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Moore County, North Carolina has been issued a BDO Zone 'A' rating for woody biomass, becoming the first community in the state to receive the designation. The rating, announced jointly by the Moore County Economic Development Partnership, Ecostrat and the BDO Zone Initiative, covers a zone rated for 925,000 bone dry tonnes per year of low-risk woody biomass across a 75-mile drive radius…
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Valmet has been selected by Strategic Biofuels to supply biomass power generation and flue gas cleaning technology for the Louisiana Green Fuels (LGF) project in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana in the US, a facility designed to combine carbon-negative power generation with permanent carbon capture and sequestration. The project pairs power generated from renewable forestry residuals with carbon…
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Waga Energy has reported a 31 per cent year-on-year rise in renewable natural gas (RNG) production for the first half of 2026, producing 426 GWh from landfill gas and avoiding an estimated 173,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent emissions over the period. The French company, which produces RNG by upgrading landfill gas using its proprietary WAGABOX technology, posted consolidated revenues of €33.5…
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America's wastewater treatment plants are capturing only a fraction of their renewable energy potential, according to new figures from the American Biogas Council, which estimates the sector could generate enough electricity for 1.9 million US households a year if biogas capture were rolled out more widely. There are currently around 2,580 operating biogas capture facilities across the US,…
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Nord Gas Solutions has secured a contract to build a 35 tonne-per-day biogas liquefaction plant in Poland, which is set to become the country's first bioLNG production facility and marks a step forward for its developing biomethane sector. The plant will be a brownfield conversion, built onto existing biogas production infrastructure rather than a new-build site. It will use Nord Gas…
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Gallagher-owned managing general agent Pen Underwriting is looking to deepen its cover for the anaerobic digestion (AD) sector, at a time when brokers say insurance appetite for the technology has lagged behind its spread across the UK. The MGA formally entered renewable energy in November 2025 with a dedicated AD product. Its Commercial Combined wording brings the property, business…
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Punjab's network of paddy straw pelletisation units looks set to more than double in the coming months, as a central and state government push to curb stubble burning draws a new wave of small-scale entrepreneurs into biomass processing. According to the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB), 72 new entrepreneurs have registered to set up small-scale pellet units, on top of the 74 already…
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Emirates Biotech and United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) are to build and operate what they describe as the country's first integrated organic-waste valorisation pilot plant, a research project aimed at turning food waste and compostable packaging into biogas and compost. The partnership was launched at UAEU's campus in Al Ain, with stakeholders from across the waste and sustainability…
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The Austrian federal government has advanced a draft bill to reverse its 15-year-old ban on geological carbon dioxide storage, a policy shift explicitly designed to open the country to large-scale industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and, in particular, attract developers of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). The ban, originally introduced in 2011, has long been viewed…
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Verbio has reported record production figures for the 2025/26 financial year, with the German biorefinery group producing 1.218 million tonnes of biodiesel and bioethanol worldwide, alongside 1,410 GWh of biomethane—up from 1,190 GWh the previous year. The company's products and trading activity delivered CO₂ savings of 4.7 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent over the period. The results…
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Aden Pellet Enerji, a subsidiary of Pasifik Holding, has completed an export shipment of 3,375 tonnes of Green Planet branded wood pellets from its production facility in Giresun's Espiye district, dispatched via 125 containers through Giresun Port to buyers across the European Union and the United Kingdom, with Italy and Slovenia identified as primary destinations. The shipment forms part of…
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The US Energy Information Administration's Monthly Densified Biomass Fuels Report shows domestic manufacturers produced approximately 950,000 tons of densified biomass fuel in June, with sales for the month reaching 960,000 tons. The figures come from a survey of 74 operating densified biomass fuel manufacturers across the United States, representing combined production capacity of 13.2…
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Australian bioenergy company Delorean Corporation and paper and packaging group Opal have completed the concept stage for a proposed anaerobic digestion facility at Opal's Maryvale Mill in Victoria, advancing the project into its development phase. The Opal-funded concept study identified potential for a large-scale facility capable of converting organic residues—and potentially paper…
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A new report from the Green Gas Taskforce has found that Northern Ireland has sufficient sustainable feedstock to generate 8 TWh of biomethane annually—enough to meet almost half of the region's existing economy-wide gas demand and more than 100 per cent of gas demand from homes and businesses. The report, titled "Northern Ireland's Green Gas Opportunity," was commissioned to assess the…
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