Dubai Municipality and Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) have signed an agreement to cooperate in a project to generate electricity from biogases extracted from the landfill in Muhaisnah 5. The agreement was signed by HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA and HE Eng. Dawood Al Hajri, director general of Dubai Municipality, at the Dubai Municipality... [Read More]

The Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) held its 2023 National Conference in Westminster, London on 6 December. Chair Chris Huhne told attendees that 2023 has been a year of resumed growth for the sector, and a year of renewed optimism. Huhne pointed to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook, in which the global growth trajectory... [Read More]

Air Burners®, a manufacturer of air curtain burner systems, has collaborated with Rolls-Royce and Volvo Construction Equipment to develop and test its BioCharger® – a portable machine that turns biomass waste into energy. According to the organisations, the BioCharger is the first machine of its kind, combining three steps to provide off-grid power from vegetative... [Read More]

The Mannheim energy company MVV, Reutlinger FairEnergie, Stadtwerke Tübingen and Stadtwerke Balingen have signed a declaration of intent to establish a project company. The aim of the company is the joint construction, financing and subsequent operation of a biogas processing plant in Meßstetten in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In addition,... [Read More]

Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems, unveiled its inaugural bioenergy market offering at the UK Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Trade Association’s (ADBA) National Conference in London yesterday (6 December). Its technology is proven to reduce oil usage by up to 50% and accordingly reduce customers’ carbon... [Read More]

The Government of Ontario in Canada has announced an initial $1.5 million (€1 million) funding for 15 projects under the new Forest Biomass Program, to advance research, innovation and modernisation initiatives. The Forest Biomass Action Plan is a five-year plan that encourages the use of forest biomass resources to secure jobs, support economic development and encourage... [Read More]

Circa Group (Circa), Vataset Teollisuus Oy and Kemijarvi Biorefinery Ltd. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to evaluate the establishment of a Circa Furacell™ production facility on the Kemijarvi Biopark in Northern Finland. The plant would manufacture platform chemical levoglucosenone (LGO), biochar and bio-based solvent Cyrene™ from sustainable biomass... [Read More]

Biomethane production in Europe grew by almost 20% in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to data from the new edition of the EBA Statistical Report launched today (5 December). However, the EU's dependency on natural gas imports grew from 83% in 2021 to 97% in 2022. “With gas import dependency on the rise together with the pressing climate emergencies, sustainable... [Read More]

Burnham RNG (Burnham) has announced that a fund managed by Ares Management's Infrastructure Opportunities strategy (Ares) has made a strategic investment to acquire the company from Edge Natural Resources (Edge). Burnham is a full-service developer and owner of organic waste management and anaerobic digestion biogas assets across the US. The investment from Ares, a leading... [Read More]

Cepsa, which is owned by Mubadala and Carlyle, and C2X, an independent company majority owned by A.P. Moller Holding with A.P. Moller – Maersk as minority owner, have announced a joint ambition to develop a green methanol plant in the port of Huelva, southern Spain. Green methanol is made by using green hydrogen and non-fossil sources of carbon captured from the atmosphere... [Read More]

New Energy Blue, a clean-tech creator of biomass refineries that turn crop residues such as corn stalks into low-carbon fuels and chemicals, has announced the formation of New Energy Farmers LLC, which will be headquartered in Mason City, Iowa in the US. New Energy Farmers is a biomass aggregation company jointly owned by Iowa farmers and New Energy Blue. Its purpose... [Read More]

The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine and the Ministry of Environment and Energy Security of Italy have agreed to cooperate in the field of energy transition and renewable energy sources. A memorandum was signed by Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Energy Svitlana Hrynchuk and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Environment of Italy Vannia Gava, within the framework of the UN Climate... [Read More]

In September, Future Biogas announced it had entered a 15-year partnership with AstraZeneca to establish the UK’s first unsubsidised industrial-scale supply of biomethane gas. Philipp Lukas, CEO of Future Biogas, reveals more about the partnership and why it represents a step forward for the market as a whole. AstraZeneca came to the market in the summer of 2020, seeking... [Read More]

Summit County and Ecostrat have announced the issue of the Summit County BDO Zone. The BDO Zone stretches across a 40-mile drive radius from Wanship, Utah in the US and stands as the inaugural BDO Zone rating in the state for Forest Residues and Pulpwood. The prestigious ‘A’ rating indicates ‘high quality’ feedstock supply chains and infrastructure, attributed... [Read More]

Major energy infrastructure company Jemena and renewable natural gas (RNG) producer Optimal Renewable Gas (ORG) have signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of three biomethane facilities in Australia. ORG will identify suitable sites in regional New South Wales in proximity to agricultural and other waste sources that could produce up... [Read More]

Topsoe, a carbon emission reduction technologies company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Standard Gas, a decarbonisation technology organisation, to collaborate on a UK-based project to produce renewable natural gas and methanol from residual waste feedstocks. Under the terms of the MoU, Topsoe will provide the technologies, engineering, equipment... [Read More]