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The American Biogas Council (ABC) has criticised the US Environmental Protection Agency's final Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) for 2026 and 2027, warning the targets will constrain markets and undercut opportunities for livestock farmers.
ABC executive director Patrick Serfass said the agency had diverged from longstanding methods and abandoned statutory guidelines by estimating D3 RIN…
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Biogenic CO₂ captured from a Norwegian wastewater biogas facility is being permanently stored beneath the seabed in what is claimed as the world's first geological storage project of its kind.
The project, a collaboration between HoopCO2, Inherit Carbon Solutions and Northern Lights JV, began operations on 23 March. CO₂ is captured at the Veas wastewater treatment plant in Slemmestad,…
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Japanese trading company Sojitz Corporation has made an equity investment in US-based biomethane producer Fidem Energy LLC, marking its entry into the biomethane production and sales market in the United States.
The investment was made through Sojitz's wholly owned subsidiary Sojitz Corporation of America. Fidem will become an equity method affiliate of Sojitz as a result.
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EnviTec Biogas has warned that a proposed amendment to Germany's Energy Industry Act (EnWG) would effectively halt the development of new biomethane projects, contradicting both the government's own green gas ambitions and the European Gas Directive the legislation is intended to implement.
The cabinet draft, adopted on 28 March, transposes the EU Gas Directive into German national law. But…
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Senior figures from Europe's bioenergy industry have met with Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen and officials from the European Commission's energy and environment directorates to make the case for biomass in the EU's upcoming Heating and Cooling Strategy. The meetings were coordinated by industry association Bioenergy Europe.
The delegation argued that Europe's shift away from fossil-fuel…
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Polska Grupa Biogazowa (PGB), Poland's largest agricultural biogas operator, has agreed a large-scale electricity trading partnership with energy trading firm Hekla Energy, the first deal of its kind in Poland for electricity generated from agricultural biogas.
Under the agreement, more than 200GWh of biogas-derived electricity will enter Hekla Energy's portfolio in the first year of…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final rule setting applicable volumes for 2026 and 2027 under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), with cellulosic biofuel volumes set higher than those proposed in an earlier draft.
Industry group RNG Coalition, which represents renewable natural gas producers, welcomed the decision as an improvement on the agency's original Set…
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A new dry anaerobic digestion and renewable natural gas (AD-RNG) facility is being developed at the Napa Recycling and Composting Facility in California, through a public-private partnership between equipment manufacturer BHS (Bulk Handling Systems), waste services operator Napa Recycling and Waste Services and the City of Napa.
The facility will use BHS subsidiary Zero Waste Energy's…
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Nasdaq is among a group of investors backing a carbon capture project in Stockholm that marks the first sale of carbon removal credits licensed by the European Union, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
The Stockholm facility, operated by energy provider Stockholm Exergi, will use a process known as BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage) to convert agricultural and woody residues…
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Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has acquired Encyclis' 50% stake in Dublin Waste to Energy, the landmark waste-to-energy facility at Poolbeg.
The plant processes up to 690,000 tonnes per year of residual waste from Dublin and surrounding areas, generating 61.5MW of baseload electricity, recovering resources for reuse and supplying heat to Dublin's new district heat network.
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Anaerobic digestion operator BioteCH4 has called on collectors, local authorities and industry partners to prepare for a substantial increase in food waste volumes as the UK government's Simpler Recycling legislation comes into force later this month.
The company estimates AD operators across the UK are likely to see around 1.5 million additional tonnes of food waste over the next 12 months as…
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Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) has issued two decisions designed to support the development of the country's biomethane sector, establishing a supervisory framework for guarantees of origin and approving an interim solution for reverse grid compression.
Under the new guarantees of origin framework, biomethane producers injecting gas into the network will be issued with…
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The number of farms in the United States operating biogas capture systems has more than doubled since 2020, according to new data from the American Biogas Council (ABC), though the industry body warns that the vast majority of agricultural biogas potential remains untapped.
Released on 24 March to coincide with National Agriculture Month, the ABC data shows 631 farms now operate biogas…
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Suzuki Motor Corp has unveiled its second biogas facility in India, as the Japanese automaker continues to develop alternative fuel infrastructure in one of its key markets.
The plant, located in Bhukhala in the northwestern state of Gujarat, was presented to media on 19 March. It processes cow dung sourced from local farmers, fermenting the material to extract methane which is then compressed…
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Leading European industry associations have jointly called on EU policymakers to make biomethane a central pillar of the bloc's reindustrialisation, energy security, and decarbonisation strategy, warning that persistent regulatory gaps are holding back deployment.
The Joint Biomethane Declaration, published in Brussels on 24 March 2026, sets out ten priority actions to accelerate the sector's…
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