The four-day 2022 Biogas Americas conference kicked off on May 24 at the Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa in Las Vegas and is set to be the largest event yet for the US biogas and renewable natural gas (RNG) industry, with more than 1,000 attendees.  The annual conference and tradeshow is presented by the American Biogas Council (ABC) and provides an opportunity... [Read More]

German biogas tank producer Lipp has entered into a tie-up with Mapua University to research new feedstock for producing biogas. The German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GPCCI) said Lipp will donate biogas yield testing equipment to Mapua to support its research. “Close collaboration between industry and academia is a cornerstone of Germany’s higher... [Read More]

A development team from CoorsTek Membrane Sciences, in collaboration with international research partners, have successfully used ceramic membrane technology to develop a scalable hydrogen generator that makes hydrogen from electricity and fuels including natural gas, biogas and ammonia with near zero energy loss. “Energy efficiency is key to the future of hydrogen... [Read More]

The European Commission has pledged €37 billion to increase biomethane production. The news was announced this week as part of the €300bmn RePowerEU plan to stop Russian energy imports and move to green energy by the end of the decade. Under the plans, a new biomethane action plan will see the development of biomethane industrial partnerships across the sector,... [Read More]

California-based Kore has developed a new way to produce hydrogen from biogas. It claims the new method could potentially provide hydrogen for less than $2 per kg. “We produce biogas and biochar from biogenic feedstocks and the resulting biogas contains hydrogen, carbon monoxide, methane and carbon dioxide,” Kore's executive vice president of business development,... [Read More]

A gasification pioneer aims to seal the UK’s low-carbon future after winning a government grant worth nearly £300,000 to develop waste-to-hydrogen production technology, innovation funding specialist Catax can reveal.  Compact Syngas Solutions (CSS), based in Deeside, Wales, has secured £299,886 from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy... [Read More]

Coca-Cola HBC Italia (CCHBC) has announced the creation of a consortium made up of its main hauliers Italtrans, Number1, Casilli Enterprise and Favaro Servizi, London-based energy transition adviser Ikigai Capital (IKIGAI) and green energy development company NVA, to decarbonise its road transport operations using biomethane and hydrogen as part of their 2040 net-zero... [Read More]

Brazilian biogas producers and piped gas distributors are joining efforts to find ways to develop more biomethane supply and overcome obstacles to agreements with local distributors.Brazilian piped gas distributors association Abegás and Brazilian biogas producer's association Abiogas are jointly studying how to expand biomethane production and create conditions for gas... [Read More]

Aemetis Inc has released first quarter 2022 financial results, confirming that the company’s corn ethanol plant in Keyes, California, is operating at near capacity and discussing progress with the company’s biogas, renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and carbon capture projects.  Andy Foster, president of Aemetis Advanced Fuels and Aemetis Biogas,... [Read More]

PT Pertamina (Persero), Indonesia’s state-owned energy company has signed a cooperation agreement with three Japanese gas companies to conduct a feasibility study on biogas production from palm oil mill effluent (POME) upgrading it to biomethane (renewable natural gas - RNG) and potentially liquefying it to bioLNG in Indonesia.  This project, which was signed at... [Read More]

The HoSt Group said it is “very excited to kick off business in the US” with three new biogas projects at dairy farms in upstate New York and Ohio to be realised in close cooperation with SJI Renewable Energy Ventures and Rev LNG.   With these biogas projects in the dairy sector and the local office in Vancouver, HoSt North America said it “will have a strong... [Read More]

Hitachi Zosen Inova BioMethan, on behalf of VERBIO, is taking on the construction of a biomethane gas upgrading unit at VERBIO’s site in Zörbig, Germany.   The biomethane produced by VERBIO will in future be liquefied in a bioLNG installation and marketed as vehicle fuel. The project partners see this as a decisive step towards reduced dependence on fossil fuels... [Read More]

The European Biogas Association (EBA), representing nearly 8,000 stakeholders across the whole biogas value chain in Europe, has appointed Anders Mathiasson as its new president. He will steer the work of the EBA for the period 2022-2025, together with eight board members: Piero Gattoni, Stefan Rauh, Philipp Lukas, Niels Peters, Michael Niederbacher, Erik Meers, Olivier... [Read More]

StormFisher and Modern Niagara have partnered to utilise renewable natural gas (RNG) as a carbon reduction solution for building infrastructure across Canada. The agreement allows Modern Niagara to acquire RNG from StormFisher's Ontario-based anaerobic digestion facility which produces biogas from food waste.  Instead of arriving at landfills, food waste obtained... [Read More]

Neste and United Airlines have announced that they have signed a new purchase agreement that provides United the right to buy up to 160,000 tonnes (52.5 million gallons) of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel over the next three years to fuel United flights at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and potentially other airports. With this agreement, United became the first US airline... [Read More]