The utility’s new thermal hydrolysis plant (THP) is now processing 100 tonnes of sludge daily. The £60m project changes the way the company treats waste before it’s used to generate green power. It’s designed to make the process considerably more efficient and increasing the amount of clean energy produced by almost a third. More than half of the... [Read More]

The collaboration will focus on the development of four small-scale liquefaction plants for natural gas and biomethane to make LNG and renewable bio-LNG more available for transport in Italy. Snam and Baker Hughes have signed an agreement to develop micro-liquefaction infrastructure to boost sustainable mobility in heavy duty trucks and to promote sustainability in maritime... [Read More]

Pinnacle Renewable Holdings announced on 22 May that it has entered into a long-term, take-or-pay off-take contract with Hanwa, a large, diversified trading company in Japan. Pinnacle will supply 75,000 metric tonnes of industrial wood pellets to Hanwa each year from early 2022. The industrial wood pellets will be used by a biomass power generation plant in Japan. "We... [Read More]

A report from the Press Association shows that the amount of waste food Parliament has sent to anaerobic digestion facilities has more than doubled over the last three years. Disposed wasted food reached 130 tonnes in 2016, rising to 282 in the last year. Charlotte Morton, chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association, says she agrees that the... [Read More]

Arcadis and the Government of Canada have partnered to develop a joint programme to help Chile achieve its climate change goals in the waste management sector. The Reciclo Orgánicos program is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by optimising waste management processes across eight Chilean cities, cutting the amount of organic waste disposed in sanitary... [Read More]

Bristol Community Transport has invested in a fleet of 21 Scania biogas buses for its m1 Metrobus route , which will be operated by First West. Metrobus is a new rapid public transport system for the West of England region. The m1 connects south Bristol, the city centre and the Bristol campus of the University of the West of England. The Scania buses, with bodywork by... [Read More]

The UK will head an ‘international challenge’ with Saudi Arabia and Mexico to remove carbon from emissions and contribute £21.5 million to the scheme. The challenge is part of the ‘Mission Innovation’ initiative to develop clean energy technology. The aim of the funding is to accelerate the commercial viability of carbon capture, utilisation... [Read More]

The energy plant constructor ETW Energietechnik has announced the opening of its first biogas processing plant in France. The plant has been in continuous operation since mid-April. The facility uses a compact model of the ETW SmarCycle PSA biogas treatment system, which is designed to react automatically to flow fluctuations and changing raw gas qualities to prevent loss... [Read More]

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has set out its new draft Clean Air Strategy to achieve air pollution goals. So far, the UK has failed to meet its obligations under EU regulation, and fails to meet World Health Organisation standards. According to the strategy, the government will introduce legislation ‘at the earliest opportunity’... [Read More]

Researchers have developed new technologies that can be used to convert industrial plants to produce fossil-free heat, electricity, fuel, chemicals and materials. They say the technical potential is enormous: using only Sweden's currently existing power plants, renewable fuels equivalent to 10% of the world's aviation fuel could be produced. The study offers a chance to... [Read More]

Xebec Adsorption, a global provider of gas purification solutions for the industrial, energy and renewables marketplace, announced on 16 May that has it signed an exclusive market development and commercialisation agreement with Sapio Group. Under this agreement, Sapio is entering into a minimum purchase order commitment for multiple Xebec biogas upgrading plants for a... [Read More]

The company, which operates three biomass units in the UK (with a fourth on the way), says it is piloting ‘Europe’s first’ carbon capture storage project. Bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) stores the carbon that’s produced when biomass is burned to produce energy. Coupled with the carbon- absorption that takes place while the biomass... [Read More]

A €10 million, five year project is developing commercial applications for SOFC (solid oxide fuel cell) technology. Coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the aim of the Commercial scale SOFC systems (ComSos) project is to implement the reliable production of low-emission electricity and heat. According to a statement, this will lead to ‘significant’... [Read More]

Vermont Coffee Company said on 17 May that it has become the first US coffee roaster to use 100% renewable biogas to roast its coffee. Both thermal and electric energy are sourced from renewable methane. The company says that it has been trying to get to this system in place for some time.  "Renewable electricity was the easy part," says company founder and CEO, Paul... [Read More]

On 10 May California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. issued an executive order designed to address the state’s spate of record-breaking forest fires. The measures included long-term use of small bioenergy generators. Combatting dangerous tree mortality, increasing the ability of forests to capture carbon and systematically improving forest management are among the order’s... [Read More]

In the US, the American Biogas Council (ABC), the Agriculture Energy Coalition (AgEC) and the Biomass Power Association (BPA) have come out against the H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, also known as the Farm Bill. Over the past two years, these organisations have been working to advance the Farm Bill, legislation that supports the use of biomass and agricultural... [Read More]