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In April 2024 the New Zealand government announced the Methane Science and Target Review: an independent panel is to assess the science on biogenic methane and indicate a target consistent with no additional warming.
The ordinance of 14 March 2024 (BGBl. II 77/2024) sets market premium values for biomass and biogas for 2024–2025, together with tender dates.
A waste incineration plant is not an activity supported by the EU taxonomy, and the DNSH principle and exclusions in the cohesion funds limit public financing of new capacity. What does this mean for an investor?
ETS2 will cover emissions from fuels in buildings and road transport, and their cost will appear in the gas price. We explain the rules, the conversion of 1 EUR/t CO₂ into MWh of gas and the consequences for biomethane.
Why does laboratory BMP usually exceed the actual yield of a plant? We break the difference down into factors: time, kinetics, losses, data errors and measurements. With a worked example.
On 13 March 2024 the European Parliament backed (514 votes in favour) its position on the revision of the Waste Framework Directive: binding food waste targets and extended producer responsibility for textiles.
Two studies on Korean food waste: Cho et al. (1995) – a mixture BMP of 472 mL CH₄/g VS and dry digestion – and Lee et al. (2009) – a leachate BMP of 358–478 mL/g VS and the effect of temperature, alkalinity and salinity.
On 12 March 2024 the European Parliament approved the agreement on the Industrial Emissions Directive. It covers larger pig and poultry farms, but not cattle.
China wants to raise its livestock manure utilisation rate to over 80% in 2025 and over 85% in 2030. How the indicator is calculated, where the 75% for 2020 comes from and what role biogas plays.
For new biomass installations the bid cap in the EEG tender rose from 17.67 to 19.43 ct/kWh, for biomethane to 21.03 ct/kWh. For existing ones it stays at 19.83 ct/kWh.
The average price of TTF contracts in February 2024 was €25.76/MWh, about 51% less than a year earlier. The fall in natural gas changes the economics of biomethane.
Berlin processes biowaste at Ruhleben into biomethane for refuse trucks, and since 2012 Oslo has fuelled buses with biogas from food waste. What do these examples mean for Polish cities?
On 20 February 2024 the Council and the European Parliament agreed a voluntary framework for certifying carbon dioxide removals. The waste thermal treatment industry saw in it an opportunity for worthwhile "negative emissions".
A building permit for a biogas plant requires an environmental decision, a plan or WZ, a design and agreements. We explain the order of steps, deadlines and documents for acceptance.
NFOŚiGW announced the FENX.02.02 "Renewable energy development" call under the FEnIKS programme with a pool of PLN 300 million. Applications were to be accepted from 29 February to 13 May 2024.
For decades China built small digesters at farms. Since the middle of the previous decade state support has been shifting towards large projects, and the number of active household installations is falling.
Calculation errors can change a BMP result by several to a dozen or so per cent. We discuss the corrections: dry gas, water vapour, headspace, solubility and gas mass.
Hydrogen from electrolysis powered by renewables is RFNBO, not biohydrogen. We explain the definitions in EU law, the rules on additionality and temporal correlation, and the situation of hydrogen produced from biogas plant electricity.
On 6 February 2024 the European Commission recommended a 90% net emissions reduction by 2040. The biogas industry welcomed the target, with the reservation that biogases play too small a role in it.
In January 2024 Hazer Group announced the first production of hydrogen and graphite at its demonstration plant next to the Woodman Point wastewater treatment plant, after delays in 2022–2023.
On 30 January 2024 the European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into two Swedish schemes exempting non-food biogas and biopropane from energy and carbon taxes.
On 22 January 2024 China officially relaunched the CCER scheme, the national voluntary emission credit market suspended in 2017. The first project types include forestry and offshore wind.
Following its mid-term review, the UK government announced an extension to 31 March 2028 of the application period for the tariff scheme for biomethane injected into the grid. The rules for heat pumps have also changed.
H2 2023: RDN PLN 451.0/MWh, FIT PLN 745.8/MWh, and from 10 November new declarations receive PLN 828.4/MWh. Does flexibility close the gap?
