Aemetis, Inc., a renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company focused on low and negative carbon intensity products, announced that its Aemetis Biogas subsidiary has completed initial construction of a multi-dairy anaerobic digester to process waste from approximately 14,000 dairy cows in Merced County, California. The multi-dairy digester is expected to begin operations... [Read More]

Lagos State has taken a major step towards turning tonnes of solid waste generated in the metropolis to usable energy. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu formalised a partnership with a Dutch firm, Harvest Waste Consortium, for the construction of a high efficiency waste-to-energy plant on Epe landfill, which will utilise advanced technology to generate clean energy from municipal... [Read More]

Energisa Group's energy solutions brand, has announced Embrapa as its new research and experimentation partner. The public company's research centre, located in Concórdia (SC), will provide services for the validation of waste arrangements and innovations applied in the biomethane plant process and the expansion of (re)energisa's biofertiliser production. under construction... [Read More]

Future Biogas' majority owner, 3i Infrastructure, has signed an agreement to syndicate c.23% of its stake in Future Biogas to RWE Energy Transition Investments (RWE), an investment vehicle of RWE Supply & Trading. Completion took place on 27 September 2024. Future Biogas is one of the largest anaerobic digestion (AD) plant developers and operators in the UK. Since... [Read More]

The VITAGRO Group of Companies, together with specialists from the Khmelnytsky branch of Gas Distribution Networks of Ukraine LLC, has supplied biomethane to the Ukrainian gas transmission system (GTS) for the first time which will launch the export of Ukrainian biomethane, the group reported. "The team of VITAGRO ENERGY, together with specialists from Gas Distribution... [Read More]

Ence, through its subsidiary Ence Biogas, expects to reach a biomethane production of 1TWh in 2030 working with agricultural biomass, livestock and agri-food industry. The company further expects to close 2024 having reached 14 projects in environmental processing mainly in Castilla y León, Aragon, Catalonia, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia. This was announced by the... [Read More]

Woodchuck, a climate impact startup focused on transforming waste to energy with AI, has announced it is developing its first-of-its-kind AI innovation environment & biomass processing facility at its new global headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Woodchuck.AI was developed in partnership with NorthStar Clean Energy, a CMS Energy company, and High Alpha Innovation,... [Read More]

Yaniv Scherson, Anaergia Services’ chief operating officer, expands upon the organisation’s recently announced partnership with the City of Riverside, California. Anaergia Technologies has entered into a technology supply contract with the City of Riverside, California, to upgrade anaerobic digestion wastewater infrastructure at the Riverside Water Quality Control... [Read More]

Dall Energy, a Danish biomass energy and pyrolysis technology company, has completed the acquisition of French biomass technology-market leader Weiss France Energie and its branch Biomasse Services et Maintenance (BSM) from Groupe Roullier. Together, they will deliver solutions that help drive the green-energy transition for the French district-heating and processing... [Read More]

Encyclis has announced the completion of a pilot programme to replace diesel in the energy-from-waste process with sustainable hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). The achievement is the result of a 12-month research and development programme to find out whether diesel could be replaced with a sustainable product made from waste vegetable oil to reduce fossil carbon emissions... [Read More]

In the first half of 2024, EnviTec Biogas recorded a strong performance across all business segments. After its highly successful 2022 and 2023, business normalised as expected by the company, especially in the Own Plant Operation segment. In a multi-year comparison, however, the trend remains dynamic in all of the Group’s segments, said EnviTec. Total output for... [Read More]

GazelEnergie (part of Czech energy group EPH) is considering converting the Émile Huchet power plant (647 MW), located in Moselle department, from coal to gas, instead of biomass as previously announced, reported Enerdata. The cost of converting the site to biomass was estimated to be €100 million, rather than the €110 million cost of switching to gas. The cost... [Read More]

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is set to improve its waste management system by adopting waste-to-energy practices, reported The Times of India. The corporation will construct a 152-acre waste-to-energy plant in Pyara Nagar of Sangareddy. The facility will be able to generate 15 MW of electricity, and 270 biogas each day. Sealed trucks will transport... [Read More]

The Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA) and Wood Fuel Quality Assurance (WFQA) members have welcomed the recognition in today’s annual EPA Air Quality in Ireland 2023 report, for the need to “target air enforcement activities, including to ensure compliance with the solid fuel regulations.” Seán Finan, IrBEA CEO said: “Since the inception of the WFQA scheme in... [Read More]

Cincinnati-based Synthica Energy has broken ground on a new Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Plant in San Antonio. Dozens of regional business leaders and VIPs joined Synthica co-founders Grant Gibson and Sam Schutte to put the first shovels in the ground on a project that is expected to be completed in 2026. Located at 4318 N IH 35 in Bexar County, the facility will be the... [Read More]

Waga Energy, a global expert in the production of Renewable Natural Gas from landfills, and Veolia, a global leader in water, waste and energy management solutions, have commissioned an RNG production unit at the Granges landfill in Burgundy (eastern France). The landfill is operated by Veolia’s subsidiary, Valest. The gas spontaneously emitted by on-site landfilled... [Read More]

There has been a rapid expansion in growing crops such as maize to produce biomethane as a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels, to help reach net-zero. But some of this increased cultivation, on drained peat, is emitting three times more carbon dioxide than it is avoiding by not using natural gas, according to a study by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The... [Read More]