Sojitz Corporation (Sojitz) has announced its investment in IOC Gps Renewables - a special purpose company established jointly by GPS Renewables Private Limited (GPSR) and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), the largest state-owned oil company in India. IOCL designs, constructs, operates, and provides maintenance for biomethane plants in India. Through this investment,... [Read More]

KCP Vietnam Industries Limited plans to expand its Sơn Hòa sugar plant to 15,000 tonnes per day, and launch phase two of its 45MW, US$60 million KCP Phú Yên Biomass Power Plant. The company's co-CEO, Kavitha Dutt, confirmed the group's intentions at a recent working session with the leadership of the Phú Yên Provincial People's Committee. She requested provincial... [Read More]

Since last summer, a new biomass power plant has been supplying pharmaceutical giant Boehringer's headquarters in Ingelheim, Germany. Senior project manager Frank Zornow takes us behind the scenes. A grey eight-story building has become a distinctive landmark in the eastern part of the Ingelheim campus, according to the company. The 43-metre-high structure is part of... [Read More]

Tim Hamer, secretary general of the European Renewable Gas Registry (ERGaR), gives an overview of his presentation at this year’s International Biogas Congress and Expo. ERGaR facilitates the cross-border trade of renewable gas certificates across Europe. At the moment, seven countries are connected to the ERGaR CoO (Certificate of Origin) scheme and, via ERGaR, certificates... [Read More]

Utility Global, Inc. (Utility), a global leader in economic clean hydrogen production, will partner with Hanwha Corporation E&C Division (Hanwha) to carry out a Pre-FEED (preliminary front-end engineering and design) study for the deployment of its proprietary H2Gen® system at wastewater treatment plants in South Korea. Through this collaboration, Utility and Hanwha... [Read More]

There is a risk that biomass generators are marking their own homework on sustainability, according to the UK's Public Accounts Committee. In a report analysing government support for biomass, it raised concerns that the certification schemes aiming to prove that UK-utilised biomass is sustainably source are not rigorous enough. Some £22 billion of government support... [Read More]

Equitix and Helios Energy Investments (Helios) announced that Equitix has become the 100% shareholder in Bio Capital, following the successful acquisition of Helios’ interests in the Company. The transaction marks the evolution of a successful partnership between two leading infrastructure and energy investors who jointly developed the business. Bio Capital is a... [Read More]

Viridi Energy (Viridi), a leading renewable natural gas (RNG) platform, has begun operations at its new RNG facility in Summerdale, Alabama in the US. Developed in partnership with the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Baldwin County, the facility captures landfill gas from the county’s Magnolia Landfill and converts it into pipeline-quality RNG, delivering environmental... [Read More]

Talwandi Sabo Power Limited (TSPL), a Vedanta Power company and North India's largest private thermal power producer, has established Punjab's largest biomass manufacturing facility near its 1,980 MW thermal plant in Mansa. The facility will produce torrefied bio pellets - high-grade, solid biofuel made from biomass or agricultural residue through a thermochemical process. With... [Read More]

Japanese renewables firm Erex has announced the commencement of operations at its 20 MW biomass plant in Vietnam. Located in the Hau Giang province, this facility marks Erex's first biomass plant in the country. It will utilise around 130,000 t/yr of rice husks as feedstock, with the generated electricity to be sold under Vietnam's feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme. As well... [Read More]