Apr 5, 2017
Agrivert promotes biogas-based energy by supporting food waste awareness campaign
Biogas News
Apr 3, 2017
A company in Kolkata, India, has launched a new bus that runs on biogas produced from cow dung.
Phoenix India Research (PIR), the company behind the new bus, claims it’s the first biogas fuelled bus to be launched in south-east Asia. Four more biogas buses are set to enter service in Kolkata over the next month, with a further ten planned by the end of the year.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 31, 2017
Europe is receiving biomethane from the UK for the first time, green gas shipper Barrow Green Gas announced.
It is being sent from the UK to Europe via the interconnector pipeline to Essent in the Netherlands.
Essent, the largest energy company in the Netherlands, is importing green gas to meet growing demand in the Netherlands which cannot all be met locally.
The green,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 30, 2017
Malaysia-headquarted renewable energy group Green & Smart Holding saw a 181% increase in net profit for the year ended 30 September 2016, helped by the group maintaining and increasing its biogas contracts.
Net profit increased 181% to RM9.9m (€2.08m) last year, compared to RM3.5m the year before.
Revenue increased 260% to RM67.38m, compared to RM18.70m the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 30, 2017
Finnish technology group Wärtsilä will supply a 28MW combined heat and power (CHP) plant to the Meliadine Gold Mine project in Canada, owned by Agnico Eagle Mines.
The order includes five Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel engines running on light fuel oil (LFO) or natural gas. Wärtsilä's scope includes the power generation and CHP equipment supply,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 30, 2017
US based landfill gas industry O & M contractor and engineering company ENERGYneering Solutions Inc. (ESI) have signed a supply and service contract for Topsoe’s proprietary HiPerFuel landfill gas conditioning solutions. The HiPerFuel unit will deliver high-purity fuel gas for an ESI landfill gas power plant in Washington State.
The contract is the first deal... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 30, 2017
BioHiTech Global, a US waste management technology company, has announced that it acquired a 17.2% equity interest in the nation's first resource recovery facility utilising a proprietary mechanical biological treatment (MBT) technology for the disposal and recycling of mixed municipal solid waste (MSW).
BioHiTech, through its interest in Apple Valley Waste Conversions,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 29, 2017
A new research project has been set up to investigate how Germany’s biogas plants will operate after 2030, when the majority of the country’s 9,000 facilities are going to stop receiving state subsidies.
Germany’s federal environment agency has commissioned the German biomass research centre (DBFZ) to carry out the research. DBFZ claims that Germany’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 28, 2017
Waste to energy firm Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) will build a 33,000 tonne per year dry anaerobic digestion facility in San Luis Obispo, California. The project is being financed by a Design, Build, Finance, Own Operate deal from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
HZI say that the new plant is set to be the first Kompogas project in the US. It will be completed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 24, 2017
London Gatwick has become the first airport in the world to turn waste into energy onsite
The new waste management plant, formally opened by Gatwick Airport and DHL Supply Chain, will turn airport waste such as food and packaging into energy onsite. The airport aims to achieve an 85% recycling rate, the best of any UK airport, in turn saving £1,000 per day in energy... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 23, 2017
A biogas surplus capable of generating 375kW of power every month is being wasted in Goa, according to a report in The Economic Times.
The waste is apparently due to government complacency, with the documentation needed to approve the export of surplus power to the state electricity department waiting to be processed.
Located on the Calangute-Saligao plateau, the garbage... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 23, 2017
US gasification company PHG Energy has rebranded with a new name – Aries Clean Energy.
In a statement, the company said it was revamping its name to “introduce the continuing evolution of our clean energy and sustainable waste disposal company”.
“The old name, PHG Energy, worked well for us when we basically offered industrial fuel gas conversion... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 22, 2017
China Everbright International has signed a concession agreement for a household waste-to-energy project with the People's Government of Leshan City in Sichuan province, to invest and construct the development.
It has invested around RMB650 million (€87.4m) in the project.
The Leshan project is jointly invested by Everbright International and Leshan State-owned Assets... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 21, 2017
Feminine hygiene products, incontinence pads and millions of nappies currently sent to landfill by commercial organisations and public bodies could now be turned into clean energy by a new mechanical process called Lifecycle unveiled earlier this week.
Hygiene product waste is one of the largest contributors to UK landfill.
According to hygiene waste disposal company PHS... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 20, 2017
Italy-based FCA Research Centre has announced that it is testing the use of sewage-based biomethane in a Fiat Panda car.
The road test will take several months over 80,000km.
The car was delivered to the Cap Group, a company managing water supply, sewerage and wastewater treatment for the Metropolitan City of Milan, to assess - with the participation of the FCA Research... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 20, 2017
Finland-based energy group Fortum has announced that a joint venture to build an energy-from-waste, combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Lithuania is moving forward and construction will start in the autumn.
The €160 million project, based in Kaunas, will have electricity generation capacity of 24MW and thermal capacity of about 70MW. It is a joint venture between... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 14, 2017
Hong Kong-based China Everbright International has announced that the group has signed a concession agreement for a household waste-to-energy project with the People's Government of Siyang County in Jiangsu Province, and will invest and construct the Siyang waste-to-energy project. Siyang Project will be invested and constructed on a BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer)... [Read More]
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Moeve has announced a €600 million investment plan for the construction of up to 30 new biomethane plants by 2030
During the signing ceremony, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer Stenergard, announced a donation of USD 1.5 million for prefeasibility and detailed engineering studies
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