Nov 2, 2022
Biogas ever more popular in rural Botswana due to UNDP project
Biogas News
Nov 2, 2022
US distributed bioenergy firm Impact Bioenergy said it has completed a $3.6 million (€3.6m) Series A funding round, with Japanese trading house Itochu Corp participating as anchor investor.
Several of Impact Bioenergy's seed investors also took part in the fundraise.
The Seattle-based company builds and deploys community-scale systems that turn food waste into renewable... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 2, 2022
The European Biogas Association has announced the winners of the EBA Awards 2022.
The winner of the EBA Award in the category ‘Biogas groundbreaker’ is Anaergia. The company provides organic waste to biomethane solutions across the world. The jury recognised Anaergia for its phenomenal growth, dedication to research activities and ambition to accelerate biomethane... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 1, 2022
Titan, an independent supplier of low and zero-carbon fuels, has announced its liquefied biomethane (LBM) production project for 200,000 tpy of liquefied biomethane. Titan will build and operate the LBM plant at its strategic location in the Port of Amsterdam allowing supply to ships and trucks.
Important milestones for the project are the two recent contract signings... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 1, 2022
Wood pellets are likely to become one of Vietnam’s key export agro-forestry products with an estimated export turnover of US$1 billion in 2023, according to Đỗ Xuân Lập, chairman of Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association.
He was speaking at the congress of establishing Vietnam Wood Pellets Branch in Hạ Long City in the northern province of Quảng Ninh... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 1, 2022
A fruit juice producer company located in Afyonkarahisar obtains electrical energy from the biogas of approximately 100 tons of fruit waste per day, and converts the remaining waste into fertiliser for its orchards, reported Daily Sabah. The company's general manager, while sharing the objectives of the company, outlined their plan to meet energy needs from renewable energy... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 1, 2022
A year from the launch of the Global Methane Pledge (GMP) at the Conference of Parties 26 (COP26) in Glasgow, UK, the World Biogas Association (WBA) has joined forces with the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) to host a panel discussion focusing on how to reduce methane emissions – the greenhouse gas 86 times as potent as CO2 when released into the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 31, 2022
Acciona Energía has announced it will build a biomass plant with a capacity of 49,9MW in the municipality of Logrosán (Cáceres) in Spain.
The company was an awardee in the third auction for the grant of the economic regime for renewable energies tendered by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic challenge. This guarantees a sale price for the electricity... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 31, 2022
Ørsted and Equinor have signed an agreement under which Equinor will supply Norwegian gas to Denmark via Baltic Pipe. The agreement covers the period from 1 January 2023 to 1 April 2024, and the total volumes of gas supplied during the period will be approximately 8 TWh, corresponding to roughly a quarter of the expected total Danish gas consumption.
The completion of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 31, 2022
Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group (GIG) has acquired specialist biogas platform BayWa r.e. Bioenergy, via its Macquarie GIG Energy Transition Solutions fund.
Active across the full asset lifecycle, BayWa r.e. Bioenergy develops, constructs and operates biogas projects that provide biomethane and power to local energy companies, industrial companies... [Read More]
Features
Oct 31, 2022
Jorg-Peter Lindner, technical sales manager - mixing technology specialist at SPX FLOW, explores technology surrounding mixing processes.
There are now over 9,600 biogas plants in Germany. A large part of Germany's power supply is generated through renewable energy sources (42.1% through renewable energy in the power, heating and transport sectors).
Biogas alone provided... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 28, 2022
Over 550 scientists have signed a letter to the European Commission, notifying them of the "deteriorating state of European forests" and calling for climate-smart forestry practices – including wood harvesting for bioenergy – to consolidate their resilience to global warming.
“Hot and dry weather in many parts of Europe and the world makes us worry about the future... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 28, 2022
SunGas Renewables, a global provider of gasification systems for low-carbon fuel production, has announced an agreement with Arbor Renewable Gas for supply of its SunGas System 1000 technology and equipment package to Arbor Gas' Spindletop Renewable Gasoline Project located in Beaumont, Texas, UA.
SunGas is an outgrowth from GTI Energy, an organisation advancing decarbonisation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 28, 2022
An Ireland South MEP has said that a pilot scheme for anaerobic digestion (AD) is unnecessary as the technology is already scientifically proven, reported Agriland.
Speaking at the recent AXA National Dairy Show in the Green Glens Arena, Millstreet, County Cork, Billy Kelleher expressed his frustration at the lack of progress in this country in rolling out AD facilities.
“We’re... [Read More]
Biomass News
Oct 27, 2022
Spain’s ministry for the ecological transition awarded 177 MW of capacity in Tuesday’s auction for 520 MW of mixed renewables, selecting only small-scale solar PV and biomass-based power projects and leaving bidders on concentrated solar power (CSP) empty-handed.
On 26 October the ministry said 146 MW worth of projects for biomass-fired capacity and 31 MW of solar... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 27, 2022
Biogas equipment firm Sistema.bio has obtained Sh1.2 billion (€10 million) from American impact business firm Native to run a carbon biogas programme in East Africa targeting smallholder farmers, reported Business Daily Africa.
Under the three-year programme Sistema.bio will supply biodigesters affordably to small and medium dairy farms in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 27, 2022
To date, the European Union has invested €6.9m in 112 energy and biomass projects in Moldova in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), according to the EU Delegation to the Republic of Moldova.
A total of 225 kindergartens, schools, community and cultural centres have been equipped with biomass heating systems thanks to EU financial support,... [Read More]
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U.S. landfill biogas facilities are achieving record levels of energy capture and investment, according to new analysis released Wednesday by the American Biogas Council (ABC)
The German bioenergy sector is facing a decisive moment as the federal government races to complete the notification process for the so-called Biomass Package by August 27
The facility will be BSOGE’s first project in the sector and is intended to act as a model for further large-scale biomethane developments across the country
