The conversion and assembly work at Germany's largest integrated bio-LNG plant with bio-CO2 liquefaction - BioEnergie Park Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - has just been completed, announced EnviTec Biogas. The company is now ready to begin the plant's operation. "Now that the last component, the 300,000-litre LCO2 tank made of pressure vessel steel, has been... [Read More]

NorthStar Clean Energy has awarded Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) a contract to undertake a bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) engineering study at its power plant in Filer City, Michigan in the US. The study is the first phase of a commercial-scale project, as Northstar Clean Energy seeks to convert the coal-fired plant to utilise biomass fuel, and to... [Read More]

BBVA, a leading financial institution in ESG, has joined Suma Capital to expand its track record and expertise in responsible investments. To do so, it will invest €300m in Suma Capital’s third sustainable infrastructure fund, SC Climate Impact Fund III. BBVA's investment will focus upon the energy transition, circular economy and waste management for the production... [Read More]

VARO Energy (VARO) has announced the successful placement of a $165 million (€150.1m) green loan, the first in the company’s history. The green loan, part of a wider $3.33 billion (€3bn) financing announced separately today, will partly refinance VARO’s acquisition of the Bio Energy Coevorden (BEC) biogas manufacturing facility. The green loan represents an important... [Read More]

The UK government’s long-delayed document detailing its plans for the role of biomass in the economy is now planned to be published in the coming weeks, reported Bloomberg. It was first announced in November 2020 and was scheduled to be published at the end of 2022, until being postponed to the second quarter of this year. It had widely been expected to be released... [Read More]

Sewage biogas produced in Manchester is set to become a sustainable feed source for graphene and hydrogen production, due to a pioneering partnership between Levidian and United Utilities. The UK government-funded collaboration is a first for the UK's water industry and will see Levidian’s innovative LOOP technology used to decarbonise biogas created within the wastewater... [Read More]

The European Commission (EC) has approved, under EU State aid rules, a €850 million French measure to support ArcelorMittal France in partially decarbonising its steel production processes. The measure will contribute to the achievement of the EU Hydrogen Strategy, the European Green Deal and the Green Deal Industrial Plan targets, while helping to end dependence on... [Read More]

Japan's Sumitomo said it and Sharjah National Oil Corp (SNOC) will study a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at a mature gas field in the United Arab Emirates, reported Reuters. Japan, which is actively pursuing a green energy transition, is promoting its green technology in the Gulf countries, as the region aims to turn from the world's biggest oil producer... [Read More]

HYRO - a joint venture between RES and Octopus Energy Generation – has submitted a planning application to Flintshire County Council in Wales for its Coleshill Green Hydrogen Project. The scheme is one of two projects located on existing Kimberly-Clark sites that aim to assist the roll out of this source of power for industrial businesses. The Coleshill Green Hydrogen... [Read More]

Atmos Energy Corporation, Black Hills Colorado Gas doing business as Black Hills Energy, Colorado Springs Utilities, and Xcel Energy – Colorado announced that they have jointly issued a request for information (RFI) to identify future developers of renewable natural gas (RNG), including recovered methane projects associated with Colorado’s Clean Heat Statute. The... [Read More]

The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF), a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company, has has provided a €35m senior loan facility to develop a 46MW biomass power plant in Côte d’Ivoire, the largest facility of its kind in West Africa. Biovea Energie, which is owned by EDF International, Meridiam and SIFCA, will own and operate the plant when... [Read More]

CHAR Technologies Ltd (CHAR), a leader in sustainable energy solutions, has closed a CAD$6.6m (€4.5m) strategic investment by a world-leading steel and mining company, ArcelorMittal S.A., through ArcelorMittal XCarb S.à r.l‎ (ArcelorMittal) and ArcelorMittal’s XCarb® Innovation Fund (the Fund). With a presence in 60 countries and primary steelmaking facilities... [Read More]

Quality control and the protection of the certification scheme's value remain key priorities, explains Dobromir Yankov, marketing manager at Bioenergy Europe, in the association's regular column for Bioenergy Insight. When ENplus® was launched over a decade ago, the pellet market was in an early phase of development that lacked a specific set of requirements, quality... [Read More]

CNH Industrial brand New Holland, a world leader in clean energy, has announced a partnership with leading companies in the biomethane sector in Brazil. This partnership will aid in creating an innovative ecosystem for gas production, generated from the decomposition of organic waste. The new ecosystem is the first of its kind in the country and promises to revolutionise... [Read More]

AquaGreen's current lead investor, Nordic Alpha Partners, and Swedish FMG Circular Invest have invested 30 million DKK (€4m) in AquaGreen. AquaGreen's groundbreaking technology eliminates environmentally harmful substances in biomasses and reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and is now ready to be put onto the global market. "AquaGreen is a technology pioneer within... [Read More]

Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur and Eau d'Azur have awarded the civil engineering contract for the new Haliotis 2 wastewater treatment facility to the consortium led by Suez and comprising Razel-Bec and Triverio Construction (a local VINCI Construction subsidiary). The facility, worth €700m in total, will be the largest wastewater treatment and recovery complex in France. The... [Read More]