Biogas News

Gasunie has completed a new connection between the underground gas networks near Axel in Zeeland and Ossendrecht in Noord-Brabant, adding transport capacity for biomethane and giving existing and new producers greater scope to feed sustainable gas into the network. The company said the extra capacity would make more domestically produced sustainable energy available to households, industry and…
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A leadership academy in Lagos has opened a biodigester facility at a public toilet on Ojota Bus Stop, aiming to cut open defecation in the city while generating clean energy from human waste. The scheme, dubbed "Pee-Po-to-Power Lagos" (WEEP), is run by the Lateef Jakande Leadership Academy (LJLA) and centres on a 30-cubic-metre anaerobic biodigester — described by project lead Dr Bamidele…
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Plans for a large anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at a Herefordshire farm are back in play, after the site's owner lodged an appeal against Herefordshire Council's refusal of the scheme late last year. Nicholas Layton of Whitwick Manor, located between Bromyard and Hereford, first submitted the application nearly four years ago. The proposed unit would process around 100,000 tonnes of poultry…
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Hawaii Governor Josh Green has signed legislation directing the state's Department of Transportation to establish a Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) programme, making Hawaii the fifth US state to adopt a low-carbon fuel scheme of this kind. The bill, SB 2999, follows a two-year advocacy and rulemaking process and was welcomed by the RNG Coalition, which provided testimony throughout. The other four…
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Flogas and bio-waste management company College Group have agreed a renewable gas supply deal under which Flogas will offtake 26 GWh of biomethane annually from College Group's County Meath facility. The site produces biomethane via anaerobic digestion of agri-food and animal by-products and has a total production capacity of 75 GWh per year, with the gas primarily targeting decarbonisation of…
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Waste wood energy operator Evero has submitted a planning application to retrofit its Ince Bio Power Plant in Cheshire with carbon capture technology, in a move that would make it the UK's first Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) facility delivered under the government's Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) Business Model. The facility, located at Peel NRE's Protos energy and resource…
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A pig farming business in Lower Saxony is upgrading its biogas operation to include biomethane production, installing an EnviThan gas upgrading unit as its original 20-year EEG support period draws to a close. The Timphaus family business in Lohne first added biogas to its agricultural operations in 2011, attracted by the income stability offered by guaranteed revenues under Germany's…
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VIDA bioenergy has begun injecting biomethane into Cadent's gas network from its new Wormslade facility in Northamptonshire, becoming the 46th biomethane plant connected across Cadent's UK operations and the 17th on its East Midlands network. The site, located near Market Harborough, is designed to process around 46,000 tonnes of agricultural feedstock per year, producing approximately 68GWh…
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France has proposed extending its flagship renewable gas support mechanism to cover pyrolysis-based production, a regulatory change that would for the first time allow wood-processing projects using thermochemical conversion to access long-term offtake support in one of Europe's largest gas markets. The draft decree, published for public consultation following a meeting of France's National…
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Germany's bioenergy associations have criticised the government's draft renewable energy law, warning that the proposals fail to deliver the future promised to thousands of biogas and wood energy plant operators and would see the country forgo 12 GW of domestic flexible capacity. The Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy (BMWE) released its draft of the EEG 2027 for consultation with…
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Italy's state energy agency GSE has selected six gas shippers to purchase 6 TWh of biomethane for the 2026/2027 thermal year, in the first competitive sale of renewable gas withdrawn from producers under the country's incentive schemes. Enel, Eni and Società Gas Rimini were awarded framework agreements for the lot covering biomethane destined for the transport sector, while Burgo Energia,…
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South African infrastructure investor IIIM has acquired a minority shareholding in organic waste processing firm Cape Town Biogas (CTB) through its Mid Market Infrastructure Fund 1. The stake was purchased from existing shareholder Metier Sustainable Capital Fund II, which remains the controlling investor in the business. CTB operates an anaerobic digestion facility processing 250 tonnes of…
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Swiss compressor manufacturer Burckhardt Compression has completed its acquisition of Italian gas compression specialist Fornovo Gas, first announced in May. Founded in 1969, Fornovo Gas is one of Europe's leading providers of gas compression solutions for biogas and compressed natural gas (CNG) applications. The company focuses on mid-sized reciprocating compressors and employs around 120…
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London-listed Zenith Energy has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire 100% of an Italian biogas development company, marking its entry into the country's biogas and biomethane sector. The unnamed target owns the rights to a fully permitted, fully engineered and construction-ready biogas facility. Once operational, the plant will produce around 3 million cubic metres of methane per year…
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