Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has acquired biogas project Envio Biogas in Tønder, Denmark, from Anaergia - the Canada-based company that develops large-scale facilities to convert organic waste into renewable energy. The transaction was completed through CIP's CI Advanced Bioenergy Fund I (CI ABF I) - marking the fund's first investment. CIP said this is a... [Read More]

SUEZ has received the go-ahead to build an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in the North West of England, after Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council's Planning and Highways Committee approved the plans last week. Part of a network of proposed facilities, the Darwen Anaerobic Digestion Facility would turn food waste into green energy, could create jobs in the town... [Read More]

The European Commission needs to reform its electricity market design to place a value on flexible balancing power capacity for the EU to achieve its net zero targets and improve energy security, according to a new study from technology group Wärtsilä. With the European Commission having engaged in a public consultation for the electricity market design, Wärtsilä... [Read More]

SNP MP Martyn Day visited the UK’s largest waste wood-powered biomass plant to understand the critical role of biomass in producing renewable energy. The Member of Parliament for Linlithgow and East Falkirk was shown around RWE’s £300 million (€340.2m) biomass combined heat and power (CHP) facility at Markinch in Fife, Scotland. The tour took place on 10 February,... [Read More]

Genesis Energy has successfully completed a biomass burn trial as it looks at alternative fuel options for Huntly Power Station, the company announced on 21 February. The objective of the week-long trial was to prove the technical viability of operating a Rankine unit solely on biomass. That was achieved with a Rankine running only on biomass for several hours, Genesis... [Read More]

Choosing the correct material for your AD tanks demands longer-term thinking, writes Jonathan Smith of Balmoral Tanks. The finer details of tank material selection for anaerobic digester tanks can result in longer-term performance risks should you get it wrong. The challenge is what you think you know versus what you really should know. If we start with the generic position... [Read More]

Shell Petroleum NV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc (Shell), has completed the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Nature Energy Biogas A/S (Nature Energy). The acquisition was announced last November. By purchasing the shares in Nature Energy, Shell has acquired the largest producer of renewable natural gas (RNG) in Europe, its portfolio of operating... [Read More]

Denmark's Eurowind Energy has thus far been primarily dedicated to supplying local and global renewable needs for renewable energy with electricity generated by wind turbines and solar PV. But the company said there is still a need for gas in industries that cannot be electrified. It is therefore including biogas within its remit, as a new competence centre has been established,... [Read More]

Chief minister of the Indian state of Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar, has said the state government will leave "no stone unturned" to transform the area's stubble-burning challenges into wealth-creating opportunities, according to The Statesman. “Stubble and water management is the need of the hour. Haryana has taken commendable steps to reduce the cases of paddy straw... [Read More]

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and University College London (UCL) in collaboration with Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron, have imaged the porosity of biochars for the first time. The unprecedented operando experiments were led by Dr Roberto Volpe of QMUL, whose work to address existing knowledge gaps within the thermochemical... [Read More]

Estonian transmission system operator (TSO) Elering paid out over €5.4m in renewable energy subsidies and high-efficiency co-generation subsidies in January this year, according to Baltic News Service (BNS). Elering paid out just under €5.2m in renewable energy subsidies and approximately €277,900 in high-efficiency cogeneration subsidies during the month, the... [Read More]

India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) signed an MoU with Mexico-based Sistema Bio on 17 February to supply 15,000 biogas plants to farmers in Surat, Kolhapur and Pune, reported The Indian Express. Farmers owning two or three cows or buffaloes will be offered biomass plants at the subsidised rate of Rs 5,990. “The actual cost of these plants is around Rs... [Read More]

Workers at Drax power station in North Yorkshire - one of the largest in the UK - are today striking over pay, reported the BBC. It is the first strike of a planned nine. The Unite union said about 180 staff had rejected an 8% pay offer, which it said was a real-terms pay cut, but the company said the deal was worth 10%. A spokesman for the site told the BBC it was... [Read More]

The new edition of Biogas Italy entitled "Farming Possible All the energy of biogas" returns to Rome on 8 & 9 March at the Salone delle Fontane, one of the most evocative locations located in the heart of Rome's Eur district. The event, organised by Consorzio Italiano Biogas (CIB) and in its seventh edition, has become a reference point for the agricultural biogas... [Read More]

Researchers from the University of Manchester in the UK have been commissioned to undertake a project to assess the future of bioenergy and carbon cature and storage (BECCS). The Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) greenlit the project. The project is entitled Integrated Assessment of BECCS in context: environmental, policy, regulatory... [Read More]

Irish ministers announced a €3 million investment in an integrated anaerobic digestion and green biorefining demonstration initiative on 14 February. Minister for agriculture, food and the marine Charlie McConalogue, and minister of state with special responsibility for research and innovation, Martin Heydon, said the funding has been jointly awarded to two institutions... [Read More]