The German company WELTEC BIOPOWER has built three more biogas plants in Greece, designed together with its Greek co-operation partner Tetoros Machinery. WELTEC BIOPOWER has already implemented a total of around 36 biogas plants and projects in the country since 2007. Two of these are located in the Epirus region, in northwestern Greece: a 1-megawatt plant in the town... [Read More]

Enviva has named Glenn Nunziata as the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Nunziata brings 20 years' of strong leadership experience with a track record for implementing enterprise-wide changes and driving key financial and process improvements in large-scale organisations, Enviva said. Most recently, Nunziata served... [Read More]

Norsk Hydro has said that bioenergy can replace fossil energy in the casthouse and the anode production at its Sunndal aluminium plant in Norway. The move will reduce CO2 emissions by 20,000 tonnes each year, and is an example of Hydro taking another step towards zero-carbon aluminium, the organisation added. Hydro has signed a letter of intent with Havila to purchase... [Read More]

The Palawan Electric Cooperative (PALECO) has signed a power supply agreement with Brooke’s Point Power Generation Incorporated to establish the second renewable energy power plant in the Philippines province. The 7-megawatt multi-feedstock biomass power plant will be situated in Barangay Tubtub, Brooke’s Point. Estimated to cover approximately seven hectares once... [Read More]

Drax has announced its membership to the First Movers Coalition (FMC), playing its part in the development of the nascent carbon dioxide removals (CDR) market and working toward becoming a global leader in the potentially trillion-dollar sector. The FMC, launched at COP26 by US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, is a coalition of companies who use their... [Read More]

Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) and the state-owned Landfill Site Management Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on eco-friendly hydrogen production technology in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday (29 August). HMG said it is moving towards clean hydrogen production by using biogas generated from food waste treatment processes. The agreement aims to... [Read More]

Audun Sommerli Time, chief marketing officer at NextFuel AB, explains the company’s torrefaction technology to Bioenergy Insight. Established in 2016, NextFuel is a clean-tech startup that is headquartered in Stockholm - with branches in Oslo and Vienna. The company’s roots originate in an international consortium established by Wild and Partner, Andritz Group and... [Read More]

The Logan County Economic Development Corporation in Colorado, US and Ecostrat have announced the issue of a new Bioeconomy Development Opportunity (BDO) Zone designation for wheat straw. The Logan County BDO Zone is rated ‘A’, or low risk, based on the reliable generation of biomass and access to larger supply basins at marginal transportation cost increments. The... [Read More]

Sugar Valley Energy, a subsidiary of California Ethanol & Power LLC (CE+P), and STARS Technology Corp, have announced a collaboration agreement to deploy hydrogen production technology at SVE’s planned, fully permitted 160-acre sugarcane ethanol biorefinery, bioelectric, biogas and wastewater treatment facility in Imperial Valley, California in the US. The SVE-STARS... [Read More]

The French Ministry of Energy Transition has commissioned the European Energy Exchange (EEX) to develop and operate registry and auctioning services for biogas Guarantees of Origin (GOs), as well as registry services for biogas production certificates. In coordination with the Ministry, EEX will launch the biogas GO registry on 1 October 2023, taking over from the French... [Read More]

A fire broke out at a biogas plant in Malaga on 22 August, the first of its kind in Andalusia, reported Euro Weekly News. The fire at the Agroenergia de Campillos SL biogas plant only affected the existing raft on the infrastructure, and was controlled quickly and efficiently by firefighters, according to the city's council. "The situation is completely under control... [Read More]

A new state-of-the-art biomethane refuelling station for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) has entered construction in Aylesford, Kent in the UK. The facility will be capable of fuelling more than 500 trucks per day and saving almost 60,000 tonnes of CO2 a year. The station is a joint venture between CNG Fuels, the infrastructure arm of ReFuels, and Foresight Group, a sustainability-led... [Read More]

The West Lombok Regency community in Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB), Indonesia, is set to begin construction of a biogas plant that can treat local agricultural waste from corn production. The plant is slated to begin operating in 2025, and it is hoped it will replace imported LPG gas products, reported Newsbase. The compressed biogas (CBG) plant is being built by PT Kaltimex... [Read More]

Biokraft's newly built liquefaction plant, connected to its biogas plant in Södertörn, Sweden, has delivered its first batch of bio-LNG. The shipment consisted of 34 tonnes of bio-LNG to be used by trucks in northern Europe. A filled container holds 17 tonnes of bio-LNG, which Biokraft said is enough for fossil-free driving with a fully loaded long-haul truck for approximately... [Read More]

Biogen, an owner and operator of green energy anaerobic digestion (AD) plants, has acquired a portfolio of five operating plants from The Ingenious Group. The acquisition expands Biogen’s generation capacity and increases its footprint of green energy AD plants across the UK. Financial details of the transaction are undisclosed. Biogen produces renewable energy and... [Read More]

Leading water and wastewater asset management company, Alpheus Environmental, has secured a five-year extension to its original three-year contract with the Glenmorangie Distillery in Tain, Scotland. Alpheus has managed and maintained wastewater treatment at the Distillery since 2020. Alpheus was awarded the initial contract based on its experience with anaerobic digestion... [Read More]