Aug 14, 2019
Atlas Copco oxygen generator helps German biogas producer to create clean methane
Biogas News
Aug 13, 2019
Austrian biogas plant manufacturer Biogest is to build its first biogas plant in South Korea. The project, developed in cooperation with HC Energy, will expand the company’s international portfolio. HC Energy is a South Korean company with more than 10 years’ experience in the renewable energy sector. The company will work with the City Government and the Agricultural... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 13, 2019
A renewable natural gas (RNG) project is rapidly gaining pace in the state of Colorado, US. In July 2019, environmental contractor CGRS brought in local firm Maverick Steel to begin building the framework for a new 23,000 square-foot biogas treatment and RNG fuelling station facility. Once complete, the new facility will transform by-products from the wastewater... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 9, 2019
Bioenergy DevCo, a global developer of anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities, has received its first institutional investment of $106 million (€94.6 million) from Newlight Partners. Bioenergy DevCo has more than 200 plants throughout the world that create renewable natural gas and healthy soil products. According to a recent statement, the firm intends to use its new... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 9, 2019
Renewable biomethane has entered the network at Ireland’s first purpose-built injection facility in County Kildare. Gas Networks Ireland announced the news alongside revealing it has applied for planning permission for a second injection point in North Cork. This is the firm’s first step in its €28 million plan to roll out a network of renewable gas injection... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2019
Leading life science investor Novo Holdings has invested $72 million (€64.2 million) in carbon recycling company LanzaTech to support the development of its sustainable fuels and chemicals platform. The financing was Novo Holdings’ fourth investment within the growth equity area so far in 2019. These investments enable the firm to support companies that are at the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 8, 2019
Bath MP Wera Hobhouse recently visited a green gas plant at a cheese farm in Somerset, UK. Wyke Farms has been generating biomethane at its facility since 2015, using its own onsite anaerobic digesters. The plant converts 75,000 tonnes of biodegradable waste from its farm and neighbouring properties into energy every year. The resulting biomethane is then pumped into... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 6, 2019
Virtual Equity Partners (VEP) has taken ownership of BTS Biogas, the largest provider of biogas plants in Italy. BTS Biogas was founded in 2008 and quickly established itself as a worldwide technological leader in the development, construction and management of biogas and biomethane plants. Despite the acquisition, the company’s structure will remain the same to prevent... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 2, 2019
French multinational gas company Air Liquide is celebrating the first year of operations at its biomethane plant in Mississippi, US. In 2018, Air Liquide opened its first large-scale biomethane production plant in the town of Walnut. In the same year, the company also announced it had doubled its global biomethane production capacity. The Mississippi plant receives... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 2, 2019
The German Government will grant Ghana €5 million for the construction of a biogas plant. The planned 400 kW-capacity plant will produce electricity from waste. The agreement was signed by Anja Karliczek, the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, and Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the Ghanaian Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation. In... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 1, 2019
The owner of a biogas plant in Nebraska, US has passed blame onto two other companies regarding a foul smell in the area in response to multiple lawsuits. The Sioux City Journal reported that Wisconsin-based Big Ox Energy submitted replies in Dakota County District Court to more than a dozen lawsuits filed against the company. Those who filed the lawsuits, mostly neighbours,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2019
A Lincolnshire fish and chip company is launching a new biogas project as part of its zero waste to landfill pledge. The Elite Fish and Chip Company will now ensure all of its waste is reused, recycled, composted or converted into energy. The 30-year-old business has partnered with resource management group Veolia to begin dividing its rubbish into separate bins, including... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2019
Two councils in Derbyshire have invited waste industry firms to take over building and maintenance of a waste treatment plant. The £145 million (approximately €158 million) project was approved in 2013 and was intended to manage household waste in the area. Derby City Council and Derbyshire County Council had been working with Resource Recovery Solutions (RRS), a... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 31, 2019
US waste disposal and removal services firm Republic Services has set new 2030 sustainability goals, which incorporate biogas targets. The plans include reducing Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 35% compared to a 2017 baseline. The Arizona-based company previously reported generating almost 13.8 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide within these... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 30, 2019
Calgren Dairy Fuels and Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) have announced the completion of Calgren’s dairy renewable natural gas facility. The project, located in Pixley in the state’s Central Valley, is the first of its kind in California and is predicted to be the largest dairy biogas operation in the US within the next six months. Calgren collects cow manure... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 29, 2019
A San Francisco-based waste and energy development company has announced that it has purchased a dairy biogas plant. Brightmark Energy purchased the anaerobic digester from Clean Fuel Partners near Madison, Wisconsin, which will convert 90,000 gallons of dairy waste per day from three local farms into biogas and other useful products. Clean Fuel Partners will continue... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jul 29, 2019
One of the biggest energy companies in Northern Ireland, Energia Group, has announced plans to build an anaerobic digestion plant in Belfast, the Belfast Telegraph has reported. The Power NI parent company, known as Viridian until May 2019, has revealed the £40 million (€44.3 million) project will create 200 construction jobs to build the renewable energy plant,... [Read More]
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