Biogas News

The sale of Danish green energy producer Nature Energy is attracting initial interest from energy majors including BP and Shell, according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported. It claimed BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners and EQT AB are also considering submitting potential offers for the company, amid surging demand for alternative fuel sources. French utility Engie…
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Chipinge Town Council, Zimbabwe, has began a biogas digester project to produce biogas using biodegraded waste from the marketplace to meet the energy needs of local businesses and residents, according to The Manica Post. The project is conducted in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The bio-digester is 95% complete, and is expected to be commissioned in the near…
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Nottingham City Transport has taken delivery of its first new biogas double deck buses from its latest £7 million investment in 23 brand new buses. NCT already operates the world’s largest fleet of biogas double decks in the world at 120 buses. The biogas buses already run on three quarters of NCT’s double deck services, and the current fleet has covered over 15 million miles in…
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Anaergia has announced it has signed a contract to supply good waste treatment system for Singapore's Tuas Nexus Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF). Anaergia is an end-to-end solution provider for extracting organics from waste, implementing anaerobic digestion, upgrading biogas, producing feritiliser and cleaning water. The facility will be Singapore's first food waste treatment…
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Acorn Bioenergy hopes to build an anaerobic digestion plant on land at Fearn Aerodrome in Scotland - a former World War Two military air base. It proposes to build five digestion tanks as a means to convert agricultural waste into fuel. Parts of the site near Balintore are already an industrial estate. The plan would form part of a larger scheme  involving sites in Moray and Aberdeenshire,…
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NextChem has been awarded a contract by Storengy to deliver an advanced basic engineering study for a waste wood and solid recovered fuel conversion plant to produce biomethane. The final investment decision for the project is targeted as the end of 2022. Once it is granted the related permitting, NextChem - in association with another subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont - will be EPC contractor…
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Australia’s largest brick-making company Brickworks has said a final investment decision on whether to proceed with a $20 million-plus (€13.5m) bioenergy plant to help power a Sydney manufacturing facility is likely to occur in the next year as it steps up work on a project with ASX-listed Delorean Corporation. Brickworks and Delorean, a specialist operator in the field of bioenergy…
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Taiwan’s government aims for a climate-neutral economy by 2050 Together with its Asian partner Melchers Taiwan, the manufacturer WELTEC BIOPOWER is building a biogas plant in the south west of the island state. For the 360-kilowatt plant, the German biogas specialist is supplying a proven turnkey solution based on high-quality stainless steel technologies. WELTEC BIOPOWER is responsible…
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Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CP Foods) is promoting its Greenfarm practice among its own pig farms and contracted swine farmers, to harness energy from biogas and solar power in the quest to make the business more environmentally-friendly. All pig farms of CP Foods have installed biogas systems, and solar farms have been erected at some farms to ensure energy security and…
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The Indian government stated in a press release that it has set a target to raise the share of natural gas in the energy mix to 15 percent by 2030, from 6.3 percent currently. Rameswar Teli, minister of state for Petroleum and Natural Gas, said that several initiatives had been taken, including: Expansion of National Gas Grid to circa 33,500 km from the current 21,715 km Expansion of…
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Proposals for a renewable energy development in north Mayo, Ireland has received appeals to the country’s national independent planning body An Bord Pleanála. The proposed development, which has been approved by Mayo County Council, is an anaerobic digestion biogas facility and associated gas pipeline. It would use locally sourced silage and slurry as feedstock to generate biogas for…
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Gas produced from landfill waste entered Portugal’s supply network for the first time, through an innovative project underway in Mirandela, Bragança district. Duarte Cordeiro, Portugal’s minister of environment and climate action, was on site to witness the first injection of biomethane into the natural gas network. The moment took place in the Autonomous Gasification Unit…
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Anaergia has plans to construct a biogas plant in Kasaoka, Okayama for Toyo Energy Solution Company.  The facility will produce renewable electricity using biogas made by anaerobically digesting cow manure from Okayama Prefecture farms.  The plant will prevent about 13,500 tonnes of CO2e in emissions from the manure and from fossil fuels that would have been used to generate the power,…
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Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) has utilised new green technology for childbirth, marking a significant milestone in reducing nitrous oxide emissions. Nitrous oxide has been a critical aspect of healthcare delivery, and is commonly used in anaesthetics. However, studies have shown nitrous oxide has more than 265 times the global warming potential than carbon dioxide…
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