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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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The European Biogas Association (EBA) has published a new policy leaflet setting out what it describes as the key regulatory and administrative bottlenecks preventing the biogas and biomethane sector from scaling across Europe, alongside targeted recommendations for policymakers. The document organises the barriers into five dimensions: permitting and planning, investment and market certainty,...
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The Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) has criticised the UK government's newly announced Great British Grid, arguing that its sole focus on electricity infrastructure leaves out green gas as a way of cutting the cost of the energy transition. The plan, announced by the Prime Minister on 29 September, centres on building and connecting new electricity infrastructure,...
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has made a final investment decision on Via Verde, an Italian biomethane platform, marking its first move into the country's biomethane sector. The investment is made through CIP's Advanced Bioenergy Fund II (ABF II), which focuses on developing, building and operating biogas plants across Europe that convert agricultural waste and other sustainable...
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