Chipinge Town Council, Zimbabwe, has began a biogas digester project to produce biogas using biodegraded waste from the marketplace to meet the energy needs of local businesses and residents, according to The Manica Post. The project is conducted in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The bio-digester is 95% complete, and is expected to... [Read More]

Nottingham City Transport has taken delivery of its first new biogas double deck buses from its latest £7 million investment in 23 brand new buses. NCT already operates the world’s largest fleet of biogas double decks in the world at 120 buses. The biogas buses already run on three quarters of NCT’s double deck services, and the current fleet has covered over... [Read More]

Grant specialist Catax has revealed a hydrogen fuel pioneer has secured €295 (£247k) funding to perfect carbon capture technology that will help mitigate the environmental impact of its waste-to-hydrogen plants. Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) has won €294,487 (£246,568) from the Hydrogen BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage) Innovation Programme, run... [Read More]

The Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, created by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), has awarded £37 million (€44.1m) to New Energy Farms (NEF) for an innovative research programme to introduce new high biomass perennial grasses into the UK and to develop novel methods of multiplying and establishing high biomass crops. The... [Read More]

Anaergia has announced it has signed a contract to supply good waste treatment system for Singapore's Tuas Nexus Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF). Anaergia is an end-to-end solution provider for extracting organics from waste, implementing anaerobic digestion, upgrading biogas, producing feritiliser and cleaning water. The facility will be Singapore's... [Read More]

UK-based CPL Industries has delivered the first commercial trial of ecoke® to Sidenor's Electric Arc Furnace production site at Basauri, Spain. CPL Industries said this represents an expansion in its penetration of "hard-to-abate and energy-intensive industries". Its ecoke® product was developed during the final months of 2021. It is a manufactured fuel containing... [Read More]

Acorn Bioenergy hopes to build an anaerobic digestion plant on land at Fearn Aerodrome in Scotland - a former World War Two military air base. It proposes to build five digestion tanks as a means to convert agricultural waste into fuel. Parts of the site near Balintore are already an industrial estate. The plan would form part of a larger scheme  involving sites... [Read More]

NextChem has been awarded a contract by Storengy to deliver an advanced basic engineering study for a waste wood and solid recovered fuel conversion plant to produce biomethane. The final investment decision for the project is targeted as the end of 2022. Once it is granted the related permitting, NextChem - in association with another subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont... [Read More]

Australia’s largest brick-making company Brickworks has said a final investment decision on whether to proceed with a $20 million-plus (€13.5m) bioenergy plant to help power a Sydney manufacturing facility is likely to occur in the next year as it steps up work on a project with ASX-listed Delorean Corporation. Brickworks and Delorean, a specialist operator in... [Read More]

Storengy, the developer behind an anaerobic digester plant that has proved controversial to residents in the village of Bressingham in Norfolk, UK, has promised there are "no plans" to increase feedstock volumes at the plant - but failed to entirely rule out the possibility. In July, the company announced it would be reducing the amount of feedstock travelling to the... [Read More]

Japanese group Kuraray, manufacturer of chemicals, fibres and other materials, aims to build a new plant for liquid rubber in the US under a strategic capital investment programme to 2026, according to its 2022 annual report. It is also targeting further development of liquid rubber made from biomass-derived materials. The planned US plant is included within... [Read More]

The Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SLSEA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have jointly hosted a workshop on the second phase of its "Biomass Energy 2022" initiative. Sri Lanka aims to be a nation more resilient to shocks in the energy sector by 2030. the objective is to increase the power generation capacity of the country from the current... [Read More]

Western New York Energy (WNYE) has completed a $38 million (€37m) expansion to produce high purity alcohol products under the ClearSource brand. The ClearSource brand includes pharmaceutical, industrial and beverage-grade alcohol using New York farm corn and a natural fermentation process. The company sources corn locally and produces everything onsite to reduce... [Read More]

Colin Ley reports on how uncertainty in Ukraine is having an impact on new investment in the region. Surveying the future state of bioenergy in Scandinavia and the Baltics inevitably requires an assessment of what is happening right now in Ukraine and the threat that Russian aggression poses to the longer-term sovereign status of Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and... [Read More]

Blackwood Technology B.V. and TTCL have introduced a torrefaction demonstration plant in the Lampang province of Thailand. Hironobu Iriya, president and CEO of TTCL, commented: “We are delighted to launch this biomass torrefaction plant in the presence of the Japanese ambassador to Thailand, his excellency Mr Nashida Kazuya, and of representatives of the local government,... [Read More]

Palisade Real Assets is buying UK-based renewable energy asset manager and developer, Eco2 Management Services Limited (EMSL), for an undisclosed sum. The mid-market infrastructure investor said the acquisition accelerates its energy transition investment plan in Europe and will “underpin a dedicated bioenergy platform focused on anaerobic digestion assets and adjacent... [Read More]