The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded two Delaware State University researchers a three-year grant of almost $300,000 (€273.7) for a project that could leverage the properties of microalgae toward energy and cancer treatment purposes. The research is being led by Dr. Ali Parsaeimehr, Principal Investigator (PI) and DSU Postdoctoral Researcher, and Dr. Gulnihal... [Read More]

Bühler’s Energy Recovery Centre, built in partnership with Belgian company Vyncke, is fully operational and ready for customer trials. Officially opened on November 20, the facility provides heating for Bühler offices in Uzwil by using biomass generated at its application and training centres. Moreover, the Energy Recovery Centre, the world’s only application centre... [Read More]

The Acorn Partners – Storegga, Shell U.K Limited (Shell), Harbour Energy and North Sea Midstream Partners (NSMP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Uniper, an international energy company operating over 22GW of generation capacity in Europe and one of the world’s largest power producers. Uniper is developing proposals to retrofit post-combustion... [Read More]

The UK government has announced £2 billion (€2.3 billion) in government funding over the next 15 years for 11 major hydrogen projects. Confirmed suppliers will receive a guaranteed price from the government for the clean energy they supply. The government said this represents the largest number of commercial scale green hydrogen production projects announced at once... [Read More]

The Polish division of the German energy group E.ON, E.ON Polska, will open its first biogas plant in the country in 2024. The facility, which will have an installed capacity of 1 MWe in high-efficiency cogeneration, will be installed near Pultusk. E.ON said this investment is part of its strategy, in actively participating in the energy transition. The organisation... [Read More]

Enchanted Rock, a provider of electrical resiliency microgrids, and U.S. Energy, a vertically integrated energy solutions provider proficient in refined products, alternative fuels and environmental credits, have announced a partnership to procure renewable natural gas (RNG) for Microsoft’s new data centre in San Jose during grid outages and when California’s Base... [Read More]

The UK government recognises the importance of waste wood biomass and is considering transitional support for the sector after the ROCs and RHI subsidies end, according to Energy Minister Graham Stuart. Stuart’s comments came in his recent response to a letter sent by the Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). In... [Read More]

European support for biogas plants to the tune of €2.4 billion mean biogas investments in Czechia are likely to increase significantly in 2024, according to an analysis from consulting firm EGU Brno. According to last year's data from the Czech Biogas Association, there were 574 biogas plants in the country, with a total installed capacity of 367 megawatts (MW). The... [Read More]

Renewables supplied more than 40% of Britain’s electricity demand, their highest share for the third quarter of the year on record, according to the latest instalment of the quarterly Drax Electric Insights report - an independent report from Imperial College London. This made it the lowest carbon quarter on record, with emissions falling below 150 g/kWh for the first... [Read More]

Scania has launched its latest generation of biogas engines, which offer a 5% fuel saving over its predecessors, according to the company. First introduced at last year’s IAA show in Hanover, Germany, the new 13-litre biogas engines are available with either 420hp or 460hp, and utilise components from the latest generation Super diesel powertrain, to help improve its... [Read More]

VYNCKE Solutions explains its range of projects and innovations all over the world. Food and feed businesses all over the world are looking for pathways to decarbonisation. The awareness that biomass is one of the solutions keeps growing. Many industries have a biomass side-stream or waste-stream, which Vyncke energy plants valorise by turning into energy for their production... [Read More]

Polska Grupa Biogazowa (PGB), a member of TotalEnergies since March 2023, has commenced the construction of its 19th biogas plant in Półwieś, Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship in Poland. A foundation stone-laying ceremony was held on 7 December to celebrate the beginning of this investment. The combined heat and power (CHP) unit, which is planned to be commissioned... [Read More]

enfinium, a British energy-from-waste operator, has announced its ambition to lead an investment of up to £800 million (€932.8 million) over the project lifecycle in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at one of its UK sites in West Yorkshire. With plans to be operational from 2030, the project would provide the UK with vital carbon removals, decarbonise unrecyclable... [Read More]

Bisviridi, a new company part of the BioteCH4 group, a leading anaerobic digestion (AD) operator in the UK, and Alfa Laval, a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling, have announced a new partnership to increase the sustainability potential of organic and food waste recycling. The partnership combines Alfa Laval’s Prodec Oil Plus decanter,... [Read More]

Technology group Wärtsilä  has announced it will supply, install, commission and start-up the biogas upgrading and liquefaction units for a Swedish bioLNG plant. The new plant is an extension of an existing biomethane and bioLNG plant supplied previously by Wärtsilä, and will bring the production of bioLNG from 20 to 45 tons per day. The plant, located in Linköping,... [Read More]

Two anaerobic digestion (AD) plants developed by Wega Group Oy (Wega) and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its CI Advanced Bioenergy Fund I (CI ABF I), are making positive progress. Land reservation agreements have been signed with the municipalities of Nivala and Pöytyä, enabling the development of the AD plants to enter the next phase. Each plant... [Read More]