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As New Zealand accelerates its transition from coal to wood energy, Bonfiglioli is helping manufacturers upgrade the equipment needed to support the shift. The New Zealand Government's Wood Energy Strategy and Action Plan aims to replace up to 40% of fossil fuel process heat by 2050, driving investment in wood pellet production and materials handling infrastructure — and with it, growing…
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Plans for a large anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at a Herefordshire farm are back in play, after the site's owner lodged an appeal against Herefordshire Council's refusal of the scheme late last year. Nicholas Layton of Whitwick Manor, located between Bromyard and Hereford, first submitted the application nearly four years ago. The proposed unit would process around 100,000 tonnes of poultry…
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Hawaii Governor Josh Green has signed legislation directing the state's Department of Transportation to establish a Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) programme, making Hawaii the fifth US state to adopt a low-carbon fuel scheme of this kind. The bill, SB 2999, follows a two-year advocacy and rulemaking process and was welcomed by the RNG Coalition, which provided testimony throughout. The other four…
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Mining giant Rio Tinto has signed a five-year offtake agreement with Australian renewable biomass company SuperChar to supply locally produced bio pellets for use at its alumina refineries in Gladstone, Queensland in Australia, with deliveries targeted to begin in 2028. The agreement follows operational trials and a feasibility study in which bio pellet and coal blends demonstrated that bio…
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Flogas and bio-waste management company College Group have agreed a renewable gas supply deal under which Flogas will offtake 26 GWh of biomethane annually from College Group's County Meath facility. The site produces biomethane via anaerobic digestion of agri-food and animal by-products and has a total production capacity of 75 GWh per year, with the gas primarily targeting decarbonisation of…
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Waste wood energy operator Evero has submitted a planning application to retrofit its Ince Bio Power Plant in Cheshire with carbon capture technology, in a move that would make it the UK's first Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) facility delivered under the government's Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) Business Model. The facility, located at Peel NRE's Protos energy and resource…
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A pig farming business in Lower Saxony is upgrading its biogas operation to include biomethane production, installing an EnviThan gas upgrading unit as its original 20-year EEG support period draws to a close. The Timphaus family business in Lohne first added biogas to its agricultural operations in 2011, attracted by the income stability offered by guaranteed revenues under Germany's…
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Australian low-carbon fuels company HAMR Energy has been awarded AUD 32 million (EUR 19.6m) in conditional funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to advance development of a forestry residues-to-sustainable aviation fuel project spanning Victoria and South Australia. The award is the first under the Australian government's AUD 250 million Low Carbon Liquid Fuels priority,…
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VIDA bioenergy has begun injecting biomethane into Cadent's gas network from its new Wormslade facility in Northamptonshire, becoming the 46th biomethane plant connected across Cadent's UK operations and the 17th on its East Midlands network. The site, located near Market Harborough, is designed to process around 46,000 tonnes of agricultural feedstock per year, producing approximately 68GWh…
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Plumas County in California has been issued an 'A' rating under the BDO Zone Initiative, certifying 255,000 bone dry tons per year of low-risk woody biomass within a 75-mile radius of Taylorsville and opening the region to new biomass markets and forest restoration investment. The rating, issued by Ecostrat and the BDO Zone Initiative alongside local partners Plumas Corp and Plumas County Fire…
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France has proposed extending its flagship renewable gas support mechanism to cover pyrolysis-based production, a regulatory change that would for the first time allow wood-processing projects using thermochemical conversion to access long-term offtake support in one of Europe's largest gas markets. The draft decree, published for public consultation following a meeting of France's National…
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A bill introduced in the US House of Representatives would establish a new tax credit covering 30% of the cost of constructing biomass energy facilities, in a bid to spur plants capable of processing material cleared from forests to reduce wildfire risk. The Biomass Facility Construction Act (H.R. 9746), introduced on 16 July by California congressman Kevin Kiley, would allow new facilities to…
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Germany's bioenergy associations have criticised the government's draft renewable energy law, warning that the proposals fail to deliver the future promised to thousands of biogas and wood energy plant operators and would see the country forgo 12 GW of domestic flexible capacity. The Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy (BMWE) released its draft of the EEG 2027 for consultation with…
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Italy's state energy agency GSE has selected six gas shippers to purchase 6 TWh of biomethane for the 2026/2027 thermal year, in the first competitive sale of renewable gas withdrawn from producers under the country's incentive schemes. Enel, Eni and Società Gas Rimini were awarded framework agreements for the lot covering biomethane destined for the transport sector, while Burgo Energia,…
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