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Praj Industries has received a ‘breakthrough’ order from Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) to set up a compressed biogas (CBG) project in Uttar Pradesh, India.
The project, using Praj’s unique RenGas™ technology, will be able to process 35,000 MT of rice straw as a feedstock to generate 5,250 MT of CBG annually. Additionally, the project will generate 23,000 MT high-quality, solid…
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Clean Energy Fuels Corporation has finalised a joint venture (JV) with BP Products North America, a subsidiary of bp, to develop, own, and operate new RNG projects at dairies and other agriculture facilities.
Each company will retain 50% voting control in the JV, which will be initially funded with $50 million (€42 million) previously provided by bp and another $30 million (€25.2 million)…
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Jemena, an Australian energy infrastructure firm, has signed a collaboration agreement with Italgas to share knowledge and experiences in distribution network management, with a focus on technological innovation and decarbonisation.
Italgas and Jemena specialise in the field of natural gas in Italy and Australia respectively. Italgas manages 73,000 kilometres (km) of gas pipeline…
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Enbridge Gas and the City of Hamilton have introduced the first RNG-fuelled bus in Ontario.
Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) is now the first public transport authority in Ontario to use RNG to transport customers. In one year, the HSR RNG bus will use and divert 450 tonnes of organic waste from landfill, equivalent to 38 refuse collection trucks, while also displacing CO2 emissions from 36,000…
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Excess heat recovered from the sewage treatment process could be used to power more than 2,000 homes in London.
A new partnership between Thames Water and Kingston Council, dubbed the ‘poo power’ scheme, is the first of its kind in England and has the potential to provide clean, green heating to new homes as part of the regeneration of Kingston’s Cambridge Road Estate.
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A distillery has committed to offsetting half of its natural gas usage with Vermont Gas’s (VGS) RNG to produce its craft spirits.
Appalachian Gap Distillery made the announcement as part of its journey to becoming certified by Climate Neutral, a net-zero certification for consumer brands through a non-profit organisation whose mission it is to decrease global carbon emissions.
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Magazyn Biomasa, publisher of the ‘Pellet Market’ and organiser of the Pellet Forum conference, is preparing the first comprehensive publication in Poland on the domestic pellet sector.
The ‘Wood pellet in Poland’ report will be released in April. The scope of the study will cover a wide range of aspects related to the industry: pellet emissivity compared to other solid fuels; data…
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Bühler Group, a Swiss plant equipment manufacturer, has partnered with Belgian thermal energy plant firm Vyncke to offer integrated solutions to transform biomass side stream products into clean process energy.
Both firms have set a goal of reducing energy consumption in all new food plants by at least 50% by 2025. The first focus of the partnership is in the cocoa, oat, and malt processing…
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IES Biogas has opened a new branch in Serbia and inaugurated a new 1,200 kW plant in the country.
The opening of its new branch marks an important step in IES Biogas’ internationalisation plan. The company is pursuing several ambitious projects in Serbia; it has already built four plants and from next spring, a further development of the pipeline is expected with the construction of five new…
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By Angela Sainz, communications manager at the European Biogas Association.
In 2021, the EBA will continue working to ensure the full deployment of renewable gases in Europe and facilitate the recognition of their positive effect on agriculture, waste handling, and the transition towards an efficient circular economy. The EU is leading the way towards climate-neutrality by 2050, underpinned by…
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Chevron Corporation, Microsoft, CleanEnergy Systems and Schlumberger New Energy will collaborate to develop a ‘ground-breaking’ bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project to produce carbon-negative power in California.
The BECCS plant in Mendota will convert agricultural waste biomass, such as almond trees, into a renewable synthesis gas that will be mixed with oxygen in a…
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Albioma has reported ‘stable’ revenue for 2020 and shared its latest biomass development plans.
The firm’s net income was up slightly in 2020 by 25%. Revenue amounted to €506.7 million, stable compared to the previous year. Stripping out the impact of changes in fuel prices (-€13 million) and the currency effect related to the decline of the Brazilian real (-€7.1 million), revenue…
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The proposed establishment of a £12 billion (€13.8 billion) UK Infrastructure Bank, announced in the government’s Budget, was welcomed by the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) on 3 March, but the organisation said the opportunity to embrace a green economic recovery was missed.
The REA said the UK Infrastructure Bank could help finance infrastructure projects…
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Liquefied biogas (LBG) trucks on the road in Linköping, Sweden, have more than doubled since 2020.
At the turn of the year, around 10 trucks from various companies drove on LBG; however, during February, the number more than doubled when a large grocery company, via its own haulage company, started driving 14 biogas-powered trucks on locally produced biogas.
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The Fort Nelson First Nation (FNFN) has hit back against claims that wood pellet facility plans would be harmful to the environment.
A Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report criticised the project, for which FNFN has partnered with Peak Renewables, suggesting that ‘forest exploitation plans are back on the front burner’.
FNFN fought back, stating that ‘certain environmental…
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