Alder BioInsights News Review: Bioenergy, June 2025
Kon Drousiotis
Foreword
The focus is sharpening on a technology that is quickly evolving from a promising concept into a tangible reality: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Once framed largely in terms of potential and “what could be,” CCS is now becoming a reality. Across the UK, Europe, and the USA, key infrastructure is already being developed—laying the groundwork not only to reduce fossil fuel emissions but also to enable negative emissions through biomass-based CCS (BECCS). This isn’t just about plans; it’s about shovels in the ground, wells being drilled, and significant investments secured.
The United Kingdom is staking its claim in this essential infrastructure race. The British government has recently confirmed significant funding towards industrial carbon capture clusters as part of its Spending Review. Projects like Viking in the Humber and the Acorn project in Aberdeenshire, which have had deal partnerships agreed back in 2023 and 2021 respectively, are due to receive substantial development funding as part of the agreed £9.4 billion towards CCS projects. Specifically, Acorn project, being developed by Storegga, Shell UK, Harbour Energy and North Sea Midstream Partners, will receive £200 million towards its development…
Other News this Month Includes:
Policy
- EEX launches biogas production certificates registry in France
- US executive order 14308: Empowering commonsense wildfire prevention and response
Markets
- Truckloads of Scotland’s rubbish will be sent to England, experts say
- Bioenergy Insights: Biogas leaders look to the future
- Biogases’ benefits for energy security, local economies and reducing emissions are drawing renewed interest
Research & Development
- Energy potential of elephant grass broth as biomass for biogas production
- Value of voluntary carbon markets in energy systems decarbonization
Biomass Heat and Power
- Company behind biomass plant enters administration – deal completed for land and assets
- DRAX group policy: Biomass Sourcing Policy
- More…
Energy from Waste
- MVV Environmental gets permit for Canford energy from waste site
- Council warns of new waste tax it ‘cannot afford’
- Climate Fund Managers (CFM) and Société Des Energies Nouvelles (SODEN) sign agreement to develop world’s first cocoa waste-to-energy plant in Côte d’Ivoire
Biogas
- Inauguration of the Eaux Blanches wastewater treatment plant in Sète, Occitanie region, a key facility to protect the environment and accelerate the energy transition
- Biogas and e-SAF business joint venture established with Denmark’s Skovgaard energy
- More…
Carbon Capture
- Funding secured for Britain’s industrial future
- Joseph Gallagher secures major contract to deliver critical trenchless crossings for united living on the Liverpool bay CCS project in the Northwest
- More…
