Italgas and Italian agricultural lobby Coldiretti have signed an agreement to develop the production of biomethane. Italgas said that, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the European scenario has identified biomethane as the renewable source destined to replace a quarter of the fossil gas that came from Russia. The agreement, which was signed on 14 November, commits... [Read More]

A new strategic contract has been signed between Severn Trent Green Power and Warwickshire County Council in the UK. It secures capacity at Severn Trent Green Power’s Coleshill Anaerobic Digestion plant for around 20,000 tonnes of food waste from Warwickshire households to be recycled every year. The high-tech plant in the Hams Hall area of Coleshill will take in food... [Read More]

AstraZeneca (AZN) is leveraging its global industrial-scale manufacturing and digital capabilities to boost US renewable natural gas (RNG) productivity through a planned expanded collaboration with Vanguard Renewables. With an ambition of achieving a multiple fold increase in productivity, the collaboration aims to accelerate parity with fossil fuel-generated natural... [Read More]

Stainless steel producer Outokumpu has acquired a share of Swedish company Envigas to reduce direct emissions with biomass-based raw material. The company said it has ambitious sustainability targets and is constantly looking for options to further decarbonise the industry and the company’s stainless steel production. Switching from the use of fossil raw materials... [Read More]

A new approach to digester additives from biogas experts FM BioEnergy has boosted gas output at an Essex anaerobic digestion plant, delivering a huge return on investment for its operators BioWatt. The 1MW Katharos Organic AD facility initially took part in a nine-week trial of FM BioEnergy's new BC.MICROcon5 digester supplement, which contains the exact daily dose of... [Read More]

EVENSOL LLC, a renewable energy project developer focusing on biogas and methane mitigation, has developed two renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities in North Carolina, US, that are now operational. The Foothills Renewables Project in Caldwell County, NC, and the Upper Piedmont Renewables Project in Person County, NC, convert landfill gas from Republic Services' landfills... [Read More]

The UK government is facing a legal challenge over its Biomass Strategy in the High Court. The Lifescape Project rewilding charity, backed by the Partnership for Policy Integrity, has filed an application for a judicial review for the Strategy, which was published in August this year. The case has been filed in the Administrative Court on the grounds that the government’s... [Read More]

Decarbonisation and energy efficiency specialists Synergie Environ Ltd (Synergie) has supported pharmaceutical company Sterling Pharma Solutions with the installation and commissioning of an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at its facilities in Northumberland. Waste solvents are recycled into low carbon gas, which is injected into the national grid. Synergie, part of the... [Read More]

Enviva Inc has reported a net loss of $85.2 million (€79.8 million) for Q3 2023, a significant increase from the net loss of $18.3 million (€17.1 million), reported for the same period in 2022. The company has experienced a significant net loss of $49.6 million (€46.4 million) and decrease in adjusted EBITDA, which was €36.6 million (€34.2 million), compared... [Read More]

EverGen Infrastructure Corp. (EverGen) has announced the signing of a 10-year offtake agreement with Irving Oil Limited (Irving Oil) for the supply of renewable natural gas (RNG) produced at the Grow the Energy Circle Ltd. facility (GrowTEC). GrowTEC, located on the Perry Family Farm near Lethbridge, Alberta, is an operating farm scale RNG facility which has been converting... [Read More]

Drax Group has partnered with Patch, a climate technology company that is building digital infrastructure for the carbon market of the future. Patch's software helps voluntary carbon market participants buy, sell and manage credits. With the Patch Radius software solution, Drax customers will be able to purchase from a number of portfolios of carbon credits, including... [Read More]

Bioenergy Europe is celebrating the fact that today (10 November) is the European Union's (EU) Bioenergy Day. Bioenergy Day means that, from today onwards, bioenergy alone has the potential to fulfil the EU's energy needs for the rest of the year. Every EU country has its own National Bioenergy Day to highlight how bioenergy has empowered communities to break away from... [Read More]

BIOGEST Group's new brand BIOP has begun the construction of its first biomethane plant in Italy. The new project, Collarmele, is located in L’Aquila, Italy, and converts 73,000 tonnes/year of chicken manure and vegetable waste (fennels, carrots and potatoes) into 500 Nm³/h of biomethane, utilising BIOGEST PowerRing and PowerDigest technology. The project includes... [Read More]

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has released a new report that looks at how biomass can help the European Union (EU) achieve its climate and environmental goals, and how climate change might affect the EU's biomass production in agriculture and forest sectors. The report, entitled The European Biomass Puzzle - Challenges, opportunities and trade-offs around biomass... [Read More]

Technology group Wärtsilä has announced the engineering, delivery, and installation of the biogas upgrading solution to a new biogas 17 tons-per-day liquefaction plant in Hjørring, Denmark. The contract was awarded to Wärtsilä in 2022, and the official start-up took place in June 2023 The facility is one of two biogas plants owned and operated by GrønGas A/S in... [Read More]

Global biogas producer Nature Energy and energy and fibre network Andel have made "world history", according to Danish Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Morten Bødskov. He was speaking during the inauguration of the first plant in the world to commercially increase the production of biogas via electrolysis and biological methanation. The new Power-to-X... [Read More]