Wyke Farms, the UK’s largest independent cheese producer and a renewable energy producer, has recorded its highest turnover to date. The cheesemaker, which has an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility, reported a turnover of £107 million, having benefited from substantial growth in export sales to the EU and the rest of the world, up by almost 20%. Wyke Farms’ 100%... [Read More]

Gasrec will increase the size of its bio-LNG tanker fleet by 300% over the next 12 months. The company’s efforts will help to meet the rapidly growing demand from transport and logistics companies for a lower cost and more sustainable alternative to diesel. Gasrec recently took delivery of its third cryogenic trailer from Bradford, UK-based M1 Engineering, and... [Read More]

Host has ‘stepped up’ the investment and operation of its bioenergy systems in the Netherlands. By investing in its own biogas facilities in Boornbergum, Host allows farmers with sufficient manure or agricultural feedstock available all year round to realise a biogas plant at its site, without the financial investment. Host has a strong foothold in small-scale... [Read More]

Deciding to build an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Pontefract that can accept a wide range of feedstocks has ‘paid off’ for a UK firm. Feedstock flexibility has enabled Lanes Farm Energy’s AD facility to continue functioning throughout its first year of operations, despite the challenges posed by COVID-19. Ted Sultan, director at the plant, explained... [Read More]

Vogelsang grew its revenue by around 7% in 2020, driven by growth in agricultural technology and biogas markets. The company, based in Essen, Germany, grew its revenue to €134 million, despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. By launching new products such as the XRipper XRG macerator for sewers and the UniSpread universal linkage, and adding greater... [Read More]

The Coalition for the Energy of the Future has unveiled its first seven concrete actions, including on biogas and hydrogen, and welcomed three new members. Launched in late 2019, the Coalition aims at accelerating the development of future energies and technologies to sustain green energy models and reduce the impact of transport and logistics on climate change. Airbus,... [Read More]

Biogest is to build a 190 kW agricultural and food waste biogas plant in South Korea. The project, close to Daegu in the south of the country, will be developed with HC Energy and DoBangYukJong Farm and is supported by the Changnyeong-gun city office. The Biogest PowerRing biogas plant, fed with pig slurry and food waste, will be an important reference plant to attract... [Read More]

Bio-LNG provides ‘significant’ greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions and is already being introduced in shipping, according to SEA-LNG. Just 10% of drop-in bio-LNG with LNG provides around two years of additional compliance under Poseidon Principles measures, a global framework for the decarbonisation of shipping. Both fuels can be used interchangeably with existing LNG... [Read More]

FPT Industrial has helped an Italian winery to produce the world’s first zero-emissions wine, using biomethane. The company helped Fontanafredda, a winery founded by the first King of Italy in 1858, by supplying two New Holland TK Methane Power crawler vineyard tractors with biomethane-fuelled FPT Industrial F28 natural gas engines. The tractors will work in the... [Read More]

BioStar Renewables’ San Bernardino Organic Energy Solutions (OES) waste-to-energy project site has completed synchronisation with Southern California Edison’s distribution system. The company’s OES plant will divert 100,000+ tons of pre-consumer food waste per year from the Coachella and Lambs Canyon landfills. The project will generate 20,000,000+ kWh of electricity... [Read More]

BrewDog has signed off on a £14 million (€16.2 million) investment into an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility at its headquarters in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. According to a LinkedIn post by BrewDog’s CEO and co-founder, James Watt, the AD plant will convert BrewDog’s organic process waste to site-generated biomethane, replacing all of its grid gas, and reduce... [Read More]

ORLEN Południe has revealed plans to build a biomethane production facility in Poland. The plant will manufacture around 7 million m3 of biogas annually. Daniel Obajtek, president of the management board of PKN ORLEN, said: “We are pursuing innovative business, which will allow the ORLEN Group and the Polish economy to develop in a sustainable manner. “As the... [Read More]

Clean Energy Fuels has opened an RNG fuelling station in Whittier, California. The station is owned by the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD) and Clean Energy designed, constructed, and will operate it. The firm will provide RNG to fuel heavy-duty trucks and other medium-duty vehicles in the region, including LACSD’s vehicles. Chad Lindholm, vice-president... [Read More]

Italian firm BTS Biogas is expanding into the US, launching newly-formed subsidiary BTS North America (BTS NA). BTS NA will serve as the official technology provider to Bioenergy Devco (BDC). Together, the companies will facilitate the finance, design, engineering, construction, and operation of sustainable, resilient anaerobic digestion (AD) projects across the US. BTS... [Read More]

UGI Utilities, a subsidiary of UGI Corporation, has signed an agreement with Archaea Energy to bring RNG into its distribution system. The RNG will come from the Keystone Landfill in Dunmore, Pennsylvania and be injected into UGI Utilities’ high-pressure natural gas pipeline, serving its distribution system in Lackawanna County. This is the first RNG supply interconnect... [Read More]