May 20, 2021
HZI to build second Kompogas plant in Peloponnese
Biogas News
May 19, 2021
FCC Environment has signed a contract with East Lothian Council in Scotland to provide food waste recycling and collections.
From 1 May, FCC took over the services for some 54,000 properties in East Lothian.
Steve Longdon, operations director of FCC, said: “The last 14 months have been hard for everyone, but as key workers we had to carry on, proving the resilience... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 18, 2021
Several UK bioenergy projects under the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will be granted a 12-month extension, in a move that supports the nation’s decarbonisation goals.
The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy has increased the budget cap for non-Tariff Guarantee Extensions under the Non-Domestic RHI.
Welcomed by the Association... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 17, 2021
Southern Company Gas has taken ownership of the Meadow Branch Landfill Methane Recovery Facility, a renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in Tennessee, US.
The facility is located at the Meadow Branch Landfill in Athens, run by sister company PowerSource. The plant is now operated by Southern Company Gas Renewables, a new subsidiary dedicated to growing Southern Company... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 17, 2021
Renewable gases such as biomethane and hydrogen will play a key role in helping Ireland meet its net-zero by 2050 target, according to a new report.
The ‘Hydrogen4EU – Charting pathways to enable net-zero’ report, released on Tuesday, assessed the most effective mix of hydrogen technologies to be deployed across different geographies and sectors in Europe, including... [Read More]
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]
Biogas News
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]
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Egypt is pressing ahead with a new biogas initiative in Beni Suef Governorate aimed at converting agricultural and animal waste into renewable energy
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