Sep 10, 2018
Ireland’s Green Party advises caution on anaerobic digestion, biogas industry responds
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]
Biogas News
Sep 4, 2018
As Denmark moves away from fossil fuels, Nature Energy has become one of the country’s biggest success stories. Here, Bioenergy Insight speaks with the company’s CEO, Ole Hvelplund.
Mr Hvelplund will be speaking on the story of Nature Energy and the role of biogas in the circular economy at the upcoming International Biogas Congress and Expo in Berlin, Germany.
Nature... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 3, 2018
The Natural & Biogas Vehicle Association (NGVA Europe) and the European Biogas Association (EBA) have released a joint roadmap, establishing the key role bioenergy will play in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions leading towards 2030.
Using the concept of “g-mobility”, utilising bioenergy in transport fuels, the press release reveals that a study into... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 3, 2018
The partnership agreement between Bright Biomethane from the Netherlands and Biogen Biotechnologies from the Caribbean, Barbados, will be used to help to promote and further develop biogas upgrading technology and biomethane production in Barbados.
The strategic partnership will utilise the island’s organic materials such as seaweed, sea moss and industrial... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 3, 2018
Created in 2017 by the merger of Shanks Group and Van Gansewinkel Groep, Renewi is a leading waste-to-product company that aims to become part of the solution to some of the main environmental problems that society faces today.
After selling its 50% share in the Energen Biogas anaerobic digestion facility in Cumbernauld, Renewi has left the UK organics sector.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 28, 2018
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) has signed an agreement with Clean Energy to power the airport’s vehicle fleet with renewable natural gas (RNG).
The agreement will see Clean Energy provide the airport with its Redeem band of RNG, which the natural gas provider claims is the ‘first renewable and commercially available vehicle fuel made entirely... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 28, 2018
A new joint venture between Raízen and Geo Energética will create ‘the world’s first’ commercial scale plant to use the sugar cane by-products vinasse and filter cake as feedstocks in biogas production and power generation, according to a statement from the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce.
Geo Energética claims to currently... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 21, 2018
Three Canadian companies have been selected to advance technologies that improve the business case for the on-farm production of renewable natural gas in British Columbia.
The companies have been selected by Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre and BE Bioenergy Network (BCBN) as finalists in the ARCTIC Innovation challenge. They will receive funding and support to advance... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 17, 2018
John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has added to its anaerobic digestion portfolio with the acquisition of a new plant.
The listed environmental infrastructure fund has acquired Merlin Renewables, located in Hibaldstow, North Lincolnshire UK for £18.1 million. The facility has a thermal capacity of 5MWth and, according to a JLEN announcement, predominantly... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 10, 2018
An innovative technique could help breakdown fats, oils and grease (FOG), allowing greater quantities of the methane rich material to be used in biogas digesters.
Cooking oil, grease and other wastes are a growing problem. They clog pipes, are harmful to wildlife, and can congeal into massive ‘fatbergs’ which block sewage systems.
However, FOG also has significant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2018
Flintshire County Council has approved plans for a new biogas from waste plant in Wales, which will supposedly produce up to 2 megawatts of energy from 182,000 tonnes of municipal waste.
Consultancy firm Pegasus Group secured the permission on behalf of Logik Strategic Land, who will build the biogas facility on a former Gaz De France power station.
“The plant will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2018
Global energy group ENGIE has taken a 13% minority stake in HomeBiogas, a company working in the field of household biogas solutions.
HomeBiogas is an Israeli startup that ‘transforms household biowaste into energy’. According to the company’s website, its off-grid HomeBiogas 2.0 small size biogas digester is able to produce up to two hours of cooking... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 2, 2018
A food waste-to-energy plant in Wiltshire has become the first in England to be certified under the Anaerobic Digestion Certification Scheme (ADCS).
The Bore Hill Farm Biodigester in Warminster, Wiltshire is run by Malaby Biogas and processes inedible food waste to create biofertiliser and renewable heat and power. According to a statement it generates enough electricity... [Read More]
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