A secondary school in County Louth has applied for planning permission to install a biomass boiler system under the EU's Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III). The board of management of Bush Post Primary School in Riverstown, Dundalk, is seeking permission to erect a single-storey detached flat-roofed biomass boiler unit with an attached fuel store and flue, along... [Read More]

Indonesian state-owned telecoms giant PT Telkom Indonesia and gas distributor PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance the use of biomethane and other low-carbon energy solutions for data centre development. The agreement was signed in Jakarta by Telkom president director Dian Siswarini and PGN president director Arief Kurnia... [Read More]

A Canadian company is seeking environmental approval to build a biogas plant in Penobsquis, New Brunswick, that would produce biomethane and fertiliser from agricultural and fish waste. Bio Voltex, established in 2024, filed for an environmental impact assessment for the proposed facility, which would use chicken and dairy manure from nearby farms alongside fish products... [Read More]

Tietjen has introduced the BioRefiner BRF, a high-performance fine processing system designed for use following its DRM depackaging machine in organic and food waste treatment lines. The system is built to handle heavily contaminated material streams with high proportions of packaging, consistently delivering clean output whilst minimising the loss of valuable organic... [Read More]

Drax power station received £999 million in subsidies in 2025, a 15% increase on the previous year and a new record, according to analysis by energy think tank Ember. The figure equates to £13 per year for every UK household. Drax has been the UK's largest emitter for 10 consecutive years, according to Ember. Despite this, its emissions are zero-rated... [Read More]

GMT, a designer, developer, owner and operator of biomethane infrastructure, has secured a £195 million project finance facility from ING to support the scaling of its UK biomethane platform. The facility is structured as a non-recourse, multi-project debt arrangement, secured against individual projects and their contracted revenues rather than against GMT's corporate... [Read More]

French cleantech company Sublime Energie has commissioned a demonstrator system designed to liquefy biogas directly at farm level, in what the company says is a first of its kind installation. The unit, known as 'Charlie', has been installed at a farm in Plélo, Brittany, where it processes biogas from on-site anaerobic digestion into liquefied form. The liquefied biogas... [Read More]

US reforestation company Mast Reforestation has sold all carbon removal credits from its first biomass burial project in southern Montana less than six weeks after issuance, with Bain & Company and BMO joining a group of corporate buyers including Royal Bank of Canada and CNaught. The 4,277 credits from the MT1 project were issued in January 2026 under the Puro.earth... [Read More]

Ukraine is preparing to export agriculturally sourced biomethane to Germany once an EU tracking database goes live and German legislation on renewable gas quotas comes into force, the country's Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture has said. The announcement followed talks between Ukraine's minister Oleksiy Sobolev and two German federal ministers, environment... [Read More]

The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP) has published its annual review for 2025, reporting a year of significant growth in certified volumes, a landmark transition to updated standards, and formal recognition under the EU's revised Renewable Energy Directive as the scheme positions itself for an expanded role across industrial and hard-to-abate sectors. Total SBP-certified... [Read More]