In Belgium, the European Commission has approved a €500 million aid scheme to support investments in new biofuel production capacities. The scheme was approved under Temporary crisis and transition framework (TCTF) for State aid measures, adopted by the Commission at March 9, 2023 and modified to November 20, 2023 and to May 2, 2024. Under […]
In California, Aemetis Biogas has completed initial construction of a multi-dairy anaerobic digester to process waste from approximately 14,000 dairy cows in Merced County, California. The multi-dairy digester is expected to begin operations by year-end 2024 and produce more than 200,000 MMBtu per year of renewable natural gas (RNG). The digester is designed to collect […]
In Australia, GreenHy2 Limited has signed a Federal Government Grant to provide our Hy2MEDI generation and storage system to Telstra. The system valued at A$1.5M will be funded by the Australian Government, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communication and the Arts from the Telecommunications Disaster Resilience Innovation (TDRI) Program, Power Resilience Round. GreenHy2 submitted […]
In Norway, Solstad have recently bunkered about 500 m³ of certified renewable biodiesel (HVO) on the AHTS Normand Prosper in Mandal, Southern Norway. After bunkering, Normand Prosper installed the mooring spread for a semisubmersible drilling unit in the Norwegian Sea. Eco-1 Bioenergi AS is the company sourcing the renewable biodiesel and who facilitated the bunkering […]
In the Netherlands, Argent Energy officially launched Europe’s largest facility dedicated to producing bio-based, technical-grade glycerine at its Port of Amsterdam site. The state-of-the-art refinery will upgrade crude glycerine, a by-product of Argent’s waste-based biodiesel process, into 99.7% pure technical-grade glycerine. This development, set to produce 50,000 tons of bio-based glycerine, provides chemical producers, for […]
In Spain, Ence Biogas expects to reach a biomethane production of 1TWh in 2030 working with agricultural biomass, livestock and agri-food industry. For its part, the company expects to close this year 2024 reached 14 projects in environmental processing mainly in Castilla y León, Aragon, Catalonia, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia. This was announced by the […]
In North Carolina, BASF has launched xarvio BIOENERGY, an innovative low carbon intensity crops program that lowers, tracks and documents CI levels in corn grown for ethanol biofuel production in the U.S. xarvio BIOENERGY offers the biofuel production supply chain – growers, retail agronomists and biorefineries – a quality assured and complete, end-to-end solution. It […]
In Brazil, a multi-country, government-led initiative dedicated to advancing the global transition to a sustainable, bio-based economy, unveiled a new Global Biomass Resource Assessment, providing groundbreaking data on current and future sustainable biomass supplies around the world. The launch of the International Feedstocks data portal was announced by the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Biofuture Platform Initiative at an […]
In the UK, new research has found methane emissions from slurry stores on dairy farms may be up to five times greater than official statistics suggest – and highlights the huge potential for turning them into a renewable energy source. The study shows that if captured and turned into biogas, emitted methane could be worth more […]
In Washington, as the final application window for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Higher Blend Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP) closed earlier this week, the Renewable Fuels Association announced that it has now helped fuel retailers and distributors apply for more than $200 million in USDA grant funding. The project applications facilitated by RFA represent the addition […]
