Feb 9, 2021
Enviva publishes 2020 Impact Report outlining sustainability progress
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2021
Rosetti Marino, an Italian company providing integrated services to industrial sectors, has purchased 60% of Green Methane, an Italian firm specialising in the conversion of biogas into biomethane.
Green Methane’s facilities purify biogas from CO2 and produce green methane with characteristics suitable for injecting into the gas distribution network, and for transport.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2021
ENGIE has produced renewable gas from non-recyclable waste in a ‘world-first’ project.
Located in the heart of the ‘Chemical Valley’ in Saint-Fons, France, the GAYA semi-industrial research and development (R&D) platform took a ‘historic step forward’ in the production of renewable gas on 17 November.
Supported by French agency for ecological transition... [Read More]
Pellets News
Feb 9, 2021
Active Energy Group has secured a further $10 million €8.2 million in funding, while also converting all existing debt to equity.
The new funding and clean balance sheet will allow the firm to accelerate the development of its CoalSwitch™ production facility in Lumberton, North Carolina.
AEG has developed technology that converts waste biomass into CoalSwitch... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 8, 2021
Drax Group has signed an agreement with Pinnacle Renewable Energy (Pinnacle), providing for the acquisition by Drax Canadian Holdings – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Drax – of the entire issued share capital of Pinnacle.
The acquisition, which remains subject to Drax and Pinnacle’s shareholder approval, court approval, and regulatory approval, and the satisfaction... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2021
A new resource launched by the Canadian Biogas Association (CBA) aims to help farmers interested in learning more about agricultural biogas.
FarmingBiogas.ca is a new website forming part of an educational campaign to help farmers explore biogas production as an opportunity for their farm.
“We get a lot of questions from farmers who want to know more about the... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 8, 2021
UK energy entrepreneurs could receive a share of £11 million (€12.5 million) in government funding to turn their ideas into real products and services.
Energy Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan announced the latest round of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF), which seeks to drive forward new technologies across all sectors of UK industry, supporting the UK to eliminate... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2021
San Diego County has opened its first anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Escondido.
According to a report by the Escondido Times Advocate, on 1 February, the facility was able to receive residential green waste, formed of food waste and garden waste from homes, as well as industrial and commercial operations.
On 28 November 2018, the city’s Recycling and Waste... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2021
Trinity Organics has received £14 million (€15.9 million) from Dutch green energy investment company Perpetual Next to develop a biogas plant.
Work is now underway to build the anaerobic digestion (AD) facility on a three-acre brownfield site in Ellesmere Port, UK. The plant, expected to be operational by the summer, will operate ‘around-the-clock’ to digest... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2021
Clean Energy Fuels has signed a multi-year contract with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Authority (LA Metro) to supply renewable natural gas (RNG).
Under the agreement, Clean Energy will supply 47.5 million gallons of its RNG to fuel the nation’s largest transit bus fleet.
The agreement will mark the completion of Metro’s five-year goal to transition its... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2021
Amazon has ordered hundreds of trucks that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as it seeks ways to shift its US fleet away from heavier polluting vehicles, the firm told Reuters.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused delivery activity to surge in 2020, with truck volumes exceeding 2019 levels on average while passenger car traffic dropped. But an increase in road activity means... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 5, 2021
JLEN Environmental Assets has acquired Codford Biogas, which holds the rights and operational assets that form the Codford anaerobic digestion (AD) plant.
Codford Biogas’ AD plant in Wiltshire, UK, processes 100,000 tonnes of food waste per year and supplies up to 4,000 homes via the UK power grid.
The acquisition is structured as an initial upfront payment, including... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 5, 2021
Iona Capital is further investing in a UK energy-from-waste (EfW) plant near Perth in Scotland.
The investment firm, specialising in renewable infrastructure projects, is investing in Binn Group’s 8.6 MW EfW plant at Binn Eco Park, which will provide power to existing occupiers of the industrial park and export power to the National Grid.
Construction of the plant,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 5, 2021
Caulmert has been chosen to provide planning, engineering, environmental and project management advice to Logik Developments for a £100 million (€114 million) waste-to-energy and biogas project in Flintshire, UK.
Energy company EQTEC agreed a deal in December to purchase and develop land at Deeside Industrial Estate. The site currently has planning permission for... [Read More]
Features
Feb 5, 2021
By Matt White, senior vice-president, Drax Biomass.
Events of 2020 — the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed over two million people and severely impacted the global economy, and extreme weather and natural disasters around the world — have heightened awareness about human impacts on the natural environment.
This has galvanised action to tackle the climate crisis... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 5, 2021
Marvel Power Group has joined the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas, joining 280 companies and organisations across the US.
Marvel Power is a woman-owned advisory and brokerage platform focused on structuring high-volume, financeable biogas offtake contracts and investment agreements, with more than 25 years of experience.
“We are thrilled to join an esteemed... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 4, 2021
A proposed biomass power plant in Splott, Wales, has received renewed planning permission by Cardiff Council.
The planned facility would burn 75,000 tonnes of virgin timber annually, according to a report by Wales Online.
Despite concerns raised over the plant’s potential carbon emissions and air pollution, Cardiff Council renewed planning permission for the plant... [Read More]
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