Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur and Eau d'Azur have awarded the civil engineering contract for the new Haliotis 2 wastewater treatment facility to the consortium led by Suez and comprising Razel-Bec and Triverio Construction (a local VINCI Construction subsidiary). The facility, worth €700m in total, will be the largest wastewater treatment and recovery complex in France. The... [Read More]

Yorkshire Water has signed 15-year agreements with SGN Commercial Services and Centrica Energy Trading that will see biomethane gas to grid plants introduced at its Knostrop and Blackburn Meadows wastewater treatment works. Biogas is produced as a by-product of Yorkshire Water’s sewage wastewater treatment processes and can be upgraded to separate methane from the other... [Read More]

WM has opened a new 14,430 square-foot renewable natural gas (RNG) facility in Springdale, Arkansas in the US. The $35 million (€31.2m) WM Eco Vista RNG facility is expected to recover and distribute approximately 750,000 MMBtu per year of RNG, which serves the equivalent of 25,000 households annually, or the equivalent of 649 heavy-duty vehicles. A portion of the... [Read More]

Anaergia has been selected as the Energy Recovery Contractor for a new system that will produce renewable power from wastewater sludge at the East County Advanced Water Purification (East County AWP) facility now under construction in Santee, California. Anaergia anticipates the Energy Recovery project will also eventually digest food waste along with the wastewater sludge. Anaergia... [Read More]

Evergen Infrastructure Corp. made its first injection of renewable natural gas (RNG) at its GrowTEC facility in Alberta, Canada in late June, following utility grid connection upon completion of gas quality sampling, and has been producing daily volumes of up to 180 gigajoules per day. The completion of phase 1 of the GrowTEC RNG expansion project delivers production... [Read More]

BIGSQUID (biogas-to-liquid) technology has resulted in the creation of an industrial plant capable of producing biomethanol from biogas, which is operational at the Località Giove in Città di Castello, in the province of Perugia in Italy. The plant is the culmination of five years' of work by Politecnico di Milano and Fattoria Autonoma Tabacchi S.C., with the university... [Read More]

The Spanish Confederation of Service Station Employers (CEEES) and the Spanish Gas Association (Sedigas) have agreed to collaborate to carry out promotional actions related to the decarbonisation of the sector through the use of renewable gases, biomethane and renewable hydrogen. The agreement, signed by Jorge de Benito and Joan Batalla, presidents of CEEES and Sedigas,... [Read More]

Italian group BelEnergia has announced plans for two waste recovery plants, which will be located in the town of La Almunia de Doña Godina, in Zaragoza; and in the municipality of San Esteban de La Litera, in Huesca, reported CE NoticiasFinancieras. The two plants, which have been declared of regional interest by the Council of Government, represent an investment of... [Read More]

Waga Energy, a global expert in the production of renewable natural gas (RNG) from landfills, and Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (CWST), a regional solid waste, recycling and resource management services company in the US, signed an agreement on 10 July to develop RNG projects at three CWST landfills. As part of the agreement, Waga Energy will deploy the capital... [Read More]

On 11 July, Portugal's Ministry of Environment and Climate Action announced a public consultation of the first auction of the centralised purchase of biomethane and renewable hydrogen, for injection into the national gas network, reported CE NoticiasFinancieras. The auction will last for a period of 20 days, until 31 July. The Ministry said the auction will ensure the... [Read More]

Spain-based Naturgy has announced a collaboration with AEMA Servicios Energéticos to construct a biomethane plant in the Valencian district of Utiel, which is set to produce 20 GWh per year, with a €2.7 million investment. Utiel Town Council has granted planning permission and the environmental license, meaning that construction will commence shortly. It is planned... [Read More]

SUEZ recycling and recovery UK (SUEZ) is bringing forward plans to apply for planning permission to build an anaerobic digestion (AD) facility at its site on Beddington Lane in Croydon, South London. If approved, the AD at Beddington Lane will aim to create reliable, renewable gas – enough to supply up to 8,200 homes – while reducing CO2 emissions and improving the... [Read More]

Carbon Capture Scotland Limited (CCSL) has signed an agreement with Iona Capital (Iona), the UK low carbon investment fund manager, to capture and reuse green carbon dioxide from Iona’s biomethane plants located across the UK. The captured carbon dioxide (CO₂) will be used by CCSL to create low-carbon and low-energy dry ice for use in the food, cold logistics and... [Read More]

Nordic energy company Gasum is expanding its biogas portfolio by acquiring two thirds of the shares in Swedish company Liquidgas Biofuel Genesis AB. Liquidgas Biofuel Genesis owns and operates a biogas upgrading plant in the city of Helsinborg in southern Sweden. The plant’s other owner, with one third of the shares, is Nordvästra Skånes Renhållningsbolag AB (NSR),... [Read More]

As part of its corporate social responsibility initiative, Redington Foundation has installed 67 biogas plants at Kuruthanamedu village and renovated one pond at Thandalacherri village near the warehouse operations of ProConnect Supply Chain Solutions (a wholly owned subsidiary of Redington) in the Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu, India. The project aims to promote... [Read More]

bp has expanded its investment in bioenergy as bp ventures committed $10 million (€9.1 million) in WasteFuel, a California-based biofuels company that will use proven, scalable technologies to convert bio-based municipal and agricultural waste into lower-carbon fuels, such as bio-methanol. WasteFuel deploys anaerobic digestion (AD) and methanol production methods to... [Read More]