As part of its corporate social responsibility initiative, Redington Foundation has installed 67 biogas plants at Kuruthanamedu village and renovated one pond at Thandalacherri village near the warehouse operations of ProConnect Supply Chain Solutions (a wholly owned subsidiary of Redington) in the Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu, India. The project aims to promote... [Read More]

bp has expanded its investment in bioenergy as bp ventures committed $10 million (€9.1 million) in WasteFuel, a California-based biofuels company that will use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower-carbon fuels, such as bio-methanol. WasteFuel deploys anaerobic digestion (AD) and methanol production methods to... [Read More]

Regionalwerke AG Baden (RWB) and Recycling Energie AG celebrated the start of operations of the CO2 liquefaction facility in Nesselnbach, Canton Aargau, with a ceremony and invited guests from politics and business on 4 July. Hitachi Zosen Inova developed the plant for turnkey delivery on behalf of operating company CO2 Energie AG. It is a significant milestone on the... [Read More]

Kent County Bioenergy Facility, a subsidiary of Anaergia, has been awarded a US$5 million (€4.6 million) grant from the Michigan Public Service Commission in support of developing the Kent County Bioenergy Facility, a world-leading project in partnership with the Kent County Department of Public Works (DPW). The project is designed to increase recycling, reduce Kent... [Read More]

ETW Energietechnik (ETW), which is headquartered in the German city of Moers, has built a biomethane plant in Rittershoffen, in Alsace. The plant was built in cooperation with construction company Rytec, based in Baden-Baden, Germany. The plant went into operation in February this year, and possesses a processing capacity of about 700 normal cubic metres of raw biogas... [Read More]

Cocal started the construction of a new biogas plant in Paraguaçu Paulista, Brazil this month, reported CE Noticias Financieras. The project will be an updated version with better efficiency gains, as compared to the plant located in Narandiba - the company's pioneer that began operations in early 2022. The expectation is that the second biogas plant will commence production... [Read More]

Energy company Gasum continues to expand its gas filling station network across the Nordics, with its latest addition situated in Växjö, south central Sweden, opening today (3 July). The new liquefied filling gas station provides renewable liquefied biogas (LBG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG), both of which the reduce CO2 emissions compared to conventional fuel, Gasum... [Read More]

Czechia's largest compressed natural gas (CNG) retailer Bonett has opened its 10th CNG filling station in Prague. It is a public self-service station with non-stop operation on Bělohorská Street in Vypich, in the western part of greater Prague. The CNG stand is part of an existing filling station for conventional fossil fuels and thus expands its portfolio of fuels... [Read More]

EverGen has announced the successful drawdown of $15 million (€13.8m) under the first tranche of the previously announced $31 million (€28.5m) syndicated senior term loan from Roynat Capital (Roynat) and Export Development Canada (EDC), providing EverGen with financial certainty to fund the Fraser Valley Biogas core RNG expansion project currently under construction. “This... [Read More]

The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has reacted with disappointment to the publication of the UK’s Climate Change Committee’s latest progress report to Parliament. The association said it was alarmed by the UK Government’s continued lack of leadership and commitment to anaerobic digestion (AD), an industry that could reduce the UK’s greenhouse... [Read More]

Montauk Renewables Inc has announced it will develop a renewable natural gas (RNG) project at a municipal waste landfill site in Irvine, California. The company said the project will be undertaken by its subsidiary Bowerman Power at the Frank R. Bowerman waste landfill site. The project represents Montauk's second waste-to-energy initiative in Orange County, alongside... [Read More]

Spain plans to double its 2030 targets for biogas and green hydrogen production, according to a draft of the energy ministry's updated climate strategy seen by Reuters on 28 June. The new plan increases the Spanish government's energy and climate ambitions across the board, setting higher goals for solar and wind power, among others. Energy is a hotly debated topic in... [Read More]

Apeiron Bioenergy (Apeiron), a leading integrated global player in bioenergy, raised S$50 million (€33.8m) on 23 June, through the issuance of a 5-year senior unsecured green bond guaranteed by Credit Guarantee & Investment Facility, a trust fund of the Asian Development Bank (CGIF), and an ASEAN+3 initiative to develop local currency bond markets. Rated AA by S&P... [Read More]

The Dutch government has committed to increasing subsidies for the production of hydrogen from renewable sources of energy, known as "green hydrogen", by €1 billion next year and another €3.9 billion euros in the years after, according to Reuters. The Netherlands aims to have the capacity to produce at least 4 gigawatt of green hydrogen in 2030 and double that amount... [Read More]

Söderenergi, one of Sweden's largest district heating producers, has awarded Aker Carbon Capture an integration feasibility study to implement carbon capture at Igelstaverket in Södertälje. Located around 30 km from Stockholm, Igelstaverket is Sweden's second largest biomass combined heat and power plant (CHP). The planned capture capacity will be around 500,000 tonnes... [Read More]

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota), Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho) and Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha, Ltd. (Mitsubishi Kakoki) will introduce biogas-derived hydrogen production equipment for the first time in Thailand. The hydrogen production equipment to be introduced will be manufactured by Mitsubishi Kakoki and installed in Thailand in November 2023 to produce... [Read More]