Aug 6, 2021
NW Natural to purchase RNG from Element Markets
Biogas News
Aug 6, 2021
Hamilton RNG and UGI Energy Services (UGI) will develop food waste digester projects to produce RNG in Ohio and Kentucky.
Hamilton RNG’s first project, Synthica St Bernard, is being developed in St Bernard, Ohio, around five miles north of Cincinnati. The digester is expected to be completed in the first half of 2023 and will process around 190,000 tons of food waste... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 6, 2021
Residents in Oxford, UK will now be able to recycle their coffee pods through kerbside recycling, which will be used to create biogas, plastic pellets, and aluminium ingots.
Podback was created in collaboration with major coffee brands including Nespresso, Nescafe Dolce Gusto and Tassimo. Oxford City Council has joined forces with the company as part of its aim to increase... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 5, 2021
Princes Group, an international food and drink company, has incorporated biogas into its 2030 Green Goals.
The commitment will see Princes’ global operations become carbon neutral by 2030, against a 2018/2019 baseline, focusing on carbon emissions, water, waste, and energy.
Prince’s ambition, outlined in its 2030 Green Goals initiative, builds on important progress... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 5, 2021
EverGen Infrastructure Corp (EverGen) will now trade publicly on the TSX Venture Exchange following the completion of its $20.02 million (€13.4 million) initial public offering (IPO).
This marks a total of $65 million (€43.7 million) raised by the firm since its inception in 2020. EverGen will trade under the symbol EVGN.
The announcement follows recent key milestones... [Read More]
Pellets News
Aug 5, 2021
Apollo Global Management, together with its consolidated subsidiaries (Apollo), will acquire a majority stake in pellet producer AS Graanul Invest.
With funds managed by Apollo’s affiliates, the company has agreed to invest in the largest producer of sustainable wood pellets in Europe, and one of the largest producers globally.
Since its inception in 2003, Graanul... [Read More]
Pellets News
Aug 5, 2021
Work is underway at Drax Power Station to upgrade one of its turbines to help drive down the cost of biomass power generation.
Over the next four months, more than 1,000 contractors will work ‘around the clock’ to boost the performance of one of the station’s four biomass units and improve its efficiency.
The work will include installing a new high-pressure... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 5, 2021
Yorkshire Water and the University of York will establish a Centre of Excellence for anaerobic digestion (AD) research as part of a £1.2 million (€1.4 million) project.
The organisations first collaborated in 2016 and delivered the ‘globally unique’ System-60 AD research facility in the Department of Biology at the University of York. Over the next four years,... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 4, 2021
UK Minister Lord Callanan visited Cory’s Riverside energy from waste (EfW) facility near London to discuss the development of one of the UK’s largest heat networks.
Cory, working with Vattenfall, will use spare heat from the facility to develop a heat network that will serve 21,000 local homes with low-carbon heat.
The project will be part-funded by a £12.1... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 4, 2021
Anaergia has acquired its indirect subsidiary, Rhode Island Bioenergy Facility, which owns the largest industrial anaerobic digester for food and other solid organic waste in New England, US.
This acquisition expands Anaergia’s footprint in the northeastern US and its capacity to address the increasing demand for organic waste recycling
The Rhode Island Bioenergy... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 4, 2021
Low-carbon energy firm Clean Energy Technologies (CETY) will co-develop a $15 million (€12.6 million) renewable energy processing facility with Ashfield Ag Resources in Massachusetts, US.
The facility will use Heat Recovery Solutions' ‘revolutionary’ high-temperature ablative fast pyrolysis reactor (HTAP Biomass Reactor). The Ashfield facility will convert around... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 4, 2021
Due to the ongoing situation surrounding the pandemic, we have decided to postpone the joint International Biogas Congress & Expo, International Biomass Congress & Expo, and Biofuels International Conference & Expo event to March 2022.
“The safety and wellbeing of our attendees is of paramount importance to us,” said Peter Patterson, managing director... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 3, 2021
Sweetman Renewables is targeting the biomass and green hydrogen sectors with a $4 million (€2.48 million) pre-IPO capital raising ahead of its debut on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) later this year.
Unlike most proposed new entrants to the ASX, Sweetman has a ‘massive advantage’ in the form of a profitable 100-year-old sawmill business that has long-term... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 3, 2021
East Fraser Fiber Company (EFF) has received close to $615,000 (€413,000) from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC) to recover low-quality fibre.
The funding is helping to support jobs in Mackenzie, BC, and recover close to 30,000 cubic metres (m3) of low-quality fibre that would otherwise not have been used.
Extracting as much useable fibre from a block... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 3, 2021
UK-based Carbon Clean has raised $8 million (€6.7 million) from new investor CEMEX and existing investors Equinor Ventures, ICOS Capital, and WAVE Equity Partners.
The company, which specialises in carbon capture and separation technology, said the capital raise extends its successful $22 million (€18.5 million) Series B investment round announced in July 2020,... [Read More]
Features
Aug 2, 2021
As the shipping industry accelerates its efforts to meet the International Maritime Organisation’s decarbonisation targets, a growing number of organisations are looking to bio-LNG — an increasingly recognised ‘sustainable fuel’ with untapped greenhouse gas emissions reduction potential.
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction is not a new conversation for... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 2, 2021
FirstBio2Shipping, working with Attero BV and Bio-LNG Hub Wilp, has received funding from the European Commission to develop bio-LNG as a marine fuel.
The project aims to decarbonise the maritime sector by demonstrating the first industrial plant producing renewable, low-carbon bio-liquefied natural gas ‘in a standardised and scalable fashion’, enabling the cost-effective... [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
During the signing ceremony, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, announced a donation of USD 1.5 million for prefeasibility and detailed engineering studies
ADTechOptima’s technologies aim to solve two key problems: the underperformance of anaerobic digesters and the quality of the digestate produced as part of the process
