Nov 20, 2020
Connecticut’s first dairy biogas project almost complete
Biogas News
Nov 19, 2020
Gas Network Ireland has opened the country’s second publicly-accessible, fast-fill compressed natural gas (CNG) station.
Strategically located off the M8 (Dublin to Cork) motorway, the new facility at Circle K’s forecourt in County Tipperary can fill 50 heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) per day, with each fill taking no more than five minutes.
The new station allows... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 19, 2020
Renewi, Nordsol, and Shell have started construction on the first bio-LNG installation in Amsterdam Westpoort.
The new bio-LNG installation is an extension for the current processing of, among other things, outdated supermarket products.
With a multi-million-euro investment, technical partner Nordsol will be the first to produce bio-LNG in the Netherlands. Renewi... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 19, 2020
BiON is to establish a consortium to accelerate the expansion of biogas activities in Malaysia.
The environmental engineering, wastewater treatment, and renewable energy solutions firm signed several non-binding memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with three parties with complementary expertise and resources in the biogas industry in Malaysia.
The parties will now... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 19, 2020
Renewable fuels provider Gasrec said results of a recent major study have highlighted the ‘significant’ environmental and financial benefits of gas over diesel, particularly in long-haul applications.
The Low Emissions Freight Trial (LEFT) report, published following a £20 million government-funded programme to trial, develop, and demonstrate low-emission vehicles... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 18, 2020
Greenlane Renewables has announced its third-quarter financial results, reporting record revenues.
The firm, based in Vancouver, Canada, generated record revenue of $6.5 million (€4.19 million) in Q3 2020, a 30% year-over-year increase from $5 million (€3.2 million) in Q3 2019.
Greenlane reported a gross margin of $1.7 million (€1.09 million), 31% higher than... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 17, 2020
The world’s largest containership powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) has completed its first LNG bunkering with Total’s LNG bunker vessel, the Gas Agility, at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
The 23,000 TEU1 CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE containership received around 17,300 m3 of LNG, incorporating 13% biomethane. making it the largest LNG bunkering operation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 17, 2020
The energy weighted carbon intensity (CI) value of California’s natural gas vehicle portfolio in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) programme achieved carbon-negative status for the first time in 2020.
Data from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for the second quarter of 2020 shows the CI value was below zero at 0.85 gCO2e/MJ – the first time in the history... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 17, 2020
Food waste recycler Andigestion’s site in Gloucestershire has become one of just four anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the UK to be certified under a new scheme which recognises operational and environmental excellence.
The company’s Bishop’s Cleeve site near Cheltenham recycles up to 34,000 tonnes of household and commercial food waste each year. Biomethane... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 17, 2020
A University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington) environmental engineering professor is helping the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) determine how much more energy can be generated by diverting food waste from landfills to anaerobic digesters.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) recently awarded NCTCOG $300,000 (€252,000) to help reduce... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 17, 2020
Normec Group has acquired OWS, a company specialising in the digestion and treatment processes for the biological treatment of household waste organics, and the biodegradability and compostability of plastic packaging materials.
OWS, based in Gent, Belgium, designs and builds municipal solid waste treatment plants using anaerobic digestion (AD) to produce compost and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 16, 2020
Gasum has opened its Turku biogas plant – the first in Finland to produce liquefied biogas (LBG).
The plant opened on 12 November and will produce LBG for the transport, industrial, and maritime sectors.
The major expansion and modernisation of the facility in Topinoja, Turku, was one of the Sipilä’s Finnish Government’s key projects, bioeconomy and clean... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 16, 2020
Brightmark has broken ground on the Sobek Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) project, which includes the construction of new anaerobic digesters at two dairy farms in Okeechobee County, Florida.
The digesters will be built on two Larson family dairy farms in the county. On completion of the project, the digesters are anticipated to generate around 171,000 MMBtu of RNG annually.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 12, 2020
The city of Bergen in Norway has welcomed 125 biogas-fuelled buses.
All of the MAN Lion City buses that Tide Buss AS ordered for the city will run on biogas and serve the northern part of Bergen, namely the areas of Åsane, Arna, and Osterøy, where Tide Buss took over operations in October.
Svein Brakstad, head of sales bus at MAN Norway, said: “We are delighted... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 12, 2020
Gas Distributors for Sustainability (GD4S), the European Biogas Association (EBA), and NGVA Europe have co-signed a joint letter to the European Commission, calling on it to focus on renewable fuels, including biomethane, in the upcoming Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy.
The organisations specifically called for all renewable fuels, and all relevant engine technologies... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 11, 2020
Impact investing firm North Sky Capital and development, technology, and operations partner Anaergia Services, are building a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at a wastewater plant in San Bernadino County, California.
The RNG facility will be built at the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA) in a public-private partnership which demonstrates a... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 11, 2020
A project to convert human waste into a zero-emission fuel has been awarded £60,000 from Innovate UK, part of the UK Government’s Research and Innovation organisation.
The ‘Make Your Poo Work For You’ project, a collaboration between Welsh Water, Cardiff Council, and local authorities and technology company Costain, will see biogas from sewage converted into... [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
