Unibep will invest €20.1 million in Zgorzelec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, as part of a consortium with Energika Zbigniew Szamałek Sp. Komandytowa. This will be Unibep’s fifth biomass heating plant. An agreement was signed on 20 November for the implementation of the project, entitled: “Integrated network for innovative transformation and decarbonisation of heating (UNITED HEAT),…
CalBioGas Hilmar, a joint investment between Chevron U.S.A., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation and California Bioenergy LLC (CalBio), have completed the central processing facility for their dairy biomethane project in Merced County, California. CalBio brings technology and expertise to help local dairy farmers capture methane from dairy manure in anaerobic digesters on their farms. As…
Marubeni Corporation has completed construction of its Aichi Tahara Biomass Power Plant in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The plant is a wood-fired biomass plant with a generating capacity of 74,950 kW, and is expected to generate approximately 530 million kWh of electricity per year. Commercial operations are commencing today (26 November). Construction began in February 2022.…
Marc Fetten, founder and owner of GreenGasUSA, tells Bioenergy Insight about the company’s approach, growth and partnership with Wayne-Sanderson Farms. Fetten founded GreenGasUSA (GreenGas) four years ago, with the mission of reducing as many carbon emissions as possible via the production of renewable natural gas (RNG), and other renewable energy commodities. Today, GreenGas is a…
The Régie des matières résiduelles du Lac-Saint-Jean (RWM) and Waga Energy have announced the signing of an agreement to implement an RNG production project at the Hébertville-Station engineered landfill site (ELS) in Quebec. Waga Energy will collaborate with the RWM, which manages the ELS serving 50 municipalities and the Mashteuiatsh community. This partnership includes the…
A group of Caribbean scientists and environmentalists are working to transform sargassum into biofuel, reported the BBC. In 2011, huge amounts of the seaweed entered Caribbean beaches – bringing a pungent odour as it rotted. Seven years later, Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley said sargussum was a national emergency. The scientists recently launched one of…
Guildford Borough Council in Surrey, England, is expanding its food waste collection services to residents today (25 November). The local authority is working with the Surrey Environment Partnership, in line with the UK government’s ‘Simpler Recycling’ legislation. From April 2025, all waste collection authorities in England must have a weekly collection of food waste for…
Sarah Hammond, marketing manager at MoistTech, explains how automated in-line monitoring reduces waste and energy costs and improves process efficiency. Incorporating the right combination of automation tools can help production facilities overcome challenges posed by outdated machinery and labour-intensive procedures that hinder overall productivity. One key example is automated moisture monitoring, where the ‘steel collar’…
A new partnership will see the development of a biogas plant at Paradeep Municipality, District Jagatsinghpur, Odisha in India. The project is a partnership between Tecnimont (MAIRE’s Integrated E&C Solutions)’s Indian subsidiary Tecnimont Private Limited (TCMPL), Paradeep Municipality and National Institute of Technology, Karnataka – Surathkal (NITK). The biogas plant will aim to enhance the…
Waste-to-hydrogen producer Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS) will be creating 200kg of hydrogen from waste to power a 40-day sea trial of a zero-emission marine hydrogen engine. The 50kW hydrogen auxiliary engine was created by Carnot – which was recently awarded £2.3 million in a UK government grant to develop its technology. The engine will be…
Itaipu Binacional’s renewable energy superintendent, Rogério Meneghetti, participated in a COP 29 panel called Accelerating Circular Economy and Industry Decarbonisation in Brazil. The event was organised in partnership with the Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce, and Services and the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development, and highlighted how practices that transform waste into new resources can…
Divert, an impact technology company on a mission to Protect the Value of Food™, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) have announced a first-of-its-kind interconnection in the state of California to address the wasted food crisis. Divert’s facility in Turlock, California is now processing unsold food products into carbon-negative renewable energy, which is being…