Bioenergy Europe has released a statement affirming that, although it welcomes the EU's publication of the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), it regrets "a lack of strategic vision for the bioenergy industry and net-negative technologies like bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)." The Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) is part of the Green Deal Industrial Plan... [Read More]

The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, delivered the Spring budget yesterday (15 March). Hunt placed a clear emphasis on nuclear energy, classing it as environmentally sustainable, and stating that the UK will "need another critical source of cheap and reliable energy - and that is nuclear". "Increasing nuclear capacity is vital to meet our net-zero obligations,"... [Read More]

On 14 March, the European Parliament adopted draft measures to increase the rate of renovations and reduce energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions in the EU building sector by 2030. The proposed revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive aims to make the sector climate-neutral by 2050. It also aims to increase the rate of renovations of energy-inefficient... [Read More]

A fire on 14 March resulted in the temporary closure of Kansai Electric Power's 1.8GW coal- and biomass-fired power generation plant at Maizuru in Japan, reported Argus Media. The fire took place at 21:52 Japan time (12:52 GMT) on 14 March at a facility that delivers wood pellets to boilers. Kansai was therefore forced to suspend operations of the 900MW No.2 unit at... [Read More]

Global NRG Advisory Limited (Global) and Matter Global Solutions Inc (Matter) have announced they have signed a seven-year financing agreement that will see Global advise on the funding of Matter’s pipeline until 2030, starting with its Renewable Natural Gas (“RNG”) facility in Clayhurst, British Columbia, Canada. The first project will process up to 60,000... [Read More]

The programme for the 2023 World Biogas Summit, which will take place at the NEC Birmingham, UK on 29-30 March 2023, has been published. Organised by the World Biogas Association (WBA) the Summit is the only global thought-leadership forum entirely dedicated to anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas. Under the hashtag #MakingBiogasHappen, this year’s event will highlight... [Read More]

Anaergia has announced the commission of a new biomethane facility in Northern Italy, representing a further expansion of its extensive waste-to-biomethane portfolio in Europe. The plant, Ambiente & Risorse, is owned by Anaergia and has the capacity to anaerobically digest 40,000 metric tons of landfill-diverted food scraps, converting it to 3,900,000 cubic meters... [Read More]

Argus brings back one of the largest global biomass events with the 13th annual Argus Biomass Conference 2023, taking place on 18-20 April at the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Centre in the heart of London. Hear about new innovations in the pellet market, new industrial applications of biomass, new procurement opportunities, and meet with key companies and senior executives... [Read More]

Scandinavian Biogas has awarded AFRY an engineering assignment for its new biogas production plant in Mönsterås, Sweden, which is expected to be commissioned during Q4 2024. AFRY has been involved in the project in the early development stages, and as the project enters its implementation phase, AFRY has been appointed as a detail engineering partner. AFRY will deliver... [Read More]

Technology group Wärtsilä has announced it will supply a biogas upgrading solution to Transwaste, a British waste management and environmental services company. The plant, near Hull in the North of England, will produce biogas from municipal waste and will inject up to 6 million m3 of biomethane into the national gas grid each year. The order with Wärtsilä was entered... [Read More]

Airex Energy has raised $38 million (€35.5m) in a funding round that will accelerate the Quebec company’s plans to expand its production of low-carbon industrial and agricultural products made from biomass, reported the Globe and Mail. The seven-year-old company employs its own technology to turn sawmill byproducts and logging residue into biocoal pellets at its plant... [Read More]

Ignitis Group and its subsidiary Vilniaus Kogeneracinė Jėgainė (Vilnius CHP) concluded an agreement for a €220 million loan with Swedbank, it was announced on 9 March. Ignitis said the funds will be used to complete the construction of the Vilnius CHP biomass unit (€85m), and to re-finance a long-term loan of Vilnius CHP that was provided by the European Investment... [Read More]

Australian technology company Hazer said that its 100 t/yr commercial demonstration plant (CDP) in Munster, Western Australia will be ready to commence hydrogen production in the second half of 2023, reported Argus. The plant utilises biogas feedstock and iron ore as a catalyst to produce 380 t/yr of graphitic carbon, said Hazer chief executive officer Glenn Corrie. The... [Read More]

Clean Effentech International (CEF), a New Delhi-based renewable energy and organic fertiliser start up, has installed almost a dozen plants across India for the production of compressed biogas (CBG) and fertiliser, said founder and CEO Maninder Singh Nayyar. The plants that are being set up are part of plans of the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation... [Read More]

Marathon Petroleum has announced the acquisition of a 49.9% interest in LF Bioenergy, an emerging producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) in the US, from Cresta Fund Management for $50 million (€46.2m). The agreement includes the potential for up to an additional $50 million (€46.2m) based on the achievement of predetermined earn-out targets. LF Bioenergy has been... [Read More]

This month, Drax, one of the world’s leading producers and users of sustainable biomass, loaded its 200th shipment of sustainable biomass at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge. The shipment marks a major milestone for Drax’s operations in the United States, according to the company, as it amounts to more than 10 million tonnes having been shipped and used to generate... [Read More]