Nov 22, 2024
Automated in-line moisture monitoring increases productivity
Biogas News
Nov 21, 2024
Willand Biogas' plant by the Somerset border has entered administration, having failed to secure funds to rescue its operation.
Accounts for 2022 showed it was more than £23 million in debt, as well as subject to a £38.75 million loan.
Administrators at London-based restructuring and recovery specialists Moorfields Advisory Ltd are attempting to sell the leasehold... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 21, 2024
BASF signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Shenergy Group (Shenergy) through its subsidiaries Shanghai Gas Co., Ltd (Shanghai Gas) and Shanghai Shenji Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. (Shenji).
This strategic partnership aims to foster long-term collaboration among the three parties in the commercialisation and international certification of biomethane, promoting... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 21, 2024
A research team led by Dr. Choi, Young-chan from the Clean Air Research Laboratory at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has successfully converted cashew nut shells, discarded during cashew nut food product manufacturing, into an eco-friendly biofuel.
Producing biofuel from biomass in Korea is very challenging. Due to the limited availability of single... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 21, 2024
Divert, an impact technology company on a mission to Protect the Value of Food™, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) have announced a first-of-its-kind interconnection in the state of California to address the wasted food crisis.
Divert’s facility in Turlock, California is now processing unsold food products into carbon-negative renewable energy, which... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 19, 2024
Enshu Forest Energy began commercial operations at its 7.1MW biomass plant in Fukuroi city of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan on 16 November, reported Argus Media.
The facility is expected to burn 90,000t/yr of wood chips made from unused forest materials, which will be gathered primarily from Shizuoka prefecture.
It has the capacity to generate approximately 53GWh/yr of... [Read More]
Features
Nov 19, 2024
Bioenergy Insight learns more about the recently announced partnership to develop four RNG projects in the US.
Bright Renewables is a global technology provider for biogas upgrading systems, CO2 liquefaction plants, and Bio LNG & Bio CNG solutions. Its US head office is located in Vancouver, Washington, and it has sold around 35 biogas upgrading units in the country.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 18, 2024
Simon Scott, export sales director at Balmoral Tanks, outlines why the time is ripe to grasp AD opportunities.
A mix of federal and state incentives are creating a powerful argument to invest in anaerobic digestion (AD) capacity in the United States. Yet, today we see only a fraction of the potential uptake materialise.
At first glance, this doesn’t seem to be a problem;... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 18, 2024
Blackwood Technology BV (Blackwood), a torrefaction and carbonisation technology company, has announced the successful start of production of the first commercial FlashTor® black pellet plant in Lampang Province, Thailand.
The plant is owned and operated by NT Biomass Products Company Limited (NTBC), a 100% subsidiary of TTCL Public Company Limited (TTCL).
When fully... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 18, 2024
Following consultation with the local community, ENGIE has submitted plans to East Riding of Yorkshire Council to develop an agricultural anaerobic digestion facility to the east of Long Lane near High Catton.
The facility – which will sit alongside new woodland and hedgerow planting – will take agricultural feedstocks and wastes from local farms and turn it into... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 18, 2024
Hundreds of small green gas plants in the UK are set to close by 2031 with the loss of 2 terawatt hours of clean electricity to the grid - enough clean electricity to power around 500,000 homes, according to the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA).
The closures have been revealed in a survey of members undertaken by the trade association.
The shutdown... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 18, 2024
Nordic energy company Gasum is expanding its biogas production portfolio with the acquisition of all shares in the Danish company Hærup Biogas ApS, which owns and operates a biogas plant in the northern part of mainland Denmark.
Currently the plant mainly uses manure to produce approximately 40 GWh biogas which is used for power and heat production at the biogas plant... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 15, 2024
The vast majority of bio-waste (garden and food waste), which could be a valuable feedstock for the bio-based industries and biomanufacturing is currently unused, representing a missed opportunity, according to a new report by the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC).
As of 1 January this year, it is mandatory for EU Member States to separately collect bio-waste. But... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 14, 2024
Japan's JFE Shoji Group and Malaysia’s Elridge Energy Holdings - via the latter’s subsidiary Bio Eneco - have signed a long-term memorandum of understanding (MoU) to supply 150,000 metric tonnes (MT) of Green Gold Label (GGL)-certified palm kernel shell (PKS) biomass annually, starting in April 2025.
“This MoU marks a RE milestone, not just for Japan but for the... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 13, 2024
New Energy Risk (NER), a wholly owned division of Paragon Insurance Group, and Ecostrat, a leader in assessing, developing, optimising, and managing biomass supply chains, have announced a partnership to develop Feedstock Supply Insurance© (FSI), an insurance offering that aims to mitigate risk in biomass feedstock supply chains.
It will do this by effectively capping... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 11, 2024
Fre-Energy doesn’t rest on its laurels when it comes to biogas innovation. But that doesn’t mean it ignores the fundamentals of anaerobic digestion. The innovative AD plant designer and builder has worked in the biogas industry for over 15 years, building 14 plants and upgrading many more.
In that time, its co-founder, Chris Morris, has seen the good, the bad, and... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 8, 2024
erex Group plans to expand biomass activity in Vietnam.
In its Vietnam business, erex has invested in Hau Giang Bio Energy, a company established for the purpose of constructing and operating biomass power plants.
In cooperation with the Vietnamese government, it will promote the construction of new biomass plants, the conversion of existing power plants to biomass and... [Read More]
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