Jan 10, 2025
CPM acquires pellet mill part supplier Jacobs Global
Biomass News
Jan 10, 2025
Terviva, Inc., an agricultural innovation company working with farmers to grow and harvest pongamia for food, feed and fuel, has announced a strategic investment from integrated energy company Idemitsu.
Idemitsu, in partnership with Terviva and Stanmore, an Australia-based coal resource company, is beginning a trial plantation of Terviva’s pongamia in Queensland, Australia.
This... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 9, 2025
Aemetis Biogas commissioned three new dairy digesters last month, increasing from nine to a total of 12 operating digesters.
The additional digesters are expected to generate 250,000 MMBtu per year of renewable natural gas (RNG), contributing to a planned 550,000 MMBtu of RNG production in 2025.
“Our biogas business is creating significant revenue and income growth... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 9, 2025
Naturgy has closed an alliance with Hispania Silva, a waste valorisation specialist with extensive experience in the agricultural and livestock sector, for the development of a minimum of 20 biomethane production plants, which could become up to 30.
The plants will be distributed throughout Spain, and will become operational before 2030.
They will have a capacity to... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 9, 2025
A Labour environment group has asked the UK government to reconsider support for Drax's biomass plant in Selby, reported PoliticsHome.
The Labour Climate and Environment Forum (LCEF) observed that Drax's plant is the country's 'single biggest emitter of carbon dioxide'.
In the US, the company was found to have breached environmental regulations 'over 11,000 times'.
PoliticsHome... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 8, 2025
Dark Green Group, an independent renewables developer, has unveiled plans to be the first company in the UK to build a fleet of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in urban locations.
It is developing up to 12 AD plants over the next five years, on urban industrial sites, which together could process over 700,000 tonnes of organic waste per year and power up to 80,000 homes... [Read More]
Policy News
Jan 8, 2025
Brazil has changed its National Biofuel Policy Act to ensure independent producers of biomass used for biofuels benefit from Decarbonisation Credits (CBIOs).
The Law changes the existing Renovabio framework, in which only biofuel producers had access to revenue generated by the sale of CBIOs.
The new wording establishes that such revenue be shared with the producers... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 8, 2025
Vogelsang USA, the inventor of the rotary lobe pump with elastomer-coated lobes, is highlighting PreMix, the most advanced digester feed system in the world.
Built on decades of leadership in the biogas industry in Europe, Vogelsang said the PreMix system sets a new standard for feedstock preparation and efficiency, revolutionising the biogas sector with its innovative... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 8, 2025
It’s the new year and Bioenergy Insight is hard at work preparing for this year’s International Biogas Congress and Expo, which takes place on 24-25 June at the Hotel Plaza in Brussels.
The European biomethane sector expects €25 billion in private investments by 2030, according to European Biogas Association analysis. The market’s huge potential means that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 7, 2025
Kanadevia Inova, a global leader in solutions for the energy transition and circular economy, has announced the acquisition of London-based Iona Capital Limited (ICL), along with a portfolio of 11 renewable gas plants in the UK and a substantial pipeline of projects globally.
The acquisition accelerates the evolution of the Kanadevia Inova business beyond a business sevelopment,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 7, 2025
Petrobras launched its first call for proposals for the acquisition of biomethane on 6 January.
The company said this initiative is aligned with its objectives of decarbonising its operations and performing with a robust and competitive portfolio of gas offerings with products containing a lower carbon footprint.
The initiative foresees the receipt of offers for firm... [Read More]
Features
Jan 7, 2025
Maurice Markerink, managing director of EnviTec Plant Construction, and Stefan Laumann, head of gas upgrading go into detail about the EnviThan gas upgrading system.
EnviTec – a family-owned business – is Germany’s largest biogas producer, as it owns and operates 80 plants there and 7 abroad. It covers the entire value chain for biogas production, including the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 6, 2025
Dairygold Co-operative Society has received planning permision approval for a biomass plant in Mitchelstown, County Cork in Ireland.
The works will involve a single-storey woodchip boiler building, with a parapet height of 16.236 metres, and a stack height of 24.735 metres above ground level.
Over 30 conditions accompany the planning permission - including limiting the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 6, 2025
Balti Biometaan OÜ and OÜ Selja are planning to build a modern green gas plant in the Selja area of Estonia.
The aim of the project is to produce biogas from local raw materials (biodegradable waste, waste of agricultural origin and biomass of various origins), purify green carbon dioxide from it, and obtain biomethane as the final product.
The final location of the... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 6, 2025
CM Biomass has appointed Simon Plagborg as its new CEO, effective today (6 January).
Since December, Ask Michael Munck has been the interim CEO for CM Biomass, one of the world’s largest suppliers of wood pellets and biomass.
Ask Michael Munck will reassume his position as Group CFO at CM Biomass.
“We were looking for a profile that had the right commercial and... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jan 3, 2025
RENOVA's Tokushima-Tsuda biomass plant in Japan resumed regular operation on 22 December, and is continuing stable operation.
The facility, which is owned by its consolidated subsidiary Tokushima-Tsuda Biomass Power Plant G.K., is powered by wood pellets and palm kernel shells.
The facility began operations in December 2023, but experienced operational problems the following... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 3, 2025
Brazil’s Orizon Valorização de Resíduos has agreed a US$43 million (€41.7 million) financing deal with Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (BNB) to construct a biomethane plant, reported BN Americas.
The plant, which will be located in Pernambuco state, is in the advanced construction stage.
With a capacity of 130,000m3/d and the company has a contract with Copergás... [Read More]
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