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Feb 10, 2022
BLAZE – a new way for cogeneration from residual biomass
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2022
A research project focused on removing plastic contamination from food waste destined for anaerobic digestion (AD) has received funding from Ecosurety.
Ecosurety is a producer responsibility compliance scheme for packaging, waste from electrical and electronic equipment, and batteries.
Offering a total of £1 million (€1.18 million) since its launch in 2019, the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2022
bp has announced plans to increase the proportion of capital expenditure in transition growth businesses, including bioenergy, to more than 40% by 2025.
bp provided an update on its strategic transformation on 8 February, including accelerating its net-zero ambition, as part of its full-year results for 2021. The company reported an annual profit of $12.85 billion (€11.2... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 9, 2022
Sawlog supply in the US South is tightening, but a surplus of small logs and residues creates opportunities for pulp and wood pellet expansion.
Wood Resources International (WRI) shared its new focus report, ‘US South Softwood Industry – Outlook for the World’s Most Important Softwood Fiber Basket’, establishing a fact base around forest resources and industry... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2022
Clean Methane Systems (CMS) and Ammongas have introduced new amine technology to North American RNG customers.
The Danish technology simplifies biogas upgrading by minimising the steps required to prepare and inject RNG into the grid. Amine technology also reduces operational costs in the novel way it manages hydrogen sulphide and other contaminants in the gas stream.
Both... [Read More]
Features
Feb 9, 2022
By Ole Hvelplund, CEO, Nature Energy.
In many ways, we at Nature Energy have an exciting year ahead of us. In 2021, we announced a new, ambitious growth strategy which means Nature Energy will invest heavily in the construction of new large-scale biogas plants internationally. This will be our key focus in the year to come. A few years ago, the large-scale production... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2022
Finnish sugar company Sucros Oy will switch from using heavy fuel oil and coal to LNG and liquefied biogas (LBG) at its sugar beet factory in Säkylä.
Supplied by Gasum, the fuel will help Sucros, part of Nordzucker, to significantly reduce emissions in its existing three boilers.
Gasum already receives wastewater sludge and biosludge from Sucros’s subsidiary,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 8, 2022
Environmental law organisation ClientEarth has filed an internal review request to the European Commission for “unlawfully labelling bioenergy, bio-based plastics and chemicals used to make plastics as ‘sustainable’ in the EU taxonomy”.
An internal review request is the first step non-governmental organisations must take before being able to bring a court challenge.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2022
BHP Group has welcomed the world’s first LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carrier, which will transport iron ore between Western Australia and Asia from this year.
BHP has chartered five LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carriers from Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) for five years and awarded the LNG contract to Shell. In the future, the vessels could also use bio-LNG.
On... [Read More]
Features
Feb 8, 2022
Charlotte Morton, chief executive, Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA)
Throughout 2021, all eyes were on the road to COP26. Six years and four conferences since the Paris Agreement, COP26 was seen as the world’s last chance to ‘keep 1.5˚C alive’. The extent to which it was a success is dividing opinion. The last-minute watering down of commitments... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2022
Estonian energy company Alexela is one of the first in the country and in the Baltics to supply the domestic market with a 100% carbon-neutral fuel - liquefied biomethane (LBM).
LBM is considered the most sustainable fuel in road transport today, helping to reduce greenhouse gases of heavy-duty vehicles in the logistics chain.
Alexela has several other projects connected... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 7, 2022
Brazilian biogas firm Geo Biogás & Tech and sugar and ethanol company UISA will build a biogas plant in the state of Mato Grosso.
The project - in its initial phase - will generate electricity, biomethane and biofertiliser from sugarcane residues, other biomass and residues from local agro-industrial industries.
UISA, one of Brazil’s largest biorefineries,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 7, 2022
Independent testing of Active Energy Group’s (AEG) CoalSwitch™ pellets in the US shows the fuel burns cleaner and produces fewer pollutants than coal.
The CoalSwitch fuel was produced from the waste wood residuals at AEG’s facility in Ashland, Maine, and was delivered to Utah to undergo the first phase of the extensive testing programme in the second quarter of... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 7, 2022
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEEIT) has agreed to acquire an 80% equity interest in a high-efficiency biomass cogeneration plant in Portugal for €22 million.
SEEIT is the first London Stock Exchange-listed investment company of its kind to invest exclusively in the energy efficiency sector. The firm acquired an equity interest in the Sociedade de Iniciativa... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 7, 2022
A report into the decarbonisation of heating in UK homes does not consider the range of renewable technologies available, including biomass and biomethane, according to the REA.
The REA welcomed the report’s finding that there is much more to be done to decarbonise home heating, but warned it “fails to consider” the potential of green gases, such as biomethane.
The... [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
