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Hitachi Zosen Inova’s (HZI) German subsidiary, HZI BioMethan (HZIB), will build the company’s biggest biogas upgrading plant to date in Dunaföldvár, Hungary. Irish firm ClonBio Group commissioned HZI to build the biomethane plant that will upgrade 5,000 Nm3/h of inlet biogas. The upgrading facility will be constructed in 2022 at Europe’s largest grain biorefinery, owned by ClonBio’s…
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Packaging firm DS Smith has invested €7.5 million in expanding the anaerobic treatment facility at its paper mill in northern France. The investment enables Rouen Paper Mill to generate green energy from 100% of its wastewater and improve the quality of discharged water – building the circular economy and taking another step towards DS Smith’s carbon goals. The process generates…
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GLS, one of Italy’s main express couriers, will add 120 new LNG and bio-LNG powered vehicles to its fleet. The new IVECO S-WAY vehicles, which will replace a diesel vehicle fleet made up of 70% Euro VI vehicles and 30% Euro V vehicles, will have a significantly positive impact on the environment. Switching to fossil methane will result in a reduction of CO2 amounting to -7,300 tons –…
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Summit Natural Gas, based in Yarmouth, Maine, will receive a portion of $64.7 million in funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a dairy biogas project. Summit’s digester project is among 22 projects chosen by the DOE focused on producing cost-effective, low-carbon biofuels. US Senator Susan Collins, of Maine, and Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden welcomed…
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The foundation stone of Metsä Fibre’s Kemi bioproduct mill was laid on 13 September, with the company confirming the project is progressing according to plan. Totalling €1.6 billion, the investment in the Kemi bioproduct mill is the largest in the history of Finland’s forest industry. Operating entirely without fossil fuels, the mill will produce around 1.5 million tonnes of softwood…
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Chevron U.S.A., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, has signed definitive agreements to form a joint venture (JV) with Mercuria Energy Trading (Mercuria). Mercuria is one of the world’s largest integrated energy and commodities companies and has partnered with Chevron to own and operate American Natural Gas (ANG) and its network of 60 CNG stations across the US. Chevron is building a…
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Two new large recycling vehicles powered entirely from food waste-derived biogas are now in operation in the west of England. The biogas-fuelled vehicles are powered from the food waste they collect, and now service cafes, restaurants, schools and offices. They are the latest addition to the expanding fleet of ‘Bio-Bees’, which have served the city of Bristol since 2017 and have been…
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B2B renewable energy supplier Haven Power, part of Drax Group, is changing its name to Drax. Haven Power was acquired by Drax Group in 2009 and supplies more than 20,000 large industrial and commercial customers with over 12 TWh of renewable-sourced electricity annually – equivalent to the annual power use of more than 3 million homes. With the rebrand, Drax aims to partner with its…
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Rice Acquisition Corp (RAC), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the energy transition, has announced its stockholders have approved the business combination of Aria Energy and Archaea Energy. The merger, valued at an estimated $1.15 billion (€973 million), will create an industry-leading RNG platform, dedicated to reducing carbon emissions through landfill gas conversion, CO2…
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LS Power and The Landfill Group announced that construction has started on an RNG project at a landfill in South Carolina. Enerdyne Power Systems, a Landfill Group company based in Charlotte, is building the state-of-the-art RNG project at the Twin Chimneys Landfill site. The Twin Chimneys Power Producers (TCPP) project is expected to achieve commercial operations by Q4 2022. Landfill gas…
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Belvedere, a super-premium vodka company, has opened an ‘ambitious’ biomass capture facility on-site in Poland. Belvedere was the first spirits distillery to receive a grant from the European Commission to pilot the unique biomass technology. With the inauguration of the plant on 9 September, three years since it received the grant, Belvedere announced an accelerated schedule to…
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Aemetis has received building permits from Stanislaus County in California to construct the next phase of dairy biogas digesters in the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester Project. The project will be connected via a 32-mile private pipeline to the Aemetis ethanol plant near Modesto, connecting dairy RNG facilities. “In addition to the California Environmental Air Quality Act (CEQA)…
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“The North East is a fantastic example of how one area with a very rich, heavy industrial heritage in mining and coal can completely reinvent itself.” — Bioenergy Insight speaks to Fiona Macleod, newly-appointed managing director of Lynemouth Power in Northumberland, UK. Could you tell our readers a bit about yourself and your background? I was born and raised in Edinburgh, studied…
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Cayuga RNG, a joint venture (JV) between UGI Energy Services (UGIES) and Global Common Energy, has entered into an agreement to develop its second RNG project in upstate New York. The JV’s first project is being developed at Spruce Haven Farm, a dairy farm in Cayuga County in New York’s Finger Lakes region. This project incorporates an existing anaerobic digester that generates biogas,…
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