Feb 25, 2021
Host invests in its own biogas plants to process manure
Biogas News
Feb 25, 2021
Deciding to build an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Pontefract that can accept a wide range of feedstocks has ‘paid off’ for a UK firm.
Feedstock flexibility has enabled Lanes Farm Energy’s AD facility to continue functioning throughout its first year of operations, despite the challenges posed by COVID-19.
Ted Sultan, director at the plant, explained... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2021
Vogelsang grew its revenue by around 7% in 2020, driven by growth in agricultural technology and biogas markets.
The company, based in Essen, Germany, grew its revenue to €134 million, despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By launching new products such as the XRipper XRG macerator for sewers and the UniSpread universal linkage, and adding greater... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2021
The Coalition for the Energy of the Future has unveiled its first seven concrete actions, including on biogas and hydrogen, and welcomed three new members.
Launched in late 2019, the Coalition aims at accelerating the development of future energies and technologies to sustain green energy models and reduce the impact of transport and logistics on climate change.
Airbus,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2021
Biogest is to build a 190 kW agricultural and food waste biogas plant in South Korea.
The project, close to Daegu in the south of the country, will be developed with HC Energy and DoBangYukJong Farm and is supported by the Changnyeong-gun city office.
The Biogest PowerRing biogas plant, fed with pig slurry and food waste, will be an important reference plant to attract... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 23, 2021
Bio-LNG provides ‘significant’ greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions and is already being introduced in shipping, according to SEA-LNG.
Just 10% of drop-in bio-LNG with LNG provides around two years of additional compliance under Poseidon Principles measures, a global framework for the decarbonisation of shipping. Both fuels can be used interchangeably with existing LNG... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 23, 2021
FPT Industrial has helped an Italian winery to produce the world’s first zero-emissions wine, using biomethane.
The company helped Fontanafredda, a winery founded by the first King of Italy in 1858, by supplying two New Holland TK Methane Power crawler vineyard tractors with biomethane-fuelled FPT Industrial F28 natural gas engines.
The tractors will work in the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 23, 2021
BioStar Renewables’ San Bernardino Organic Energy Solutions (OES) waste-to-energy project site has completed synchronisation with Southern California Edison’s distribution system.
The company’s OES plant will divert 100,000+ tons of pre-consumer food waste per year from the Coachella and Lambs Canyon landfills.
The project will generate 20,000,000+ kWh of electricity... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 23, 2021
BrewDog has signed off on a £14 million (€16.2 million) investment into an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility at its headquarters in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
According to a LinkedIn post by BrewDog’s CEO and co-founder, James Watt, the AD plant will convert BrewDog’s organic process waste to site-generated biomethane, replacing all of its grid gas, and reduce... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 22, 2021
ORLEN Południe has revealed plans to build a biomethane production facility in Poland. The plant will manufacture around 7 million m3 of biogas annually.
Daniel Obajtek, president of the management board of PKN ORLEN, said: “We are pursuing innovative business, which will allow the ORLEN Group and the Polish economy to develop in a sustainable manner.
“As the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 19, 2021
Clean Energy Fuels has opened an RNG fuelling station in Whittier, California.
The station is owned by the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (LACSD) and Clean Energy designed, constructed, and will operate it. The firm will provide RNG to fuel heavy-duty trucks and other medium-duty vehicles in the region, including LACSD’s vehicles.
Chad Lindholm, vice-president... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 19, 2021
Italian firm BTS Biogas is expanding into the US, launching newly-formed subsidiary BTS North America (BTS NA).
BTS NA will serve as the official technology provider to Bioenergy Devco (BDC). Together, the companies will facilitate the finance, design, engineering, construction, and operation of sustainable, resilient anaerobic digestion (AD) projects across the US.
BTS... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 19, 2021
UGI Utilities, a subsidiary of UGI Corporation, has signed an agreement with Archaea Energy to bring RNG into its distribution system.
The RNG will come from the Keystone Landfill in Dunmore, Pennsylvania and be injected into UGI Utilities’ high-pressure natural gas pipeline, serving its distribution system in Lackawanna County. This is the first RNG supply interconnect... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 19, 2021
Granville Ecopark has introduced two new CNG-powered trucks to its operations, the first of their kind in Northern Ireland.
The new IVECO Stralis NP trucks will be fuelled by food waste-derived biomethane, produced through anaerobic digestion.
Dubbed their ‘Smart Loop Lorries’, Granville Ecopark’s new vehicles and AD technology create a circular economy, where... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 18, 2021
Brightmark and Chevron U.S.A have expanded their previously announced joint venture, Brightmark RNG Holdings, to own projects across the US to produce and market dairy biomethane (RNG).
Brightmark RNG Holdings’ subsidiaries currently own RNG projects in Western New York, Western Michigan, Central Florida, and South Dakota.
Additional equity investments by each... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 18, 2021
NGVAmerica has released its Fuel a Greener Future report, outlining the significant benefits of RNG-fuelled fleets.
RNG-fuelled medium and heavy-duty vehicles are commercially available, proven, and affordable, the organisation said. Depending on the feedstock, they can be carbon-free or carbon-negative.
Commercial pickups and vans, refuse trucks, transit buses,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 18, 2021
Greenlane Renewables’ wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenlane Biogas North America, has signed two RNG contracts for $2.8 million (€2.3 million).
The first contract involves a project in the mid-western US for upgrading biogas to RNG from dairy operations. The Brazilian contract win marks the fifth contract for Greenlane for the supply of biogas upgrading equipment in... [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
