Jun 9, 2022
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Biomass News
Jun 9, 2022
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) in Indonesia has claimed that the biomass substitution programme, or co-firing in coal-fired steam power plants, will increase the country’s New Renewable Energy (NRE) mix by 1.8 percent.
"This co-firing programme will increase the NRE mix by around 1.8 percent through partial substitution of coal with biomass up... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 9, 2022
Aemetis, a renewable natural gas and renewable fuels company focused on below zero carbon intensity products, has announced the completion of 20 miles of biogas pipeline and approval for construction of the remaining biogas pipeline in Merced County, California.
Construction of the 39-mile main biogas pipeline is on schedule for completion in Q4 2022.
“Issuance... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 8, 2022
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, two group companies of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, will jointly launch demonstration testing of MHIENG’s CO2 capture technology in biogas engine generator sets operated by MHIET.
The testing constitutes an integral part of MHI Group’s goal for realising carbon... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 8, 2022
Ukraine has a real opportunity to completely abandon gas imports through developing its own production, including of biogas.
This was stated by Serhiy Makogon, CEO of Gas Transmission System Operator Ukraine of Ukraine LLC (Gas TSO of Ukraine), according to Ukrinform.
"Ukraine has a very large potential for biogas production – up to 8 billion cubic metres of biogas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 8, 2022
Anaergia has announced it has officially commissioned a new biomethane facility in Italy, the Calimera Bio plant in the Province of Lecce. The facility is the second of seven facilities Anaergia is building which together will form one of the largest food waste to biomethane platforms in Europe.
The Calimera Bio facility has the capacity to anaerobically digest 24,000... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 7, 2022
Officials from Punjab Energy Development Authority (Peda) and the civic body recently visited the biogas plant of Haibowel, India, to study how to run it at full capacity, to prevent dairy waste from running into the Buddha Nullah, which is the seasonal water stream that runs through the Malwa region of Punjab.
The waste flowing in from the dairy units via the sewers... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 7, 2022
FortisBC Energy will produce renewable natural gas (RNG) from its first project in Northern BC, teaming up with the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George to produce RNG from landfill gas generated at the Foothills Boulevard Regional Landfill, located in Prince George.
FortisBC expects to produce approximately 90,000 gigajoules of RNG a year from this project over... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 7, 2022
The world-leading certification scheme to guarantee high-quality wood pellets, ENplus, said it is continuing its expansion, as it now certifies over 1,200 companies.
In 2021, the total production of certified pellets was estimated to be 13.6 million tonnes, and the projection for the certified volumes for 2022 is over 14 million tonnes.
In the recent few years,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 7, 2022
Biomass-based electricity is gaining attention of regulators and policy makers, as the country moves towards power generation that is not carbon-intensive. A new biomass-based boiler technology introduced this year claims to accommodates all kinds of agricultural residue as fuel and can be greener and may also help reduce the burden of stubble burning.
Around... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 6, 2022
“The vision of Green Science Alliance is to offer technologies for sustainable, carbon neutral society,” it said.
This already includes a next generation rechargeable battery, a fuel cell, and a CO2 photo conversion to chemical energy (the process called artificial photosynthesis).
Now, Green Science Alliance is also trying to replace all petrochemical-derived... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 6, 2022
Brazilian pulp and paper producer Suzano SA has announced it has secured a supply contract for 50 average megawatts (MWa) of biomass power in Brazil’s latest energy tender.
The company has won a contract for the sale of energy in the regulated environment (CCEAR) with distribution concessionaires Cemig, Light SA and Coelba. It was awarded the deal at a tariff of BRL... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 6, 2022
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM have now found a way to convert waste methane from biogas plants into additional methane, thus drastically increasing the methane yield from biogas plants. The process is up and running and the research team is currently scaling up the demonstration plant to five cubic meters of methane... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 1, 2022
Brazilian power companies have contracted just under 1GW of new renewable capacity divided relatively evenly between hydropower, solar and wind and over 400MW of biomass projects in the country’s latest auction, which again underlined the impact of a weak domestic economy and low power demand.
The tender, which saw a total of 947.9MW awarded encompassing 189.7MW of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2022
Homes and institutions in Kajiado, Kenya are now benefitting from the Ministry of Energy’s new Domestic Biogas Programme.
According to the Programme’s Kajiado county coordinator, Elizabeth Mbuthia, its aim is to phase out the use of charcoal and firewood.
“In support of the Big Four Agenda, the Ministry of Energy rolled out the Domestic Biogas Demonstration Programme... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 1, 2022
Brett Martin, the UK's largest producer of polycarbonate sheet materials has launched new, more sustainable sheet options, which it says “represent a quantum shift towards climate neutral plastic sheets produced from a certified mass balanced source with bio-based feedstock”.
This new development is the result of Brett Martin's partnership with Covestro, one of the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2022
Construction work to expand the EnviTec Biogas premises in Lohne, Lower Saxony “is in full progress, the foundation is already poured” the company said.
With the addition of an extra 640 sqm, this will mean the site then offers a total of 3,000 sqm of office space, with 750 sqm of storage.
EnviTec CEO Olaf von Lehmden: "Building this extra capacity in terms of... [Read More]
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Moeve has announced a €600 million investment plan for the construction of up to 30 new biomethane plants by 2030
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