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PurposeEnergy, a renewable fuels and biogas specialist focused on waste solutions for the food and beverage industries, has opened its Middlebury renewable energy facility. The $23 million project utilises patented anaerobic digestion technology to support Vermont’s circular economy goals by minimising waste and maximising resource recoveries. PurposeEnergy – Middlebury is the state’s first food waste…

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation has completed its renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at Full Circle Dairy (FCD) in Lee, Florida. The facility, a full-scale dairy manure-to-pipeline-quality RNG operation expected to produce an average of 100,000 dekatherms annually, represents a capital investment of $22 million. The facility began producing RNG in June 2024 and is expected to…

Kruger Inc. has announced a $23.75 million investment in an innovative demonstration project for carbon capture and reuse at its Wayagamack Mill in Trois-Rivières. For this project, Kruger is partnering with the developers of the carbon capture technology, Mantel Capture Inc., a North American start-up founded by engineers and scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of…

BE&E examines how to maximise a pellet mill’s profitability. Warren Buffett is quoted as saying: ‘Price is what you pay. Value is what you get’. Never a truer statement, said BE&E. Its conveyors aren’t cheap. To which its customer replied: ‘I can’t afford cheap’. After decades in the business, this mill owner had learned that…

Edison has signed a long-term biomethane purchase agreement (BPA) with Kanadevia Inova, for the off-taking of biomethane produced from agricultural biomasses. The agreement has a term of 15 years. By the first half of 2025, Kanadevia Inova will complete construction of a biomethane plant, powered by agricultural byproducts in the province of Cuneo, Italy. The…

Drax’s feedstock from US wood pellet facilities have broken environmental regulations over 11,000 times, according to an investigation for The Times. It found that violations took place at six Drax Group-owned mills, from whence wood pellets are shipped to its North Yorkshire power station. They were located across Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Washington. Offences included surpassing…

DBS, in partnership with renewable power generator RExus Bioenergy, has announced the company’s first green loan to finance the construction of a biomass power plant in Jurong, Singapore. Upon completion in the second half of 2026, the RExus waste wood-to-energy plant will also explore the potential of carbon capture technology in advancing Singapore’s net-zero ambitions.…

Gas Malaysia Bhd’s subsidiary, Gas Malaysia Energy and Services (GMES), has signed an agreement with Intercontinental Specialty Fats (ISF) for the supply of certified biomethane through the natural gas distribution system, reported New Straits Times Press. The biomethane will be certified under the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) Plus standards. A signing ceremony has…

Neustark, a Switzerland-based carbon removal specialist, and UK-based building materials supplier, Aggregate Industries, are introducing a new technology that permanently removes carbon from the atmosphere and locks it into recycled concrete. The first site has entered operation in Greenwich, London and will now permanently remove tonne by tonne of CO2 in the coming months and…

Firmus has sold firmus energy, its gas supply business, to Yuno Group. The firmus supply business started operating in 2005, and, by volume, is Northern Ireland’s largest gas supplier in terms of volume. Yuno Group is based in Dublin, Ireland, and is one of the country’s largest players in the electricity and gas retail markets.…

SET-listed Asia Green Energy, a local bituminous trader and logistics service provider, is restructuring its business by focusing more on the green segment, following its new biomass acquisition, reported Bangkok Post. It is also purchasing an extra 292.1 million shares in Asia Biomass Plc (ABM) for 380 million baht. This is according to deputy managing…

Vision RNG, in collaboration with Laurel Ridge Landfill, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Waste Connections, Inc., and Delta Gas, has commenced commercial operations at its new renewable natural gas (RNG) facility located at the Laurel Ridge Landfill in Lily, Kentucky. The new plant converts landfill gas into RNG, which is then injected into Delta Gas’s pipeline…