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A bill introduced in the US House of Representatives would establish a new tax credit covering 30% of the cost of constructing biomass energy facilities, in a bid to spur plants capable of processing material cleared from forests to reduce wildfire risk. The Biomass Facility Construction Act (H.R. 9746), introduced on 16 July by California congressman Kevin Kiley, would allow new facilities to…
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Malaysia's Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Seda) has identified 51.88 MW of potential power generation capacity from palm oil mills that could be developed in Peninsular Malaysia, according to deputy energy transition and water transformation minister Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Mohamad. The minister also revealed the scale of the country's untapped biogas resource, telling parliament…
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Payments worth almost €19 million have started flowing to successful projects under Ireland's Biomethane Capital Grant Scheme, as the government confirmed a further €200 million has been secured for a second round of capital grants for anaerobic digestion plants. Seven projects will receive funding under the 2024 scheme, drawn down through the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility: Bia…
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The UK's anaerobic digestion (AD) sector will need to scale up production roughly tenfold by 2050 to meet future biomethane demand, according to a new briefing from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), published this week. There are currently 750 municipal, commercial and agricultural AD plants operating across the UK, producing an estimated 21 TWh of biomethane annually,…
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Urszula Szalkowska, managing director for European Markets at EcoEngineers, part of LRQA, examines how biomethane is now embedded in the EU's carbon compliance architecture and what this means in practice for operators under ETS1 and ETS2. Biomethane has quietly crossed a threshold. It is no longer discussed primarily as a renewable gas alternative to natural gas; it has become a recognised…
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Europe's installed biomethane production capacity reached 8.2 bcm per year by the end of the second quarter of 2026, having added more than 1 bcm in a single year — a 17% increase on 2025 — according to the European Biomethane Map published by the European Biogas Association (EBA) and Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE). The number of plants in operation across Europe rose from 1,678 to 1,975…
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The UK's biomethane sector stands at a turning point. According to new analysis from the Green Gas Taskforce, supported by gas network operators Cadent and SGN, the technology that has spent years on the margins of the renewables conversation could deliver 57,000 jobs and £70 billion of cumulative gross value added (GVA) to the UK economy by 2050. Within that figure, Scotland alone could…
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Around 90 global industry leaders have called on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol to ensure its upcoming Actions and Market Instruments standard properly recognises the climate benefits of renewable gaseous fuels, including biomethane and biogas. The call, coordinated by the Let Green Gas Count campaign, was timed to coincide with London Climate Action Week. Campaign coordinators include the World…
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The UK waste wood sector processed 4.013 million tonnes of material in 2025 — equivalent to 89% of all waste wood generated in the country — despite a turbulent year marked by unplanned outages at end-use facilities and mounting pressure on storage capacity, according to new figures from the Wood Recyclers' Association (WRA). The total represented a 7.3% year-on-year decline, the WRA said,…
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The European Commission has launched the Biomethane Mechanism, a voluntary matchmaking platform designed to accelerate the growth of Europe's biomethane market by connecting buyers, suppliers and investors. The tool, which sits under the EU Energy and Raw Materials Platform, is free to use and offers several functions: a matching service to connect buyers and suppliers, a regulatory dashboard…
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Malaysia's Bioeconomy Development Corporation has coordinated the signing of a Letter of Intent for a palm oil waste-to-Bio-CNG project in Terengganu, marking a further step in a bilateral renewable energy partnership with South Korea and a RM700 million investment pipeline targeting more than 20 biogas upgrading facilities nationwide. The Terengganu State Palm Oil Mill Biogas Upgrading…
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The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has launched a request for proposals seeking feasibility studies into repurposing closed wood products manufacturing facilities, including pulp and paper mills, for bioenergy production. The initiative responds to the growing number of shuttered wood products sites across the US that have left behind industrial infrastructure, utility connections…
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A federal task force on Canada's forest sector has named the national scale-up of BDO Zones as a priority action, recommending it be supported through a proposed $10 billion, 10-year Forest Sector Transformation Investment Fund. The Canadian Forest Sector Transformation Task Force, an independent body of eight industry leaders appointed by Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Tim Hodgson,…
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Ireland's Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) has published a decision paper updating the country's biomethane connections policy, introducing changes designed to reduce the cost of connecting anaerobic digestion plants to the gas network and support the national target of 5.7 TWh of indigenously produced biomethane by 2030. The most significant change is an extension of the economic…
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