Nov 10, 2017
$100,000 biogas scrubbing feasibility study approved in Canadian City
Biogas News
Nov 10, 2017
Suppliers have now sold enough renewable gas through the Green Gas Certification Scheme (GGCS) to cover the annual consumption of 83,000 homes, cook 300 million Sunday roasts, or fry four billion eggs.
The scheme is announcing today that sales of its certificates have now hit 1 TWh.
Increasing numbers of consumers are becoming aware that, just as they can buy... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 7, 2017
The UK-based Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has sent a number of policy requests to Exchequer Secretary Andrew Jones MP, ahead of the Budget, which takes place on 22 November.
As the government looks ahead to the publication of the Industrial Strategy White Paper, ADBA has highlighted the strong business case for the proposed agri-tech and bioeconomy... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 6, 2017
A new research programme in New York involving students from Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, will convert one ton (US ton) of waste per day into renewable energy, according to a report by the Watertown Daily Times.
According to the media report, the project is a joint venture between Clarkson and One World Clean Energy, an energy provider with the goal... [Read More]
Biogas News
Nov 1, 2017
The American Biogas Council (ABC) has welcomed the introduction of a new bill in Congress which would extend the renewable electricity tax credit to include anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas technology.
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s bill, labelled the Renewable Electricity Tax Credit Equalisation Act (HR 4137), would see tax credit applied to open and closed-loop... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 27, 2017
Clearfleau, a major provider of on-site bioenergy plants for food and beverage processing sites, has written to the UK government calling for action on the proposed Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI).
The UK government has recently published its Clean Growth Strategy, setting out clear goals to cut the country’s carbon emissions while boosting its economy. Cleafleau... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 26, 2017
UK-based Whites Concrete has assisted with the installation of two new Sealwall tanks for a farm-based anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in the West Midlands.
Whites Concrete is a manufacturer of pre-stressed and pre-cast concrete panels, retaining walls and tanks.
The first, a circular tank of almost 36m in diameter and a height of 4.3m, was built using 94... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 25, 2017
Biogas plants in Germany are saving 20 million tonnes of CO2 emissions a year, according to the president of the German Biogas Association.
Recently released figures from the German Biogas Association show that 205 new biogas plants were connected to the grid in 2016, more than the 150 expected by the association. The figures also show that ten biogas plants were decommissioned.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 25, 2017
A backlog in the UK parliament is threatening the country’s climate goals, according to the chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA).
Recently, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) confirmed that the tabling of legislation to reform the UK’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will be pushed back... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 20, 2017
Gas made from domestic waste, energy crops, agricultural waste, food waste and sewage could heat up to 15 million homes in the UK every year by 2050, according to a new study just published by Britain’s largest gas distribution network.
Titled The Bioenergy Review, the report was commissioned by Cadent to estimate how much of the UK’s energy demand could be... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 19, 2017
A new membrane has been developed that makes more effective the process of separating methane from CO2. This process is crucial in making natural gas and biogas suitable for use
Methane is never found in its pure form. Natural gas, for instance, always contains a large amount of carbon dioxide. Industry generally uses membranes that act as molecular sieves to purify this... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 18, 2017
Resource management company GENeco has launched a vehicle called the Bio-Bee that collects commercial food waste and runs on the same material in Bristol, UK.
With Bristol among 40 places in the UK that consistently exceeds air quality limits for nitrogen dioxide, the Bio-Bee demonstrates a real alternative to diesel RCVs and HGVs by running on clean biomethane,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 16, 2017
Hong-Kong based China Everbright International has signed a supplementary concession agreement with the Public Utility Management Bureau of Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, to invest in and construct a waste-to-energy plant worth around RMB780 million (€100m).
The development, entitled Yixing waste-to-energy project phase II, will be constructed on a build-operate-transfer... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 13, 2017
A new 15MW anaerobic digestion (AD) facility has opened in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
According to a statement, the new facility, opened by Olleco, the renewables division of ABP Food Group, will produce enough sustainable energy to power 12,000 homes. ABP has invested £22 million (€24.7 million) in the project.
The new AD plant is located next to the Arla... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 12, 2017
The American Biogas Council has released the names of the finalists for the 2017 Biogas Industry Awards.
According to a statement from the American Biogas Council, this year’s shortlist represents biogas projects and innovations which are both exceptional individually and also examples for replication in future biogas projects.
The final winners of the awards are... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 10, 2017
French company Veolia is set to install an anaerobic digester at a wastewater treatment plant in Le Mans Metropole, an urban community of 19 municipalities.
Veolia has been selected to operate the wastewater treatment plant at La Chauvinière from 2018 for a period of nine years.
A number of innovations will be installed at the site in order to reduce its energy... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 5, 2017
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä is set to acquire Puregas Solutions, a Sweden based provider of turnkey biogas upgrading solutions. The acquisition agreement was reached in early October.
Puregas utilises a CApure process to covert raw biogas into biomethane and renewable natural gas. The company has subsidiaries in Germany, Denmark, the UK and USA.
According... [Read More]
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