VerdEnergy, a Yorkshire based supplier of wood pellets for boilers, has expanded its delivery fleet and built a new depot as part of its ongoing expansion. This expansion is being supported by £200,000 in funding from NPIF-Mercia Debt Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund. With those funds, VerdEnergy has purchased two new specialised delivery... [Read More]

Promising new jobs and energy sources, energy firm GESS International (GESS) announced in a press release that a $35 million biogas plant is planned to be built in the Robeson County town of Orrum, North Carolina (NC). GESS described Robeson County as ‘hard hit’ by Hurricane Florence, and in their promise, they claim that the biogas plant will be providing... [Read More]

The phasing out of all John Lewis & Partnership diesel-powered heavy trucks has been put in motion and is to be completed by 2028. Announced in a statement released by John Lewis Partnership on Tuesday the 16 October, the company will be rolling out over 500 new state-of-the-art Waitrose & Partners as well as John Lewis & Partners delivery trucks. All of the... [Read More]

48 new biomethane plants are set to be built in the UK, equalling an investment of ‘up to’ €455m – according to a press release by Cadent, ‘UK’s biggest’ gas network. The announcement of the surge comes from the chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA), Charlotte Morton, who says that this... [Read More]

The UK government has launched a consultation on the restriction of new biomass installations in urban areas under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Introduced in November 2011, the RHI is a scheme put in place to incentivise and encourage the generation of heat from renewable energy sources by subsidising non-domestic users for every kilowatt an hour of renewable energy... [Read More]

Renewable energy firm Nature Energy announced in a press release that it had entered into a partnership with biogas producer Strandmøllen A/S where both will collaborate to recycle excess CO2 from the ‘world’s largest’ biogas plant in Esbjerg, Denmark. CO2 emissions from the plant will be reduced by 70% compared with a conventional biogas plant. According... [Read More]

The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) current market forecast has predicted that modern bioenergy will have the biggest growth in renewable resources between 2018 and 2023. According to the IEA’s market analysis and forecast report, renewables are to continue increasing over the next 5 years and will be covering 40% of global energy consumption growth. They... [Read More]

The UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has appointed Triple Point, an FCA regulated investment management firm, as delivery partner for its £320 million heat network investment project. BEIS’ aim is to create a self-sustaining heat network market to increase volume, improve quality and draw £1 billion of additional... [Read More]

In a public release, a research team representing the Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) revealed its studies into pyrolysis, a process of thermal biomass decomposition in ‘an oxygen-free environment’. The article, published in the Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, used ‘pine sawdust’ and ‘peat straw’ as an example of common... [Read More]

Ahead of their November Autumn statement, The Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) has described the UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry as a huge economic opportunity.  This week chief executive of ADBA Charlotte Morton has written to Robert Jenrick MP, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury to outline the economic and environmental benefits... [Read More]

Four biogas plants, which will produce energy from more than half a million tonnes of food waste, are set to be built in Oman, local media are reporting. According to the Times of Oman, the cost of the project, is OMR50 million. Oman Environmental Holdings, also known as Be’ah, is building the biogas plants. The Times of Oman article notes that the country generates... [Read More]

Macclesfield, UK based Tidy Planet has unveiled what it dubs a ‘new intelligent boiler monitoring control system in Britain.’ It comes as part of the company’s collaboration with Valencian headquartered Sugimat, announced earlier this year, that has seen Tidy Planet become the sole distributor of the company’s boilers for the waste-to-energy sector.... [Read More]

The new offices of North Lincolnshire, UK’s Birch Solutions are powered 100% by renewable energy produced from onsite biogas plants, the company has announced. Founded in 1815, Singleton Birch has since diversified into a number of sectors while keeping the global supply of chalk and lime as its core business. Birch Solutions was formed after Singleton Birch bought... [Read More]

According to the trade body for the AD industry there are “multi million pound financial opportunities” for on-farm anaerobic digestion (AD) plants located around the UK.     On-farm AD plants permit farmers to convert agricultural wastes and purpose-grown crops into renewable heat and power as well as nutrient rich biofertiliser. Across the... [Read More]

In a public release by the University of Michigan (UM), research professor at the U-M Institute, John DeCicco argues that growing and harvesting bioenergy from crops is a ‘poor use of land’. The UM researcher said that untampered green areas such as forests and fields isolate carbon dioxide effectively enough, and that they are ‘one of society’s... [Read More]

Renewable energy producer Albioma has announced the industrial commissioning of its 100% biogas/biomass plant. The plant, Galion 2, will be located in Martinique and was commissioned on the 26 September 2018. According to the press release, Galion 2 has become the first 100% biogas/biomass plant in the French overseas departments and is dedicated to renewable energy production. The... [Read More]