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Dutch biomethanol developer Perpetual Next has signed a licence and engineering agreement with Air Liquide Engineering and Technologies for the supply of syngas-to-methanol technology, with an option to extend the arrangement across multiple future production sites. The deal covers Air Liquide's Rectisol and Lurgi Methanol technologies, which will be deployed at Perpetual Next's first...
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French investment manager Epopee Gestion and energy company Enervivo have created a financing platform dedicated to biomethane injection projects in France, with €10 million in initial funding primarily provided by Epopee Gestion. The platform, developed alongside project developer Urbeez, aims to finance approximately ten biomethane projects over the next three to four years. It will focus...
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UK power generator Drax has added an interactive map feature to its online Biomass Tracker tool, allowing users to visualise the journey of woody biomass pellets from forest sourcing through to delivery at its North Yorkshire power station. The map view, launched on 30 September, presents Drax's supply chain geographically, showing how its pellet production, forestry sourcing and...
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Lincolnshire County Council has granted planning permission for a £115 million anaerobic digestion facility in the village of Anwick, near Sleaford, that will process up to 120,000 tonnes of chicken waste and other material each year to produce biogas. The developer, Stream BioEnergy UK, received approval in principle from the council's planning committee last month, with final planning...
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Swedish green hydrogen technology company Metacon has secured EU funding to participate in a project that aims to produce high-purity hydrogen from biogas at existing anaerobic digestion facilities in Greece. The PUREHY2+ project will develop an add-on system for biogas plants that refines biogas into hydrogen with a purity exceeding 99.97% while capturing the resulting CO2. The approach is...
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Spanish pulp producer Ence has inaugurated three projects at its Navia bioplant in Asturias worth more than €200 million, including a biomass-fired lime kiln conversion and a new wood processing line that will increase the availability of bark for use as biofuel. The lime kiln project will see fossil fuels replaced with biomass through the installation of new multi-fuel burners, with the aim...
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When AD Fuels completed the UK's first virtual pipeline operation in 2014, the concept of trucking compressed or liquefied biomethane from anaerobic digestion plants to gas grid injection points was largely untested. More than a decade on, the West Sussex-based haulier has watched the sector grow — but not, its managing director concedes, as fast as he had hoped. "The industry has grown, but...
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Nopetro Energy has broken ground on a $50 million renewable natural gas production facility at the Lena Road Landfill in Manatee County, Florida, the first project of its kind on the state's west coast. The facility will capture methane generated by decomposing waste at the landfill, purify it into pipeline-quality RNG and inject it into existing gas infrastructure. The fuel will be used...
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Land Energy, one of the UK's largest wood pellet manufacturers, is supplying fuel for all the outdoor heaters at the Rooftop Cinema Club's Peckham venue in south London this autumn. The arrangement sees clean air compliant pellets produced at the company's site in southwest Scotland used to heat the open-air cinema's terrace during evening screenings. The company says the deal demonstrates...
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The number of American households using wood as their primary heating fuel is expected to drop by 4% this year, according to the US Energy Information Administration's annual Winter Fuels Outlook published on 6 October. The EIA forecasts that approximately 1.62 million households will heat primarily with wood in 2026, down from around 1.69 million last year. The western United States...
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Swedish clean energy technology company Metacon has secured EU project funding for a pilot plant that will produce hydrogen from biomethane at an existing industrial biogas facility on the Greek island of Crete. The project, known as BIOH2VAP, will see Metacon's fully owned Greek subsidiary Metacon SA construct a pilot plant at a biogas site in Ierapetra covering biogas upgrading, biomethane...
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Lundsby Renewable Solutions, a Danish biogas plant developer and constructor, has been declared bankrupt after a project in Finland left the company facing losses running into millions of kroner. The bankruptcy was filed at Viborg District Court on 8 October and recorded in Statstidende, the official Danish government gazette. Attorney Henrik Steen Jensen has been appointed as...
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German decor and speciality paper manufacturer Felix Schoeller is planning to build a biomass power plant at its Osnabrück-Lüstringen site to supply steam and electricity for its paper production operations. The plant will use waste wood as fuel and is expected to generate around 30 MW. The project is part of the family-owned company's strategy to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and...
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A former waste pre-treatment site in Northwich, Cheshire, is to be converted into a dedicated biomethane production facility after planners voted unanimously to approve the scheme. Cheshire West and Chester Council's planning committee gave its backing to the project on 6 October. The application was submitted by Northwich Biogas, a subsidiary of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, which...
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