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Jul 7, 2026
Amazon has made a strategic investment in GranBio, a biotechnology company developing biomass conversion technology that turns forestry residues and construction waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel and renewable gasoline. GranBio's process breaks down woody biomass — including leftover forestry branches, crop stalks, and discarded construction materials such as…
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Jul 7, 2026
BioteCH4 Group has appointed Andrew Simm as Managing Director of its food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) arm, BioteCH4 Food Waste AD, as the company enters the next phase of its growth strategy. Simm joins from Severn Trent Green Power, bringing extensive leadership experience across the AD sector and a track record in operational performance, commercial growth and innovation. His appointment…
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Jul 7, 2026
REN – Rede Eléctrica Nacional, acting as Portugal's Guarantees of Origin Issuing Entity (EEGO), has registered the country's first Guarantee of Origin (GO) certification for biomethane used in the transport sector, with G3 | Go Green Gas becoming the first company in Portugal to certify the renewable origin of biomethane for that application. Guarantees of Origin are electronic certificates…
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Jul 6, 2026
Shareholders at EnviTec Biogas AG's Annual General Meeting, held virtually on 3 July, approved the German biogas and biomethane producer's proposal to suspend its dividend for fiscal year 2025, carrying forward the company's full accumulated profit instead in order to preserve financial flexibility. The meeting came as EnviTec reported declining consolidated earnings for 2025, driven largely by…
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Jul 6, 2026
Portuguese tissue manufacturer Renova has completed an €11 million decarbonisation project at its Factory 2 site in Torres Novas, centred on a new biomass energy plant that replaces most of the natural gas previously used to generate process heat for tissue production. The Descarbonizar@Renova project, backed by roughly €5.8 million from the EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR),…
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Jul 6, 2026
Suzuki Motor Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiary Suzuki R&D Center India Private Limited (SRDI), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and North East Dairy & Foods Limited (NEDFL) to establish a new compressed biogas (CBG) plant in Assam. The agreement, signed in New Delhi on 2 July, marks the latest step in…
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Jul 3, 2026
Natixis has granted a €145 million project finance refinancing to Greenalia Biomass Power Curtis-Teixeiro S.L.U., a subsidiary of Spanish renewable energy company Greenalia S.A., for its biomass power plant in Curtis-Teixeiro, A Coruña. Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) advised Natixis on the transaction. Operational since 2020, the Curtis-Teixeiro plant is one of the largest biomass…
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Jul 3, 2026
Eriez has published a technical paper arguing that poorly designed hopper transitions, not the feeders themselves, are among the most common causes of underperformance in vibratory feeding systems used across bulk material handling. Optimising Hopper Transitions: Design Guidelines for Maximum Hopper-to-Feeder Performance, authored by Eriez global product manager Clay O'Dana, sets out…
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Jul 2, 2026
Nordic energy company Gasum has agreed a long-term liquefied natural gas supply contract with Norwegian ferry operator Fjord1, covering fuel for four main ferries and one backup vessel operating the Arsvågen–Mortavika route on Norway's west coast. The route connects Stavanger and Haugesund along the E39 and is described as an important piece of coastal infrastructure. Fjord1, Norway's…
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Jul 2, 2026
Europe's installed biomethane production capacity reached 8.2 bcm per year by the end of the second quarter of 2026, having added more than 1 bcm in a single year — a 17% increase on 2025 — according to the European Biomethane Map published by the European Biogas Association (EBA) and Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE). The number of plants in operation across Europe rose from 1,678 to 1,975…
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Jul 1, 2026
Engineering firm Jenike & Johanson has been awarded a patent for a feeding technology designed to address one of the persistent practical obstacles in biofuels manufacturing: reliably introducing low-density feedstocks such as agricultural residues, forest biomass and municipal solid waste into high-pressure reactor systems. The challenge — sometimes described as the 'pressure gap' —…
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Jul 1, 2026
EnviTec Biogas has secured awards for plants with a combined electrical capacity of around 16 MW in the latest biomass auction conducted by the German Federal Network Agency under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), with the Lower Saxony-based company describing the outcome as confirmation of its project development quality. The result represents 82% of the 19.6 MW of capacity the company…
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Jul 1, 2026
Nordic biomethane producer St1 Biokraft has signed an agreement to acquire Danish Bio Commodities (DBC), adding more than 350 GWh of production capacity and around 900 GWh in the development pipeline as it enters one of Europe's most established biomethane markets. The deal includes four wholly owned production assets and a 25% stake in a fifth, alongside a six-project greenfield development…
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Jun 30, 2026
Two major projects, one in the agricultural heartland of Minnesota and one replacing a 40-year-old facility on the banks of the Aare in Switzerland, are together offering a picture of where Kanadevia Inova is taking its waste-to-energy business. The Swiss project is the older story, at least in terms of the relationship it represents. Kanadevia Inova's partnership with kenova AG began in 1976,…
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