Feb 24, 2020
Smithfield Foods and RAE invest further $45 million in bioenergy joint venture
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2020
UK recycling firm Suez' Eco Park, currently under construction in Surrey, UK, is making 'steady progress', according to the company. The site is in the final stages of testing for the anaerobic digestion (AD) facility and 'ongoing hot commissioning' of the gasification facility.
Once completed, the Eco Park will handle and process bulky waste, recyclables and residual... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2020
One of the world's leading energy infrastructure companies, Snam, and a state-owned energy firm of the Republic of Azerbaijan, SOCAR, have signed a cooperation agreement to research the development of renewable gases and the use of sustainable energy.
The two companies signed the agreement to deliver renewable gas through the Southern Gas Corridor including Trans Adriatic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 21, 2020
Brightmark Energy is to expand its western New York dairy waste-to-biogas project. The San Francisco-based waste to energy company announced plans to expand its project, partnering with six total farms in the region.
The ‘Yellowjacket’ project will extract methane from 265,000 gallons of dairy manure per day and convert it into renewable natural gas (RNG) and other... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 19, 2020
Aggreko, a global provider of mobile, modular power, is working with RE Power Group to produce renewable electricity from biogas in Thailand.
Aggreko is delivering 6MW of biogas-fuelled power to provide a 'flexible, fast and cost-efficient' way of scaling-up the biogas project and delivering cleaner energy for the region.
The plant’s feedstock is sourced from a... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 19, 2020
Greencoat Capital has launched a new closed-ended private markets fund, Greencoat Renewable Income (GRI), for investments in bioenergy, wind, solar and renewable heat. The firm has secured £277 million (€333 million) of commitments from UK pension investors Brunel and the Trustee of the Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London (SAUL).
GRI offers institutional... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 18, 2020
UK-based bus transportation firm First West of England has launched 77 biomethane-powered buses in the city of Bristol. The first 10 biogas buses came into operation in January 2020, refuelling at an existing biogas station that opened in 2019. As part of the company’s latest initiative, First has constructed a new gas filling station at the Lawrence Hill depot where... [Read More]
Biomass News
Feb 18, 2020
Versalis, an Italian chemical company and subsidiary of Eni, has announced that the biomass plant it acquired in 2018 has been restarted.
Versalis acquired M&G’s bio companies after the firm filed for bankruptcy in Europe and the US in October 2017. The acquisition included the assets and resources related to development activities, industrialisation, technologies... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 18, 2020
Canadian firm XEBEC ADSORPTION, a global provider of clean energy solutions, has signed an agreement with Bähler Biogas to develop a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility.
The new integrated facility, to be constructed in Québec, will process various organic wastes for the production of RNG and biofertilisers. It will process more than 45,000 tonnes of organic waste... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 17, 2020
California, US-based Brightmark Energy has signed a manure supply agreement with two dairy companies in South Dakota.
The partnership with Boadwine Farms and Moody County Dairy will see Brightmark capture methane produced by 12,000 dairy cows and heifers to convert into renewable natural gas (RNG). It is hoped the project – named the Athena RNG project - will produce... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 17, 2020
A major green energy firm in the Netherlands has been granted a licence for a biogas plant. Stercore, based in the province of Drenthe, has been granted the licence by the Province of Drenthe to build a manure gasification plant in Emmen in the northeast of the Netherlands.
The project will see Stercore partner with livestock farmers to collect and process manure, which... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 17, 2020
Southern California Gas Co (SoCalGas) has announced support for the California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) new Incentive Reservation System for the CPUC biomethane monetary incentive programme. The reservation system will help to increase transparency about available incentive funding for biomethane interconnection projects in California.
According to SoCalGas,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 12, 2020
Oberon Fuels, which produces ultra-low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transport fuel and propane fuel distributor SHV Energy have teamed up to accelerate the use of rDME to reduce the carbon footprint of transportation fuel.
Using a 20% blend of the cleaner fuel, propane’s carbon intensity (CI) value can be reduced from 83 gCO2e/MJ to 11 gCO2e/MJ.
In 2019,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 6, 2020
Logistics provider UPS has signed two multi-year renewable natural gas (RNG) agreements, one with Kinetrex Energy and the other with TruStar Energy.
The contracts will provide UPS with a combined volume of up to 80 million gallon equivalents (GEs) of RNG over the terms of the agreements.
“The use of RNG is a very important part of UPS’s strategy to increase alternative... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 5, 2020
Following the launch of the next UN Climate Change Summit COP26, which will take place later this year in Glasgow, UK, the UK anaerobic digestion (AD) industry has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to commit to biogas and AD to help achieve the UK’s net zero target.
Launching COP26, Johnson said that “2020 is the year when we turn the tide on global warming,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 4, 2020
UK biogas company Warrens Emerald Biogas is to ‘ramp up’ the processing capacity at its plant by 40% following a major cash injection.
Warrens Group, based in the North East of England, was recently acquired by Bio Capital, an environmental investment fund. The site converts food waste into renewable energy and was the region’s first anaerobic digestion (AD) facility... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 3, 2020
Seven companies have joined the American Biogas Council (ABC) board of directors, joining the likes of Brightmark Energy, Environmental Energy Capital and AgriReNew.
Bryan Nudelbacher, director of business development at U.S. Gain, Chip Stoicovy, vice-president of clean energy solutions at Air Liquide, Charles Love, renewable energy acquisition at Trillium, Tom Murray,... [Read More]
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The company behind a biomass energy facility near Hull, England has gone into administration, though a successful sale of its land and equipment has safeguarded jobs and maximised returns for creditors
The plant will convert agro-industrial waste into high-quality biomethane. The facility will recover residues from the AZPO – Azeites de Portugal olive oil plant
The upturn is being driven in part by growing access to Bio-LNG, a renewable form of biogas that enables up to 100% CO₂ reductions compared to conventional diesel
