Arla Sweden and Gasum have decided to expand their current biogas partnership, following increased support for the industry from the Swedish Government On 17 September, the government announced biogas production investment support of kr500 million (€49 million) by 2022, followed by kr700 million (€68 million) by 2023-2024, proposed in the autumn budget this year.... [Read More]

Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor (BWSC), a global power plant operation and maintenance and technical service provider, has signed a major contract with district heating company Fjernvarme Fyn for the gas conversion of an old coal-fired boiler unit at its facility in Odense, Denmark. Unit 7 at Fyn Power Station, originally built by Burmeister and Wain Energy,... [Read More]

Energy infrastructure company Redexis will supply renewable gas (biomethane) to Zaragoza Transport Consortium buses in the city of Zaragoza, the capital of Spain’s Aragon region. The new Scania buses are operated by Alsa Agreda in its gas station at the Zaragoza Taxi Cooperative Service Station. The station is connected to the Redexis gas pipeline network, ensuring... [Read More]

Ireland needs a ‘whole of energy’ approach to the future, including repurposing the gas network to carry biomethane and hydrogen, Ervia’s CEO, Cathal Marley, told a conference last week. Ervia provides strategic national gas and water infrastructure and services through its subsidiaries, including Gas Networks Ireland (GNI). The company appointed Marley as CEO... [Read More]

FortisBC Energy has reopened its RNG programme to customers, following a temporary pause due to soaring demand. FortisBC first launched the RNG initiative in 2011 and was the first utility in North America to offer RNG to its customers as a simple way to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. As more customers saw the value of RNG as a carbon-neutral energy source, demand... [Read More]

Dutch energy storage company VTTI has acquired a bioenergy project on an industrial site in Tilburg, the Netherlands, from Re-N Technology Group. Following the acquisition, announced on 11 August, VTTI will construct a new state-of-the-art bioenergy facility of industrial scale and is expected to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2023. The new facility will... [Read More]

Foodservice provider Moy Park has placed the largest single order of IVECO natural gas trucks in the UK. The Northern Irish firm has committed to the mass decarbonisation of its transport operation with 50 bio-LNG IVECO Stralis NP trucks. As concerns grow over the vehicular impact on the environment, Moy Park has turned to bio-LNG fuelled trucks to help ‘green’... [Read More]

Greenlane Biogas has signed a $6.1 million (€4.08 million) supply contract with Green Impact Partners for an RNG project in Colorado. Greenlane will supply a biogas upgrading system for the GreenGas Colorado project, which consists of two dairy farms and broke ground in July. The project will utilise two of Greenlane’s pressure swing adsorption upgrading systems,... [Read More]

UGI Energy Services (UGIES) has joined forces with California Bioenergy (CalBio) and Sevana Bioenergy to develop RNG dairy digester projects in South Dakota. Through a new joint venture (JV), MBL Bioenergy, the companies will develop several clusters of dairy farm digester projects to produce RNG. The projects are expected to produce 650 million cubic feet of RNG... [Read More]

GLS, one of Italy’s main express couriers, will add 120 new LNG and bio-LNG powered vehicles to its fleet. The new IVECO S-WAY vehicles, which will replace a diesel vehicle fleet made up of 70% Euro VI vehicles and 30% Euro V vehicles, will have a significantly positive impact on the environment. Switching to fossil methane will result in a reduction of CO2 amounting... [Read More]

Packaging firm DS Smith has invested €7.5 million in expanding the anaerobic treatment facility at its paper mill in northern France. The investment enables Rouen Paper Mill to generate green energy from 100% of its wastewater and improve the quality of discharged water – building the circular economy and taking another step towards DS Smith’s carbon goals. The... [Read More]

Hitachi Zosen Inova’s (HZI) German subsidiary, HZI BioMethan (HZIB), will build the company’s biggest biogas upgrading plant to date in Dunaföldvár, Hungary. Irish firm ClonBio Group commissioned HZI to build the biomethane plant that will upgrade 5,000 Nm3/h of inlet biogas. The upgrading facility will be constructed in 2022 at Europe’s largest grain biorefinery,... [Read More]

Aemetis Biogas has signed a utility pipeline interconnection agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) and made the final payment for the installation of PG&E’s equipment. Under the Aemetis Biogas Central Dairy Digester Project, Aemetis has already built and currently operates two dairy biogas digesters, on-site dairy gas upgrading and pressurisation... [Read More]

Two new large recycling vehicles powered entirely from food waste-derived biogas are now in operation in the west of England. The biogas-fuelled vehicles are powered from the food waste they collect, and now service cafes, restaurants, schools and offices. They are the latest addition to the expanding fleet of ‘Bio-Bees’, which have served the city of Bristol... [Read More]

Chevron U.S.A., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, has signed definitive agreements to form a joint venture (JV) with Mercuria Energy Trading (Mercuria). Mercuria is one of the world’s largest integrated energy and commodities companies and has partnered with Chevron to own and operate American Natural Gas (ANG) and its network of 60 CNG stations across the US. Chevron... [Read More]