewater Treatment Plant in ‘Ewa Beach, Honolulu. As a collaboration between Hawai’i Gas and the city of Honolulu, the facility converts sewage waste-derived biogas... [Read More]

The UK Government’s forthcoming Resources & Waste Strategy will “require separate food waste collections”, according to Minister for Investment Graham Stuart MP. Stuart was discussing the forthcoming strategy at the ADBA National Conference 2018 in central London. He explained that universal food waste collections would be included in a bid to reduce... [Read More]

Fire crews responded to two structural fires located at the back of a mill in Nova Scotia, Canada, owned by Canadian pellet manufacturer Great Northern Timber Resources, according to a report in local news outlet The Chronicle Herald. Chief of the local Upper Musquodoboit fire department Robert Kay said that the source of the fire could not be determined, only that five... [Read More]

Canada-based waste-to-energy company Anaergia announced that the construction for ‘North America’s largest’ organic waste-to-energy facility, the Rialto Bioenergy Facility (RBF), has begun. The facility itself will be built in Rialto, a city 50 miles east of Los Angeles, California. According to a press release, the RBF functions as a solution to two... [Read More]

UK-based specialist engineering group Pressure Technologies announced that it has entered into a binding letter of intent (LOI) with Canada-listed Creation Capital to sell PT Biogas Holdings, the holding company for its bioenergy subsidiary Greenlane Biogas, for €12.3 million. “The global outlook for renewable natural gas (RNG) has improved again throughout... [Read More]

The Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) has announced it has begun the process of recruiting a chair to lead it into its second decade. A new position in the association, replacing the chief executive position, the chair will be responsible for leading the association’s strategy, developing its business plan, representing the association at... [Read More]

A new multi-landmark report has been released by government-led, multi-stakeholder initiative Biofuture Platform detailing how biofuels and bioproducts ‘must play an integral role’ in the future of the global energy transition. Entitled Creating the Biofuture: A Report on the State of the Low Carbon Bioeconomy, the report uses models and scenarios outlined... [Read More]

Three months ago a strong earthquake hit Hokkaido in Japan. The Japan News reports that this meant a large numbers of trees had fallen by landslides, leading to an increase in the number of people using them for biomass.   The fallen trees are to be used for renewable energy by turning them into fuel for stove heaters and biomass power generation. The Japan News say... [Read More]

Larry Bagnell, a parliamentary member for the Canadian territory of Yukon announced alongside Canada’s minister of Natural Resources a multi-year investment of €1.25 million ($1.43 million) for a forestry initiative in Yukon. According to a Natural Resources Canada release, the initiative will result in ‘greener’ heating solutions, job creation as... [Read More]

Canadian clean energy solutions company Xebec Adsorption (Xebec) announced that it will be providing Pressure Swing Absorption (PSA) units to companies in both France and Brazil, including a €3.45 million order for an undisclosed French partner. A stand-alone PSA unit, also known as a Nitrogen Rejection Unit (NRU) will be shipped to Brazil for gas network firm Gasgrid... [Read More]

The UK aims to double the ‘size of the impact’ of the bioeconomy by 2030, according to the Government’s newly published Bioeconomy strategy: 2018 to 2030. Defining the bioeconomy as “the economic potential of harnessing the power of bioscience”, the strategy outlines the approach government, industry and the research community will take. The... [Read More]

Grow Compost of Vermont has announced its new partnership with Maine-based company, Agri-Cycle, according to Vermont Business Magazine.   In an attempt to divert large volumes of food waste getting sent to landfill, the partnership will use the waste to provide feed for animals, healthy soils and energy creation through anaerobic digestion. Vermont implemented EPA’s... [Read More]

In a recent press release Haven Power has announced that 19th century cricket venue, Edgbaston Cricket Ground in the UK is to be upgraded so that it is solely powered by renewable energy.   A two year deal to supply the cricket ground’s energy has been agreed by long-standing energy brokers Amber Energy. A part of Drax Group, Haven Power will be providing the... [Read More]

Ahead of the COP24 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, new research on biomass potential claims it can be a ‘key solution’ in climate change mitigation. According to the recently published researched, the amount of domestically available biomass that is used for bioenergy in Europe can triplicate within sustainable and environmental... [Read More]

Lithuanian renewables company Modus Energy has completed four biogas projects in Belarus with investment totalling €17.6 million, according to a report by The Baltic Times. This new investment marks a stepping stone in Modus Energy’s investment focus on Belarus, as well as Poland and Spain. Funds were partially provided by the Modus Group, an international conglomerate... [Read More]