Return to main news page
If you would like to use our search facility - please log in or register above.
The results below show our latest news.
The results below show our latest news.
Feb 16, 2024
Concerns raised about Ukraine’s “unprofitable” biomethane industry
Biomass News
Feb 16, 2024
BEAM Circular, the Almond Board of California, Stanislaus County and Ecostrat have announced the issue of a rare ‘AA’ rating to the North San Joaquin Valley Bioeconomy Development Opportunity Zone centered in Modesto, California.
This is North America’s first BDO Zone rating for Orchard Biomass, Nut Tree Shells and Almond Hulls.
The North San Joaquin Valley BDO... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 15, 2024
STX Group, a leading global firm in environmental commodities trading and climate finance, has announced a financing partnership with BioValue, a major Dutch biomethane producer, for the construction and development of the Groengas Cothen biomethane plant.
The new plant adds at least 80GWh of renewable natural gas capacity per year.
This strategic move is aligned with... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 15, 2024
New Mexico has become the fourth US state to pass a clean fuel standard - market-based policies that are designed to reduce carbon emissions while promoting new investments in the production of renewable fuels and vehicles.
Oregon and Washington have implemented clean fuel standards, with California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard often garnering the most attention due to... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 15, 2024
Oulu Energy Ltd is planning to build a 100 megawatts (MW) hydrogen production plant in Oulu, northern Finland.
Partner for the project planning is the Finnish company P2X Solutions, which is currently constructing a hydrogen production plant in Harjavalta, western Finland.
According to the preliminary plan, the whole project planned in Laanila industrial area, would... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 14, 2024
Nedgia, the Naturgy Group gas distributor, and Hercesa | hi! Real Estate, a leading developer nationwide and present in eight different countries, have signed a partnership to facilitate the use of renewable gases, especially biomethane, in the real estate group’s new developments in Spain.
The first developments that will include the connection equipped for the use... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 14, 2024
Ukraine's parliament has advanced legislation to enable customs clearance of biomethane for international trade via gas pipelines.
The procedural draft law was adopted in its first reading.
Accompanying documents denote that Ukrainian companies are already working on producing biomethane and transporting it through pipeline networks.
More than 10 agricultural holdings... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 1, 1970
Ukraine's parliament has adopted a procedural draft law on customs clearance on biomethane, which enables customs clearance of biomethane for international trade via gas pipelines.
The document was adopted in its first reading.
Accompanying documents denote that Ukrainian companies are already working on biomethane production and carrying it through transportation networks.
More... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 14, 2024
Newly-released data from the American Biogas Council (ABC) indicates that 2023 was the third year of record growth across the US biogas industry, with nearly 100 new projects coming online last year, representing $1.8 billion (€1.6 billion) in capital investments.
ABC expects this growth to continue into 2024, with more than 100 new projects already projected to go... [Read More]
Features
Feb 13, 2024
Bioenergy Insight hears from Frankie Ugboma, CEO at Dimeta and Tony Gittings, managing director at Rinnai UK, on their recently-signed Memorandum of Understanding to explore LPG market decarbonisation.
Dimeta, a global joint venture to accelerate the production and use of renewable and recycled carbon Dimethyl Ether (DME) has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 13, 2024
Biofuelwatch UK has initiated a legal challenge against Drax Power Limited, in an attempt to prevent the installation of carbon capture technology at its Selby, North Yorkshire plant.
Last month, the UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Claire Coutinho, approved the Development Consent Order (the DCO) for Drax Power Limited’s (Drax) plans to convert... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 13, 2024
The German government's national biomass strategy will identify pathways for 2030 and 2045, and focus on "how the sustainable production and use of biomass can serve as a building block for the necessary transformation of our economic system and, in the long term, for achieving climate protection and biodiversity targets as well as the energy transition".
The document... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 12, 2024
On 9 February, the Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to the European Union (COREPER) adopted the political agreement on CO2 emission performance standards for new heavy-duty vehicles (Regulation EU 2019/1242).
The European Biogas Association (EBA) has called this a missed opportunity to provide the sector with a methodology... [Read More]
Other News
Feb 12, 2024
Wasaline has chosen Gasum Portfolio Services as their partner in EU Allowances (EUA) portfolio management. Managing and trading emissions allowances is topical for shipping companies as the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) was extended to include the maritime sector at the beginning of 2024, said Gasum.
The partnership allows Wasaline to better predict and manage... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 9, 2024
MAIRE has announced that NEXTCHEM (Sustainable Technology Solutions) - through its subsidiary NextChem Tech - and ENGIE will cooperate on the development and commercialisation of an advanced biomethane technology to produce synthetic methane from dry biomass waste.
Under this cooperation agreement, NextChem Tech will act as strategic partner and co-developer in order... [Read More]
CONNECT WITH US
Moeve has announced a €600 million investment plan for the construction of up to 30 new biomethane plants by 2030
During the signing ceremony, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, announced a donation of USD 1.5 million for prefeasibility and detailed engineering studies
ADTechOptima’s technologies aim to solve two key problems: the underperformance of anaerobic digesters and the quality of the digestate produced as part of the process
