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Aug 10, 2022
ICM and Impacto to build Bahia’s first corn-based biorefinery
Biogas News
Aug 10, 2022
Skyline Clean Energy Fund has acquired a biogas facility located in Lethbridge, Alberta through the purchase of 100% of the units in Lethbridge Biogas and the shares in Lethbridge Biogas General Partner.
The Lethbridge facility is expected to convert 120,000 tonnes of organic waste into renewable natural gas annually. The facility generates revenue primarily through... [Read More]
Features
Aug 9, 2022
Torsten Fischer of Krieg + Fischer Ingenieure has been an expert legal witness for more than 15 years, covering 130 cases, and wrote his first report about a biogas plant accident more than 20 years ago. In this personal account, Torsten discusses a dispute between an operator and his insurer, exclusively for Bioenergy Insight.
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Two fairly big biogas plants,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 9, 2022
Prime minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Støre and the Minister of Trade and Industry Jan Christian Vestre visited Norwegian forest owner group Viken Skog's Follum mill in Hønefoss on 5 August.
A long-term partnership between renewable packaging material producer BillerudKorsnäs and Voken Skog will establish the production of bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp (BCTMP)... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 9, 2022
A project to facilitate more planting of the perennial bioenergy crop, Miscanthus, has been awarded over £3.3 million (€3.9m) in funding through the second phase of the government’s Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, to contribute to 2050 net zero targets.
Miscanthus specialist, Terravesta, has been successful in its bid to secure Phase Two funding... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 9, 2022
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises (B&W) has signed a teaming agreement with gas treatment specialist Newpoint Gas to act as a foundational technology partner. It will provide advanced hydrogen generation, decarbonisation and combustion technologies for the redevelopment of the former US Department of Energy Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant site near Piketon in Ohio,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 8, 2022
Sasol Chemicals, a business unit of Sasol, has earned certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) system for its three largest manufacturing facilities in Europe.
The company’s facilities in Marl and Brunsbüttel, Germany, and Augusta, Italy, have earned ISCC-PLUS certification for the use of mass balanced bio-based and recycled... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2022
The sale of Danish green energy producer Nature Energy is attracting initial interest from energy majors including BP and Shell, according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported.
It claimed BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners and EQT AB are also considering submitting potential offers for the company, amid surging demand for alternative fuel sources.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 5, 2022
Chipinge Town Council, Zimbabwe, has began a biogas digester project to produce biogas using biodegraded waste from the marketplace to meet the energy needs of local businesses and residents, according to The Manica Post. The project is conducted in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The bio-digester is 95% complete, and is expected to... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 5, 2022
The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UCEH) is leading new UK-wide trials of crops and trees which can be used to produce sustainable energy from plant material.
Widespread cultivation of biomass crops in the UK could remove significant amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere during photosynthesis, the organisation said. There is potential to store this... [Read More]
Pellets News
Aug 5, 2022
Drax has signed an agreement with Princeton Standard Pellet Corporation (PSPC) to acquire its pellet plant in Princeton, British Columbia, Canada.
The plant has the capacity to produce 90,000 tonnes of wood pellets a year, primarily from sawmill residues. Around half of the output from the plant - which has been operating since 1995 - is currently contracted to Drax.
The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Aug 4, 2022
The Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, created by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), has awarded £37 million (€44.1m) to New Energy Farms (NEF) for an innovative research programme to introduce new high biomass perennial grasses into the UK and to develop novel methods of multiplying and establishing high biomass crops.
The... [Read More]
Other News
Aug 4, 2022
Grant specialist Catax has revealed a hydrogen fuel pioneer has secured €295 (£247k) funding to perfect carbon capture technology that will help mitigate the environmental impact of its waste-to-hydrogen plants.
Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) has won €294,487 (£246,568) from the Hydrogen BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage) Innovation Programme, run... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 4, 2022
Nottingham City Transport has taken delivery of its first new biogas double deck buses from its latest £7 million investment in 23 brand new buses.
NCT already operates the world’s largest fleet of biogas double decks in the world at 120 buses.
The biogas buses already run on three quarters of NCT’s double deck services, and the current fleet has covered over... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 3, 2022
Acorn Bioenergy hopes to build an anaerobic digestion plant on land at Fearn Aerodrome in Scotland - a former World War Two military air base.
It proposes to build five digestion tanks as a means to convert agricultural waste into fuel.
Parts of the site near Balintore are already an industrial estate.
The plan would form part of a larger scheme involving sites... [Read More]
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Indonesian gas distributor PT Pertamina Gas Negara Tbk (PGN) has signed an agreement with NeutraDC Singapore (NDSG) to provide biomethane for forthcoming data centre projects in Singapore
Once cleared, the site will be redeveloped into an Energy, Biochar and Carbon (EBAC) plant – a pyrolysis facility designed to convert plant matter into biochar, renewable electricity and heat
Swedish tanker owner Furetank has announced it will run its European fleet on renewable biogas throughout 2025, marking a major step towards fossil-free shipping
