May 17, 2021
Biomethane, hydrogen will play key role in decarbonising Ireland, report shows
Biogas News
May 17, 2021
Canada is now home to 279 biogas projects following a decade of ‘rapid growth’, according to recent figures.
In its Canadian 2020 Biogas Market Report, the Canadian Biogas Association (CBA) reported that the sector grew by almost 50% between 2011 and 2020.
The 279 projects currently operational in the country are capturing waste methane from agricultural waste,... [Read More]
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May 14, 2021
CNG Fuels will open the world’s largest public access biomethane refuelling station for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) near Bristol, UK.
The new station, due to open by the end of the year, will allow fleet operators to run their vehicles on low-carbon fuel, support net-zero plans, and save money.
Construction has begun on the station in Avonmouth, near the M4/M5... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
Gasum is developing new concepts to recover and recycle the nutrients in wastewater sludges.
Biogas has a key role in recycling the nutrients in sludges and the production of renewable transport fuel as part of energy-efficient sludge processing. The processing of wastewater sludge and recovery of nutrients in concentrated, high-quality forms has been an active subject... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
Torsten Fischer has been active in the biogas sector for more than 30 years. In 1999, together with Andreas Krieg, he founded Krieg & Fischer Ingenieure, an engineering company that provides tailor-made solutions for biogas plants to clients all over the world.
Most of the company’s plants are located in Germany, but it has extensive experience in dealing with... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
Sapphire Gas Solutions, a Texas, US-based LNG and CNG solutions company, has entered the renewable natural gas (RNG) market.
The firm was recently awarded the transportation and logistics contracts for seven farm-based RNG operations in central California. The farms are not connected to local gas pipeline infrastructure. This created a need to compress and deliver the... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) has partnered with Cesaro Mac Import (CMI) to build a Kompogas® biogas plant in Italy.
The plant, which will utilise dry anaerobic digestion (AD) technology, will be built 140 kilometres south of Milan under the lead of CMI, which has extensive experience in the Italian waste management sector, for Iren Group.
The installation – the 100th... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 14, 2021
Royal Mail is adding 29 biogas-powered trucks to its fleet.
In the coming weeks, the bio-CNG fuelled trucks, will be introduced to the company’s fleet in the North West of England, in addition to the two already in operation.
At 40 tonnes, the gas-powered trucks, fuelled by bio-CNG, are a similar size to a typical Royal Mail heavy goods vehicle (HGV). The vehicles... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 13, 2021
Archaea Energy’s Boyd County Sanitary landfill gas-to-RNG project in Kentucky, US is now fully operational.
The project, developed in partnership with Rumpke Waste & Recycling, is located in Ashland, Kentucky, and can now produce 2,300 MMBtu per day of pipeline-quality RNG, providing a reliable source of feedstock and transforming the site into a renewable energy... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 13, 2021
BayoTech has signed a memorandum of understanding with Element 2, a UK-based venture capital-backed deployer of hydrogen refuelling stations and hydrogen fuel retailer.
Under the agreement, the two firms will collaborate on several projects linking hydrogen production to end-users. Initially focused on the commercial fleet transport industry, the companies will reduce... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 12, 2021
Chevron U.S.A is investing an additional $20 million (€16.4 million) in Clean Energy Fuels Corp’s Adopt-a-Port initiative.
Chevron has now invested a total of $28 million (€23 million) in the initiative, which provides truck operators – large fleets and owner-operators – serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with cleaner, carbon-negative renewable... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 11, 2021
Ingevity Corporation has announced a strategic partnership with and investment in GreenGasUSA, an integrated RNG solutions provider.
With this investment, announced on 27 April, Ingevity now holds less than 50% ownership in GreenGas.
Based in Charleston, South Carolina, GreenGas contracts with agricultural farms, landfills, and industrial and municipal wastewater... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 11, 2021
A multi-disciplinary team at Teagasc, a state agency providing research, advisory and education in agriculture, horticulture, food, and rural development in Ireland, has held the first online meeting of the technical working group for a new anaerobic digestion (AD) project called FLEET.
FLEET will identify farm-scale, landscape-level and national-level economic and... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 11, 2021
Energy firm St1 Norge has partnered with Nor-log Gruppen and Knapphus Energi to build a network of biogas filling points in Norway.
St1 Norge, a subsidiary of Nordic energy company St1 Nordic Oy, has signed an agreement with Knapphus og Biogrønn to purchase 33.33% of the shares in the company Biogas Energi Aksdal. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval.
St1’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 11, 2021
Weltec Biopower is building a biomethane plant for Spanish dairy farm Torre Santamaria.
Since the first 250 kW biogas plant went live in 2011, the Catalan family business has covered its entire energy demand from its residues. The farm was the first milk producer in Spain to use any residual materials to produce energy.
The investment in the new renewable natural... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 10, 2021
Yarra Valley Water’s waste to energy facility has processed 100,000 tonnes of food waste, enough to fill 40 Olympic sized swimming pools.
The emissions saved are equal to removing more than 45,000 cars from the road in Victoria, Australia, for a year, with enough renewable electricity produced to power Yarra Valley Water’s head office for 11 years.
This major... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 10, 2021
Brightmark broke ground on the Caballero Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) project on 4 May.
The project includes the construction of new anaerobic digesters at Caballero Dairy Farms, an 8,800 animal farm in Eloy, Arizona.
On completion of the project, the digesters are expected to generate 214 MMBtu of RNG daily. The gas will be delivered into the El Paso Natural Gas... [Read More]
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Germany's Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has awarded a total of 187.3 megawatts (MW) to 244 biomass projects in the latest round of its competitive tendering process
Veolia and Waga Energy have inaugurated a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the Granges landfill site in Burgundy, eastern France
Repsol is preparing to begin producing biomethane and hydrogen at its industrial complex in Sines, Portugal, with operations expected to start in 2026
