Feb 09, 2024 India and Seychelles will conduct a joint project for the introduction of biofuels in the island country in the coming year, according to Seychelles’ Minister of Energy, Climate Change and Agriculture Flavien P Joubert. Seychelles joined the India-led Global Biofuel Alliance last...
UK government approves $2.5B project for ‘carbon negative’ power plant in Drax Power station in North Yorkshire, in the north of England. Drax, the power station in Yorkshire, which produces around 4% of the UK’s power, mostly burns biomass imported from North America. Originally intended...
Bio Energy, a German company that provides technology and engineering design for biomass-based gas plants, has entered the Indian market in partnership with a Noida-based start-up, Gruner Renewable Energy. Gruner Renewable will build customized biogas plants for customers with BioEnergy’s design and also buy-back the...
LanzaJet holds grand opening in Georgia for world’s 1st ethanol-to-SAF facility LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels represents one of the most promising SAF technologies. It will produce 10 million gallons of SAF and renewable diesel per year from low-carbon, sustainable, ethanol that meets the global standards....
The Future of Ocean Farming: Sea6 Energy’s Vision that is Transforming Seaweed into Sustainable Solutions! Sea6 works on two broad areas: First, large-scale seaweed production by proprietary automation. Second, converting this seaweed into useful products that have applications across various sectors. The company has developed...
January 2024 Gail India and Trualt Bioenergy, two state-owned companies, have announced a joint venture to set up ten compressed biogas (CBG) plants in India with an investment of more than $72 million. The CBG plants will process over 600 million kg of organic waste...
July 2023 The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has launched a $1.4 billion fund to support sustainable projects in 88 countries, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). India’s bioenergy sector is one of the beneficiaries of the fund, with a project to produce...
The Budget 2024 has allocated Rs 150 crore for the collection of biomass, which is a key feedstock for compressed biogas (CBG) production. The industry executives warmly welcome the financial assistance as it will help overcome one of the main challenges of CBG projects, which...
SAEL, an Indian renewable energy company, has secured $1 billion from financial institutions, including Norfund, DFC, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Tata Cleantech, to finance its biomass and solar energy portfolio. The company said it will use the funding to expand its solar and biomass...
BHEL, a state-owned power equipment manufacturer, has won a competitive bid to set up a 2,400 MW supercritical thermal power project in Odisha for NLC India, a coal PSU. The project will use boilers with biomass co-firing capability and highly efficient pollution control equipment. The...