Feb 9, 2022
bp announces plans to increase spending on bioenergy
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2022
A research project focused on removing plastic contamination from food waste destined for anaerobic digestion (AD) has received funding from Ecosurety.
Ecosurety is a producer responsibility compliance scheme for packaging, waste from electrical and electronic equipment, and batteries.
Offering a total of £1 million (€1.18 million) since its launch in 2019, the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2022
Estonian energy company Alexela is one of the first in the country and in the Baltics to supply the domestic market with a 100% carbon-neutral fuel - liquefied biomethane (LBM).
LBM is considered the most sustainable fuel in road transport today, helping to reduce greenhouse gases of heavy-duty vehicles in the logistics chain.
Alexela has several other projects connected... [Read More]
Features
Feb 8, 2022
Charlotte Morton, chief executive, Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA)
Throughout 2021, all eyes were on the road to COP26. Six years and four conferences since the Paris Agreement, COP26 was seen as the world’s last chance to ‘keep 1.5˚C alive’. The extent to which it was a success is dividing opinion. The last-minute watering down of commitments... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2022
BHP Group has welcomed the world’s first LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carrier, which will transport iron ore between Western Australia and Asia from this year.
BHP has chartered five LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carriers from Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) for five years and awarded the LNG contract to Shell. In the future, the vessels could also use bio-LNG.
On... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 8, 2022
Environmental law organisation ClientEarth has filed an internal review request to the European Commission for “unlawfully labelling bioenergy, bio-based plastics and chemicals used to make plastics as ‘sustainable’ in the EU taxonomy”.
An internal review request is the first step non-governmental organisations must take before being able to bring a court challenge.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2022
Finnish sugar company Sucros Oy will switch from using heavy fuel oil and coal to LNG and liquefied biogas (LBG) at its sugar beet factory in Säkylä.
Supplied by Gasum, the fuel will help Sucros, part of Nordzucker, to significantly reduce emissions in its existing three boilers.
Gasum already receives wastewater sludge and biosludge from Sucros’s subsidiary,... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 7, 2022
A report into the decarbonisation of heating in UK homes does not consider the range of renewable technologies available, including biomass and biomethane, according to the REA.
The REA welcomed the report’s finding that there is much more to be done to decarbonise home heating, but warned it “fails to consider” the potential of green gases, such as biomethane.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 7, 2022
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEEIT) has agreed to acquire an 80% equity interest in a high-efficiency biomass cogeneration plant in Portugal for €22 million.
SEEIT is the first London Stock Exchange-listed investment company of its kind to invest exclusively in the energy efficiency sector. The firm acquired an equity interest in the Sociedade de Iniciativa... [Read More]
Pellets News
Feb 7, 2022
Independent testing of Active Energy Group’s (AEG) CoalSwitch™ pellets in the US shows the fuel burns cleaner and produces fewer pollutants than coal.
The CoalSwitch fuel was produced from the waste wood residuals at AEG’s facility in Ashland, Maine, and was delivered to Utah to undergo the first phase of the extensive testing programme in the second quarter of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 7, 2022
Brazilian biogas firm Geo Biogás & Tech and sugar and ethanol company UISA will build a biogas plant in the state of Mato Grosso.
The project - in its initial phase - will generate electricity, biomethane and biofertiliser from sugarcane residues, other biomass and residues from local agro-industrial industries.
UISA, one of Brazil’s largest biorefineries,... [Read More]
Product News
Feb 4, 2022
A standard biogas test plant BTP2-control with an internal gas quality measurement system has been launched by Umwelt- and Ingenieurtechnik (UIT) Dresden.
The biogas test system is standardised in terms of fermenter sizes, agitator, heating, feeding, discharge and measurement technologies. Up to 10 fermenters can be integrated into one biogas test plant BTP2-control.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 4, 2022
New data from NGVA Europe shows there was rapid growth in the use of biomethane as a transport fuel in Europe in 2020.
With more than a quarter of the gas used in road transport being renewable, an “overwhelming amount” of Europe’s 3,810 CNG stations delivered biomethane to European consumers in December 2020.
The leading countries offering biomethane as a... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 4, 2022
Scottish Water Horizons’ Deerdykes Bioresources Centre in North Lanarkshire, UK, has generated 50 GWh of green electricity since 2010.
Deerdykes has saved more than 170,000 tonnes of carbon. The facility processes food waste through anaerobic digestion to generate green energy using a CHP engine.
“The numbers are impressive but quite difficult to visualise –... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 4, 2022
A senior official from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) visited the University of York on 3 February to discuss its anaerobic digestion (AD) research.
Tamara Finkelstein visited the university’s Department of Biology to find out about its partnership with Yorkshire Water to develop AD processes.
Professor James Chong greeted the Permanent... [Read More]
Features
Feb 4, 2022
By Thomas Meth chief commercial officer, Enviva.
Looking at recommendations from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), every pathway to meeting decarbonisation goals that limit the impact of global warming includes woody biomass. To achieve climate targets and reach climate neutrality, industrial... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 4, 2022
AAK, a producer of vegetable oils and fats headquartered in Sweden, will invest SEK 500 million (€47.8 million) to install biomass boilers at its plant in Denmark.
The initiative is expected to reduce the plant’s CO2 emissions by approximately 90%. The installation will also generate substantial savings, as fossil fuel will be replaced by shea meal, a by-product... [Read More]
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