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Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) in Canada have discovered a way to help utilise agricultural waste to produce pellets.
Tumpa Sarker, a PhD candidate in USask’s department of chemical and biological engineering, has found that heating canola meal, canola hull, and oat hull before compressing it yields a higher quality pellet with lower moisture content and volume, and…
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Renova has agreed to acquire additional shares in Kanda Biomass Energy’s power generation project.
Kanda Biomass’s project will have an installed capacity of around 75 MW – enough to power approximately 170,000 households annually - and is expected to become operational in June. If the agreement with Renova is confirmed, Kanda Biomass is expected to become a consolidated subsidiary of…
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Millions of pounds will be withdrawn from the UK Government’s Green Homes Grant, according to an MP.
Business Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan revealed the £2 billion (€2.29 billion) available for the grant would not be rolled over into the next financial year from March.
Quoted in The Mirror, the MP said: “The original funding for the green homes grant voucher scheme was announced as a…
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Gregory Distribution has installed a bio-LNG facility to fuel its latest batch of Volvo gas trucks.
The UK logistics company continued its drive towards a more sustainable and environmentally friendly operation by installing its first bio-LNG refuelling station by Gasrec.
In 2020, the company began a trial to test the sustainability of bio-LNG to replace diesel in its fleet of more than…
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Kent County Council (KCC) in the UK has announced all food waste in the county will be recycled in Kent.
Around 45,000 tonnes of food waste collected annually from local households will be turned into biogas through a new anaerobic digester at Blaise Farm Quarry. The biogas will be fed directly into the National Grid as well as powering the plant itself, and creating fertiliser.
KCC Cabinet…
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The RFS Power Coalition has announced its support for legislation introduced in the US that would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action on stalled Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) pathway petitions and applications submitted by biogas, biomass, and waste-to-energy power producers.
The RFS Power Coalition is led by the American Biogas Council (ABC), Biomass Power…
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EnviTec’s gas upgrading has seen a performance boost from improved membranes, increasing separation capacity.
The company now has 49 gas upgrading plants in operation in six countries around the world, with a further 15 under construction. EnviTec said this is all part of the EnviThan success story for efficient and environmentally-friendly gas upgrading technology.
“In just eight…
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Drax is expected to shelve plans to build a major gas-fired power plant in the UK, according to reports.
It has been suggested the company is considering abandoning the plans following criticism from environmental groups who said it went against the spirit of the UK’s pledge to tackle climate change. This speculation follows the loss of a legal challenge against the government for approving…
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Pellet producer Waste Knot Energy has signed a £132 million (€150 million) deal with international supply management firm Komercon.
Under the terms of the agreement, Waste Knot Energy will supply 3.6 million tonnes of pellets over the next five years to Komercon, which has its head office in the Netherlands, giving it the ability to close long-term supply agreements for its…
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“Sector lobbying by national bioenergy associations is going to be extremely important."
The exciting potential of 2020, as seen in January last year with the launch of the European Green Deal (EGD) and the EU’s energy transition towards being carbon neutral by 2050, was brutally and painfully destroyed by COVID-19. There is simply no way of avoiding that truth as we seek to make sense of…
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Renewable energy investment platform Bio Capital has completed the debt financing on its portfolio of UK anaerobic digestion (AD) assets.
Independent law firm Burges Salmon advised the firm on the £85 million (€96 million) debt financing on assets across England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Bio Capital was founded in 2018 by Helois Energy Investments and Equitix as a platform for…
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WELTEC BIOPOWER has joined the American Biogas Council (ABC), which has campaigned for the interests of the US biogas industry since 2010.
Based in Germany, Weltec Biopower specialises in the field of stainless-steel biogas plant construction; it has developed and built anaerobic digestion (AD) plants since 2001.
“We look forward to our commitment in the US and are convinced that we can…
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Compact Membrane Systems (CMS), a firm specialising in separation technology, has completed the first pilot demonstration of Optiperm™ biogas.
The latest addition to the CMS portfolio is aimed at enabling the clean energy transition underway in the biogas sector, a market valued at $55 billion (€45 billion), according to CMS.
Optiperm biogas holds the potential to create pipeline ready…
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Two of the UK’s largest renewable energy producing facilities – Ince Bio Power and Energy Works Hull - have undergone major digitisation projects to move their asset management processes to the cloud.
The operator of Energy Works Hull, Bioenergy Infrastructure Group (BIG), was helped by Manchester-based firm SRO Solutions (part of the Cohesive Companies) when it needed a new asset…
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One million UK homes are now being powered by green gas as a result of anaerobic digestion (AD) projects funded by Privilege Finance.
The projects generate a total of more than 1.3 terawatts of energy per year, meaning each day they generate 3.5 GW, translating to approximately 1 million homes powered based on average household energy usage.
Chris Winward, chief commercial officer,…
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