Feb 8, 2021
Amazon US orders hundreds of CNG trucks
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2021
San Diego County has opened its first anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in Escondido.
According to a report by the Escondido Times Advocate, on 1 February, the facility was able to receive residential green waste, formed of food waste and garden waste from homes, as well as industrial and commercial operations.
On 28 November 2018, the city’s Recycling and Waste... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2021
Trinity Organics has received £14 million (€15.9 million) from Dutch green energy investment company Perpetual Next to develop a biogas plant.
Work is now underway to build the anaerobic digestion (AD) facility on a three-acre brownfield site in Ellesmere Port, UK. The plant, expected to be operational by the summer, will operate ‘around-the-clock’ to digest... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2021
Clean Energy Fuels has signed a multi-year contract with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Authority (LA Metro) to supply renewable natural gas (RNG).
Under the agreement, Clean Energy will supply 47.5 million gallons of its RNG to fuel the nation’s largest transit bus fleet.
The agreement will mark the completion of Metro’s five-year goal to transition its... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 5, 2021
Caulmert has been chosen to provide planning, engineering, environmental and project management advice to Logik Developments for a £100 million (€114 million) waste-to-energy and biogas project in Flintshire, UK.
Energy company EQTEC agreed a deal in December to purchase and develop land at Deeside Industrial Estate. The site currently has planning permission for... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 5, 2021
JLEN Environmental Assets has acquired Codford Biogas, which holds the rights and operational assets that form the Codford anaerobic digestion (AD) plant.
Codford Biogas’ AD plant in Wiltshire, UK, processes 100,000 tonnes of food waste per year and supplies up to 4,000 homes via the UK power grid.
The acquisition is structured as an initial upfront payment, including... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 5, 2021
Marvel Power Group has joined the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas, joining 280 companies and organisations across the US.
Marvel Power is a woman-owned advisory and brokerage platform focused on structuring high-volume, financeable biogas offtake contracts and investment agreements, with more than 25 years of experience.
“We are thrilled to join an esteemed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 3, 2021
UGI International, a major liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distributor, has entered into a new supply and development partnership with Ekobenz, a Polish technology specialist in catalytic conversion of bioethanol to biogasoline, and bio-LPG.
Under the agreement, UGI International, a subsidiary of UGI Corporation, has secured the exclusive rights to Ekobenz’ supply of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 2, 2021
Verbio will open two straw biomethane plants in India and the US this year.
In a statement released on 29 January discussing the company’s 2019/2020 financial year results, Verbio said the market conditions for its expansion projects in Asia and North America are “extremely positive”, and revealed the new facilities will open this autumn.
Claus Sauter, CEO... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 1, 2021
Black Dog Biogas, the owner and operator of an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Newport on the Isle of Wight will supply renewable electricity to Vestas, a wind blade manufacturing facility.
The project, led by Black Dog Biogas and its manager Earth Capital, will supply low-carbon electricity to Vestas’ 221.2 square-foot plant. The facility employs more than 600... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 29, 2021
Vow ASA, a specialist provider of decarbonisation technology and ArcelorMittal, a major steel and mining firm, have partnered to build a biogas plant in Luxembourg.
The two firms signed a strategic memorandum of understanding to build a biogas plant that will reduce CO2 emissions produced during the steelmaking process.
Vow ASA’s subsidiary ETIA and ArcelorMittal... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 27, 2021
Around 15 million school dinners have been discarded following new lockdown restrictions in the UK.
Primary and secondary schools have closed across the UK in the nation’s third lockdown. With perishable meal items and ingredients ordered weeks in advance, schools across the UK have had no choice but to discard tonnes of perfectly edible food.
Unfortunately in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 27, 2021
A new policy paper by the Gas for Climate consortium has been published, providing an analysis-based rationale on why an 11% renewable gas target is needed to meet the EU’s climate goals.
The paper follows last year’s Gas for Climate Gas Decarbonisation Pathways 2020-2050 report, which showed how additional policy measures are needed to scale-up biomethane and green... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 27, 2021
MET Group, through its 51% joint venture PEPO Energy, has launched a 1.2 MW biogas plant in Serbia.
PEPO Energy, a joint venture between Swiss energy firm MET Group and Arhar Teh, a local firm in the north-eastern Serbian town of Novo Milosevo, has commenced operations at the green energy plant which uses agricultural biomass for biogas production, in turn generating... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 27, 2021
Frozen food distribution firm Reed Boardall has installed a new bio-LNG refuelling station at its base in Boroughbridge, UK.
Owned and operated by Gasrec, the fully-scalable, skid-mounted station designed by Dutch LNG firm LIQAL will fuel an initial fleet of 30 Volvo FH LNG 6x2 tractor units. The opening of the site is a major step in Reed Boardall’s strategy to transition... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 26, 2021
As part of Detroit-based DTE Energy’s 2050 net-zero commitment, DTE Gas will offer customers a new way to reduce their carbon footprint through renewable natural gas (RNG).
The programme, called CleanVision Natural Gas Balance, is the first in the nation to include both carbon offsets and RNG. It is focused on protecting Michigan forests that naturally absorb greenhouse... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 25, 2021
Gasum is aiming to reduce carbon emissions by a million tons by increasing biogas availability.
By 2025, the company intends to make 4 TWh of biogas available on the market from its own production and that of certified European partners.
In its own operations, Gasum aims to reduce the emissions in liquefied natural gas (LNG) and biogas production chains and implement... [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
