Biomass

Japan

Renova Temporarily Suspends Operations at Tokushima Tsuda Biomass Plant

Japan-based Renova Inc. announced on July 21 that operations at its 74.8-megawatt Tokushima Tsuda Biomass Power Plant have been temporarily suspended for repair…

France

Axens Launches France’s First Industrial-Scale SAF Project Based on Advanced Bioethanol

Axens has announced the launch of the ERA project, or Ethanol to Refuel Aviation, France’s first industrial-scale sustainable aviation fuel production unit bas…

Poland

Orlen Termika Secures PLN 144 Million Loan for Biomass Boiler Project

Polish cogeneration company Orlen Termika, part of the Orlen Group, has secured a PLN 144 million (USD 38 million/EUR 33.5 million) preferential loan to support…

Malaysia

Weng Yat To Supply Biomass To Japan, Targets RM60 Mil Annual Revenue

MALAYSIAN biomass producer Weng Yat Resources Sdn Bhd has sealed a deal to build a biomass supply platform for Japan with more than RM60 mil in the annual reven…

Japan

Chubu Electric to procure credits from 7-MW biomass-fired plant in Japan

Chubu Electric Power Miraiz Co Inc has inked an off-site virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Enshu Forest Energy LLC to procure environmental credits f…

United States

Carbon Direct publishes agricultural biomass sourcing guide

Carbon Direct has released what it describes as one of the first globally applicable frameworks for sourcing agricultural residues as feedstock for carbon dioxi…

Latvia

Latvia greenlights €5m biomethane grid project

The Latvian government has approved proposals by the Ministry of Climate and Energy for the construction of two new biomethane injection points at a cost of &eu…

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan launches industrial production of gasoline with bioethanol made from grain processing waste

Kazakhstan has begun industrial production of Bi-95 automotive fuel with the addition of bioethanol made from grain processing waste, the Kazakh Agriculture Min…

EU

EU signs off on €3.7bn Czech biomethane production subsidies

The European Commission has approved a €3.7bn ($4.36bn) Czech government funding scheme to scale sustainable biomethane production amid the net-zero emissi…

Indonesia

Indonesia to go ahead with B50 biodiesel mix this year, president says

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto said ‌on March 30 during an official visit to Japan that the Southeast Asian country ​will go ahead this year with …

Biofuel

US finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27

The 'Trump Administration' finalized a new mandate for biofuel blending volumes for 'the U.S on March 27. oil refiners. This required more fuels fro…

Biofuel

Octopus Energy backs billion-dollar biomass-to-SAF project in Nova Scotia

Octopus Energy Generation is planning to invest up to $6 billion in a sustainable aviation fuel facility in Nova Scotia that will convert forestry waste biomass…

Methane

California regulator conditionally approves first RNG contract under state biomethane procurement programme

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has conditionally approved a long-term biomethane procurement contract between Anaergia's SoCal Biomethane…

India

GAIL invests Rs 13 crore in TruAlt’s CBG arm to expand biomass projects

GAIL (India) Limited has invested Rs 13 crore in Leafiniti Bioenergy, a subsidiary of TruAlt Bioenergy, to support the development of compressed biogas (CBG) pr…

Biofuel

Brazilian city trials new biofuel aimed at replacing diesel entirely

March 20- one city in southern Brazil is planning to run more of its municipal fleet on an ​innovative homegrown biofuel designed to replace diesel entirely.Ne…