Ceres, a California-based agricultural biotechnology company focused on forage crops, said its revenue for the quarter ended 30 November, 2015, increased by 140% to $942,000, compared to $400,000 the same period last year, owing to a strengthened balance sheet and a strategy to focus on commercialising its forage products. The company also reported that it narrowed its... [Read More]

BioHiTech America, a US-based technology company which develops data driven solutions for food waste disposal, has partnered with New Jersey-headquartered water management specialist Natural Systems Utilities to convert commercial food waste to energy. The firms will also be working with New Jersey-based utility specialist Ridgewood Green RME and the village of Ridgewood.... [Read More]

The US-based Florida Keys islands may use gasification technology to convert waste into electricity, according to media reports. According to news website Waste360, Monroe County, which encompasses Key West and about 95% of the rest of the Keys islands, is finalising a contract with Annapolis, Maryland-based Energy3 LLC to build a gasification plant capable of processing... [Read More]

Waste management specialist China Everbright International has signed a supplementary agreement for phase three of a household waste to energy project with Jiangyin Public Utility Management Bureau, Jiangsu Province, as well as a contract to build and operate the Jiangsu Suqian Food Waste Treatment Project. The company explained that the Jiangyin Project phase three will... [Read More]

Wyke Farms, a UK-based independent cheese and milk producer, has signed major new deal with supermarket giant Sainsbury's to supply the retailer with green gas generated at its dairy farm in Somerset. The milk producer will supply Sainsbury's with biogas from its anaerobic digestion (AD) plant alongside its cheese and butter products. The company said the deal would see... [Read More]

Canada-based renewable energy firm StormFisher Environmental has acquired an anaerobic digester, called London Energy Garden, from Ontario firm Harvest Ontario Partners. Chris Guillon, vice president of StormFisher Environmental, said: "These developments open up even more opportunities to serve the organic waste processing needs of the region." The facility, which was... [Read More]

Malta has unveiled its first autoclave, a pressure chamber capable of extracting animal fat from carcasses, in Marsa — a town based in the country's south eastern region. Wasteserv, a Maltese Government-owned waste management company, launched the facility at the south east-based town today [12 January, 2015]. The organisation will process animal fat and use it to... [Read More]

Clean energy firm Hawaii Gas is looking to replace most of its current fuel base with renewable natural gas. According to Pacific Business News, the company, which is owned by US-based infrastructure specialist Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation, has issued a request for proposals to purchase raw biogas and, or, bio-methane, also referred to as renewable natural gas,... [Read More]

Global Bioenergies, a French producer of isobutene, and fermentation technology supplier LanzaTech have made a new collaboration agreement to strengthen their innovations. Global Bioenergies has developed a process in which a microorganism can produce isobutene from renewable feedstock. Traditionally, the company's primary focus has been to use industrial-grade or waste-derived... [Read More]

EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has reported that the UK's domestic use of wood-based biomass to generate electricity is expected to remain steady over the next five years. The government department unveiled the announcement in its Wood Disclosure Survey 2015 published today (8 January 2015). The document drew its conclusions from OFGEM... [Read More]

Utility kit specialist Fulcrum has become of the first independent utility infrastructure providers to enter the renewables market with a new biogas service. Utilising its extensive experience and expertise in the delivery of gas, electricity and water infrastructure across Britain, Fulcrum is entering the renewables sector to provide pipelines that connect biogas plants... [Read More]

The US' Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to issue funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) to support the development of bio-based hydrocarbon fuels and algae biomass. According to the DOE, the FOA for algae biomass aims to support projects to develop technologies that are likely to succeed in producing 3,700 gallons (16,820 litres) of biofuel intermediate,... [Read More]

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation that aims to enact long-term extensions of several clean energy tax credits that benefit the bioenergy and biofuel sectors. The bill, titled the "American Clean Energy Investment Act of 2015," or S. 2391, would permanently extend the production tax credit for renewable electricity generated from... [Read More]

Veolia UK, a branch of the French Veolia Group, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of the business and assets of Boomeco, a waste wood processor and producer of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF). Based in Avonmouth, Bristol, the Boomeco site processes a variety of grades of wood into wood chips to be used in combined heat and power plants and produces RDF from... [Read More]

The Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) has welcomed the representative for the House of Commons Commission, Tom Brake MP's response to a recent Parliamentary question about Parliament's own food waste disposal strategy. The association said that although the government is still "dragging" its feet over action to divert food waste from landfill through... [Read More]

The European Commission (EC) has opened an investigation into whether a plan by Drax to convert a plant from coal to biomass breaches state aid rules. The Commission said it would look into whether the move was unfair to competitors. Drax shares fell 3.3%. The UK aims to close all coal-fired generators by 2025, and recently won EU clearance to support a biomass plant being... [Read More]