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Dec 11, 2020
Gasum’s Huittinnen biogas plant to use manure-based feedstock
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Dec 11, 2020
Oliver Arnold of Arnold & Partner introduces the company’s ‘zero liquid discharge’ system, creating pellets from agricultural waste.
Increasing livestock density globally is generating so much slurry that its nutrients cannot be spread on local farmland. Ground water contamination caused by over-fertilisation is lowering the acceptance of our agricultural... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 11, 2020
Arkansas-based Highland Pellets has entered into a $135 million (€111 million) strategic capital partnership with Orion Energy Partners to fund the expansion and upgrade of its wood pellet facility in Pine Bluff.
The partnership will also provide capital for additional long-term growth initiatives at the facility.
The plant is supported by a long-term contract... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2020
Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy have completed the first RNG project through their joint venture, Align Renewable Natural Gas.
Located in Milford, Utah, the project is now producing RNG from a network of 26 family farms that raise pigs under contract with Smithfield.
The project is the first large-scale effort in Utah to capture methane from pig farming operations... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2020
Unilever, Starbucks, and the Dairy Farmers of America have joined forces with Vanguard Renewables to repurpose food waste via anaerobic digestion.
The major food industry leaders have teamed up to launch the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (FPSA), pledging to avoid or eliminate food waste first and repurpose what cannot be eliminated into renewable energy using Vanguard... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2020
The new Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy is a “major setback” for the decarbonisation of transport at an acceptable cost, according to the European Biogas Association (EBA).
The transport sector today releases 20% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Cost-effective and swift decarbonisation will only be feasible with the deployment of all renewable energies... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2020
Cambi and Slovenian engineering firm Riko have been awarded a €31.5 million contract to build a thermal hydrolysis sludge processing plant in the city of Lviv, Ukraine.
The new sludge treatment facility will incorporate biogas production, based on Cambi’s thermal hydrolysis process, followed by advanced anaerobic digestion.
“This project will make sewage sludge... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 10, 2020
Active Energy Group (AEG) has been awarded a new US patent for its CoalSwitch™ process and the beneficiation of biomass.
The patent, number 10,858,607, was awarded to the UK biomass-based renewable energy and forestry firm on 8 December and will ensure the company holds the legal rights to exclude any other company from producing, selling or using the claimed CoalSwitch... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 10, 2020
UK supermarket giant ASDA is taking delivery of 202 Volvo FH LNG tractor units in the run-up to Christmas.
The order is believed to be the single largest ever placed in the UK for heavy trucks running on renewable fuels.
ASDA has ambitions to transition its core fleet of 1,000 tractor units from diesel to gas by 2024, after in-house trials showed running on biomethane... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 9, 2020
Albioma’s Bois-Rouge power plant has received approval to convert to 100% biomass.
Albioma, an independent renewable energy producer operating in French overseas departments and regions, Mauritius, and Brazil, announced the complete discontinuation of coal at its flagship site on Réunion Island, following deliberation by the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE).
Conversion... [Read More]
Pellets News
Dec 9, 2020
Pellet production has started at Pinnacle Renewable Energy’s new facility in Alberta, Canada.
Pinnacle owns 50% of the new facility in High Level and 50% is owned by Tolko Industries through a limited partnership. The High Level mill further diversifies the company’s supply base using high-quality wood fibre sourced primarily from Tolko’s sawmill in the area.
The... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 9, 2020
Polluting emissions in the UK must fall by 78% by 2035, according to the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) first-ever detailed route map for a fully decarbonised nation, with BECCS, energy crops, and biogas playing a key role.
The Sixth Carbon Budget (2033-2037) charts the ‘decisive move’ to zero carbon for the UK. The CCC shows that polluting emissions must fall... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 9, 2020
Atlantic Power Corporation has announced a one-year extension of its Calstock power purchase agreement (PPA) and a final settlement of the insurance claim for its Cadillac plant.
Calstock is an approximately 35 MW biomass plant in Ontario, Canada. The offtaker under the PPA is the Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation. The PPA was originally due to expire in June... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2020
Vanguard Renewables officially opened its new organics recycling facility in Massachusetts, US, on 4 December.
The advanced organics recycling facility will de-package and process expired goods, off-spec batches, or unsafe to eat food and beverage products. The extracted food is transported to one of Vanguard Renewables’ Massachusetts Farm Powered anaerobic digesters,... [Read More]
Biomass News
Dec 8, 2020
The Wood Recyclers’ Association (WRA) is planning to challenge hazardous waste regulations it fears will damage the UK’s waste wood supply chain.
It has also rejected the latest proposals from the UK’s four environmental regulators regarding the Waste Wood Classification project and is asking them to provide more support for the industry.
The Environment Agency... [Read More]
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VisionEdgeOne (VE1) has completed its investment in Italian biomethane platform RE2Sources, becoming a joint-controlling co-investor alongside European mid-market infrastructure manager Arjun Infrastructure Partners
The identical facilities, planned for Haugaland, Trøndelag and Innlandet, are scheduled to come online in 2027–28
Renewable energy finance firm Global NRG Advisory has announced two capital-raising initiatives worth a combined £313 million ($395 million) to support new sustainable energy infrastructure in the United Kingdom and United States
