Mississippi is becoming one of the premier sources of sustainable and renewable wood pellets in the world, writes Ian R. Tailyour, senior international advisor, BRYANT SONGY SNELL Global Partners. Major international wood pellet producing companies are investing billions in the Magnolia State, taking advantage of the state’s tremendous supply of wood and forest products... [Read More]

Clean Energy Technologies (CETY), has announced it has entered into an agreement with Synergy Bioproducts Corporation to design, build and operate a biomass renewable energy processing facility using its high-temperature ablative fast pyrolysis reactor (HTAP Biomass Reactor). Located in Vermont, US this project will convert forest biomass waste products into renewably... [Read More]

The transaction for the sale of Sonorgás, by Dourogás Group, to iCON Infrastructure Partners VI, L.P., a fund advised by iCON Infrastructure LLP (“iCON”) was successfully completed in December, having met all regulatory approvals and having received the consent from the third-party entities. Dourogás Group, one of the Portugese natural gas sector's largest operators,... [Read More]

French company TotalEnergies and Electricite Holdings intend to take over Polska Grupa Biogazowa, reported Money Poland. The application for consent to the acquisition was submitted to the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection in December 2022. The Polish firm own 15 biogas-fired CHP plants and two photovoltaic farms in the country. In addition, the company... [Read More]

GAIL Gas Limited (GGL), a central public sector undertaking, has received approval from the Karnataka state government of India to set up a compressed biogas plant on an 18-acre BBMP land at Mandur on the outskirts of Bengaluru, reported Deccan Herald. The company is expected to install and operate the facility free of charge, whilst the BBMP has been entrusted with supplying... [Read More]

Chris Huhne, chairman of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) told Bioenergy Insight about its work, challenges and the progress that is possible. Northern Ireland (NI) is the “best-placed part of the UK to produce the most biogas and biomethane,” Huhne told Bioenergy Insight. It has the potential of 80% of its gas demand being met in this... [Read More]

What first drew you to this industry?“For over 18 years I worked as a mechanic in the car industry, growing to run my garage eventually. Seeing the future of cars going down the electrical route and already attending more training courses in diagnostics than I like to remember, plus spending a small fortune on diagnostic equipment, I decided I’d had enough. “However,... [Read More]

California Bioenergy (“CalBio”) has announced a funding partnership, of up to $500 million (€471m), with Brookfield Renewable and its institutional partners (“Brookfield”) to scale CalBio’s growth in renewable natural gas (RNG) and other waste-to-energy opportunities. CalBio has established a market-leading position partnering with dairy farmers to design,... [Read More]

Acorn Bionergy, the firm behind strongly opposed proposals for a £25m (€28m) biogas plant in Easter Ross, Scotland, said it would address objectors' concerns. The company intends to build an anaerobic digestion plant (ADP) on a 7.5-hectare site at Fearn Airfield, near Balintore to produce "clean, green biogas" using crops and by-products from local farms and distilleries. The... [Read More]

The state government of New Delhi had an initial target of setting up 5,000 compressed biogas plants (CBG plants) by 2023-24 in its SATAT scheme, but only 40 CBG plants have been developed. A panel reviewing the scheme said that a lot of ground needs to covered, in a report tabled in the Lok Sabha on 21 December, according to Energy World. The SATAT scheme is designed... [Read More]

Each year, Indonesia produces about 100 million tonnes of the rice straw, and around 60% of this waste is burned in open fields, causing air pollution which has been linked to higher rates of lung cancer. The amount burned releases enough energy, if it could be harnessed, to power Indonesia’s households 10 times over. A research consortium which includes Aston... [Read More]

The biomass facility that powers Fort Drum in New York, US, is set to close early next year, reported WWNY. The unit employs over two dozen people directly, and it supports dozens of logging and trucking jobs in the north country. ReEnergy buys wood chips from local lumber yards and sawmills, transfers them into energy, and generates 100% of Fort Drum’s power, a rarity... [Read More]

An alternative source of heat could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of a process which turns food waste into power, new research suggests. A University of Glasgow-led team of scientists have demonstrated that using air-source heat pumps to support anaerobic digestion could cut the carbon emitted during the production of biogas by more than a third. Their findings... [Read More]

The state-owned West Bengal Power Development Company Ltd (WBPDCL) and Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) in India have both failed in sourcing biomass pellets after no vendors participated in the tenders floated by them, reported Energy World. West Bengal's thermal power plants are unable to comply with the Union power minister's 5% biomass co-firing mandate due to a lack... [Read More]

Gree Energy, which aims to decarbonise food processors in developing countries by transforming their wastewater into biogas, has secured US$3.2m (€3m) in a pre-Series A round of investment, reported e27. Hong Kong-based family business Earthcare Group, which focuses on climate change mitigation, led this round. This deal comes about eight months after the clean energy... [Read More]

Timber frame specialist NorFrame based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is designing and building a factory that will be powered exclusively by renewable energy, thanks to a heat capturing design. The first of its kind in the UK, NorFrame’s factory will manufacture timber kit frames for homes, schools and commercial buildings using power generated from an on-site anaerobic... [Read More]