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Apr 12, 2022
Waste Connections of Canada, Enbridge to develop RNG facility
Features
Apr 12, 2022
Bjørn Halvard Knappskog, CEO of alternative fuel producer Arbaflame, highlights the benefits of increased biomass use in a volatile market.
Over the past year, Europe has faced the highest energy prices in recent memory, almost quadrupling across most markets. Governments have stepped in to reduce the impact on consumers. In Norway, for example, the government is directly... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 11, 2022
Plans for a biogas refuelling station in Bangor, Wales, have been recommended for approval.
CNG Fuels, which operates bio-CNG refuelling stations across the UK, submitted the plan for a facility in Parc Bryn Cegin to serve fleets of specially adapted HGVs. The site has been empty for 20 years.
According to a report by Business Live, planning officers commented: “The... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 11, 2022
Solariant Capital, a renewable energy investment and development company headquartered in California, has agreed to sell its 50 MW Tahara Biomass Power Plant project.
A consortium of Japanese companies including Japan Petroleum Exploration Co, Shizouka Gas & Power Co, Tokyo Energy & Systems, Kawasaki Kinkai Kisen Kaisha, Daiichi Jitsugyo, and Iwatani Corporation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 11, 2022
A new ‘biofactory’ developed in Wales will support local farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The innovative anaerobic digestion (AD) system was unveiled by Biofactory Energy and Coleg Cambria Llysfasi, supported by Ambition North Wales. It is one of three low-carbon initiatives jointly funded by a £500,000 (€597,000) grant from the Welsh Government... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 8, 2022
Groupe Lebel will build a new wood pellet plant in Quebec’s Cacouna municipality.
The first phase of the plant’s operations will begin in 2023 with an annual capacity of nearly 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets. Groupe Lebel aims to ship the majority of its production to growing international markets.
“The plant will help us optimise our growth plan,” said Louis-Frédéric... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 8, 2022
Aemetis Biogas has completed testing of its $12 million (€11 million) dairy biogas-to-RNG upgrading and compression facility in California.
The biogas upgrading unit is co-located at the Aemetis Advanced Fuels Keyes ethanol plant near Modesto and adjacent to the utility natural gas pipeline.
The full system mechanical commissioning process for the biogas-to-RNG... [Read More]
Features
Apr 8, 2022
By Colin Ley.
Less than three weeks ago, I was working towards my early-March deadline with every intention of celebrating the return to more normal production and trading patterns than we’ve seen since Covid emerged at the end of 2019. Looking at the US market, in particular, there were definite signs of an upturn in bioenergy optimism and investment, driven in part... [Read More]
Other News
Apr 7, 2022
The UK Government’s Energy Security Strategy is “wholly inadequate” and locks the UK into more expensive, non-renewable power sources, according to the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA).
The Strategy sets out how the UK will accelerate the deployment of wind, new nuclear, solar and hydrogen while supporting the production of domestic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 7, 2022
Future Biogas will construct up to 32 new CO2 storage tanks in Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull, UK.
The park is owned and operated by px Group, an asset management company for the energy and high hazard industrial sectors.
Future Biogas will transport liquefied CO2 that it captures from its anaerobic digestion and bioenergy sites across the UK via trucks to Saltend.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 7, 2022
A new platform for the trading of green gases, such as biogas and hydrogen, has been launched in Austria.
The Central European Gas Hub (CEGH), a fully consolidated company of OMV Group, launched the CEGH GreenGas Platform with plans to expand it into central and Eastern Europe.
Green gases like biogas and hydrogen will make a significant contribution to the decarbonisation... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 7, 2022
Drax will deliver a series of events that will provide UK Businesses with information on how they could win contracts to deliver its BECCS technology.
The company is teaming up with Worley, its engineering, procurement, and construction partner; UK energy sector business development organisation NOF, and the West & North Yorkshire and Hull & Humber Chambers... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 6, 2022
Enviva will invest $250 million (€229 million) in a new wood pellet production facility in Bond, Mississippi.
The facility is a key component of Enviva’s growth strategy to double pellet production capacity from 6.2 million tonnes annually to around 13 million tonnes over the next five years. The plant is fully contracted under long-term take-or-pay supply contracts... [Read More]
Biomass News
Apr 6, 2022
Drax has opened a new pellet plant in Demopolis, Alabama, bringing new jobs and economic opportunities to the town.
At full capacity, the Demopolis plant – Drax’s second pellet production facility in the state – will produce 360,000 tonnes of sustainable biomass pellets annually.
Drax’s pellet plants help support employment and opportunities across the wider... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 5, 2022
Aemetis has acquired an 8.5-acre property in California, close to the Aemetis Keyes renewable ethanol plant, to develop its Carbon Zero projects.
The corner property, acquired for $2 million (€1.8 million), is a strategic location for operations supporting the company’s Carbon Zero projects, including dairy RNG and CCS.
Adjacent to the existing Aemetis biogas... [Read More]
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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
