Nov 9, 2023
BIOGEST’s BIOP builds first biomethane plant in Italy
Biomass News
Nov 8, 2023
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has released a new report that looks at how biomass can help the European Union (EU) achieve its climate and environmental goals, and how climate change might affect the EU's biomass production in agriculture and forest sectors.
The report, entitled The European Biomass Puzzle - Challenges, opportunities and trade-offs around biomass... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 7, 2023
Technology group Wärtsilä has announced the engineering, delivery, and installation of the biogas upgrading solution to a new biogas 17 tons-per-day liquefaction plant in Hjørring, Denmark.
The contract was awarded to Wärtsilä in 2022, and the official start-up took place in June 2023
The facility is one of two biogas plants owned and operated by GrønGas A/S in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 6, 2023
Global biogas producer Nature Energy and energy and fibre network Andel have made "world history", according to Danish Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Morten Bødskov.
He was speaking during the inauguration of the first plant in the world to commercially increase the production of biogas via electrolysis and biological methanation. The new Power-to-X... [Read More]
Biomass News
Nov 3, 2023
The Municipal District (MD) of Greenview, the County of Grande Prairie, and Ecostrat have announced the issue of a new Bioeconomy Development Opportunity (BDO) Zone rating for woody biomass in Alberta, Canada.
The prestigious ‘A’ rating denotes ‘high quality’ feedstock supply chains and infrastructure, based on robust forestry and wood industry sectors, and local... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 3, 2023
São Martinho, one of the world's largest sugarcane energy companies, has announced plans to construct its first biomethane plant.
Produced through the anaerobic digestion of vinasse, a residue from ethanol production, the plant will process 100% of the vinasse generated at the Santa Cruz unit, located in Américo Brasiliense, in the interior of São Paulo (SP), to produce... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 3, 2023
H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies, Inc. (H2B2), a global vertically integrated provider of green hydrogen energy solutions across the hydrogen value chain, has unveiled SoHyCal - the largest operational green hydrogen production plant powered entirely by renewable energy in North America to date.
This project, from both a technical and commercial point of view, consists... [Read More]
Features
Nov 3, 2023
Colin Ley analyses the situation in Canada in this incisive regional focus, exclusively for Bioenergy Insight
Wildfires raging across Canada in recent months have highlighted the increasingly fragile state of the natural environment while also drawing attention to the need for renewable solutions to be applied to the country’s future energy mix.
While vast... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 2, 2023
Bioenergy Devco (BDC), the North American division of BTS Bioenergy, LLC and a leader in the design, engineering, construction, financing and operation of anaerobic digestion facilities, has released a statement commending local legislators' efforts to divert organic waste from landfills and reduce methane emissions.
A group of more than 50 leaders from across the US... [Read More]
Other News
Nov 2, 2023
A new independent research report, "UK Cluster potential – how the UK can lead the world in Carbon Capture and Storage", by Development Economics, has found that if the UK Government accelerates and expands the development of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Clusters across the country, it could generate an extra £32 billion (€36.7 billion) for the economy from 2050... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 2, 2023
A person has been tragically killed in a blast due to a biogas plant leak in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly in India, according to a report from ANI News. As many as four people sustained serious injuries, local police said on 1 November
"One person died while four were injured in a blast which occurred after a biogas plant leak here under the Bithri Chainpur police station... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 1, 2023
EverGen Infrastructure Corp. (EverGen) has announced mechanical completion of the Fraser Valley Biogas RNG Expansion Project.
The Fraser Valley Biogas RNG Expansion Project commenced construction in Q3 2022, with a scope that included improvements to the feedstock processing system, installation of a new RNG upgrader and the commissioning of a third anaerobic digester.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 1, 2023
Cenergy Holdings has announced that Corinth Pipeworks, its steel pipes segment, has been awarded two contracts by Società Gasdotti Italia.
With a value of over €10 million, Corinth Pipeworks will produce and supply approximately 82km of high frequency welding steel pipes (HFW) for the development of the gas pipeline network in the Southern Italy.
The first contract,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 31, 2023
Gasum has opened its newest gas filling station in Keminmaa, Finland. The new station is the first gas filling station in Finnish Lapland, Gasum’s second northernmost filling station and Europe’s northernmost liquefied biogas (LBG) filling station.
The Keminmaa station serves heavy duty transport and passenger cars because it allows refueling with liquefied and compressed... [Read More]
Other News
Oct 31, 2023
TES has awarded a feasibility study to Aker Carbon Capture to explore the implementation of a carbon capture plant at a waste-to-energy facility in Germany.
The planned capture capacity will be 400,000 tonnes CO2 per year. The captured CO2 will be transported by railcar to the TES facilities at Wilhelmshaven in Northern Germany to produce e-NG, which is electric natural... [Read More]
Features
Oct 31, 2023
Brandon Spencer, president of ABB Energy Industries, discusses ABB’s position in the biomass market and the importance of automation, digitalisation and electrification in optimising biomass power generation facilities.
ABB recently announced it had secured its ninth contract with TOYO Engineering Corporation in Japan to supply its distributed control system (DCS)... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 27, 2023
The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has released a report looking at a possible solution for India's energy security and decarbonisation goals.
Produced in a positive policy environment, where the Indian government has introduced several changes to accelerate growth and investments in the biogas sector, the report outlines the country's renewed... [Read More]
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Germany's Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has awarded a total of 187.3 megawatts (MW) to 244 biomass projects in the latest round of its competitive tendering process
Veolia and Waga Energy have inaugurated a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the Granges landfill site in Burgundy, eastern France
Repsol is preparing to begin producing biomethane and hydrogen at its industrial complex in Sines, Portugal, with operations expected to start in 2026
