Jun 17, 2021
Waga secures second landfill gas-to-RNG contract in Quebec
Biogas News
Jun 17, 2021
A town in Norfolk, UK will become one of the first to be supplied mainly with green gas from an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant.
As part of a £17 million (€19.8 million) upgrade project by Privilege Finance, 100,000 tonnes of food waste collected from local households and businesses will be processed by the AD plant, to produce green gas for use in 4,000 homes in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 17, 2021
The Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA) said it is “disappointed and dismayed” that a recent report fails to recognise the potential and role of biofuels and biogas as part of transport decarbonisation plans.
The Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action in Ireland (Oireachtas Committee) published its report on ‘Reducing emissions in the transport sector... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 16, 2021
Anaerobic digestion (AD) has been included in plans for a new Scottish distillery site.
Jackson Distillers will establish the new grain distillery in the Scottish Borders to meet the growing demand for grain whisky, used for Scotch whisky blending and a Scottish neutral-grain spirit, for gin and vodka.
Plans have been submitted to establish the distillery at Charlesfield... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 16, 2021
Future Biogas is planning to build 25 new biogas plants by 2028 with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capabilities.
The news forms part of the company’s announcement that it intends to float on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.
The company currently operates 10 biogas plants in the UK on behalf of various investment entities, including JLEN Environmental... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 16, 2021
Food company Valio and energy company St1 are establishing a joint venture (JV) to produce renewable biogas from dairy farm manure and other agricultural by-products for use as a transport fuel.
The new company is targeting up to 1,000 GWh of biogas production by 2030, the amount is one-third of the biogas needed for Finland’s fossil-free transport roadmap.
Significant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 15, 2021
DMT Clear Gas Solutions’s RNG facility at Seabreeze Farm in Canada is now operational.
The third-generation dairy farm owned by the Keulen family in British Columbia was previously using water wash technology to convert biogas into RNG. Now, the RNG facility uses DMT’s three-stage membrane separation technology, the Carborex® MS.
“We’ve been making manure... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 15, 2021
California Bioenergy (CalBio) has brought two new dairy biomethane projects online.
The South Tulare and North Visalia clusters, both located in Tulare County, are the third and fourth dairy biomethane projects brought online by CalBio in the state of California, joining Kern County and Tulare County.
The South Tulare project will collect, condition, and inject gas... [Read More]
Biomass News
Jun 14, 2021
Markus Süßman is the head of special projects at German energy company, Danpower. Having studied energy engineering and worked in the bioenergy sector since 1992, Süßman certainly knows a thing or two about the industry.
Danpower supplies heat, cooling, power and wood pellets to more than 250,000 homes, public institutions, and commercial customers in more than... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 14, 2021
Snam4Mobility's hybrid natural gas and biomethane Toyota C-HR car will cover around 25,000 kilometres in a ‘symbolic’ journey connecting Italy and Japan.
On 10 June, the ‘Rpipartiamo Insieme, Milano-Cortina-Tokyo 2021’ trip began, which will see the car embarking on a journey that will connect the cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzom, locations of the 2026... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 14, 2021
Naturgy has become the first company to inject renewable gas from landfill into Spain’s gas distribution network.
The renewable gas plant, located in the Parc de l’Alba de Cerdanyola del Vallés, Barcelona, next to the Elena waste site, received a €2.2 million investment.
With this installation, Naturgy demonstrates its ability to carry out this type of project... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 11, 2021
J V Energen’s newly installed carbon capture facility in Dorset, UK was officially opened by the Prince of Wales on 9 June.
The facility supplies green CO2 to its new joint venture business BioCarbonics, having been captured from a full-scale anaerobic digestion (AD) and biomethane-to-grid plant.
The CO2 produced at J V Energen’s Rainbarrow Farm AD plant is processed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 10, 2021
Blue Planet Environmental Solutions, based in Singapore, has acquired Qube Renewables, a firm specialising in biogas systems.
Marking its third acquisition this year, Qube Renewables has a successful track record in designing, building and deploying small-scale energy generating systems powered by biogas. These systems are especially suited to rural areas or developing... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 9, 2021
Biodegradable wastes will be collected from a new £20 million (€23 million) cheese project in Wales and turned into biogas.
Thanks to Welsh Government funding, the new project – Mona Island Dairy Factory - will produce Welsh and continental cheeses in a 25,000 square-foot facility based in Mona Industrial Park on Anglesey.
A £3 million (€3.4 million) grant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 9, 2021
Wessex Water trucks powered by sewage and food waste will hit UK roads this summer.
Each truck converted from diesel to biomethane achieves a carbon saving equivalent to removing more than 100 cars from the road.
Following in the footsteps of Bristol’s famous ‘poo bus’, which was the first in the UK to powered by biomethane, the new heavy goods vehicles (HGVs)... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 8, 2021
Irish firm Henderson Foodservice has unveiled a new £16 million (€18.5 million) warehouse facility and announced anaerobic digestion (AD) plans.
The new facility forms part of an ongoing re-development of Henderson Group’s Mallusk complex, which began last year.
The Foodservice team has accelerated the move to the 190,000 square-foot ambient and chilled distribution... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 8, 2021
AvantiGas, part of UGI International, has received its first delivery of bio-LPG from Ekobenz under their new partnership.
Ekobenz specialises in the catalytic conversion of bioethanol to bio-gasoline and bio-LPG. Based in Poland, it is the first and currently only company in Europe that has successfully commercialised bio-LPG production based on advanced bioethanol... [Read More]
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