Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners (Quinbrook), a specialist investment manager focused exclusively on the infrastructure needed to drive the energy transition, has acquired US-based biogas firm PurposeEnergy. PurposeEnergy is focused on waste solutions for the food and beverage industries. It has developed, owned and operated multiple projects that convert organic waste... [Read More]

Steeper Energy (Steeper) has announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Invest Alberta Corporation (Invest Alberta) to commercialise Steeper’s proprietary Hydrofaction® technology within Alberta, Canada, aligning with Alberta’s broader goal of becoming the country’s cleantech leader. Steeper’s Hydrofaction® technology is a proprietary form... [Read More]

A new programme to produce electricity from biogas derived from municipal schools' food waste was launched in Tendo, Yamagata Prefecture in Japan earlier this week, reported The Mainichi. The city's 18 educational institutions generated about 140 kilograms of food waste per day during lunch over the 2022 academic year. The leftovers had previously been incinerated, but... [Read More]

The third edition of the Biogas and Biomethane in Poland report will be released and published online this spring. The report is the most important and comprehensive publication on the market devoted to the biogas industry, and has been created in cooperation with leading scientific units, experts and industry associations. The report contains up-to-date, scientifically... [Read More]

Waste-to-renewable-gas company Anaergia said it was honoured to be awarded the "Highly Commended" accolade in the Best Biogas Plant above 1MWE category at the global 2023 Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Industry Awards. Its Easy Energia Ambiente plant in Pontinia, Italy, took the gong. The annual awards programme is organised by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources... [Read More]

The Ministry of Energy and Mines of Ecuador has unveiled the winners of a tender for 500MW of renewable capacity to be built across the country. The Ministry has selected seven companies, including France’s Neoen and Total Eren, Spain’s Dominion Energy, Consorcio Santa Rosa Energy and Consorcio El Rosado Energy, as well as Ecuador’s Consorcio San Jacinto and Mexico's... [Read More]

Egypt's Industrial Products company has signed a contract with the National Company for Animal Production of the National Service Projects Organization, to establish Egypt’s first factory to generate electricity from biogas in Sadat City, reported the Egypt Independent. The factory will annually process 85,000 tons of cattle dung to produce one megawatt/hour of electricity... [Read More]

Organix Energy Inc. (Organix) and Global NRG Advisory Limited (Global) have signed a seven-year financing agreement that will see Global advise on the funding of Organix’s pipeline of 10 Renewable Natural Gas (“RNG”) projects in Western Canada. The first project in British Columbia will process up the dairy manure of 10,000 cows to produce pipeline-quality RNG,... [Read More]

Nordic energy company Gasum launched a new strategy for the next five years in 2022. It aims to shift the emphasis of its business and operations more towards renewable natural gas (RNG) and electricity. In 2022, the firm delivered 1.7 terawatt hours (TWh) of biogas to its customers, and its ambitious new goal is to bring 7TWh worth of RNG annually to the Nordic market... [Read More]

Drax, a leading producer and supplier of sustainable biomass, has commended the Canadian government on its plan to support significant investments in clean energy technologies and the need for biomass to achieve a clean economy, as announced in the 2023 Budget. The Budget 2023 plan specifically highlights biomass as a key component of the clean energy sector, acknowledging... [Read More]

Luca Corello, head trader at Duferco Biomasse, is a speaker at our International Biomass Congress & Expo on 16-17 May. He gave us some insight into the wood pellet markets and the challenges the industry faces. By all accounts, 2022 was an extraordinary year due to the shock Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upon the global economy, and the pellet industry certainly... [Read More]

Capstone Green Energy Corporation, a global leader in carbon reduction and on-site resilient green energy solutions, has announced that E-Finity Distributed Generation, Capstone’s exclusive distributor for the Mid-Atlantic, Southeastern United States, and the Caribbean, has secured an order for a biogas-fueled Capstone C600 Signature Series microturbine. The microturbine... [Read More]

Very specific language in New York state's budget could prevent Fort Drum's biomass plant from closing, reported WWNY. Biomass is no longer considered a source of renewable energy by the state, which is why ReEnergy decided to wind down operations at the $50 million (€45.8m), 60-megawatt facility at the end of March. At that time, the plant provided 100% of power on... [Read More]

Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has signed an agreement with Mumbai-based firm, Spectron Engineers Private Limited, for the commercialisation of a paddy straw-based biogas plant. In a bid to curb environmental damage due to the burning of straw, PAU is set to expand the operations at the biogas plant at the organisation, which uses paddy as a raw product. A S Dhatt,... [Read More]

Over the next five years, 22 partners from nine European countries will join forces in EU-funded project BIOMETHAVERSE, which is designed to diversify the technology basis for biomethane production in Europe, to reduce production costs and to contribute to the uptake of biomethane technologies. Co-funded by the EU, the project will support the bloc's scale-up of biomethane... [Read More]

A leading biomass scientist at Aston University has welcomed the government’s announcement to ensure UK energy is more secure, as outlined in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero's Up Britain: Net Zero Growth Plan, and the Powering Up Britain: Energy Security Plan - both published on 30 March. However, Professor Patricia Thornley, director of Aston University’s... [Read More]