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Liqvis, L.I.T. Cargo and IVECO Magirus have joined forces on a flagship project using 100% bio-LNG from renewable sources. As part of the project, Liqvis, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uniper that is building and operating an LNG infrastructure for heavy-duty trucks, provided bio-LNG from its site in Hamm, Germany, to logistics company L.I.T. The firm ran up to 16 IVECO S-way NP trucks…
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EDF has put an end to its Ecocombust project, which would have developed a new waste wood-based fuel as an alternative to coal. According to EDF, the conditions to continue the project were not met. The decision to cancel the plans was made for two reasons – the cost of the project, which would not make it possible to guarantee an attractive price for the final product and the recent…
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Valmet Oyj will merge with Neles Corporation, a Finnish company offering flow control solutions for process industries. The new company, operating under the name Valmet Oyj, will enable Valmet to offer a stronger and more comprehensive offering to its customers, including energy (and bioenergy), board, paper, tissue and pulp technologies, flow control solutions, automation systems and…
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A joint study by engineering firm Beca, gas distribution company First Gas Group and dairy co-operative Fonterra revealed renewable gas is a ‘viable, untapped solution’ to decarbonising New Zealand’s residential natural gas network. The report found renewable gas has the potential to replace nearly 20% of the country’s total gas usage by 2050. It concluded that 4% of New Zealand’s…
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Bmp greengas is now supplying biomethane to German company Wiegand-Glas to produce glass packaging. The two companies started their collaboration in February after one of Wiegand-Glas’ clients, soulproducts, approached the company to produce its glass drinking bottles using biomethane. The soulbottles are now produced exclusively with green gas. The range of climate-neutral glass bottles…
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Food waste from the Wimbledon tennis championships will be sent to an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility. Highlighted as part of Wimbledon’s Environment Day on 1 July, the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) said that the event provides the 'ideal place' to show people how to go green and to inform people about sustainable measures. Lawn mowers at Wimbledon are powered by renewable…
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Bioenergy DevCo has opened a new anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Maryland, US. Governor Larry Hogan participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new plant, located on the Maryland Food Center campus in Jessup. On completion, the site will be Maryland’s largest AD facility. Bioenergy DevCo’s new AD plant is a public-private partnership that started with a land lease between…
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Waste management company Herambiente, a subsidiary of Hera Group, and INALCA, a leading meat production and food distribution firm, have joined forces to produce biomethane. The two companies signed a partnership agreement to set up a new company - BIORG - for the production of biomethane and compost from the sorted waste collection of organic and food waste. Through an investment of around…
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has allocated $52.5 million (€44.3 million) to fund 31 projects to advance next-generation clean hydrogen technologies, including two biomass-to-hydrogen ventures. The fund forms part of the DOE’s recently announced Hydrogen Energy Earthshot initiative, designed to reduce the cost and accelerate breakthroughs in the clean hydrogen sector. Hydrogen is a…
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Downtime can be hugely detrimental to operations, and that is where Maximo-as-a-Service can help. Bioenergy has been one of the fastest-growing fields of the last 10 years and one of the most important goals for companies is to be able to provide renewable energy that is both profitable and reliable. Strict standards apply to all of those working in the industry, and events like unplanned…
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Xebec has signed a master service agreement (MSA) with a major US RNG dairy farm project developer, representing a huge increase in demand for its biogas upgrading equipment for use in processing animal manure. Under the agreement, Xebec will provide an initial 18 BGX Biostream™ units, with the potential for additional orders under the same MSA. This represents the largest single unit…
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British Columbia (BC) has amended the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Clean Energy) Regulation to increase the production and use of renewable gas, as well as green and waste hydrogen in the province. With this change, BC hopes to generate jobs and economic opportunities while reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the province. BC is the first province in Canada to make these changes…
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Valmet will deliver a complete turnkey biopower plant to produce green electricity and heat in the city of Salzburg, Austria. The order was placed by Salzburg AG, an Austrian energy and technology company. The plant will be commissioned and started up in August 2023. “We are constructing the Siezenheim II plant in Salzburg to increase the share of CO2-neutral district heat production to…
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Greenvolt - Energias Renováveis, wholly owned by Altri, SGPS, and fund manager Equitix have acquired all shares in Tilbury Green Power Holdings in Essex. Tilbury Green Power is the owner of a fully operational Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC) and Aalborg Energie Technik (AET)-built 41.6 MW renewable energy waste wood-fired power facility in the Port of Tilbury, Essex.…
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