Jun 30, 2021
WRA urges UK Government to recognise waste wood biomass value
Biogas News
Jun 29, 2021
Host has developed a high-tech bioenergy plant with innovative NO-NOx thermal energy conversion of residual wood and waste streams.
Developed over a decade, this development of technology results in the lowest measured emissions in the Netherlands, said Host, and a state-of-the-art product – the ‘very welcome modular bioenergy combined heat and power plant of the... [Read More]
Features
Jun 29, 2021
With COP26 on the horizon, there is an opportunity for the UK to bolster its bioenergy potential, writes Colin Ley.
This is a massive year for the UK bioenergy industry with the impact of the COVID-19 recovery, Brexit-inspired trade battles, and COP26 combining to create upsides and downsides in pretty much equal measure.
While the whole world is coping with the... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 29, 2021
Delta Biofuel has shared proposals for a $70 million (€58.8 million) biomass fuel pellet facility in Louisiana, US.
Governor John Bel Edwards and Delta Biofuel’s CEO Philip Keating announced that the company is evaluating Iberia Parish in Louisiana for the planned renewable fuel plant. The facility would produce biomass fuel pellet made from residual sugarcane fibre,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 25, 2021
Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) in Goa, India has revealed plans to generate more electricity from treating wet waste after a successful trial at a biomethanation plant installed by the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) in 2019.
The municipality will tender work for two more biogas plants, which are likely to be set up in the next six... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 25, 2021
The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has submitted to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson the UK AD and Biogas Industry Climate Declaration, whereby the industry commits to doing everything in its powers to reduce carbon emissions and reach net-zero goals.
With this declaration, the UK AD and biogas sector wants to send a ‘clear message’ to the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 25, 2021
A ‘pioneering’ pig farm in North Carolina, US has reported a 10%+ increase in its biogas yields by investing in two new chopper pumps.
Soon after Butler Farms opened just over 25 years ago, the owner quickly wanted to reduce its environmental impact, culminating in the development of its own pig manure-powered biogas plant in 2011.
As a contract grower that takes... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 24, 2021
An industrial-scale landfill gas-to-biomethane plant has been inaugurated in Genoa, Italy.
Green energy company Asja oversaw the conversion of the existing electricity production facility into an advanced biomethane production plant.
The plant, built and managed by Asja, under concession from waste management firm AMIU Genoa, entered into operation at the end of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 24, 2021
Southwest Gas has invested in several RNG projects in Arizona and California.
The firm is working with RNG developers to interconnect various RNG projects across its service areas with Southwest Gas’s facilities. There are currently four projects in Arizona and one in California that are approved and will take RNG to market shortly, the company said.
Together,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 24, 2021
Mercer Celgar, a pulp and paper mill in British Columbia, is working to facilitate and increase fibre utilisation with help from the Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC).
The company, which also produces bioenergy to power its operations and serve homes in the area, is working in the Kootenay-Boundary Forest Region with $3 million in funding from FESBC. The funding... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 24, 2021
EnviTec Biogas has commissioned a third EnviThan biogas upgrading plant in Estonia.
Following the construction and commissioning of two EnviThan facilities in Tartu and Vinni, the third facility in Oisu was completed on schedule, taking just six months from signature to handover.
“Our customer here again was AS EG Ehitus, a subsidiary of gas network provider AS... [Read More]
Policy News
Jun 24, 2021
Time is running out for realistic climate commitments, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said in its latest progress report.
In what the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) described as a ‘sobering’ report, the CCC said while the UK Government has made ‘historic climate promises’, it has been too slow to follow these with delivery.
This... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 23, 2021
Dutch wood pellet imports reached a new high in 2020, totalling $511 million (€427 million), or 2.76 million metric tons (MMT).
Figures released by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service on 26 April showed the US was the leading non-EU supplier of pellets to the Netherlands in 2020.
The report shows the current share... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 23, 2021
Dynamic Group has broken ground on BC Organics, a 16-unit anaerobic digestion (AD) project in Wisconsin, US.
Once completed and operational, BC Organics will be one of the largest dairy waste-to-renewable natural gas projects in the US, according to Hoard’s Dairyman, and is expected to process more than 360 million gallons of manure per year.
Dynamic Group is the... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 23, 2021
Woodsure, the UK quality assurance certification scheme for woodfuel, will take over the running of the government’s Biomass Suppliers List (BSL), on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The BSL is a list of woodfuel that meets the eligibility requirements for the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. It allows RHI participants... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2021
Proposals for an industrial-scale organic fertiliser lagoon in Devon, UK have been given the green light.
District council planning chiefs in East Devon approved the scheme for a sealed digestate storage facility, with a capacity of 7,000 cubic metres of liquid, near the village of Upton Pyne.
The project will support the operation of Gorst Biogas’s anaerobic digestion... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 22, 2021
AgLand Renewables, the California subsidiary of CleanBay Renewables, will receive $1.7 million (€1.42 million) in tax credit.
AgLand was chosen by the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to receive the significant tax credit from the California Competes Tax Credit (CCTC) programme. With this support, the firm can begin the development... [Read More]
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Germany's Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has awarded a total of 187.3 megawatts (MW) to 244 biomass projects in the latest round of its competitive tendering process
Veolia and Waga Energy have inaugurated a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the Granges landfill site in Burgundy, eastern France
Repsol is preparing to begin producing biomethane and hydrogen at its industrial complex in Sines, Portugal, with operations expected to start in 2026
