Oct 29, 2018
Controversy over the role biomethane will play in cleaning up transport
Biogas News
Oct 19, 2018
Promising new jobs and energy sources, energy firm GESS International (GESS) announced in a press release that a $35 million biogas plant is planned to be built in the Robeson County town of Orrum, North Carolina (NC).
GESS described Robeson County as ‘hard hit’ by Hurricane Florence, and in their promise, they claim that the biogas plant will be providing... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 18, 2018
48 new biomethane plants are set to be built in the UK, equalling an investment of ‘up to’ €455m – according to a press release by Cadent, ‘UK’s biggest’ gas network.
The announcement of the surge comes from the chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA), Charlotte Morton, who says that this... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 16, 2018
Renewable energy firm Nature Energy announced in a press release that it had entered into a partnership with biogas producer Strandmøllen A/S where both will collaborate to recycle excess CO2 from the ‘world’s largest’ biogas plant in Esbjerg, Denmark.
CO2 emissions from the plant will be reduced by 70% compared with a conventional biogas plant.
According... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 8, 2018
Four biogas plants, which will produce energy from more than half a million tonnes of food waste, are set to be built in Oman, local media are reporting.
According to the Times of Oman, the cost of the project, is OMR50 million. Oman Environmental Holdings, also known as Be’ah, is building the biogas plants.
The Times of Oman article notes that the country generates... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 5, 2018
The new offices of North Lincolnshire, UK’s Birch Solutions are powered 100% by renewable energy produced from onsite biogas plants, the company has announced.
Founded in 1815, Singleton Birch has since diversified into a number of sectors while keeping the global supply of chalk and lime as its core business. Birch Solutions was formed after Singleton Birch bought... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 26, 2018
As reported by local news outlet, The Glamorgan Gem, Dwr Cymru Welsh Water is set to begin a €53.7 million ($63.1 million) investment scheme to improve the ‘green energy’ output at one of its facilities.
Named Cog Moors, the wastewater treatment works is in the town of Sully in southern Wales. The plant in question was built in the 1990s and assists in... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 21, 2018
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that renewable methane producer RNG Energy Solutions had formed a joint venture with Philadelphia Energy Solutions to build a $120 million (€102 million) anaerobic digester.
The report claims that the project, named the Point Breeze Renewable Energy Project, will be able to covert upwards of 1,100 tons of food waste into methane... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 18, 2018
In a press release, the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) announced that it is calling for the UK government to ‘do the right thing’ and enable separate food waste collection in England, as is the case in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Separate food waste collection is only available to 25% of households in England.
The National... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 17, 2018
A part of the technology group Wärtsilä, Puregas solutions has been contracted to supply a turnkey biogas upgrading plant to the USA. The plant is set to upgrade an existing anaerobic digester (AD) to produce biomethane. It has been ordered by a leader in sustainable agricultural practices, located in the state of Oregon.
The Puregas solution will process 3100cfm... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 17, 2018
In a press release, the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) responded to the new post-Brexit agriculture bill designed to subsidise farmers for producing clean energy.
The bill, introduced on the 12 September, outlines the UK government’s intentions to reward the production of cleaner energy as part of delivering a ‘Green Brexit’.
A... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 11, 2018
California-based Bloom Energy has announced its intention to hold a preview outlining a high-efficiency solution for generating clean electricity from waste biogas.
The preview will take place at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Climate Tech Marketplace, which is an affiliate event of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco on September 13.
According... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 10, 2018
The Green Party’s spokesperson on agriculture, Pippa Hackett, announced, through a press release, the political party’s concerns over Gas Network Ireland’s proposal to build and develop a series of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants nationwide. The primary cause of concern is the current scarcity of resources in the agricultural sector.
Hackett said in her... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 10, 2018
A press release from the American Biogas Council announced that the letter, signed and approved by 111 separate firms from the biomass and biogas industry, requested that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler include renewable electricity into the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
In 2007, Congress approved the RFS participation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 7, 2018
BayWa renewable energy (BayWa r.e.) announced in a press release that it had sold a biomethane plant in Mehrum, located in the Lower Saxony region of Germany to prominent France-based biogas operator Evergaz.
In the press release, the biogas developer noted that the plant produces 700Nm³/h and 600kW of electricity (CHP) of total biomethane output.
According to BayWa... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 6, 2018
UK based Water Company Severn Trent, is currently in the process of buying Agrivert Holdings Ltd and its subsidiaries for an enterprise value of £120 million. This will also include a repayment of some £60 million debt.
The water company already has two operating food waste AD plants to their name in East and West Birmingham. Both were developed by Agrivert,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 4, 2018
South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) is planning to install two biogas plants that will process cattle dung, according to The Times of India. They will be installed at Nangloi and Goyla Dairy Colony in Najafgarh and will each have a daily capacity of 200MT by March 2019.
A senior official told Times of India that private concessionaires are set to design, engineer,... [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
