Biogas News

Oct 6, 2021
Repsol has produced renewable hydrogen using biomethane as a raw material for the first time. The renewable hydrogen was used to manufacture fuels with a low carbon footprint, such as petrol, diesel, or kerosene for aviation. Ten tons of renewable hydrogen was produced at Repsol’s Cartagena Industrial Complex from 500 MWh of biomethane, preventing emissions of approximately 90 tons of…
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Oct 6, 2021
Nacero has launched a new RNG acquisition platform – Nacero NEON™. Nacero NEON is the strategic growth engine for the production of Nacero Green Gasoline™, an affordable net-zero carbon footprint gasoline (petrol) for everyday drivers. Methane is 80 times more harmful over 20 years than CO2. A significant amount of global warming is caused by fugitive and flared methane from farms,…
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Oct 6, 2021
DMT Environmental Technology (DMT) will be the biogas upgrading technology provider for the first collaboration between Thames Water and SGN Commercial Services in the UK. As one of the two contractors selected, SGN was awarded an eight-year framework, valued at £70 million (€82 million), by Thames Water. Additionally, SGN will design, construct, operate and maintain biogas processing…
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Oct 5, 2021
A ‘ground-breaking’ collaboration with a unique workforce development component will help bring new technologies to the bioenergy industry in the US. The Integrated Biochemical and Electrochemical Technologies (IBET) to Convert Organic Waste to Biopower collaboration will be led by the University of Michigan and U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, and Northwestern…
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Oct 5, 2021
Al Rawabi, a dairy company based in the United Arab Emirates, has announced its large-scale biogas facility is now operational. A first of a kind project in the Middle East, the plant will recycle organic waste from Al Rawabi’s operations into clean energy. According to the Khaleej Times, the facility will generate 1.3 MW of green energy. “As a responsible sustainable company, Al Rawabi…
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Oct 4, 2021
Scirocco Energy has completed the acquisition of Greenan Generation Limited (GGL) and its 0.5 MWe anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Northern Ireland. This marks the first acquisition under Scirocco’s joint venture (JV) with Energy Acquisition Group (EAG) that was announced in August, whereby Scirocco holds a 50% interest. GGL is a cash generative, operational AD plant that can be…
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Oct 4, 2021
Lithuanian company AUGA Group, Europe’s largest vertically integrated organic food producer, has developed the world’s first hybrid biomethane and electric tractor for farm use. The AUGA M1 represents the firm’s first step in offering technological solutions that will eliminate climate pollution throughout the food supply chain, from field to table, and enable food to be produced ‘at…
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Oct 4, 2021
Kinetrex Energy, a Kinder Morgan (KMI) company, and Wabash Valley Power Alliance (WVPA) have started construction activities for three previously announced RNG facilities. The three sites in Indiana are located at the Twin Bridges Landfill in Danville, the Prairie View Landfill in Wyatt, and the Liberty Landfill in Monticello. Upon completion, they are expected to produce a total of 3.5…
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Oct 1, 2021
Researchers at Clarkson University, New York, have received a $1 million (€863,600) grant from the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) for an anaerobic digestion (AD) nutrient recovery project. Last year, DOE’s EERE announced a funding opportunity to replace the ageing water and wastewater treatment infrastructure with advanced water…
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Oct 1, 2021
Two North Carolina civil rights organisations have filed a complaint with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), alleging that permits issued to an industrial hog producer to develop biogas projects will disproportionately impact Black and Latinx communities in rural eastern North Carolina (NC). Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) alleges the NC Department of Environmental Quality…
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Oct 1, 2021
Three low-carbon projects, including an anaerobic digestion (AD) system, have been given £500,000 (€581,000) in grant support from the Welsh Government. The three schemes will be based at Coleg Cambria Llysfasi, a college in Denbighshire, and pioneer new technology aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the agriculture sector. They are funded by the Welsh Government via its…
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Sep 30, 2021
Australian firm Yarra Valley Water is among the first water utilities in the world to sign the global Pledge to Net Zero. The utility is halfway towards achieving its goal of generating 100% renewable energy by 2025, through projects like its food waste-to-energy facility. The plant at its site in Wollert converts around 30,000 tonnes of food scraps into more than 7 million kWh of clean energy…
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Sep 30, 2021
Clean Energy Systems (CES) has raised $15 million (€12.9 million) in a Series A funding round led by Carbon Direct Capital Management to support a carbon-negative power project. The funding will accelerate the first commercial-scale deployment of CES technology at the carbon-negative power project in Mendota, California. Carbon Direct will join Clean Energy Systems’ board of…
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Sep 29, 2021
A new AD plant built by BioConstruct will convert approximately 95,000 tons of food waste annually into biomethane in Somerset, UK. The AD facility at Evercreech Junction will generate enough RNG to power around 5,500 homes as part of Adapt Biogas’ (formerly Biocow) ambitions to increase renewable energy production across the UK. The project had been in development for a ‘significant’…
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Sep 29, 2021
Shell Oil Products US, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, is now producing RNG at its first US biomethane facility – Shell New Energies Junction City in Oregon. The facility utilises locally sourced cow manure and excess agricultural residues to produce around 736,000 MMBtu a year of RNG. This milestone is part of a growing portfolio of developing RNG production and distribution assets…
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