The UK government is promising a revolution in the way electricity is made, used and stored. The announcement comes as the UK government promoted its Industrial Strategy. According to the government, consumers in the UK could save billions of pounds when new rule s come into place to make it easier for people to generate their own power with solar panels, store it in batteries... [Read More]

Canada-based biogas upgrading company Greenlane Biogas has extended its biogas upgrading equipment line-up. In a statement, the company said that it had expanded its Kauri upgrading system to help provide solutions for large-scale projects. With the capacity to treat up to 3,000 standard cubic feet per minute (SCFM) of biogas, the ‘Kauri’ will enable biogas... [Read More]

Wood pellet giant Enviva has released its latest proprietary Track & Trace forestry data, highlighting the company’s ongoing commitment to a sustainable and transparent supply chain. These data are another key tool for measuring and demonstrating Enviva’s sustainability practices throughout the Southeastern US. “We are committed to keeping forests... [Read More]

The first sales of biofertiliser produced from the anaerobic digestion process in the UK have been described as “a game-changing moment in the restoration of the UK’s soils”, according to trade body Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA). Farming family Steve and Sarah Suggitt of Suggitt Farm Services in Norfolk are using digestate,... [Read More]

UK power giant Drax has announced that it is pressing ahead with its biomass plans as new figures show the company produced about 17% of the UK’s renewable electricity in the first half of 2017. The company, which runs a coal and biomass plant in North Yorkshire, UK, published its half-year results for the six months ended 30 June, 2017, yesterday (19 July,2017). Three... [Read More]

Rick Perry, the US Secretary of Energy, has announced $40 million in Department of Energy (DOE) awards for the creation of four DOE Bioenergy Research Centres (BRCs). Each led by a DOE National Laboratory or a ‘top’ university, the centres are designed to “lay the scientific groundwork for a new bio-based economy that promises to yield a range of important... [Read More]

EQTEC, a technology solution company for waste gasification-to-energy projects, has entered into a non-binding heads of terms agreement with Inava Ingenieria de Analisis SL and its majority shareholder, EBIOSS Energy SE, to ‘spin off’ their subsidiary, EQTEC Iberia, and combine it with EQTEC. In order to generate additional capital for the newly enlarged group... [Read More]

A new plant for the production of biomethane and carbon dioxide has been inaugurated and started operation in Montello, Italy. The biogas upgrading plant is the ‘first’ in Italy able to produce biomethane and carbon dioxide exclusively from the treatment of municipal solid waste. The new facility has been created by Tecno Project Industriale (TPI), a company... [Read More]

ExxonMobil and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. The research forms part of a bigger drive to identify scalable, commercially viable solutions to meet growing global energy demand with renewable resources. The collaboration between... [Read More]

Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has invested €25 million in subscribing to Lithuania’s first green bond issuance, made by the country’s leading energy supplier Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy). The money will go towards supporting both biomass and waste-to-energy facilities in the Baltic country, alongside a range of other renewable energy sources. The... [Read More]

India’s ‘first’ biomethane powered bus has been showcased at the Urja Utsav Bio-energy programme. The bio-CNG bus has been developed by Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicles manufacturer. The Urja Utsa programme was organised by India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and was attended by the country’s Minister of Petroleum... [Read More]

Chris Stark, the Scottish government's director of Energy and Climate Change, will be the keynote speaker at Bioenergy Insight’s Conference & Expo 2017. The conference will take place from 4-5 October in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stark is leading the development of Scotland’s approach to emissions-reduction and the accompanying energy system transition. His... [Read More]

Researchers at the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) are developing a process in which biomass can be used to produce a hydrogen-rich gas that can then be employed in various ways in the iron and steel industry. According to a news release from the University, the long-term vision of the project is a renewable energy source, firmly anchored in the design of an integrated... [Read More]

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has published its July Short-Term Energy Outlook, which among other things shows the administration’s expectations for bioenergy and biofuel’s roles in the US energy supply. In the report, EIA says total generation from renewables in the electric power sector is set to increase by 11% in 2017, and then remain relatively... [Read More]

Researchers at the University of British Colombia’s Okanagan campus have found the key to speeding up the production process of biogas, according to an article on Phys.org. The new research from Cigdem Eskicioglu, associate professor with UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering, and her team, could hold the key to biogas that is cheaper, safer and much faster... [Read More]

UK biogas plant specialist Agrivert has opened a new anaerobic digestion plant in North London. Councillor Richard Thake, chairman of Hertfordshire County Council, officially opened the facility. This is the company’s fifth AD plant. Designed and constructed by the Agrivert team, the new North London AD facility was constructed in just 11 months and is already... [Read More]