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Aug 15, 2023
Acorn Bioenergy “to provide 25% of the UK’s biomethane supply”
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Aug 15, 2023
Following on from the successful Hydrogen BECCS Innovation Programme Phase 1 funding for the H2-Boost project, the Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC) and partners have successfully been awarded £5 million (€5.8 million) for a phase 2 project. This is funded by the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) that has been awarded by the UK government's Department for Energy... [Read More]

Biomass News
Aug 15, 2023
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has filed an application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to support the development of a pilot project that would utilise organic waste such as chipped wood, along with nut shells, and convert it into renewable natural gas (RNG). If approved, the project would be the largest RNG project in the state of California,... [Read More]

Biomass News
Aug 11, 2023
The UK government set out its Biomass Strategy on 10 August after months of delay, with its purpose being to set out the role biomass can play in reaching net zero, what the government is doing to enable that objective and where further action is needed. A key commitment of the Biomass Strategy is to develop and implement a cross-sectoral common sustainability... [Read More]

Policy News
Aug 11, 2023
India's central government has so far commissioned six compressed natural gas (BioCNG) plants and 11,143 small biogas plants under National Bioenergy Programme (NBP) which was notified in November 2022. RK Singh, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, informed India's lower parliamentary house Lok Sabha of the number in a written reply to a question. Of the six... [Read More]

Other News
Aug 11, 2023
Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has reached an agreement on a term sheet for General Hydrogen Corp., a CGI Gases subsidiary, to purchase net-negative carbon intensity hydrogen from a biomass-fuelled facility utilising BrightLoop™ technology being developed by B&W in Louisiana. As the exclusive partner within defined segments for the distribution of hydrogen produced... [Read More]

Biomass News
Aug 10, 2023
Japanese renewable power firm Renova has postponed the start of commercial operations at two of its biomass power plants, the 74.8MW Tokushima-Tsuda and 75MW Ishinomaki Hibarino, to September from this month, according to a report from Argus Media. Operation of the Tokushima-Tsuda plant was previously postponed from March to May, due to facility inspections. It was delayed... [Read More]

Biomass News
Aug 10, 2023
Mote Inc. has received $1.2 million (€1.1 million) in grant funding from the US Forest Service, the California Department of Conservation, and the California Department of Forestry (CAL FIRE) to establish its second biomass-to-hydrogen and carbon sequestration plant, in partnership with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). As Mote’s hydrogen offtake partner... [Read More]

Biogas News
Aug 9, 2023
Brazil’s Energisa has acquired 83.3% of Agric Adubos e Gestão de Resíduos Industriais e Comerciais, a Santa Catarina state company that composts industrial organic waste to produce biofertiliser, reported BNAmericas. The operation involved the payment of R$6.5 million (€1.2 million) and a capital contribution to the company of R$53.5 million (€9.9 million). The... [Read More]

Biogas News
Aug 8, 2023
Synthica Energy, an energy transition platform that designs, builds, owns and operates large-scale, contracted anaerobic digestion facilities to convert pre-consumer organic waste into renewable natural gas (RNG), has closed on a large equity investment from the Infrastructure Business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs). The new capital will help grow... [Read More]

Biogas News
Aug 8, 2023
A team of researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) is studying ways to generate renewable energy from dairy farm waste to charge electric vehicles. Wei Liao, a professor in MSU’s Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) and the director of MSU’s Anaerobic Digestion Research and Education Center (ADREC), led a demonstration workshop on 19 July... [Read More]

Biogas News
Aug 8, 2023
BioEnergy, a German company that provides technology and engineering design for biomass-based gas plants, has entered the Indian market in partnership with a Noida-based start-up, Gruner Renewable Energy (GRE). A welcome & greetings ceremony was held in Nagpur, India, on 5 August, which invited partners, attendees, media representatives and guests. The ceremony commenced... [Read More]

Biomass News
Aug 8, 2023
A biomass plant in Teesside, North East UK, backed by Macquarie has secured emergency funding of £80 million (€92 million) to avert an “imminent cashflow crisis”, reported The Times. The Tees Renewable Energy Plant has raised additional funding as it seeks to relaunch operations following delays and setbacks to the £1 billion (€1.1 million) project. The plant... [Read More]

Biomass News
Aug 7, 2023
Sumitomo Corporation  has signed an agreement with Axens North America, a bioethanol technology provider, and Allotrope Partners, a US clean energy advisory and investment firm, for a joint project to study the commercial production of bioethanol derived from woody biomass in California state. According to Sumitomo, bioethanol is currently gaining a reputation on a global... [Read More]

Biogas News
Aug 7, 2023
Insolvency proceedings for biogas trader bmp greengas were initiated on 1 August, with a restructuring plan to occur "due to the dramatic change in the procurement situation" - as a result of market shifts and the fall-out from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This meant that the firm was unable to meet its obligations to its customers. The Association of Municipal Companies... [Read More]

Other News
Aug 7, 2023
Saipem, a leading company in the engineering, drilling and construction of major projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors, and Stockholm Exergi, the district of Stockholm's energy company, have signed a Letter of Intent for a large-scale CO2 capture plant to be installed at Stockholm Exergi's existing bio-cogeneration plant located in the Swedish capital. Saipem's... [Read More]

Features
Aug 7, 2023
WM, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Veriflux, a US EPA-funded technology platform, have demonstrated that food and organic waste can be tracked from restaurants, cafeterias and other sources to the point where it is used to offset the consumption of fossil fuels. A four-month pilot project in 2022 overcame multiple data, logistic and... [Read More]


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