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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 renewable energy. Indeed,…
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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 of…
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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 to this…
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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 systems. Formed in…
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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 far as sharing office space…
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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 whose anaerobic…
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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 and distribute it to…
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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 are also looking…
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The town of Amiens, Amiens Energies and ENGIE Solutions have selected Danish company Dall Energy to provide its gasification technology for a new 14MW district heating-plant. Ann Pedersen Bouisset, general sales manager for Dall Energy Aps, delves into the detail. Alongside the deal with the plant, Dall Energy has secured a 10-year maintenance deal with ENGIE Solutions, which will handle…
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A globally operating supplier of burners as well as drying and energy plants, BÜTTNER – a member of the Siempelkamp Group – is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Carsten Otto, head of sales, tells Bioenergy Insight about the company’s new collaboration with SWISS COMBI. Otto’s work with BÜTTNER began in 1995, which is when the organisation was founded anew, following a…
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Martina Marignani, junior communications officer at Bioenergy Europe, gives an overview of the trade association’s manifesto, ahead of the European elections this summer. The next European electoral mandate will have a crucial role in delivering on the European Union’s (EU) climate and energy targets. Representing over half of Europe’s renewable energy production, bioenergy is a key actor…
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Trade associations Eurogas and the Natural & 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 far as sharing office…
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A MMI-2 belt conveyor scale installed in a telestacker enables Avedøreværket to prepare an accurate CO2 statement for the authorities. The scale weighs the fly ash that is added to the biofuel as the ash travels on a conveyor belt. A simple solution with some modern technology from Siemens has proved to be a stroke of genius at the Avedøreværket, a combined heat and power station, located in…
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Michael Whitby, Avista’s RNG Program Manager, tells Bioenergy Insight about the company’s renewable natural gas (RNG) purchasing agreement Avista, a US energy company, has signed an agreement with Pine Creek RNG to purchase renewable natural gas (RNG) to be produced at the Quad Cities Landfill in Milan, Illinois. The Quad Cities Landfill is owned by Millennium Waste Incorporated, a…
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