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WEB6 days ago — Bioenergy Insight provides news, analysis, market information and technical articles relating to the biomass, biogas and biopower industries. Published six times a year to coincide with leading industry events, it provides ideas and insights for its audience of bioenergy professionals.
Nedgia signs 45 contracts for RNG injection into network
WEBAug 29, 2024 — Nedgia, the Naturgy Group’s gas distributor, has signed 45 contracts for connection to biomethane plants for the injection of renewable gas into its gas distribution network. The injection capacity linked to these requests amounts to 2,400 GWh/year, equivalent to the gas consumption of nearly half a million homes in Spain. By autonomous community, Nedgia has…
Campaigners urge UK Energy Secretary to end biomass subsidies
WEBAug 28, 2024 — More than 40 environmental groups have urged UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to put an end to financial support for biomass-burning companies – including Drax, which owns Britain’s biggest power station in North Yorkshire. An open letter was signed by groups from countries that export wood pellets to the UK, such as the US, Canada,….
Gasum, Stora Enso open Nymölla biogas plant
WEBApr 27, 2021 — Gasum and renewable materials provider Stora Enso have opened a biogas plant in Nymölla, Sweden. The ‘groundbreaking’ plant, opened on 27 April, converts process water generated by Stora Enso’s Nymölla paper mill into liquefied biogas (LBG). The plant will produce renewable fuel for the road transport, industry, and maritime sectors. The Nymölla mill produces 340,000…
Burning wood ‘slightly’ more climate-friendly than natural gas, …
WEBNov 18, 2020 — Burning wood is ‘significantly’ more climate-friendly than coal and ‘slightly’ more climate-friendly than natural gas in the long-run, according to a new report. The analysis by the University of Copenhagen saw researchers quantify what the conversion of 10 Danish co-generation plants from coal or natural gas to biomass has meant for their greenhouse gas emissions.…
Future Biogas acquires portfolio of six AD facilities
WEBAug 15, 2024 — Future Biogas has agreed to acquire 51% of a portfolio of six gas-to-grid AD facilities, with a combined gas output of 333GWh, from JLEN Environmental Assets Group Limited (JLEN) for £68.1 million. £30 million will be funded by 3i Infrastructure, with the balance funded by Future Biogas from committed debt facilities. Future Biogas is familiar…
Viking Line to fuel vessels with biogas in “first Baltic Sea green ...
WEBAug 16, 2024 — Viking Line plans to power two vessels solely by biogas for an entire week from 29 August until 4 September, reducing emissions by 90%. The move is in celebration of Baltic Sea Day, and introduces the first green corridor ever on the Baltic Sea, between Turku and Stockholm. Viking Glory and Viking Grace will only…
bp invests $10 million in WasteFuel - Bioenergy Insight
WEBJul 7, 2023 — bp has expanded its investment in bioenergy as bp ventures committed $10 million (€9.1 million) in WasteFuel, a California-based biofuels company that will use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower-carbon fuels, such as bio-methanol. WasteFuel deploys anaerobic digestion (AD) and methanol production methods to convert said waste into ...
RWE’s Amercentrale plant will soon move to 80% biomass
WEBOct 30, 2020 — Amercentrale, a biomass and coal-fired plant owned by RWE in the Netherlands, will soon run on 80% biomass. The conversion of Amercentrale’s fifth turbine will be completed at the end of summer, at which point 90% of the electricity and heat produced by the plant will be generated by wood pellets. RWE intends to be….
Fulcrum Bioenergy project awarded USDA loan guarantee
WEBAug 9, 2012 — Second generation ethanol producer Fulcrum BioEnergy has been awarded a $105 million (€85 million) loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture. The finalisation of the loan guarantee, which was awarded to the company’s Sierra BioFuels Plant to be built in Storey County in Nevada, US, means Fulcrum will secure bank financing.