Wyke Farms, the UK’s largest independent cheese producer and a renewable energy producer, has recorded its highest turnover to date. The cheesemaker, which has an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility, reported a turnover of £107 million, having benefited from substantial growth in export sales to the EU and the rest of the world, up by almost 20%. Wyke Farms’ 100%... [Read More]

Bio-LNG provides a ‘competitive advantage’ in the shipping industry, according to SEA-LNG, providing ‘favourable finance’ for longer, through reduced emissions. For every 10% of bio-LNG dropped in and blended with LNG as a marine fuel, a vessel can achieve two additional years’ compliance with the Annual Efficiency Radio (AER) curve, used to secure funding... [Read More]

By Zoltan Elek, CEO of Landwärme. 2021 will be the year of new beginnings as we take the first step toward 2030, the next big milestone for the EU Green Deal. In 2019, Germany passed its very first climate protection law with binding ambitions. Now, new regulations are being put in place to achieve the self-imposed targets for 2030. Whereas the regulatory framework... [Read More]

Deciding to build an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Pontefract that can accept a wide range of feedstocks has ‘paid off’ for a UK firm. Feedstock flexibility has enabled Lanes Farm Energy’s AD facility to continue functioning throughout its first year of operations, despite the challenges posed by COVID-19. Ted Sultan, director at the plant, explained... [Read More]

Drax Group has announced its 2020 results, reporting a 7% increase in pellet production and a further £2 million (€2.3 million) in adjusted EBITDA compared to 2019. The company’s adjusted EBITDA from continuing and discontinued operations increased by £2 million (€2.3 million) to £412 million (€477 million), including the £60 million (€69 million) impact... [Read More]

Host has ‘stepped up’ the investment and operation of its bioenergy systems in the Netherlands. By investing in its own biogas facilities in Boornbergum, Host allows farmers with sufficient manure or agricultural feedstock available all year round to realise a biogas plant at its site, without the financial investment. Host has a strong foothold in small-scale... [Read More]

Gasrec will increase the size of its bio-LNG tanker fleet by 300% over the next 12 months. The company’s efforts will help to meet the rapidly growing demand from transport and logistics companies for a lower cost and more sustainable alternative to diesel. Gasrec recently took delivery of its third cryogenic trailer from Bradford, UK-based M1 Engineering, and... [Read More]

Biogest is to build a 190 kW agricultural and food waste biogas plant in South Korea. The project, close to Daegu in the south of the country, will be developed with HC Energy and DoBangYukJong Farm and is supported by the Changnyeong-gun city office. The Biogest PowerRing biogas plant, fed with pig slurry and food waste, will be an important reference plant to attract... [Read More]

C-Capture has completed an £8 million (€9.3 million) funding round supported by existing shareholders Drax, IP Group, and bp Ventures, with additional funding from the British Business Bank’s Future Fund. The company, which designs chemical processes for the capture of CO2, said the investment reflects is confidence of the C-Capture board in its ‘ground-breaking’... [Read More]

The Coalition for the Energy of the Future has unveiled its first seven concrete actions, including on biogas and hydrogen, and welcomed three new members. Launched in late 2019, the Coalition aims at accelerating the development of future energies and technologies to sustain green energy models and reduce the impact of transport and logistics on climate change. Airbus,... [Read More]

Vogelsang grew its revenue by around 7% in 2020, driven by growth in agricultural technology and biogas markets. The company, based in Essen, Germany, grew its revenue to €134 million, despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. By launching new products such as the XRipper XRG macerator for sewers and the UniSpread universal linkage, and adding greater... [Read More]

BrewDog has signed off on a £14 million (€16.2 million) investment into an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility at its headquarters in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. According to a LinkedIn post by BrewDog’s CEO and co-founder, James Watt, the AD plant will convert BrewDog’s organic process waste to site-generated biomethane, replacing all of its grid gas, and reduce... [Read More]

BioStar Renewables’ San Bernardino Organic Energy Solutions (OES) waste-to-energy project site has completed synchronisation with Southern California Edison’s distribution system. The company’s OES plant will divert 100,000+ tons of pre-consumer food waste per year from the Coachella and Lambs Canyon landfills. The project will generate 20,000,000+ kWh of electricity... [Read More]

FPT Industrial has helped an Italian winery to produce the world’s first zero-emissions wine, using biomethane. The company helped Fontanafredda, a winery founded by the first King of Italy in 1858, by supplying two New Holland TK Methane Power crawler vineyard tractors with biomethane-fuelled FPT Industrial F28 natural gas engines. The tractors will work in the... [Read More]

Bio-LNG provides ‘significant’ greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions and is already being introduced in shipping, according to SEA-LNG. Just 10% of drop-in bio-LNG with LNG provides around two years of additional compliance under Poseidon Principles measures, a global framework for the decarbonisation of shipping. Both fuels can be used interchangeably with existing LNG... [Read More]