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...
Evonik, a Slovakian company manufactures first product from world’s first industrial scale rhamnolipid biosurfactant plant. Surfactants - surface active agents - are amphiphilic molecules, which tend to accumulate at the interface between polar and non-polar solvents. Rhamnolipids are a class of glycolipid biosurfactants that are...
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...
December 2023 Reliance Industries (RIL) is in talks with sugar mill operators to source sugarcane press mud, a key raw material for producing compressed biogas (CBG). RIL plans to set up 100 CBG plants in the next five years, using 5.5 million tonnes of agricultural...
December 2023 NLC India Ltd (NLCIL) has started biomass co-firing in its coal-based thermal power station NLC Tamilnadu Power Ltd (NTPL) at Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu. The biomass co-firing is done by using agricultural waste pellets, which provide an additional income source for farmers. NTPL is...
October 2023 The Uttar Pradesh government has approved 12 private sector bioenergy projects worth Rs 550 crore, which will produce over 90 tonnes of compressed biogas (CBG) and 44 kilolitres (kl) of biodiesel per day from agricultural waste. The projects are part of the state’s...
September, 2023 Together, Brazil, the United States, and India will present the Global Biofuel Alliance (GBA) during the G20 meeting in New Delhi on September 9, 2023. With fewer carbon emissions than fossil fuels, sustainable biofuels generated from renewable sources may be promoted by nations...
September 2023 Aemetis, a US-based company that produces renewable natural gas and renewable fuels, has announced that its subsidiary in India, Universal Biofuels, has completed an expansion of its biodiesel plant ahead of schedule. The plant can now produce 60 million gallons of biodiesel per...