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Jun 1, 2022
EnviTec Biogas continues with expansion in Lohne and Saerbeck
Biomass News
Jun 1, 2022
Brett Martin, the UK's largest producer of polycarbonate sheet materials has launched new, more sustainable sheet options, which it says “represent a quantum shift towards climate neutral plastic sheets produced from a certified mass balanced source with bio-based feedstock”.
This new development is the result of Brett Martin's partnership with Covestro, one of the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2022
Homes and institutions in Kajiado, Kenya are now benefitting from the Ministry of Energy’s new Domestic Biogas Programme.
According to the Programme’s Kajiado county coordinator, Elizabeth Mbuthia, its aim is to phase out the use of charcoal and firewood.
“In support of the Big Four Agenda, the Ministry of Energy rolled out the Domestic Biogas Demonstration Programme... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 1, 2022
Brazilian power companies have contracted just under 1GW of new renewable capacity divided relatively evenly between hydropower, solar and wind and over 400MW of biomass projects in the country’s latest auction, which again underlined the impact of a weak domestic economy and low power demand.
The tender, which saw a total of 947.9MW awarded encompassing 189.7MW of... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 31, 2022
Greenlane Renewables has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America, has been awarded a contract for $8.7 million for a dairy manure to renewable natural gas (RNG) project in the United States owned by an international energy company.
This contract is the third project that Greenlane has successfully bid within 18 months for this customer.... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 31, 2022
Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW), a subsidiary of Japan-headed Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) has announced that it has been awarded a contract to deliver a new 77 MWth bubbling fluidised bed (BFB) boiler plant to municipal energy company Jämtkraft in Sweden.
The new BFB boiler will be part of the Lugnvik plant in Östersund and will use biomass as fuel ensuring a secure supply... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 31, 2022
The Netherlands’ first bio-LNG plant has now achieved a production milestone of one million kilograms, enabling about four million kilometres of sustainable transport with heavy-duty trucks.
For initiators Nordsol, Renewi and Shell, this is “an important proof point” that sustainable heavy-duty road transport is possible.
Nordsol’s bio-LNG plant in Amsterdam... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 31, 2022
Austrian district heating supplier Kelag Energie & Waerme is planning to build a biomass power plant to supply up to 20 GWh of heat in a municipality in the country's westernmost state of Vorarlberg.
Under the plan, between 15 GWh and 20 GWh of heat should be produced from biomass in the municipality of Lustenau in the medium term and supplied to between 100 and 200 buildings... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 30, 2022
Towards making Hyderabad a self-sustainable city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has decided to generate wealth out of waste by setting up a 20-tonne capacity biogas plant at Khaitlapur Transfer Station located in the Kukatpally zone.
Transfer stations are the points where the garbage collected from households and other places is dumped temporarily... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 30, 2022
Metro Pacific Investment Corp is eyeing to expand its businesses this year including biogas, as well as acquiring more hospitals, officials have said.
During the Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Metro Pacific Investments Corp, president Augusto Palisoc said: "We are going to expand on the biogas projects that we started. We already have two operating plants and are in... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 30, 2022
Greencoat Capital funds, managed by Greencoat, have agreed to acquire 100 percent of Margam Green Energy Plant (“MGEP”), a waste wood-fired biomass plant located in Port Talbot, South Wales, from Glennmont Partners.
MGEP has been operational since May 2019 and is one of the largest biomass plants in the UK, with a processing capacity of c.290 thousand tonnes per... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 30, 2022
Environmental problems caused by the population explosion such as global warming, natural resource depletion, water shortage and plastic pollution are getting severe in the world.
One of the reasons for global warming is said to be carbon dioxide (CO2). Compared to petroleum derived chemical products, nature biomass derived chemical products can be considered as carbon... [Read More]
Other News
May 27, 2022
The federal and Quebec government are jointly funding an expansion of the biomethanisation facilities owned by the Société d’économie mixte de l’est de la couronne sud (SEMECS). These facilities are located in the Varennes Novoparc industrial park in Montérégie.
This nearly $100-million project will receive a maximum joint government investment of $65,178,887.... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 27, 2022
Enviva Inc, the world’s leading producer of sustainable wood bioenergy, and MOL Drybulk Ltd (MOLDB), a subsidiary of Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd (MOL), a leading global marine transport group, announced they have signed an additional memorandum of understanding to deploy an environmentally friendly bulk carrier (EFBC) to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the ocean... [Read More]
Other News
May 27, 2022
The Northern Rivers Regional Planning Panel has approved a development application (DA) for a bioenergy facility to be built at the Byron Shire Council’s Byron Bay sewage treatment plant.
The bioenergy facility will process 28,000 tonnes of green waste per year and convert it into renewable energy, producing enough electricity to power the plant as well as the Byron... [Read More]
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A 10-week project by Shaw Renewables Limited to replace legacy diesel boilers with carbon-friendly biogas alternatives is delivering cost and carbon savings for a leading AD operator, BioteCH4
Tages Capital SGR, an asset manager specialising in alternative investment funds in private markets, has announced the completion of the acquisition of a portfolio of two greenfield biomethane production plants
TotalEnergies has signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with HitecVision, a Norwegian investment company specialising in energy, for the sale of 50% of Polska Grupa Biogazowa (PGB) for an enterprise value of €190 million
