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Oct 15, 2026
French agricultural cooperative Deshyouest has installed an Andritz PM30-6 pellet mill at its dehydration plant, replacing a machine dating from 1982 and enabling the cooperative to produce wood-based biofuel pellets alongside its established alfalfa and maize fodder output. Deshyouest, which serves around 1,500 member farmers, specialises in the dehydration and pelletising of forage crops.…
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Oct 15, 2026
US investment firm Pacolet Milliken has acquired Georgia Renewable Power (GRP), adding 116 MW of biomass generating capacity across two woody biomass power plants in northeast Georgia. The deal, financed by Manulife, roughly triples the size of Pacolet's biomass platform. The family-owned firm entered the sector in 2024 with the acquisition of Piedmont Green Power, a 55 MW biomass plant in…
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Oct 14, 2026
US rotary dryer manufacturer Uzelac Industries has announced a series of leadership changes, with founder Michael Uzelac resuming the role of chief executive and Milena Ivetic named as president. Ivetic, who has been with the Wisconsin-based company for six years and most recently served as corporate vice president, will work alongside Uzelac and the board of directors on the company's…
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Oct 14, 2026
Dutch biomethanol developer Perpetual Next has signed a licence and engineering agreement with Air Liquide Engineering and Technologies for the supply of syngas-to-methanol technology, with an option to extend the arrangement across multiple future production sites. The deal covers Air Liquide's Rectisol and Lurgi Methanol technologies, which will be deployed at Perpetual Next's first…
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Oct 14, 2026
French investment manager Epopee Gestion and energy company Enervivo have created a financing platform dedicated to biomethane injection projects in France, with €10 million in initial funding primarily provided by Epopee Gestion. The platform, developed alongside project developer Urbeez, aims to finance approximately ten biomethane projects over the next three to four years. It will focus…
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Oct 13, 2026
UK power generator Drax has added an interactive map feature to its online Biomass Tracker tool, allowing users to visualise the journey of woody biomass pellets from forest sourcing through to delivery at its North Yorkshire power station. The map view, launched on 30 September, presents Drax's supply chain geographically, showing how its pellet production, forestry sourcing and…
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Oct 13, 2026
Lincolnshire County Council has granted planning permission for a £115 million anaerobic digestion facility in the village of Anwick, near Sleaford, that will process up to 120,000 tonnes of chicken waste and other material each year to produce biogas. The developer, Stream BioEnergy UK, received approval in principle from the council's planning committee last month, with final planning…
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Oct 13, 2026
Swedish green hydrogen technology company Metacon has secured EU funding to participate in a project that aims to produce high-purity hydrogen from biogas at existing anaerobic digestion facilities in Greece. The PUREHY2+ project will develop an add-on system for biogas plants that refines biogas into hydrogen with a purity exceeding 99.97% while capturing the resulting CO2. The approach is…
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Oct 12, 2026
Spanish pulp producer Ence has inaugurated three projects at its Navia bioplant in Asturias worth more than €200 million, including a biomass-fired lime kiln conversion and a new wood processing line that will increase the availability of bark for use as biofuel. The lime kiln project will see fossil fuels replaced with biomass through the installation of new multi-fuel burners, with the aim…
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Oct 12, 2026
When AD Fuels completed the UK's first virtual pipeline operation in 2014, the concept of trucking compressed or liquefied biomethane from anaerobic digestion plants to gas grid injection points was largely untested. More than a decade on, the West Sussex-based haulier has watched the sector grow — but not, its managing director concedes, as fast as he had hoped. "The industry has grown, but…
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Oct 12, 2026
Nopetro Energy has broken ground on a $50 million renewable natural gas production facility at the Lena Road Landfill in Manatee County, Florida, the first project of its kind on the state's west coast. The facility will capture methane generated by decomposing waste at the landfill, purify it into pipeline-quality RNG and inject it into existing gas infrastructure. The fuel will be used…
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Oct 9, 2026
Land Energy, one of the UK's largest wood pellet manufacturers, is supplying fuel for all the outdoor heaters at the Rooftop Cinema Club's Peckham venue in south London this autumn. The arrangement sees clean air compliant pellets produced at the company's site in southwest Scotland used to heat the open-air cinema's terrace during evening screenings. The company says the deal demonstrates…
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Oct 9, 2026
The number of American households using wood as their primary heating fuel is expected to drop by 4% this year, according to the US Energy Information Administration's annual Winter Fuels Outlook published on 6 October. The EIA forecasts that approximately 1.62 million households will heat primarily with wood in 2026, down from around 1.69 million last year. The western United States…
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Oct 9, 2026
Swedish clean energy technology company Metacon has secured EU project funding for a pilot plant that will produce hydrogen from biomethane at an existing industrial biogas facility on the Greek island of Crete. The project, known as BIOH2VAP, will see Metacon's fully owned Greek subsidiary Metacon SA construct a pilot plant at a biogas site in Ierapetra covering biogas upgrading, biomethane…
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