Sep 29, 2020
Keenan Recycling invests £4.5m in new collection vehicle fleet
Biogas News
Sep 28, 2020
Food waste recycler Warrens Group has welcomed the UK Government’s plans to increase biomethane production to heat around 230,000 homes.
On 22 September, the government launched a consultation on a Green Gas Levy, as part of its plans to scale-up biomethane, reduce emissions from the gas grid and help the UK reach its net-zero target.
Kevin Quigley, commercial... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 28, 2020
CalBioGas, a joint venture between California Bioenergy, Chevron U.S.A., and local dairy farmers, successfully produced its first renewable natural gas (RNG) from dairy farms in Kern County.
CalBioGas brings technology and operational experience to help build digesters and methane capture projects to convert methane into RNG. CalBioGas, dairy farmers, and Chevron are... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 23, 2020
Weltec Biopower is building a 7 MW biogas plant in South Korea.
The plant is being constructed in the province of Gyeonggi-do, 60 kilometres north of the capital, Seoul, and will convert biogas into heat via an integrated gas boiler.
It is hoped the plant will go live in spring 2021 and digest up to 93,000 tons of food waste annually, some of which will come from... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 23, 2020
Volvo Trucks is seeing an increased interest in gas as an alternative to diesel for heavy-duty truck operations in Europe.
Hauliers and transport buyers are increasingly interested in reducing their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and costs through the use of refrigerated liquefied gas as a fuel. As a result, the new Volvo FH and Volvo FM trucks will have engines that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 22, 2020
Privately-owned investment firm Fortistar and Rumpke Waste & Recycling have partnered on the Noble Road Landfill Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Project, a $33 million (€28 million) transportation decarbonisation project in Ohio, US.
The project will extract and capture waste methane from the Noble Road landfill in Shiloh, Ohio, and transform it into RNG. The RNG... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 22, 2020
The UK Government is planning to scale-up green gas (biomethane) production to heat around 230,000 homes, with more biomethane plants built as a result.
Supported by the new Green Gas Levy, the UK Government is helping people across the UK to ‘go green’ on their energy supplies.
With the potential to prevent as much as 21.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2)... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 22, 2020
Environmental engineering, wastewater treatment and renewable energy solutions firm BiON has acquired two biogas power plants from its associate firm Megagreen Energy (MGE).
The acquisition of the two biogas plants, Nasarudin and Seberang Perak (both in Malaysia), increase BiON’s installed capacity to 7 MW. The plants were acquired for MYR45.99m (€9.46 million).
Commercial... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 17, 2020
The Environmental Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) in Australia has granted a works approval for a second biogas facility at Melbourne Regional Landfill.
The facility will double the site’s capacity to destroy captured landfill gas generated by the decomposition of waste in the landfill, by burning it to generate around 68,000 MWh of electricity every year.
It... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 16, 2020
The AD and Biogas Industry Awards 2020 shortlist has been revealed.
The awards, run by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) and the World Biogas Association (WBA), recognise achievements in biogas innovation, clever use of outputs, international knowledge exchange and collaboration, financing and more.
Originally launched by ADBA in 2010 for... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 14, 2020
Powerzeek, a platform company offering an online market place for cleaner energy, has added liquefied biogas (LBG) to its marine fuel platform.
The addition follows requests from the shipping market, as well as Powerzeek’s mission to make it easier to source cleaner fuels.
Powerzeek launched its digital marine fuel platform in April. Since then, the firm has onboarded... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 14, 2020
Over 200 participants and more than 30 speakers attended the European Biogas Association’s (EBA) virtual conference on 1-4 September, including high-level industry representatives, policymakers, researchers, and journalists.
The discussion focused on the EU Green Deal and the potential to scale-up biomethane. According to the EBA, the biomethane industry has “huge... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 14, 2020
Green fuel generated from agricultural waste in Cornwall, UK, will be used to power the region’s road maintenance vehicle fleet.
Working with Cormac, which looks after the fleet, Cornwall Council has joined forces with six of its Cornwall Council Farms estate-owned dairy farms and a Cornish technology company to trial the production of an alternative green fuel made... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 10, 2020
On 25 August, Air Liquide and Shell signed an agreement giving heavy-duty trucks with the Shell card access to Air Liquide’s network of multi-energy stations in France. They will now be able to refuel with bio-NGV (biomethane).
Heavy-duty trucks with the Shell card crossing France will now be able to access Air Liquide’s network of stations on the French territory,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2020
Estes Express Lines, a major freight transportation carrier based in Virginia, US, will add 50 new trucks fuelled by Clean Energy Fuels’ Redeem™ renewable natural gas (RNG) to its fleet.
Estes is acquiring the Class 8 natural gas trucks equipped with the Cummins Westport ultra-clean ISX12N engine for its California fleet and is expected to use around 2.8 million... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 8, 2020
Major US pork producer and food processing firm Smithfield Foods has become the first major protein company to commit to becoming carbon negative in all company-owned operations in the US by 2030.
The announcement, which involves the use of renewable natural gas (RNG), builds on Smithfield’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25% by 2025 across its entire... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 8, 2020
EQTEC has signed a co-development and option agreement with Rotunda Group and its subsidiary Shankley Biogas, for the Southport Hybrid Energy Park project in Merseyside, UK.
EQTEC signed a memorandum of understanding with Rotunda, the owner of a plot of land in Southport, Merseyside, which has planning permission for a waste recycling facility, an anaerobic digestion... [Read More]
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