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Feb 9, 2021
On 5 February, Chairman of the House of Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, Mike Thompson, and the entire Democratic membership of the Committee, announced the introduction of the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act. The bill, first introduced in June 2020, is a comprehensive use of the tax code to combat the threat of climate change. The legislation,…
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Feb 9, 2021
DP CleanTech, a renewable and environmental management firm specialising in biomass, waste-to-energy, and waste management projects, has partnered with life cycle asset management (LCAM) firm JOULON. The strategic partnership will focus on the emerging prospects in the waste management and environmental services industry. At a time of change in the global economy and with renewed momentum on…
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Feb 8, 2021
Amazon has ordered hundreds of trucks that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) as it seeks ways to shift its US fleet away from heavier polluting vehicles, the firm told Reuters. The COVID-19 pandemic caused delivery activity to surge in 2020, with truck volumes exceeding 2019 levels on average while passenger car traffic dropped. But an increase in road activity means more pollution, as…
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Feb 8, 2021
Clean Energy Fuels has signed a multi-year contract with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Authority (LA Metro) to supply renewable natural gas (RNG). Under the agreement, Clean Energy will supply 47.5 million gallons of its RNG to fuel the nation’s largest transit bus fleet. The agreement will mark the completion of Metro’s five-year goal to transition its diesel fleet to cleaner,…
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Feb 8, 2021
Trinity Organics has received £14 million (€15.9 million) from Dutch green energy investment company Perpetual Next to develop a biogas plant. Work is now underway to build the anaerobic digestion (AD) facility on a three-acre brownfield site in Ellesmere Port, UK. The plant, expected to be operational by the summer, will operate ‘around-the-clock’ to digest 36,000 tonnes of organic…
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Feb 8, 2021
San Diego County has opened its first anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Escondido. According to a report by the Escondido Times Advocate, on 1 February, the facility was able to receive residential green waste, formed of food waste and garden waste from homes, as well as industrial and commercial operations. On 28 November 2018, the city’s Recycling and Waste Reduction Division first…
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Feb 8, 2021
UK energy entrepreneurs could receive a share of £11 million (€12.5 million) in government funding to turn their ideas into real products and services. Energy Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan announced the latest round of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF), which seeks to drive forward new technologies across all sectors of UK industry, supporting the UK to eliminate its contribution to…
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Feb 8, 2021
A new resource launched by the Canadian Biogas Association (CBA) aims to help farmers interested in learning more about agricultural biogas. FarmingBiogas.ca is a new website forming part of an educational campaign to help farmers explore biogas production as an opportunity for their farm. “We get a lot of questions from farmers who want to know more about the feasibility of adding a…
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Feb 8, 2021
Drax Group has signed an agreement with Pinnacle Renewable Energy (Pinnacle), providing for the acquisition by Drax Canadian Holdings – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Drax – of the entire issued share capital of Pinnacle. The acquisition, which remains subject to Drax and Pinnacle’s shareholder approval, court approval, and regulatory approval, and the satisfaction of other customary…
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Feb 5, 2021
Marvel Power Group has joined the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas, joining 280 companies and organisations across the US. Marvel Power is a woman-owned advisory and brokerage platform focused on structuring high-volume, financeable biogas offtake contracts and investment agreements, with more than 25 years of experience. “We are thrilled to join an esteemed group of industry leaders…
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Feb 5, 2021
By Matt White, senior vice-president, Drax Biomass. Events of 2020 — the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed over two million people and severely impacted the global economy, and extreme weather and natural disasters around the world — have heightened awareness about human impacts on the natural environment. This has galvanised action to tackle the climate crisis and shone a spotlight on…
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Feb 5, 2021
Caulmert has been chosen to provide planning, engineering, environmental and project management advice to Logik Developments for a £100 million (€114 million) waste-to-energy and biogas project in Flintshire, UK. Energy company EQTEC agreed a deal in December to purchase and develop land at Deeside Industrial Estate. The site currently has planning permission for a £50 million (€57…
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Feb 5, 2021
Iona Capital is further investing in a UK energy-from-waste (EfW) plant near Perth in Scotland. The investment firm, specialising in renewable infrastructure projects, is investing in Binn Group’s 8.6 MW EfW plant at Binn Eco Park, which will provide power to existing occupiers of the industrial park and export power to the National Grid. Construction of the plant, which received planning…
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