Over 350 delegates, including policymakers, academia, industry representatives and civil society organisations, enjoyed a two-day intensive programme addressing critical bottlenecks and opportunities for the sector at the European Biogas Conference at the end of October. The event was sold out for the second year in a row. A key topic on the agenda was the sustainable... [Read More]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), and Indonesia Power, a sub-holding of Indonesia’s state-owned electricity provider PT. (Persero) (PLN), have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to commence three feasibility studies on co-firing less carbon intensive fuels at power plants owned and operated by Indonesia Power. The three studies will be conducted jointly... [Read More]

At a cattle post settlement called Gatuma located near Mmathethe village, south of Botswana, Goemeone and Mpho Kagiso have over the past year embraced biogas energy and are enjoying more than just the financial relief it brings, reported Xinhua, "Biogas has changed our lives a lot. When it is raining and its windy, we can cook and don't go to bed hungry. We also warm... [Read More]

US distributed bioenergy firm Impact Bioenergy said it has completed a $3.6 million (€3.6m) Series A funding round, with Japanese trading house Itochu Corp participating as anchor investor. Several of Impact Bioenergy's seed investors also took part in the fundraise. The Seattle-based company builds and deploys community-scale systems that turn food waste into renewable... [Read More]

The European Biogas Association has announced the winners of the EBA Awards 2022. The winner of the EBA Award in the category ‘Biogas groundbreaker’ is Anaergia. The company provides organic waste to biomethane solutions across the world. The jury recognised Anaergia for its phenomenal growth, dedication to research activities and ambition to accelerate biomethane... [Read More]

Titan, an independent supplier of low and zero-carbon fuels, has announced its liquefied biomethane (LBM) production project for 200,000 tpy of liquefied biomethane. Titan will build and operate the LBM plant at its strategic location in the Port of Amsterdam allowing supply to ships and trucks. Important milestones for the project are the two recent contract signings... [Read More]

Wood pellets are likely to become one of Vietnam’s key export agro-forestry products with an estimated export turnover of US$1 billion in 2023, according to Đỗ Xuân Lập, chairman of Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association. He was speaking at the congress of establishing Vietnam Wood Pellets Branch in Hạ Long City in the northern province of Quảng Ninh... [Read More]

A fruit juice producer company located in Afyonkarahisar obtains electrical energy from the biogas of approximately 100 tons of fruit waste per day, and converts the remaining waste into fertiliser for its orchards, reported Daily Sabah. The company's general manager, while sharing the objectives of the company, outlined their plan to meet energy needs from renewable energy... [Read More]

A year from the launch of the Global Methane Pledge (GMP) at the Conference of Parties 26 (COP26) in Glasgow, UK, the World Biogas Association (WBA) has joined forces with the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) to host a panel discussion focusing on how to reduce methane emissions – the greenhouse gas 86 times as potent as CO2 when released into the... [Read More]

Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group (GIG) has acquired specialist biogas platform BayWa r.e. Bioenergy, via its Macquarie GIG Energy Transition Solutions fund. Active across the full asset lifecycle, BayWa r.e. Bioenergy develops, constructs and operates biogas projects that provide biomethane and power to local energy companies, industrial companies... [Read More]

Jorg-Peter Lindner, technical sales manager - mixing technology specialist at SPX FLOW, explores technology surrounding mixing processes. There are now over 9,600 biogas plants in Germany. A large part of Germany's power supply is generated through renewable energy sources (42.1% through renewable energy in the power, heating and transport sectors). Biogas alone provided... [Read More]

Acciona Energía has announced it will build a biomass plant with a capacity of 49,9MW in the municipality of Logrosán (Cáceres) in Spain. The company was an awardee in the third auction for the grant of the economic regime for renewable energies tendered by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic challenge. This guarantees a sale price for the electricity... [Read More]

Ørsted and Equinor have signed an agreement under which Equinor will supply Norwegian gas to Denmark via Baltic Pipe. The agreement covers the period from 1 January 2023 to 1 April 2024, and the total volumes of gas supplied during the period will be approximately 8 TWh, corresponding to roughly a quarter of the expected total Danish gas consumption. The completion of... [Read More]

Over 550 scientists have signed a letter to the European Commission, notifying them of the "deteriorating state of European forests" and calling for climate-smart forestry practices – including wood harvesting for bioenergy – to consolidate their resilience to global warming. “Hot and dry weather in many parts of Europe and the world makes us worry about the future... [Read More]

SunGas Renewables, a global provider of gasification systems for low-carbon fuel production, has announced an agreement with Arbor Renewable Gas for supply of its SunGas System 1000 technology and equipment package to Arbor Gas' Spindletop Renewable Gasoline Project located in Beaumont, Texas, UA. SunGas is an outgrowth from GTI Energy, an organisation advancing decarbonisation... [Read More]