Biogas News

Food waste from the Wimbledon tennis championships will be sent to an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility. Highlighted as part of Wimbledon’s Environment Day on 1 July, the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) said that the event provides the 'ideal place' to show people how to go green and to inform people about sustainable measures. Lawn mowers at Wimbledon are powered by renewable…
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British Columbia (BC) has amended the Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Clean Energy) Regulation to increase the production and use of renewable gas, as well as green and waste hydrogen in the province. With this change, BC hopes to generate jobs and economic opportunities while reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the province. BC is the first province in Canada to make these changes…
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Xebec has signed a master service agreement (MSA) with a major US RNG dairy farm project developer, representing a huge increase in demand for its biogas upgrading equipment for use in processing animal manure. Under the agreement, Xebec will provide an initial 18 BGX Biostream™ units, with the potential for additional orders under the same MSA. This represents the largest single unit…
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EveRé, operator of a household waste treatment plant in France, CMA CGM Group, a shipping and logistics company, Elengy, a subsidiary of ENGIE,  and TotalEnergies, a global multi-energy company, have joined forces to study the feasibility of creating France’s first liquefied biomethane (bio-LNG) production unit for the shipping industry. Produced by converting the biodegradable part of…
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Energy company St1 has acquired E.ON Biofor Sverige from E.ON Energilösningar. The acquired company now operates under the name St1 BioGas (registration pending) and its 35 biogas professionals joined St1. St1 is now a major biogas player in Sweden with around a 30% market share in the traffic segment. St1 BioGas’ operations are located in urban areas of southern Sweden as well as…
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OPAL Fuels, a producer and distributor of RNG for heavy-duty truck fleets, has entered into a contract with Contract Transport Services (CTS). Under the agreement, OPAL Fuels will sell 15 million gasoline gallon equivalents (GGE) of RNG to CTS and build the station and related infrastructure at CTS’ facility in Green Bay, Wisconsin. TruStar Energy, an OPAL Fuels company, will manage the…
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Brightmark has broken ground on three renewable natural gas (RNG) projects in Michigan, US. The projects are owned by and will be operated through subsidiaries of Brightmark RNG Holdings, a partnership with Chevron USA. In October last year, Brightmark and Chevron USA originally announced the formation of their joint venture (JV) to own projects across the US to produce market dairy…
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Bright Biomethane has acquired Greenmac, a Dutch biogas upgrading technology specialist, from The Rootselaar Group. Greenmac specialises in the design and turnkey supply of biogas upgrading systems with more than 30 years of experience in the field of membrane and amine technology. Additionally, Greenmac holds a strong service and maintenance organisation with an installed base across…
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AD operator BioteCH4 has teamed up with Plastipak, a rigid plastic packaging producer and recycler, to deliver a low-carbon solution to power one of its facilities. Clean Tech, wholly owned by Plastipak, is a leading UK polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic re-processor, recycling more than 80,000 tonnes of post-consumer PET bottles and packaging per year, collected through the kerbside…
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Avolta, a renewable energy firm focused on RNG projects, and its regional development partner, Atlas Global Holdings, have broken ground on two projects in Arizona. The two projects at the Butterfield and Milky Way dairies outside Phoenix will use anaerobic digestion (AD) to convert manure into biogas, which is then upgraded to RNG. “Avolta is pleased to expand into Arizona with the new…
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DMT Environmental Technology will inject biogas into the higher pressure local transmission systems (LTS) network in the UK using Hexel One plastic pipework. DMT has partnered with Cadent and Storengy, a subsidiary of ENGIE, for the project. LTSs are the ‘pillars’ of the national gas grid network in the UK, said DMT, and distribute gas from offtakes to towns and cities throughout the…
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Gasum has partnered with FlixBus to supply biogas for its new bus operating between the capitals of Sweden and Norway. The bus, operating between Stockholm and Oslo, is a Scania vehicle and will start operating on its new route at the beginning of July. As a 100% renewable fuel, biogas supports FlexiBus’ climate strategy. FlixBus’ owner FlixMobility is known as a leading tech-mobility…
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Energy technology firm Baker Hughes has invested in Electrochaea, a company developing novel proprietary biomethanation technology. Through its investment, Baker Hughes will enhance its broader carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) portfolio and provide an integrated solution for customers across the CO2 value chain to enable the production of low-carbon synthetic natural gas (SNG) from…
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Host has developed a high-tech bioenergy plant with innovative NO-NOx thermal energy conversion of residual wood and waste streams. Developed over a decade, this development of technology results in the lowest measured emissions in the Netherlands, said Host, and a state-of-the-art product – the ‘very welcome modular bioenergy combined heat and power plant of the 21st-century’. The 15…
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