Brimex Energy, a joint venture between Mexico-based Grupo Serrano and England-based Farmergy, has obtained the first permit in Mexico for the production of biomethane. The permit authorises the production and storage of biomethane. The venture was successfully advised by Holland & Knight. The project includes a biodigester system for waste treatment. Located in... [Read More]

TotalEnergies and Vanguard Renewables have signed an agreement to create an equally owned joint venture to develop, build and operate Farm Powered® renewable natural gas (RNG) projects in the United States. The signing took place in New York on 12 April in the presence of Patrick Pouyanné, chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies and Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock,... [Read More]

Epson has announced it is planning the construction of the company's first biomass power plant in Japan. Epson hopes to have the plant in operation in the 2026 fiscal year (ending March 2027), and is moving to secure the land and buildings, contract construction and file the paperwork for power generation. The new power plant is intended to provide Epson with self-generated... [Read More]

JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corporation (JX) and Sumitomo Corporation (Sumitomo) have executed consortium agreements to manage investment in the Louisiana Green Fuels BECCS project at Port of Columbia, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana in the US. The project is developing a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production plant with renewable Naphtha as a byproduct utilising... [Read More]

The North West Hydrogen Alliance (NWHA) has announced a batch of new members following the success of Hydrogen Week 2024. With the University of Manchester and consulting firms Tetra Tech and Net Zero Energy Systems confirmed as the latest hydrogen producers to join the NWHA, the membership now sits at over 40 members. The news comes on the back of the UK’s second... [Read More]

Naftogaz Group is ready to support investment in expanding the production of biomethane, promote its transportation, and has plans to buy up biomethane from Ukrainian producers, according to Ukrinform. A statement was made by Naftogaz Group CEO Oleksiy Chernyshov at the opening of the First Ukraine Biomethane Forum, reported the publication. “We are confident in the... [Read More]

The Research Council of Norway has unveiled plans to invest 180 MNOK  (€15.3 million) in the establishment of a research centre dedicated to carbon capture, transport, and storage (CCS) technology. Known as gigaCCS, this venture represents a pivotal step towards advancing Norway's leadership in CCS expertise while contributing to the worldwide effort in combatting... [Read More]

SDL Solutions has started work for the installation of a high-capacity wood pellet production line and press at its facility in the Cotswolds in the UK. Manufactured by Rudnick and Enners, the new line will mirror the SDL Pellets existing line, effectively doubling production capacity to enable production of over 60,000 tons of En Plus A1 wood pellets annually. Construction... [Read More]

Gypsum’s Eagle Valley Clean Energy Biomass Plant, which is located in Colorado in the US, has closed, according to Vail Daily. On 16 April, Paola Cadau, vice president of operations for wind at facility owner Greenback Capital wrote to Gypsum Town Manager Jeremy Rietmann. The email stated Greenback Capital had come to the “difficult decision that it is no longer... [Read More]

Mikko Syrjänen, director of business development at Gasum Oy, tells Bioenergy Insight about the company’s collaboration with Nordic Ren-Gas In January, Gasum and Nordic Ren-Gas announced they had signed an e-methane offtake agreement. Nordic Ren-Gas’s Power-to-Gas plant in Tampere, Finland will produce 160 GWh of renewable e-methane annually, which Gasum will procure... [Read More]

The Oman National Oil Company has announced the Final Investment Decision (FID) of the Marsa LNG project with TotalEnergies. TotalEnergies had signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Oman LNG to offtake 0.8 Mtpa of LNG for ten years from 2025, making the Company one of the main offtaker of Oman LNG's production. TotalEnergies (49%) and OQ Alternative Energy (51%),... [Read More]

There are two months’ to go before the annual Biogas Conference and Expo, which takes place on June 18-19. The event will once again be held at the Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels, which so successfully hosted the conference last year. A world-class line up of industry experts will share their unique insights - including Giulia Cancian, secretary general of the European... [Read More]

After two years of construction, Shell Energy has commissioned its first German bio-LNG plant at the Cologne-Godorf refinery site. With a capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year, it is the largest of its kind in Germany. The low-CO2 fuel is sufficient to refuel 4,000 to 5,000 LNG lorries, 15 to 20 vehicles per day. "We will endeavour to supply the plant with as much biomethane... [Read More]

Carbon removals and renewable energy company Drax Group has announced a carbon removals deal with C-Zero Markets (C-Zero), an environmental consultancy. The agreement is indicative of the maturing carbon market’s growing appetite for high-quality carbon removals and represents another concrete step toward Drax delivering bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)... [Read More]