News - Bioenergy Australia

BIOGEST receives €20m investment from Eiffel Investment Group to accelerate its global growth strategy

Vienna, Austria / Paris, France: BIOGEST receives growth capital from Eiffel Gaz Vert for a 25% minority stake. Eiffel Gaz Vert finances the ambitious development of the BIOGEST Group and the plants to be developed, built, or operated by BIOGEST.

Tue 15 Nov 2022

Australia Post, Woodside Energy to offset carbon footprint through sustainable aviation fuel investment

Five of Australia’s biggest companies will pay a premium to offset the cost of their air travel through investing in sustainable aviation fuel rather than traditional carbon offsetting programs.

Fri 11 Nov 2022

Plan to bring renewable gas to Goulburn Murray a win for Indigenous economy

A collaboration between a First Nations entrepreneur and a clean energy company is aiming to bring renewable gas to northern Victoria while stimulating the local Indigenous economy.

Wed 02 Nov 2022

Anaergia Wins European Biogas Association's Biogas Groundbreaker Award for 2022

Anaergia announced it has received the Biogas Groundbreaker Award for 2022 from the European Biogas Association. The award recognizes the Company’s growth and dedication to research activities as well as its ambition to accelerate biogas production at scale in Europe and across the world. The award was presented at a ceremony in Brussels, Belgium last week.

Tue 01 Nov 2022

Why Queensland sugar cane can be the ‘Exxon of biofuels’

In the battle to supply the carbon-neutral aviation fuel of the future, American entrepreneur Karl Seck reckons Queensland’s sugar cane industry has one big advantage over the vast cornfields of North America.

Tue 01 Nov 2022

Qantas boss Alan Joyce challenges government to invest in sustainable aviation

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has challenged the government to invest in sustainable aviation fuel production or risk missing the chance to become market leaders in the industry’s ticket to a carbon-neutral future.

Thu 27 Oct 2022

Advancing Australia’s sustainable aviation fuel industry

Brisbane Airport welcomes the Federal Budget announcement of a ‘Jet Zero’-style council to guide the development of a policy framework to encourage emissions reduction in Australia’s aviation industry.

Wed 26 Oct 2022

DELOREAN CORPORATION ENTERS INTO MULTI-PROJECT DEVELOPMENT FUNDING PARTNERSHIP WITH PALISADE IMPACT

Subject to completion of final due diligence required for each project’s Final Investment Decision, Palisade Impact will fund 100% of the project costs (including DEL’s development costs) to deliver Delorean’s SA1 and VIC1 bioenergy projects, with a right of first offer to fund a further three DEL bioenergy projects.

Wed 19 Oct 2022

MicroBioGen opens new biofuels laboratory facilities in Sydney

Australian industrial biotechnology firm MicroBioGen has opened its new laboratories in Macquarie Park in northern Sydney.

Fri 14 Oct 2022

Waste not, want not: Bioenergy's economic bonanza

Organic waste, ranging from household garbage to crushed sugar cane, creates as much renewable energy in Australia as wind and solar combined, a little-known fact that the bioenergy industry believes should be shouted from rooftops.

Thu 13 Oct 2022

CSIRO TO INVEST $90 MILLION IN NEWLY-LAUNCHED TOWARDS NET ZERO MISSION

A decarbonisation-themed mission has joined others underway at CSIRO, including drought resilience and ending plastic waste, with a launch on Tuesday of a Towards Net Zero Mission.

Tue 11 Oct 2022

Dametto to introduce biofuel bill

More clean, “green” fuel would be produced in Australia if Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto gets his way, as he plans to introduce his Liquid Fuel Supply (Minimum Biobased Petrol Content) Amendment Bill 2022 into the Queensland Parliament this week.

Mon 10 Oct 2022

Australia post commits to net zero emissions by 2050

The commitment is contained in Aus Post’s 2025 Sustainability Roadmap released on last Wednesday. The document outlines a range of targets around emissions, renewable energy, sustainable packaging, landfill reductions and social procurement.

Sun 09 Oct 2022

Bioenergy Project

The state government has announced a bioenergy project at a farm in Gippsland as part of new energy storage target that it says will power about half of Victoria’s homes at their peak energy use.

Thu 06 Oct 2022

Irrelevant to global decarbonisation? No, Australia’s crucial to it

The Coalition spent over a decade coaching Australia into a state of learnt helplessness over any action on climate change. One of its most effective arguments was that Australia emitted only 1 per cent of all global greenhouse gases, so even if it eliminated all of them it wouldn’t make a jot of difference. What was the point of trying?

Tue 04 Oct 2022

Why other Australian states won’t follow Daniel Andrews’ gas ban in Victoria

A controversial gas ban by Daniel Andrews is a policy that other state premiers cannot get behind, as energy bosses explain what the solution must be.

Sun 11 Sep 2022

THAT'S A WRAP - Renewable Gas Meets Parliament

Earlier this week the renewable gas industry embarked on a journey to Canberra to convince our Federal Members, Senators, and Departmental officials of the need to support the deployment of Biomethane in Australia.

Wed 07 Sep 2022

Anaergia to Supply Food Waste Treatment System for Singapore’s Tuas Nexus Integrated Waste Management Facility

Anaergia Inc. announced it has signed a contract to supply its industry-leading organic waste treatment solutions to the joint venture selected by Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) for its Tuas Nexus Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) Engineering, Procurement and Construction Package 2 (EPC2) contract.

Tue 02 Aug 2022