SENTRY Water Tech, is helping municipal co-digesters and standalone ADs double their biogas production and plant revenue, thanks to the real-time biomass health data their microbial sensors are able to provider operators. Patrick Kiely, CEO, tells Bioenergy Insight more. SENTRY has developed the first and only bio-electrode sensor that measures consumable VFA (volatile... [Read More]

ReFood’s commercial director, Philip Simpson, outlines some of the company’s innovative work, as well as the climate in the UK. ReFood is a food waste recycler that operates across Europe. In the UK it provides collection and disposal services to hundreds of businesses operating across the food supply chain, recycling 480,000 tonnes of food waste every year at its... [Read More]

Bioenergy Insight unpicks key themes from this year’s International Biogas Congress & Expo In June, Delegates descended upon Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels, Belgium for the 2024 edition of the International Biogas Congress & Expo, for another two days of networking and knowledge-sharing. The event was the best-attended yet – perhaps as a result of the world-class... [Read More]

UK-based Anaero Technology, an anaerobic digestion (AD) research company, outlines its globally focused work. Anaerobic digestion of degradable matter such as food waste, agricultural by-products, energy crops, wastewater sludge and food processing waste is currently the most sustainable treatment route to recover energy and fertilisers. With treatment and environmental... [Read More]

Andreas Dreier, head of European energy business development at Hartree Partners, explains why the company decided to invest in European biomethane production. Hartree Partners (UK) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hartree Partners LP, which is co-owned by its partners and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, has signed an acquisition agreement for a 50%... [Read More]

Charwood Energy, a French company specialising in tailor-made solutions for the energy valorisation of biomass, has announced the signing of a contract for the installation and commissioning of a biomass boiler. The biomass boiler will be installed in a sawmill in the Ille-et-Vilaine region of France. The contract covers the replacement and modernisation of a heating... [Read More]

Ameresco has achieved commercial operation at its landfill-gas-to-renewable- natural-gas plant at Republic Services’ Brickyard Landfill in Danville, Illinois, in the US. Michael Bakas, executive vice president, gives Bioenergy Insight an overview. Ameresco is a leading cleantech integrator specialising in sustainable energy services including, designing, building, owning,... [Read More]

Severn Trent Green Power highlights the benefits of a multi-pronged strategy. As the biogas industry evolves, so do the companies playing a larger and larger part in it. Severn Trent Green Power is one such company. Most people would say that Green Power is an organics recycler, treating more than half a million tonnes of UK food waste every year and turning it into... [Read More]

The 2024 Argus Biomass Conference brought together a gathering of biomass leaders on 23-25 April at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, London. The event explored new innovations in the pellet market, new industrial applications of biomass, new procurement opportunities, and convened key companies and senior executives for three days of intensive networking. Theme... [Read More]

STX Group recently announced an innovative partnership with BioValue. Sead Keric, managing partner of renewable gas at STX Group, reveals more. STX Group is a leading global environmental commodity trader and climate solutions provider, which is committed to accelerating the global transition towards a low-carbon economy. It sees renewable natural gas (RNG) as instrumental... [Read More]

Jon Harman, technology delivery director at Ceres, tells Bioenergy Insight about its collaboration with AtkinsRealis for a commercial multi-megawatt modularised hydrogen production system. Ceres is a clean energy technology licencing business with a primary focus on the development and commercialisation of solid oxide cell technology for use in both fuel cell and electrolyser... [Read More]

Trade associations Eurogas and the Natural and bio Gas Vehicle Association (NGVA Europe) have agreed to combine their resources for more efficient representation of gaseous fuel use in the European transport sector. Didier Holleaux, Eurogas president, explains more about the partnership. Eurogas and NGVA Europe have been aligned for many years, Holleaux said, going as... [Read More]

Last November, BioTown Biogas (BTB) was awarded an Energy Vision Leadership Award. Martin Mitchell, co-founder and managing director of Green Rock Energy Partners, which owns a stake in BTB, tells Bioenergy Insight more The Energy Vision Leadership Awards honour key actors in the vanguard of sustainable year. Last year was the 17th edition, and the awards recognised leaders... [Read More]

Mikko Syrjänen, director of business development at Gasum Oy, tells Bioenergy Insight about the company’s collaboration with Nordic Ren-Gas In January, Gasum and Nordic Ren-Gas announced they had signed an e-methane offtake agreement. Nordic Ren-Gas’s Power-to-Gas plant in Tampere, Finland will produce 160 GWh of renewable e-methane annually, which Gasum will procure... [Read More]

Hitachi Zosen Inova updates Bioenergy Insight on its US activity Volatile energy supplies, rising commodity prices and end consumers who are increasingly concerned that their consumer goods are produced in a CO2-neutral and sustainable manner, to name just three aspects that are becoming more and more important for a wide range of industries. US wine producers and distilleries... [Read More]