Ukraine's biomethane industry is struggling, according to Oleg Ryabov, head of the alternative energy sector of Hals Agro. His company has stopped producing biomethane due to economic conditions - the co-generation plant that converts the biogas into biomethane has been stopped. In Ukraine, the cost of biomethane production is, in the best case, over €600 per 1,000... [Read More]

Essex County Council is encouraging households in its jurisdiction to recycle their uneaten food, as it can be used to generate green energy, as well as for fertiliser or compost. The local authority aims to reuse, recycle or compost at least 70% of waste generated by 2030. In Essex, most food recycling is collected by residents' local councils' waste and recycling teams,... [Read More]

Oulu Energy Ltd is planning to build a 100 megawatts (MW) hydrogen production plant in Oulu, northern Finland. Partner for the project planning is the Finnish company P2X Solutions, which is currently constructing a hydrogen production plant in Harjavalta, western Finland. According to the preliminary plan, the whole project planned in Laanila industrial area, would... [Read More]

New Mexico has become the fourth US state to pass a clean fuel standard - market-based policies that are designed to reduce carbon emissions while promoting new investments in the production of renewable fuels and vehicles. Oregon and Washington have implemented clean fuel standards, with California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard often garnering the most attention due to... [Read More]

STX Group, a leading global firm in environmental commodities trading and climate finance, has announced a financing partnership with BioValue, a major Dutch biomethane producer, for the construction and development of the Groengas Cothen biomethane plant. The new plant adds at least 80GWh of renewable natural gas capacity per year. This strategic move is aligned with... [Read More]

Newly-released data from the American Biogas Council (ABC) indicates that 2023 was the third year of record growth across the US biogas industry, with nearly 100 new projects coming online last year, representing $1.8 billion (€1.6 billion) in capital investments. ABC expects this growth to continue into 2024, with more than 100 new projects already projected to go... [Read More]

Ukraine's parliament has advanced legislation to enable customs clearance of biomethane for international trade via gas pipelines. The procedural draft law was adopted in its first reading. Accompanying documents denote that Ukrainian companies are already working on producing biomethane and transporting it through pipeline networks. More than 10 agricultural holdings... [Read More]

Nedgia, the Naturgy Group gas distributor, and Hercesa | hi! Real Estate, a leading developer nationwide and present in eight different countries, have signed a partnership to facilitate the use of renewable gases, especially biomethane, in the real estate group’s new developments in Spain. The first developments that will include the connection equipped for the use... [Read More]

The German government's national biomass strategy will identify pathways for 2030 and 2045, and focus on "how the sustainable production and use of biomass can serve as a building block for the necessary transformation of our economic system and, in the long term, for achieving climate protection and biodiversity targets as well as the energy transition". The document... [Read More]

Biofuelwatch UK has initiated a legal challenge against Drax Power Limited, in an attempt to prevent the installation of carbon capture technology at its Selby, North Yorkshire plant. Last month, the UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Claire Coutinho, approved the Development Consent Order (the DCO) for Drax Power Limited’s (Drax) plans to convert... [Read More]

Bioenergy Insight hears from Frankie Ugboma, CEO at Dimeta and Tony Gittings, managing director at Rinnai UK, on their recently-signed Memorandum of Understanding to explore LPG market decarbonisation. Dimeta, a global joint venture to accelerate the production and use of renewable and recycled carbon Dimethyl Ether (DME) has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding... [Read More]

Wasaline has chosen Gasum Portfolio Services as their partner in EU Allowances (EUA) portfolio management. Managing and trading emissions allowances is topical for shipping companies as the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) was extended to include the maritime sector at the beginning of 2024, said Gasum. The partnership allows Wasaline to better predict and manage... [Read More]

On 9 February, the Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to the European Union (COREPER) adopted the political agreement on CO2 emission performance standards for new heavy-duty vehicles (Regulation EU 2019/1242). The European Biogas Association (EBA) has called this a missed opportunity to provide the sector with a methodology... [Read More]

Saunders International Limited (Saunders) has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Optimal Renewable Gas (ORG) to facilitate the establishment of biomethane facilities throughout Australia. The agreement marks a significant step towards enhancing Australia's renewable energy infrastructure, with the first facility slated for Westbury, Tasmania,... [Read More]

Vespene Energy has been invited by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to submit a Part II application for a loan guarantee through the Loan Programs Office's (LPO) Title 17 Clean Energy Financing Program for $420 million (€389.5 million) to support the development of distributed biogas to electricity plants at 50 municipal landfills in 21 states. Dubbed Project Pleiades,... [Read More]

MAIRE has announced that NEXTCHEM (Sustainable Technology Solutions) - through its subsidiary NextChem Tech - and ENGIE will cooperate on the development and commercialisation of an advanced biomethane technology to produce synthetic methane from dry biomass waste. Under this cooperation agreement, NextChem Tech will act as strategic partner and co-developer in order... [Read More]