The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has conditionally approved a long-term biomethane procurement contract between Anaergia's SoCal Biomethane facility, Anew Climate LLC, and Southwest Gas — making it the first project to supply renewable natural gas (RNG) under California's Senate Bill 1440 Biomethane Procurement Programme. The SoCal Biomethane facility... [Read More]

Aviva Investors is facing further financial difficulties across its portfolio of energy-from-waste plants, as two additional incinerator projects run by the insurer's investment arm encounter significant losses, according to This is Money. The developments follow earlier reporting that a Jersey-regulated green infrastructure fund managed by Aviva since 2015 had lost... [Read More]

Indian waste-to-energy company Organic Recycling Systems Limited (ORSL) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Immersive Technology and Entrepreneurship Labs Foundation (ITEL) of Chennai to accelerate research, development and commercialisation in bioenergy and decarbonisation technologies. The agreement establishes a framework for joint R&D programmes,... [Read More]

Woodland Biomass Innovations (Woodland BIO) has completed Front-End Loading Phase 2 (FEL-2) validation engineering for its first commercial-scale biomass-to-gasoline facility in Tioga County, Pennsylvania in the US, marking a significant de-risking milestone for the project. Completed in collaboration with TRC Companies, the study provides third-party technical and... [Read More]

BioticNRG Limited has acquired 100% ownership of Evercreech Renewable Energy Limited, an anaerobic digestion facility in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, bringing its total number of owned AD plants in the UK to nine. The Evercreech site has a gas injection capacity of 700m³/hr, supplying the equivalent of up to 8,000 homes with green gas via the National Gas grid. The plant... [Read More]

Australia is seeking public input on proposed legislative amendments to extend its Guarantee of Origin (GO) scheme to include biogas and biomethane produced via anaerobic digestion, with a consultation period open until 27 April 2026. The GO scheme, which commenced in November 2025 under the Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Act 2024, is a voluntary framework... [Read More]

Nordic energy company Gasum has continued its FuelEU Maritime pooling collaborations with shipping operators Viking Line and Wallenius SOL into 2026, with both partners generating compliance surplus through the use of bio-LNG. Viking Line and Wallenius SOL operate dual-fuel vessels capable of running on LNG or bio-LNG interchangeably. By fuelling with Gasum's bio-LNG... [Read More]

Austrian anaerobic digestion specialist Biogest has announced a strategic partnership with Irish renewable energy developer Local Power to advance agricultural biomethane projects across Ireland, with a ready-to-build facility in County Meath as the first joint project. The Curragh Biogas plant in Carnaross, Co. Meath, is designed to produce 599 Nm³/h of biomethane... [Read More]

The EU's General Court has dismissed a legal challenge seeking to overturn the European Commission's decision to classify forest biomass energy as a sustainable investment under the bloc's green finance taxonomy. The ruling, delivered on 18 March 2026 in Case T-575/22 (Robin Wood and Others v Commission), dismissed an action seeking the annulment of a Commission decision... [Read More]

Italian anaerobic digestion specialist Anaergia S.r.l. has signed amendments to three contracts with QGM S.à.r.l., expanding the scope of work at biomethane production facilities under development in northern Italy. The amendments increase the total contracted value from approximately C$68 million to C$85 million — a rise of C$17 million — across projects in Ostellato,... [Read More]