The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €40 million loan agreement with recycling company Renewi to invest in recycling in the Netherlands and Belgium. The funding will be divided between three key projects. The first is the construction of three new high-tech sorting lines for residual, commercial and industrial waste in Flanders, Belgium, allowing more materials... [Read More]

Last week, Mainspring, Yolo County staff and stakeholders gathered to celebrate and recognise their partnership, according to Daily Democrat. Mainspring, a clean power generation provider, announced that the product will run on biogas produced by the landfill to generate electricity that can be used for site operations and exported to the grid. Landfill biogas, a natural... [Read More]

A leading planning officer has recommended plans for an anaerobic digestion plant in Bressingham should be refused, giving campaigners cautious hope, reported Diss Express. Planning officer Tim Barker made his recommendation to South Norfolk Council, with a report echoing the concerns set forth by groups and individuals opposed to the plans for Deal Farm. So far, 363... [Read More]

Cypark Resources said its indirect subsidiaries have been awarded feed-in approval certificates from the government to carry out biogas projects with a total capacity of 2.7 MW in Johor and Terengganu, Malaysia. The feed-in approval certificates were awarded by the Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Seda) for a period of 21 years, Cypark said. Tenaga Nasional will... [Read More]

A new £4.8M project funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to increase biomass crops grown in the UK, will launch at Low Carbon Agriculture Show at the NAEC, Stoneleigh, on 7 February 2023. Biomass Connect is a new initiative that intends to showcase best-practice and innovations in biomass feedstock production at sites across the... [Read More]

Bioenergy Insight spoke to Kevin Vandewalle, sales director at VYNCKE, who gave a comprehensive picture of its business model, its agility during challenging times and ongoing technological innovations. VYNCKE was established in 1912 in Flanders by Louis Vyncke, a blacksmith by trade. As Flanders’ flax industry was flourishing by the 1920s, so demand for steam boilers... [Read More]

The flexible Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant, supplied and built by the technology group Wärtsilä for the German public utility SachsenEnergie, has been commissioned and handed over for commercial operation. The plant was extensively tested to verify its reliability and performance before the hand-over in November 2022, the company said, and it will supply both 94... [Read More]

A European-Union (EU)-imposed ban on imports of woody biomass from Russia has resulted in a seven-fold spike in Turkey's exports of wood pellets to EU Member States. This has caused concern that the bulk could be recertified material from Russia, Montel reported. The embargo was imposed in April 2022 as part of the EU's fifth round of sanctions against Russia. At that... [Read More]

Gasum is part of a consortium of three parties, which is planning the construction of a new biogas plant in the municipality of Vormstad near Trondheim in Norway. The consortium has started the zoning process for the chosen site with the municipality of Vormstad. The consortium is called Trondelag Biogass and the two other members are Norwegian investment companies... [Read More]

This recently launched EU project will demonstrate an innovative pathway for biomethane production at scale, based on the integration of sorption-enhanced gasification, methanation via catalytic fluidised-bed and high-temperature electrolysis, with the aim to contribute to the ambitious objectives of the REPowerEU Plan A multi-disciplinary and international team that... [Read More]

Green Rock Energy Partners LLC, a sustainable infrastructure-focused private equity firm, has announced an addition to its expanding portfolio of investments in the renewable energy space. It has acquired PSA South Hills Landfill Gas Venture LLC, a renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility located in South Park Township, Pennsylvania, and the purchase closed in... [Read More]

Scirocco Energy said its 50% owned joint venture EAG has entered into an exclusivity agreement to acquire a fully operational biogas plant, according to Proactive Investors. Due diligence is being undertaken by EAG on the special purpose vehicle (SPV) that owns the plant, which Scirocco said has been in production for seven years and generated underlying profits (EBITDA)... [Read More]

Global Hydrogen intends to launch modular micro biogas plants on the market in 2023 and has entered into an agreement with Tarpol to design, build, test and evaluate the technology of a prototype of a modular GH200 micro biogas plant with a capacity of up to 5kW, the company announced. "The agreement with Tarpol is a step in the development of the second branch of the... [Read More]

The public are to be asked for their views regarding plans to build biogas plants near Elgin and Buckie, reported The Northern Scot. Public consultation events are being held later this week on the proposals by green energy firm Acorn Bioenergy. The company hopes to establish facilities producing biomethane, using distillery by-products as well as crops and waste from... [Read More]

Sumitomo Heavy Industries has secured an order from Tosoh Corporation for a 74 MW-class wood biomass and recycled fuel-fired boiler, for the planned construction site at its Nanyo Complex in Shunan City - based on the engineering, procurement and construction contract. This facility is a boiler for a biomass power plant toward energy decarbonisation that is planned by... [Read More]

The board of Sweden-based Scandinavian Biogas has told its shareholders to reject a proposed takeover offer by Norway’s Aneo Renewables. “The board of directors of Scandinavian Biogas Fuels International unanimously recommends the shareholders of the company not to accept Aneo Renewables mandatory offer of 15.45 Swedish crowns per share in cash,” the organisation... [Read More]