Biogas News

Business rates are an “unacceptable threat” to anaerobic digestion (AD) operators, according to industry representatives, and will hinder the UK’s ability to meet its net-zero targets. With charges escalating year-on-year, business rates are now a “real burden” to the AD industry and putting many plants out of business, according to the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources…
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EverGen, Canada’s renewable natural gas (RNG) infrastructure platform, has acquired Fraser Valley Biogas in British Columbia. Fraser Valley Biogas has been in operation since 2011 and is the ‘original’ RNG project in western Canada; it was also the first project to produce RNG into FortisBC’s network. The facility combines anaerobic digestion and biogas upgrading to produce RNG,…
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The European Biogas Association (EBA) has welcomed the adoption of the EU Taxonomy by the European Commission (EC), which recognises biogas’ contribution to climate targets, but warned that the criteria adopted will put the use of biomethane in transport “at stake”. According to the EBA, the decision to label biogas production from anaerobic digestion as a low-carbon activity recognises…
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Green Arrow Capital (GAC) has acquired four biomethane production plants, continuing its commitment to the sector. The €75 million agreement with Lazzari e Lucchini (L&L) made last year was completed through the GAC Fund and includes the acquisition of 4BIO S.r.l. Holding, which owns four biomethane plants, still partly under construction. L&L will remain a minority shareholder and…
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Ignoring the potential of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and bio-LNG and waiting for future fuels is a ‘mistake’, according to SEA-LNG. The organisation, a multi-sector industry coalition created to accelerate the widespread adoption of LNG as a marine fuel, believes the industry needs to take advantage today of the confirmed reduction in greenhouse gases (GHGs) of up to 23% (well-to-wake)…
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Bioenergy Devco has secured conditional approval from Sussex County Council in Delaware to build one of the state’s first anaerobic digesters. According to an article by the Delaware Business Times, Devco, based in Maryland, bought the former Perdue Farms AgriRecycle facility and continues to compost 30,000 tons of poultry waste from the site. Now, the company plans to extract biogas from…
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Fifty-three percent of all on-road fuel used in natural gas vehicles in 2020 was renewable natural gas (RNG), according to new figures. Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica) and the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas (RNG Coalition) reported that RNG as a transport fuel grew by 25% over 2019 volumes, increasing 267% over the last five years. The organisations report that in 2020, a…
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Biogest and SWEN Capital Partners (SWEN CP) have invested €30 million in biomethane projects in Europe and North America and established a new company - Biogest Invest. SWEN CP recently created the first European fund committed to renewable gas - the SWEN Impact Fund for Transition (SWIFT) - whose core target is biomethane production assets and associated renewable gases. Biogest Invest…
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Construction is due to begin on Gevo’s manure-derived renewable natural gas (RNG) plant in north-west Iowa. The company announced it has closed a $68.15 million (€56.5 million) Green Bond to finance the construction of the project, which will generate RNG captured from dairy cow manure. The feedstock will be supplied by three dairy farms located in north-west Iowa totalling over 20,000…
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Clean Energy fuels will supply Amazon with low and negative-carbon renewable natural gas (RNG) under a new agreement. The fuel will be provided at 27 existing Clean Energy fuelling stations and another 19 non-exclusive new or upgraded Clean Energy-owned stations that Clean Energy expects to be built by the end of the year. The stations will provide RNG in 15 different states. “If the…
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Irish chilled and frozen logistics company McCulla has added 10 new biomethane-fuelled IVECO S-WAY NP CNG 4x2 tractor units to its fleet. Eight out of the 10 trucks will immediately go into service on its new contract with Lidl Northern Ireland, powered by biomethane from food waste collected from 41 stores in the region. Ashley McCulla, company chairman, said: “We have been producing all…
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Waga Energy has been chosen by the Mauricie Residual Materials Management Board (RGMRM) to deploy its gas upgrading solution at a landfill in Quebec, Canada. The green gas produced at the Saint-Étienne-des-Grès landfill will be purchased by Energir, the largest gas distribution company in the province, and injected into its on-site gas grid. This project will be the first in Canada to use…
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A new compressed natural gas (CNG) refuelling station developed in collaboration with Tamoil Italia and Snam4Mobility was inaugurated in Italy on 12 April. The station in Trentino-Alto Adige along the Brenner motorway, which will also supply biomethane, forms part of an agreement signed by the two companies in 2019 to expand the sustainable natural gas mobility infrastructure in Italy. Other…
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Echelon Data Centres and Irish renewables company Biocore Environmental have agreed to co-locate a biogas facility in County Wicklow, Ireland. Biocore specialises in producing methane gas through anaerobic digestion, which can be used to power combined heat and power (CHP) generators producing electricity, or processed further and supplied directly to the national gas network. Echelon,…
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