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Max Meier for Bioenergy Insight
The Strait of Hormuz affects numerous industries. It is time to take a closer look at the situation through the lens of the bioenergy industry.
An overview of the current situation
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most significant strategic bottlenecks for maritime trade from the Middle East and is a central hub for shipping traffic.
Through it passes all the…
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The American Biogas Council (ABC) has criticised the US Environmental Protection Agency's final Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) for 2026 and 2027, warning the targets will constrain markets and undercut opportunities for livestock farmers.
ABC executive director Patrick Serfass said the agency had diverged from longstanding methods and abandoned statutory guidelines by estimating D3 RIN…
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Microsoft has agreed to purchase 626,000 tonnes of durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits over 15 years from the North Star bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project in Saskatchewan, Canada.
The deal has been struck with North Star Carbon Solutions LP, a partnership between Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) and Svante Technologies.
It is Microsoft's first Canadian BECCS…
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Sustainable fuel technology provider Velocys has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India-based biofuel and carbon dioxide removal project developer Varhad Capital to advance a new generation of biomass-to-sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects in India.
Under the agreement, the companies will engineer and design scalable biomass-to-SAF facilities using indigenous agricultural…
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Construction has begun on a cross-border district heating network linking the German city of Görlitz with its Polish twin city of Zgorzelec, with biomass boilers among the renewable technologies to be deployed as the two cities target full decarbonisation of their heat supply by 2030.
The UNITED HEAT project is a joint venture between Stadtwerke Görlitz, a subsidiary of French utility…
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Biogenic CO₂ captured from a Norwegian wastewater biogas facility is being permanently stored beneath the seabed in what is claimed as the world's first geological storage project of its kind.
The project, a collaboration between HoopCO2, Inherit Carbon Solutions and Northern Lights JV, began operations on 23 March. CO₂ is captured at the Veas wastewater treatment plant in Slemmestad,…
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EnviTec Biogas has warned that a proposed amendment to Germany's Energy Industry Act (EnWG) would effectively halt the development of new biomethane projects, contradicting both the government's own green gas ambitions and the European Gas Directive the legislation is intended to implement.
The cabinet draft, adopted on 28 March, transposes the EU Gas Directive into German national law. But…
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Japanese trading company Sojitz Corporation has made an equity investment in US-based biomethane producer Fidem Energy LLC, marking its entry into the biomethane production and sales market in the United States.
The investment was made through Sojitz's wholly owned subsidiary Sojitz Corporation of America. Fidem will become an equity method affiliate of Sojitz as a result.
Headquartered in…
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Irish dairy cooperative Aurivo Co-operative Society has announced a €12 million investment in a wood pellet burner and boiler system at its Dairy Ingredients facility in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon in Ireland.
The project, co-funded through the Shared Island Sustainability Capital Grant scheme delivered by Enterprise Ireland, InterTradeIreland and Invest Northern Ireland, will replace a…
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Polska Grupa Biogazowa (PGB), Poland's largest agricultural biogas operator, has agreed a large-scale electricity trading partnership with energy trading firm Hekla Energy, the first deal of its kind in Poland for electricity generated from agricultural biogas.
Under the agreement, more than 200GWh of biogas-derived electricity will enter Hekla Energy's portfolio in the first year of…
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The European Commission has approved a €6 billion Italian state aid scheme to support the production of renewable hydrogen for use in the transport and industrial sectors, with biomass-derived hydrogen explicitly included among eligible production routes.
The scheme, which runs until the end of 2029, aims to support annual production of 200,000 tonnes of renewable hydrogen.
Eligible…
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Senior figures from Europe's bioenergy industry have met with Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen and officials from the European Commission's energy and environment directorates to make the case for biomass in the EU's upcoming Heating and Cooling Strategy. The meetings were coordinated by industry association Bioenergy Europe.
The delegation argued that Europe's shift away from fossil-fuel…
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Ancala's Croatian Biomass Platform has acquired three 5MW biomass power plants from Croatian wood trading business The Sherif Group, more than doubling its renewable generation capacity to 25MW.
The deal brings the platform's total portfolio to five sites across Croatia, with a combined annual output of approximately 200,000MWh of renewable electricity, which is enough to power around 45,000…
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A new dry anaerobic digestion and renewable natural gas (AD-RNG) facility is being developed at the Napa Recycling and Composting Facility in California, through a public-private partnership between equipment manufacturer BHS (Bulk Handling Systems), waste services operator Napa Recycling and Waste Services and the City of Napa.
The facility will use BHS subsidiary Zero Waste Energy's…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final rule setting applicable volumes for 2026 and 2027 under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), with cellulosic biofuel volumes set higher than those proposed in an earlier draft.
Industry group RNG Coalition, which represents renewable natural gas producers, welcomed the decision as an improvement on the agency's original Set…
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