A share of €8 million ($9.2 million) worth of funding has been awarded to a total of 45 innovative energy research projects in Ireland.  The money granted is due to the government’s ambition to develop solutions to help homes, businesses and communities deliver a cleaner energy future, and will vary from one to four years’ worth of funding. CEO of... [Read More]

Vancouver based Pinnacle Renewable Holdings has acquired 70% of The Westervelt Co.’s industrial wood pellet production in Aliceville. Westervelt currently manages more than half a million acres of land, whilst Pinnacle produces sustainable fuel for renewable electricity generation in the form of industrial wood pellets. The facility in Aliceville has an annual production... [Read More]

California-based Bloom Energy has announced its intention to hold a preview outlining a high-efficiency solution for generating clean electricity from waste biogas. The preview will take place at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Climate Tech Marketplace, which is an affiliate event of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on September 13. According... [Read More]

The Green Party’s spokesperson on agriculture, Pippa Hackett, announced, through a press release, the political party’s concerns over Gas Network Ireland’s proposal to build and develop a series of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants nationwide. The primary cause of concern is the current scarcity of resources in the agricultural sector. Hackett said in her... [Read More]

A press release from the American Biogas Council announced that the letter, signed and approved by 111 separate firms from the biomass and biogas industry, requested that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler include renewable electricity into the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). In 2007, Congress approved the RFS participation... [Read More]

BayWa renewable energy (BayWa r.e.) announced in a press release that it had sold a biomethane plant in Mehrum, located in the Lower Saxony region of Germany to prominent France-based biogas operator Evergaz. In the press release, the biogas developer noted that the plant produces 700Nm³/h and 600kW of electricity (CHP) of total biomethane output. According to BayWa... [Read More]

UK based Water Company Severn Trent, is currently in the process of buying Agrivert Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries for an enterprise value of £120 million. This will also include a repayment of some £60 million debt. The water company already has two operating food waste AD plants to their name in East and West Birmingham. Both were developed by Agrivert,... [Read More]

New Hampshire Public Radio reported that the Toxics Action Center (TAC) and the Energy Justice Network (EJN) have both come forward in their support of the Governor of New Hampshire Chris Sununu’s decision in June of this year to veto a bill designed to subsidise and encourage the development of biomass and solar energy across the state. The biomass bill, Senate... [Read More]

Having been previously acquired in 2016 by the global manufacturer and supplier of biogas management and fluid handling equipment, QED Environment Systems, Geotech has undergone a rebranding process to establish itself as a definitive member of the QED group. Now sharing the name of QED Environment Systems, the Midlands-based business has relocated along with the firm... [Read More]

South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) is planning to install two biogas plants that will process cattle dung, according to The Times of India. They will be installed at Nangloi and Goyla Dairy Colony in Najafgarh and will each have a daily capacity of 200MT by March 2019. A senior official told Times of India that private concessionaires are set to design, engineer,... [Read More]

As Denmark moves away from fossil fuels, Nature Energy has become one of the country’s biggest success stories. Here, Bioenergy Insight speaks with the company’s CEO, Ole Hvelplund. Mr Hvelplund will be speaking on the story of Nature Energy and the role of biogas in the circular economy at the upcoming International Biogas Congress and Expo in Berlin, Germany. Nature... [Read More]

The Natural & Biogas Vehicle Association (NGVA Europe) and the European Biogas Association (EBA) have released a joint roadmap, establishing the key role bioenergy will play in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leading towards 2030. Using the concept of “g-mobility”, utilising bioenergy in transport fuels, the press release reveals that a study into... [Read More]

The partnership agreement between Bright Biomethane from the Netherlands and Biogen Biotechnologies from the Caribbean, Barbados, will be used to help to promote and further develop biogas upgrading technology and biomethane production in Barbados.    The strategic partnership will utilise the island’s organic materials such as seaweed, sea moss and industrial... [Read More]

Created in 2017 by the merger of Shanks Group and Van Gansewinkel Groep, Renewi is a leading waste-to-product company that aims to become part of the solution to some of the main environmental problems that society faces today.    After selling its 50% share in the Energen Biogas anaerobic digestion facility in Cumbernauld, Renewi has left the UK organics sector.... [Read More]

Biomass could cover the energy needs of all 28 member states of the EU from 19 November to the end of the year, according to Bioenergy Europe. The figures have been announced as part of the build up to Bioenergy Europe’s ‘European Bioenergy Day’, which will be held on 19 November to mark the point in the year from which Europe’s energy needs could... [Read More]

Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) has signed an agreement with Clean Energy to power the airport’s vehicle fleet with renewable natural gas (RNG). The agreement will see Clean Energy provide the airport with its Redeem band of RNG, which the natural gas provider claims is the ‘first renewable and commercially available vehicle fuel made entirely... [Read More]