The former site of the Great Northern paper mill in Millinocket, Maine, US, could be a new hub for the production of industrial-grade wood pellets to be sold on a global scale, reported BDN. Our Katahdin, the non-profit group that owns the site, announced on 21 November that it is making plans to turn the former site of the Great Northern paper mill into a forest products... [Read More]

Rio Tinto said it has proven the effectiveness of its low-carbon iron-making process using ores from its mines in Australia in a small-scale pilot plant in Germany, and is now planning the development of a larger-scale pilot plant to further assess its potential to help decarbonise the steel value chain. The process, known as BioIron™, uses raw biomass instead of metallurgical... [Read More]

Japanese trading house Mitsui is seeking carbon storage sites across Asia Pacific as it aims to sequester 15 million tonnes per year by 2035 for companies in Japan. To date, Japan has shown limited potential for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, which has prompted Mitsui - and other Japanese firms, such as Inpex - to hunt for suitable sites across Asia Pacific.... [Read More]

Lauma Kazuša, head of market analysis at SUEZ, analyses the state of the wood waste markets. Keeping people warm and businesses open is at the forefront of nearly every publication these days. We had winters and cold temperatures before, yet the world economy and geopolitical situation differed considerably. Wood waste is a commodity of choice in a few bioenergy and... [Read More]

Bioenergy Insight attended the European Biogas Conference 2022, which took place in Brussels, Belgium, in October. There was a buzz in the atmosphere, and a real sense that now is the time for the industry to seize the agenda. One of the stand-out plenary sessions consisted of an EU Member State-specific update – from Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain (although... [Read More]

The owners of two North American renewable natural gas (RNG) producers have put them up for sale, after new US tax incentives and recent big investments in the sector incentivised them to leave at a time when profits would be maximised, according to Reuters. While the price of RNG remains much higher than traditional natural gas, more energy companies and investment firms... [Read More]

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has signed an agreement with NRG Korea to study the applicability of B&W’s BrightLoop™ technology for a hydrogen generation facility using biomass fuel in South Korea. B&W’s BrightLoop chemical looping technology is part of its ClimateBright™ suite of decarbonisation and hydrogen technologies. The BrightLoop process uses... [Read More]

Flinders Shire Council in North Queensland, Australia, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Frontier Impact Group to investigate a project to harvest and convert woody weeds into renewable fuel and other valuable byproducts. Flinders Shire CEO, Hari Boppudi, said he was thrilled that Flinders Shire Council had signed the MOU to conduct a feasibility study on... [Read More]

Philipp Lukas, CEO and founder of Future Biogas, on the best means to unleash the biogas sector's potential. With the latest United Nations’ report warning that the world’s ability to limit global warming to 1.5°C – the goal of the Paris Agreement – is quickly fading, we must urgently accelerate all efforts to reach net zero. However, in this pivotal moment,... [Read More]

Ag-Grid Energy has opened its newest biogas system at Hytone Farms in Coventry, Connecticut (CT), US. The system recycles manure and food waste into renewable electricity, heat, animal bedding, and a natural fertiliser. The project will help meet CT’s renewable electricity goals by producing 4.5 million kWh/year of renewable electricity under a 10-year agreement with... [Read More]

The Final Conference of the EU-funded project REGATRACE was held last week, and was a "great success", according to the European Biogas Association. Over 100 participants and 20 speakers gathered in Brussels on 16 November 2022 to discuss the latest developments to boost biomethane trading across Europe. Cross-border trading of biomethane will be essential to ensure... [Read More]

Bright Renewables has been contracted for a new biogas upgrading project with membrane technology in the province of Barcelona, Spain. Two waste streams produce 500 Nm3 biogas per hour: 320 Nm3 from a municipality waste stream and 150 Nm3 from a wastewater treatment plant stream. This will be purified by the upgrader to 270 Nm3 of biomethane per hour and fed into the gas... [Read More]

Colin Ley examines the complications of the bioenergy sector in Asia and Africa. Assessing the late-2022 state of bioenergy progress in Africa and Asia inevitably involves looking at how these two multi-country continents are managing to cope with the eight-month-old energy shock created by Russia's invasion of Ukraine alongside the longer-term impact of climate change... [Read More]

HomeBiogas, an Israeli firm. will soon start supplying biogas systems to farmers in Eastern Province that will be used to turn farm waste into renewable energy. HomeBiogas operations in Rwanda will be funded by the United Nations (UN) after the former won the tender for renewable energy development in Rwanda. The announcement was made during UN’s 27th annual Conference... [Read More]

ExxonMobil and Pertamina, Indonesia's state-owned energy company, have signed a heads of agreement at the G20 Summit in Bali to further progress their previously announced regional carbon capture and storage (CCS) hub for domestic and international carbon dioxide (CO2). The agreement builds upon a joint study and memorandum of understanding that was signed at COP26 in... [Read More]

An Ohio-based company that converts organic industrial byproducts into natural gas will be opening its newest facility in the Northwest Regional Industrial Park in Shannon, reported Rome News Tribune. The Synthica Energy facility in Georgia's Floyd County in the US will apply an anaerobic digestion process to organic industrial byproducts to produce renewable natural... [Read More]