Jun 3, 2021
Bright Biomethane to build biogas upgrading plant in Australia
Biogas News
Jun 2, 2021
Biogest has received orders to build two biomethane (RNG) plants using agricultural waste and by-products from chicken farms in western France.
Biomethane (RNG) production from animal, agricultural and food waste is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors of renewable energy, said Biogest.
The first project Enerfées is located close to Rennes, jointly run by the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 2, 2021
Pioneer Point Partners has confirmed its first two investments in an Irish biogas platform and a renewables platform in Spain.
From its maiden institutional fund, Pioneer Infrastructure Partners, the fund is committing €120 million to the two platforms.
Stream BioEnergy, a developer and operator of anaerobic digestion plants in Northern Ireland and the Republic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 2, 2021
Macquarie Asset Management has agreed to acquire Beauparc Utilities, a recycling and processing-led waste-to-resource business based in Ireland.
Through the Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 6, Macquarie will acquire Beauparc from founder Eamon Waters and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Fund.
Beauparc holds a market-leading position across Ireland and a significant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 2, 2021
Gasum’s biogas plant in Lohja, Finland has officially been opened by Jari Leppä, the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.
The Lohja facility uses biodegradable waste from the Helsinki region to produce renewable biogas and organic recycled fertiliser, suitable for organic farming. Demand for renewable biogas is constantly growing and with it the need for organic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2021
Wärtsilä has been selected to supply a biogas liquefaction plant to Norway-based Biokraft.
The plant for Biokraft, a subsidiary of the Scandinavian Biogas Group, will have a 25 tons-per-day (tpd) capacity and will extend an existing bio-LNG production plant in Skogn, also supplied by Wärtsilä, to a combined total of 50 tpd. This makes it the largest facility of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2021
Estes Express Lines, a major US freight carrier, has ordered a further 50 natural gas-powered trucks from Hexagon Agility.
The trucks use Hexagon’s 175 diesel gallon equivalent (DGE) ProCab CNG/RNG fuel systems. Estes’s new trucks will be equipped with Cummins-Westport near-zero-emissions natural gas engines and Hexagon’s integrated Blue iQ system.
Estes has... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jun 1, 2021
Toronto Zoo’s biogas plant is now operational, transforming manure and food waste into bioenergy and fertiliser.
ZooShare, a community cooperative led by Daniel Bida, pitched its proposal to zoo officials in October 2010. The concept had already been introduced in Munich but had not yet been trialled in North America.
According to Toronto.com, getting ZooShare’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 28, 2021
Volvo Cars’s manufacturing facility in Torslanda, Sweden, is now ‘climate-neutral’.
Volvo Cars counts a manufacturing site as fully climate-neutral when it registers no net increase in the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere as a result of the electricity and heating used by the plant.
The Torslanda facility, the company’s oldest site,... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 28, 2021
Gasrec is celebrating a milestone achievement after collecting the 10,000th tanker load of LNG from the National Grid facility on the Isle of Grain (Grain LNG), east of London.
Demand for LNG in the road transport sector has rocketed in recent years as operators continue to seek out environmentally-friendly alternatives to diesel. The off-grid industrial sector has... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 28, 2021
EnviTec Biogas and Liqvis have signed an agreement for the supply of bio-LNG.
EnviTec Bioenergie Güstrow, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EnviTec Biogas, will start supplying Liqvis with bio-LNG from the third quarter of next year.
From autumn 2022, bio-LNG will be produced at the biogas plant in Güstrow. To date, this plant has been used to produce biomethane and... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 28, 2021
Ductor and Enagás have formed a new partnership to explore biogas opportunities in Spain.
The two companies reached an agreement for an undisclosed but ‘substantial’ investment by Enagás Emprende, a corporate venture arm of Spanish gas infrastructure company, Enagás.
Enagás Emprende invests in and accelerates start-ups and innovative technologies in the field... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 27, 2021
BayoTech and IBMS Group will launch the UK’s first renewable hydrogen project using biomethane from food waste as a feedstock.
The project will produce 1,000 kilograms of renewable hydrogen per day to fuel zero-emission vehicles in London and Surrey.
The partnership timed its public debut to support the launch of the CBI’s ‘Seize the Moment’ initiative and... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 27, 2021
Ronja Capital II, Stette Invest and Kjølås Stansekniver have collectively acquired a 23.3% stake in Norwegian biogas company, Hyperthermics.
Hyperthermics delivers compact systems that work as ‘boosters’ in biogas production, as well as systems that produce saleable proteins from different types of biomass.
The technology was developed to increase biogas yields... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 26, 2021
Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Authority in Utica, New York, has recovered 11.5 million pounds (approximately 5,750 tons) of food waste since its launch in 2019.
The $3.4 million (€2.7 million) Food2Energy facility opened in May 2019 and recovers food waste, which makes up 22% of all municipal solid waste sent to landfill, furthering the region’s goal to conserve landfill... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 26, 2021
Australian energy infrastructure firm, Jemena, is calling for a renewable gas target to help achieve the country’s net-zero goals.
Jemena’s managing director, Frank Tudor, said a renewable gas target would likely replicate the success of the renewable energy target (RET) which helped to spur the development of renewable technologies in the electricity sector.
“This... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 26, 2021
Hive Energy has acquired 50% of Dutch green energy company, DBG Group, to develop biogas projects.
This partnership marks UK-based Hive’s latest progression in its mission to create transformational change for a cleaner future through partnering with circular economy companies.
In the first waste-to-energy project of the partnership, the companies will process... [Read More]
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Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, Gillian Martin MSP, has visited BrewDog’s anaerobic digestion (AD) and biomethane facility in Ellon
Tuas Power has announced plans to convert its Tembusu Multi-Utilities Complex (TMUC) on Jurong Island to run entirely on renewable biomass by 2028 — 22 years ahead of Singapore’s national decarbonisation timeline
Egypt’s Ministry of Environment, through the Bioenergy Foundation for Sustainable Development, has signed a cooperation agreement with Italian energy company Eni to advance biogas production and support the country’s clean energy transition
