NW Natural, a subsidiary of NW Natural Holding Company, and BioCarbN, a developer and operator of environmental infrastructure projects, have commenced production at a second renewable natural gas (RNG) facility, as part of an innovative project partnership with Tyson Foods. The facility, which is located in Dakota City, Nebraska in the US, is receiving investment of... [Read More]

CHAR Technologies (CHAR) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the First Nations co-operative Lake Nipigon Forest Management (LNFMI) to collaboratively develop, build, own and operate a wood waste and residues to renewable natural gas (RNG) and biocarbon facility in the Lake Nipigon Region of Northern Ontario, Canada. LNFMI is a forest management co-operative... [Read More]

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) will set up a compressed biogas (CBG) plant at Brahmapuram in a year, reported The Hindu. Industries Minister P. Rajeeve and Local Self-Government Minister M.B. Rajesh held primary discussions with company officials in Thiruvananthapuram on 3 May. The State government will allocate land for the project at Brahmapuram, and the... [Read More]

Enviva has released its financial results for Q1 2023, reporting a net loss of $116.9 million (€105.7m), as compared to a net loss of $45.3m (€40.9m) for the same period in 2022. The company further reported adjusted EBITDA for Q1 2023 of $3.4m (€3m), as compared to $36.6m (€33.1m) for the corresponding quarter last year. The company put its performance down... [Read More]

Drax Power Station, the UK’s biggest generator of renewable electricity, is projecting a symbol onto one of its huge cooling towers this weekend to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III. Electricity has been generated by Drax since 1974 after it was built by the Central Electricity Generating Board, in an area of Yorkshire known as Megawatt Valley due to a fleet... [Read More]

Bioenergy Devco (BDC), the North American division of BTS Bioenergy, a leader in the design, engineering, construction, financing and anaerobic digestion operation, has been approved to negotiate a public-private partnership agreement to build an organics recycling facility by the Middlesex County Utilities Authority (MCUA) in the US. The partnership between BDC and MCUA... [Read More]

Samaiden Group has signed an agreement with two Cambodian companies and a Malaysian firm to develop a biogas project in the Preah Sihanouk province in Cambodia. Samaiden announced its indirect wholly-owned Samaiden Energy (Cambodia) Co Ltd had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with: Mong Sotheary Trading Co Ltd (MST); Management Venture Asia (Cambodia)... [Read More]

Vespene Energy (Vespene), a biogas renewable energy developer, and Viridi Energy (Viridi), a full-service renewable natural gas (RNG) platform, have today announced the launch of their first joint pilot site with a municipal landfill in Marathon County, Wisconsin, US. The companies said they are using highly efficient energy generation equipment to convert the naturally... [Read More]

Reverion, the climate tech start-up for renewable energies, has raised €8.5 million to accelerate the production of its biogas plants. Investors in the round include UVC Partners, Green Generation Fund, Extantia Capital, Doral Energy-Tech Ventures and biomethane trader Landwärme. This capital will be utilised to expand the production of 100 kW and 500 kW biogas power... [Read More]

Last month Poland's government published the first draft of new legislation designed to facilitate the preparation and development of agricultural biogas projects. The new Biogas Act aims to significantly increase the number of biogas plants, with the government seeing advantages in biogas' flexibility and ability to generate electricity over a greater part of the year... [Read More]

Enexor Bioenergy (Enexor), based in Tennessee, US, has been awarded a demonstration grant from the US Department of Defense's (D0D) environmental security technology certification programme (ESTCP). The funding will be utilised to demonstrate Enexor's Bio-CHP system at a US Navy installation, to convert organic and plastic waste into renewable energy. The primary goal... [Read More]

Verbio North America Holdings Corporation has announced the signing and closing of a purchase agreement with Mercuria Investments US, Inc. to acquire South Bend Ethanol, LLC, an operating ethanol plant located in South Bend, Indiana in the US. This will be Verbio's second US production facility, following the commissioning of its plant in Nevada, Iowa. The company said... [Read More]

Anaergia has secured a contract to provide its technologies, engineering and process design for a new facility that will convert food processing waste into renewable energy at PepsiCo’s Simba Chips plant in Johannesburg, South Africa. The new facility will allow this food processing operation to reduce its emissions and manage waste sustainably, reduce operating costs... [Read More]

The world-leading certification scheme to guarantee high-quality wood pellets, ENplus®, has reported 13.3 million tonnes of certified pellets in 2022, while the certified production this year is projected to surpass 14 million tonnes*. “In 2022, the pellet market was heavily affected by the energy crisis. The pellet prices increased all over Europe and some countries... [Read More]

The Lenzing Group, a provider of specialty fibres for the textile and nonwovens industries, has signed a contract for the acquisition of a 43 MW biomass power plant from ENERGIE 42 Beteiligungs, located in the Heiligenkreuz business park in Austria. The execution of the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals, and is expected in the second quarter of 2023. The... [Read More]

Bioenergy Insight spoke to Petter Jacobsen, chief commercial officer of Antec, ahead of his presentation at the International Biogas Congress & Expo. Antec is a Norwegian company, and it was founded on a new method of biogas production, which consists of an anaerobic digester that combines two known technologies – biofilm and plugflow. Jacobsen said the goal is... [Read More]