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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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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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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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Active Energy Group has secured a further $10 million €8.2 million in funding, while also converting all existing debt to equity. The new funding and clean balance sheet will allow the firm to accelerate the development of its CoalSwitch™ production facility in Lumberton, North Carolina. AEG has developed technology that converts waste biomass into CoalSwitch pellets that perform in the…
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ENGIE has produced renewable gas from non-recyclable waste in a ‘world-first’ project. Located in the heart of the ‘Chemical Valley’ in Saint-Fons, France, the GAYA semi-industrial research and development (R&D) platform took a ‘historic step forward’ in the production of renewable gas on 17 November. Supported by French agency for ecological transition ADEME and launched in…
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Rosetti Marino, an Italian company providing integrated services to industrial sectors, has purchased 60% of Green Methane, an Italian firm specialising in the conversion of biogas into biomethane. Green Methane’s facilities purify biogas from CO2 and produce green methane with characteristics suitable for injecting into the gas distribution network, and for transport. The firm was…
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Enviva has published its 2020 Impact Report, which outlines the progress made last year to implement its Responsible Sourcing Policy (RSP) provisions in its operations. The firm’s RSP provides strict sourcing guidelines that hold it to the highest standards of sustainability, integrity, forest stewardship, and continuous improvement and serves as the guiding principle for its global wood…
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It could take 10 years or more to meet the UK Government’s target to issue Green Homes Grant vouchers to 600,000 households. In response to concerns raised by the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) on the operation of the Green Homes Grant, Lord Callanan, Minister of the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) admitted that only 20,000 vouchers towards the cost of…
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On 5 February, Chairman of the House of Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, Mike Thompson, and the entire Democratic membership of the Committee, announced the introduction of the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act. The bill, first introduced in June 2020, is a comprehensive use of the tax code to combat the threat of climate change. The legislation,…
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DP CleanTech, a renewable and environmental management firm specialising in biomass, waste-to-energy, and waste management projects, has partnered with life cycle asset management (LCAM) firm JOULON. The strategic partnership will focus on the emerging prospects in the waste management and environmental services industry. At a time of change in the global economy and with renewed momentum on…
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Amazon has ordered hundreds of trucks that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as it seeks ways to shift its US fleet away from heavier polluting vehicles, the firm told Reuters. The COVID-19 pandemic caused delivery activity to surge in 2020, with truck volumes exceeding 2019 levels on average while passenger car traffic dropped. But an increase in road activity means more pollution, as…
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Clean Energy Fuels has signed a multi-year contract with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Authority (LA Metro) to supply renewable natural gas (RNG). Under the agreement, Clean Energy will supply 47.5 million gallons of its RNG to fuel the nation’s largest transit bus fleet. The agreement will mark the completion of Metro’s five-year goal to transition its diesel fleet to cleaner,…
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Trinity Organics has received £14 million (€15.9 million) from Dutch green energy investment company Perpetual Next to develop a biogas plant. Work is now underway to build the anaerobic digestion (AD) facility on a three-acre brownfield site in Ellesmere Port, UK. The plant, expected to be operational by the summer, will operate ‘around-the-clock’ to digest 36,000 tonnes of organic…
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San Diego County has opened its first anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Escondido. According to a report by the Escondido Times Advocate, on 1 February, the facility was able to receive residential green waste, formed of food waste and garden waste from homes, as well as industrial and commercial operations. On 28 November 2018, the city’s Recycling and Waste Reduction Division first…
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