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Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)

28/1/2026 News

Trafigura buys first six years’ production of NovaSAF 1

Global commodities company Trafigura has signed a six-year offtake agreement with Syzygy Plasmonics, to buy sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Syzygy’s commercial facility in Uruguay.

Biofuels

Industrial plant comprising tall cylindrical towers and pipework set against blue sky

20/4/2026 News

Biogas facility world first brings milk run concept to AD farms lacking gas network connection

The world’s first on-farm gas liquefaction plant has been inaugurated in Brittany, France, and aims to turn animal waste into profitable energy products. The demonstrator factory (called ‘Charlie’) follows the traditional model of the milk run, in which raw product is collected from nearby farms before being processed (by cryogenic distillation) in a central facility. This allows farms which produce biogas through anaerobic digestion (AD) to market it, even if they cannot connect to mains gas. Supplier Sublime Gas estimates that this potential market will be 26 TWh by 2050 in France.

Biogases

18/1/2023 News

France’s largest biogas production unit launched

A new biogas production unit operated by TotalEnergies in Mourenx, France, has begun production. With a maximum capacity of 160 GWh, it is thought to be the largest anaerobic digestion unit in the country.

Anaerobic digestion

14/1/2026 Comment / Jake Harrison

Food waste: an unrealised renewable energy opportunity

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is already powering homes and businesses across the country. But its full potential to advance the renewable energy transition and cut emissions is massively underutilised, writes Jake Harrison, Chief Technical Officer at anaerobic digestion firm Bio Capital.

Biogases

Head and shoulders photo of Michael Ware, Project Supervisor, Green Giraffe

10/4/2024 Comment / Michael Ware

What are the three reasons why biogas is harder to fund than wind or solar?

Securing a reliable and homogeneous feedstock supply is an essential component of any biogas project, as are finding an offtake for the solid digestate and suitable markets for the green gas certificates. And these take work, writes Michael Ware, Project Supervisor with international renewable energy advisor Green Giraffe.

Biogases

Aerial overview of new Ecogas food waste anaerobic digestion facility surrounded by green fields in New Zealand

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22/2/2023 Feature / Matt Hale

Heat exchangers deliver pasteurisation to New Zealand AD plant

Anaerobic digestion (AD) to produce biogas and biomethane has huge potential to generate renewable energy, as well as treat a wide range of organic wastes and provide biofertiliser in the form of digestate (the solid, fibrous material left over in the reactor after the AD process is complete). Here, Matt Hale from HRS Heat Exchangers, explains some of the options for pasteurising materials in the digester.

Biogases

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8/2/2023 Feature / Paul Hudson

Europe’s market for anaerobic digestion and biogas production

The anaerobic digestion of organic wastes delivers a biogas that can be upgraded to biomethane with a variety of uses to replace fossil fuels. Paul Hudson, Senior Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, takes a look at trends in the industry across Europe.

Biogases

Aerial view of biogas plant round storage tanks and rectangular and L-shaped buildings

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11/12/2024 Feature / Raghavendra Verma

The move of an energy major signals shift in the Indian biomass industry

India’s struggling biofuel industry may finally be picking up as the country’s oil refining major, Reliance Industries, announced an INR650bn ($7.72bn) investment plan to set up 500 compressed biogas (CBG) plants over the next three years in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, reports Raghavendra Verma.

Biogases

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6/3/2024 Feature / Ángela Sainz Arnau

A revolution for green hydrogen production?

Biohydrogen could address the key challenges of the European hydrogen economy by enabling local, safe, efficient and cost-effective hydrogen production, according to Ángela Sainz Arnau, Communications Director at the European Biogas Association, which is participating in research to develop means for direct production of hydrogen from biogas.

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Trafigura buys first six years’ production of NovaSAF 1

Biogas facility world first brings milk run concept to AD farms lacking gas network connection

France’s largest biogas production unit launched

Food waste: an unrealised renewable energy opportunity

What are the three reasons why biogas is harder to fund than wind or solar?

Heat exchangers deliver pasteurisation to New Zealand AD plant

Europe’s market for anaerobic digestion and biogas production

The move of an energy major signals shift in the Indian biomass industry

A revolution for green hydrogen production?