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Large-scale production of biomethane and green and blue hydrogen is important to achieve 55% emissions reductions by 2030, according to a new study.
The Gas for Climate consortium published the Gas Decarbonisation Pathway 2020-2050 study by Guidehouse (formerly Navigant), analysing the transition towards the lowest-cost climate-neutral system by 2050.
The study highlights that additional…
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The use of biomethane as a transportation fuel has increased by 291% in the US since 2015, according to recent figures.
Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) and the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) said RNG, which is captured above ground from organic material in agricultural, wastewater, landfill or food waste, produces carbon-neutral and even carbon-negative…
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U.S. Gain has completed a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at Clover Hill Dairy in Campbellsport, Wisconsin.
The new gas processing plant uses anaerobic digestion to generate biogas from dairy waste. Once extracted, the non-methane components of the biogas are removed so the methane can be used as a fuel or energy source. The Clover Hill project improves access to RNG for the…
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The Port of Seattle Commission has approved a 10-year supply contract with U.S. Gain for renewable natural gas (RNG). The move will enable the port to reach its 2030 goal to reduce carbon emissions by 50% almost a decade early.
The 'long-sought major milestone' was voted on at the Commission meeting on 14 April. The $23 million (€21.1 million) contract allows the port to purchase enough fuel…
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Capstone Turbine Corporation (Capstone), a clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, has received an order for its 800 kW C800 Signature Series for a biogas project in Japan.
The project in the city of Handa in Aichi Prefecture will utilise agricultural and animal waste to generate clean energy for the Biokursix Handa biogas power generation facility. Kanamoto, Capstone's…
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Biogest has received an order to build an agricultural biogas plant near Ankara, Turkey. The project in Akyurt is the company's first biogas plant in Turkey and was developed in cooperation with Enerlinc.
After successfully entering the Asian market with biogas plants built in India and South Korea, this new Biogest PowerRing biogas facility is another milestone for the company's projects in…
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The UK Government has granted planning permission for Cory Energy's Riverside Energy Park development near London.
The Energy Park will be situated next to Cory Energy's existing energy recovery facility in Belvedere, on the banks of the River Thames. It will feature an additional energy recovery facility, as well as an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility for food and green waste, solar power…
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Clean, low-carbon gas-powered heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) have overtaken fossil-powered trucks, according to the Gas Vehicle Network (GVN).
GVN's 2018 statistics show that 55.5% of gas for transport fuel was biomethane; the organisation expects this to rise again in the 2019 figures. Foster said: Mike Foster, head of GVN, said renewable gas-powered vehicles are an "obvious, sustainable choice…
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Orbital Gas Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CUI Global, has been awarded a contract to design, produce and commission its first-ever biomethane-to-grid plants for the UK water industry.
Orbital received the contract from a major UK energy provider. The agreement covers the provision of an initial biomethane grid entry unit (GEU) followed by a second unit, both valued at around $550,000…
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The new renewable gas offloading station at Dane County landfill in Wisconsin will receive its first load of biogas this week.
In April 2019, a biogas upgrading facility opened at the Dane County landfill to convert waste and cow manure into renewable natural gas (RNG), to be injected into the natural gas pipeline and used as a transport fuel.
The RNG offloading station, built alongside the…
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In March, EDL Energy, Kinetrex Energy and South Side Landfill celebrated the opening of the Indy High BTU plant, which will convert landfill methane gas into renewable natural gas (RNG).
The plant, which is now fully operational, will convert the methane into around 8 million gallons of pipeline-quality RNG annually, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Central Indiana, developing a…
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South Africa-based wastewater solutions company Talbot has installed the first Econvert Eco Digester on the African continent.
Econvert Water and Energy, Talbot's technology partner, is a European specialist in the delivery of anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas water treatment solutions. Talbot has the exclusive rights to the technology across Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.
The AD…
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The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has provided recommendations for prioritising waste collection services, listing food waste as a high priority.
According to DEFRA, it is 'non-statutory guidance' to help local authorities to maintain services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On food waste, the government body said that where food waste is collected weekly,…
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Austrian firm Biogest has signed a cooperation agreement with Spanish firm Biologist SC SLU for further expansion in the Spanish market.
Biologist leads process integration projects under the concepts of a circular green economy in various locations in the Iberian Peninsula. According to Biogest, which has worked on projects in the UK, France, India, South Korea and Croatia, to name but a few,…
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Finnish-Swiss biotech company Ductor is building three combined biofertiliser-biogas facilities in northern Poland.
The new facilities will be built in Poland's Zachodniopomorskie region, approximately 100km off the coast of the Baltic Sea. The plants will use 100% poultry waste to create renewable electricity and organic nitrogen fertiliser, helping to significantly reduce greenhouse gas…
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