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Aberdeen's Italian biomethane platform, Bionext Infrastructure, has secured a €113 million financing package to fund the conversion of its existing assets into 100% renewable biomethane production facilities and support further growth.
The package was provided by BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, and SMBC.
Established in 2023 and based in Milan, Bionext Infrastructure comprises 15…
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Sustainable fuel technology provider Velocys has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India-based biofuel and carbon dioxide removal project developer Varhad Capital to advance a new generation of biomass-to-sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects in India.
Under the agreement, the companies will engineer and design scalable biomass-to-SAF facilities using indigenous agricultural…
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Microsoft has agreed to purchase 626,000 tonnes of durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits over 15 years from the North Star bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project in Saskatchewan, Canada.
The deal has been struck with North Star Carbon Solutions LP, a partnership between Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) and Svante Technologies.
It is Microsoft's first Canadian BECCS…
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The American Biogas Council (ABC) has criticised the US Environmental Protection Agency's final Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) for 2026 and 2027, warning the targets will constrain markets and undercut opportunities for livestock farmers.
ABC executive director Patrick Serfass said the agency had diverged from longstanding methods and abandoned statutory guidelines by estimating D3 RIN…
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Biogenic CO₂ captured from a Norwegian wastewater biogas facility is being permanently stored beneath the seabed in what is claimed as the world's first geological storage project of its kind.
The project, a collaboration between HoopCO2, Inherit Carbon Solutions and Northern Lights JV, began operations on 23 March. CO₂ is captured at the Veas wastewater treatment plant in Slemmestad,…
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Construction has begun on a cross-border district heating network linking the German city of Görlitz with its Polish twin city of Zgorzelec, with biomass boilers among the renewable technologies to be deployed as the two cities target full decarbonisation of their heat supply by 2030.
The UNITED HEAT project is a joint venture between Stadtwerke Görlitz, a subsidiary of French utility…
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Irish dairy cooperative Aurivo Co-operative Society has announced a €12 million investment in a wood pellet burner and boiler system at its Dairy Ingredients facility in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon in Ireland.
The project, co-funded through the Shared Island Sustainability Capital Grant scheme delivered by Enterprise Ireland, InterTradeIreland and Invest Northern Ireland, will replace a…
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Japanese trading company Sojitz Corporation has made an equity investment in US-based biomethane producer Fidem Energy LLC, marking its entry into the biomethane production and sales market in the United States.
The investment was made through Sojitz's wholly owned subsidiary Sojitz Corporation of America. Fidem will become an equity method affiliate of Sojitz as a result.
Headquartered in…
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EnviTec Biogas has warned that a proposed amendment to Germany's Energy Industry Act (EnWG) would effectively halt the development of new biomethane projects, contradicting both the government's own green gas ambitions and the European Gas Directive the legislation is intended to implement.
The cabinet draft, adopted on 28 March, transposes the EU Gas Directive into German national law. But…
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Senior figures from Europe's bioenergy industry have met with Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen and officials from the European Commission's energy and environment directorates to make the case for biomass in the EU's upcoming Heating and Cooling Strategy. The meetings were coordinated by industry association Bioenergy Europe.
The delegation argued that Europe's shift away from fossil-fuel…
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The European Commission has approved a €6 billion Italian state aid scheme to support the production of renewable hydrogen for use in the transport and industrial sectors, with biomass-derived hydrogen explicitly included among eligible production routes.
The scheme, which runs until the end of 2029, aims to support annual production of 200,000 tonnes of renewable hydrogen.
Eligible…
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Polska Grupa Biogazowa (PGB), Poland's largest agricultural biogas operator, has agreed a large-scale electricity trading partnership with energy trading firm Hekla Energy, the first deal of its kind in Poland for electricity generated from agricultural biogas.
Under the agreement, more than 200GWh of biogas-derived electricity will enter Hekla Energy's portfolio in the first year of…
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UK-based Octopus Energy Generation is planning to invest up to $6 billion in a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility in Canada, targeting growing demand across European markets.
The project will be developed through its Canadian subsidiary, Nova Sustainable Fuels, at a coastal industrial site in Goldboro, Nova Scotia.
Construction is expected to take approximately three years, with…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final rule setting applicable volumes for 2026 and 2027 under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), with cellulosic biofuel volumes set higher than those proposed in an earlier draft.
Industry group RNG Coalition, which represents renewable natural gas producers, welcomed the decision as an improvement on the agency's original Set…
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A new dry anaerobic digestion and renewable natural gas (AD-RNG) facility is being developed at the Napa Recycling and Composting Facility in California, through a public-private partnership between equipment manufacturer BHS (Bulk Handling Systems), waste services operator Napa Recycling and Waste Services and the City of Napa.
The facility will use BHS subsidiary Zero Waste Energy's…
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