Jun 1, 2021
Wärtsilä to supply world’s largest bio-LNG plant in Norway
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]
Biogas News
May 25, 2021
Leyline Renewable Capital has partnered with PurposeEnergy to convert Ben & Jerry’s dairy waste into clean water and power. Leyline, a provider of pre-construction debt and equity capital for renewable energy development, will facilitate the development of the SAINT project in St Albans, Vermont, that will anaerobically convert industrial food waste, including... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 24, 2021
Severn Trent Green Power has secured a contract extension with Oxfordshire County Council to process its household food and garden waste until 2029. The partnership, which began in 2009, will see Severn Trent continue to treat Oxfordshire’s food waste at its Cassington and Wallingford anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities. Between them, the two plants treat around... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 24, 2021
In the last two years, grocery retailer ICA Sweden has greatly increased its use of biogas, going from zero to over 2,500 tonnes in 2020. In 2021, ICA Sweden will increase its biogas use to approximately 3,200 tonnes, reducing CO2 emissions by 10,000 tonnes compared to if the vehicles were run on diesel. ICA is one of the biggest owners and operators of biogas-fuelled... [Read More]
Biogas News
May 24, 2021
Casella Waste Systems and Rudarpa officially broke ground on a new landfill gas-to-RNG facility in New Hampshire, US on 19 May. The new processing facility, to be built at the North Country Environmental Services disposal facility I Bethlehem, is designed to capture the landfill gas which is currently being flared and separate it into marketable gases, focusing on methane... [Read More]
Biomass News
May 24, 2021
Projects selected for Phase 1 of the UK Government’s direct air capture and greenhouse gas removal programme have been revealed. In June last year, the Prime Minister announced up to £100 million (€115 million) of new research and development funding to help develop direct air capture technologies in the UK. As part of this, the innovation competition seeks to... [Read More]
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New documents unearthed by GMB indicate that between 89 and 148 roles are expected to be lost at the plant around 31 March 2027.
The cuts could represent more than 30% of the site’s 465-strong workforce
GreenValue GmbH has advised Balance Erneuerbare Energien on the acquisition of a biogas plant portfolio spanning Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — with a combined thermal input capacity of 46 MW.
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