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Pinnacle Renewable Energy and Drax Group’s US pellet business, Drax Biomass, are rebranding to ‘Drax’.
The move supports the group’s growth strategy, climate goals and relationships with people, including colleagues, communities, partners, customers and suppliers.
Drax Group acquired Pinnacle, which has operations across British Columbia and Alabama, US, last year. Drax’s existing…
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The UK Government will increase the frequency of auctions for funding through the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, to boost investment and jobs in renewable energy.
CfD auctions will now take place every year rather than every two years. This will support renewable electricity producers and boost the UK’s renewable energy infrastructure.
The Association for Renewable Energy and…
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EverGen Infrastructure Corp (EverGen) announced that its Sea to Sky Soils organic waste processing and composting facility processed around 160% of its budgeted tonnage in the second half of last year.
The Sea to Sky Soils facility in British Columbia serves as a source of valuable feedstock for EverGen’s existing and future RNG operations.
The plant processed approximately 36,000 tonnes…
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BLAZE is a Horizon 2020 project aimed at developing a biomass low-cost, advanced and zero-emission (BLAZE) CHP plant – the first of its kind. This will be achieved by developing a dual fluidised bed technology integrated with high-temperature gas cleaning and conditioning systems and solid oxide fuel cells.
The technology is designed to utilise a wide range of biomass residues (forest,…
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A research project focused on removing plastic contamination from food waste destined for anaerobic digestion (AD) has received funding from Ecosurety.
Ecosurety is a producer responsibility compliance scheme for packaging, waste from electrical and electronic equipment, and batteries.
Offering a total of £1 million (€1.18 million) since its launch in 2019, the second and final round of…
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bp has announced plans to increase the proportion of capital expenditure in transition growth businesses, including bioenergy, to more than 40% by 2025.
bp provided an update on its strategic transformation on 8 February, including accelerating its net-zero ambition, as part of its full-year results for 2021. The company reported an annual profit of $12.85 billion (€11.2 billion) last year…
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Sawlog supply in the US South is tightening, but a surplus of small logs and residues creates opportunities for pulp and wood pellet expansion.
Wood Resources International (WRI) shared its new focus report, ‘US South Softwood Industry – Outlook for the World’s Most Important Softwood Fiber Basket’, establishing a fact base around forest resources and industry in the US South.
The…
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Clean Methane Systems (CMS) and Ammongas have introduced new amine technology to North American RNG customers.
The Danish technology simplifies biogas upgrading by minimising the steps required to prepare and inject RNG into the grid. Amine technology also reduces operational costs in the novel way it manages hydrogen sulphide and other contaminants in the gas stream.
Both CMS and Ammongas…
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By Ole Hvelplund, CEO, Nature Energy.
In many ways, we at Nature Energy have an exciting year ahead of us. In 2021, we announced a new, ambitious growth strategy which means Nature Energy will invest heavily in the construction of new large-scale biogas plants internationally. This will be our key focus in the year to come. A few years ago, the large-scale production of biogas was unknown…
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Finnish sugar company Sucros Oy will switch from using heavy fuel oil and coal to LNG and liquefied biogas (LBG) at its sugar beet factory in Säkylä.
Supplied by Gasum, the fuel will help Sucros, part of Nordzucker, to significantly reduce emissions in its existing three boilers.
Gasum already receives wastewater sludge and biosludge from Sucros’s subsidiary, Suomen Sokeri, for use as…
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Environmental law organisation ClientEarth has filed an internal review request to the European Commission for “unlawfully labelling bioenergy, bio-based plastics and chemicals used to make plastics as ‘sustainable’ in the EU taxonomy”.
An internal review request is the first step non-governmental organisations must take before being able to bring a court challenge. The Commission must…
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BHP Group has welcomed the world’s first LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carrier, which will transport iron ore between Western Australia and Asia from this year.
BHP has chartered five LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carriers from Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) for five years and awarded the LNG contract to Shell. In the future, the vessels could also use bio-LNG.
On her maiden voyage, the…
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Charlotte Morton, chief executive, Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA)
Throughout 2021, all eyes were on the road to COP26. Six years and four conferences since the Paris Agreement, COP26 was seen as the world’s last chance to ‘keep 1.5˚C alive’. The extent to which it was a success is dividing opinion. The last-minute watering down of commitments to phase out coal…
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Estonian energy company Alexela is one of the first in the country and in the Baltics to supply the domestic market with a 100% carbon-neutral fuel - liquefied biomethane (LBM).
LBM is considered the most sustainable fuel in road transport today, helping to reduce greenhouse gases of heavy-duty vehicles in the logistics chain.
Alexela has several other projects connected to LNG. In 2017,…
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New documents unearthed by GMB indicate that between 89 and 148 roles are expected to be lost at the plant around 31 March 2027.
The cuts could represent more than 30% of the site’s 465-strong workforce
GreenValue GmbH has advised Balance Erneuerbare Energien on the acquisition of a biogas plant portfolio spanning Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — with a combined thermal input capacity of 46 MW.
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