Mar 13, 2017
Iran to construct 20MW energy from waste plant
Biogas News
Mar 13, 2017
The UK Treasury has announced that from 1 April 2018 landfill tax will be set at £88.95 per tonne for standard rate material and £2.80 per tonne for lower rate material.
The rate of landfill tax will this year rise from £84.40 to £86.10 per tonne for the standard rate and £2.65 to £2.70 per tonne for the lower rate from 1 April, 2017.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 10, 2017
Schmack Biogas, a Viessmann Group company, has been awarded a further contract for the construction of a biomethane plant in Sourdun in northern France.
In mid-December, the French government adopted a new feed-in tariff for electricity from biogas. France is the biggest country in the EU and uses a much larger area for agriculture than Germany. The potential for biogas... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 10, 2017
UK-based food waste recycling firm ReFood, is expanding its Widnes biogas facility by 33% with the construction of a new anaerobic digestion (AD) tank.
The expansion will take the site’s processing capacity to 160,000 tonnes of food waste each year, making it one of the largest AD plants in Europe.
The plant is situated between the major cities of Liverpool and Manchester... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 10, 2017
German waste to energy equipment manufacturer Steinmüller Babcock Environment has secured a contract to build the boiler and furnace unit for a new energy from waste plant in northwest Stockholm, Sweden.
The company secured the deal from the Swedish subsidiary of the German utility E.ON, to supply the single-line waste to energy plant.
According to Steinmüller,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 10, 2017
Mandy Stoker, director at E4 Environment, gives her views on the media’s coverage of the anaerobic digestion sector.
In the waste and renewable energy sector, there is little more frustrating than the careless language used in relation to green technology. No matter how beneficial renewable energy systems are to the environment, there is a sense of suspicion surrounding... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2017
Shares in UK-based construction firm Interserve have fallen by a third after the board announced that the costs of quitting the energy-from-waste (EfW) business are more than double those originally expected.
The construction firm announced in August that it was leaving the EfW field after issues arose with its six contracts in the sector, noting that the ‘unique... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 22, 2017
French industrial gas manufacturer Air Liquide has completed its acquisition of ENN Clean Energy UK, subsidiary of China’s largest privately-owned energy company ENN Group.
Air Liquide did not disclose the value of the transaction.
ENN Clean Energy's natural gas stations in Wellingborough, Portbury, and Huntingdon in the United Kingdom, will now become part of Air... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 17, 2017
Waste recycling company Asticom K reports that construction is underway on a biogas plant in Kenya on a five acre plot of land donated by a local housing co-operative.
The plant is being built with $12.7 million (€11.9m) funding from the multi-donor Climate Technology Initiative, according to the African Review.
Asticom CEO Leah Tsuma revealed that the plant will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 17, 2017
EnviTec Biogas has opened its second laboratory to provide precise biogas analysis with ultramodern equipment and a full range of services from a single site.
Specialists at the Lohne, Germany, laboratory utilise methods compliant with certification standards that are to be used in other major lab setups.
“Our service management operations are naturally focused on... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 17, 2017
Rose Hill Recycling has awarded a contract to Veolia to design and manage a 520kWe biogas-fired waste-based CHP energy plant in the UK.
The CHP plant, in Gloucestershire, is fueled by the biogas derived from mixed food waste collected from across the Cotswolds and will save around 1750 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year.
With a focus on sustainability, the new CHP will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 16, 2017
The Scottish government has been called to take more action on the circular economy at the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association’s (ADBA) inaugural Scottish National Conference in Glasgow.
Shadow Cabinet Secretary for the Environment Maurice Golden, who led the Circular Economy Programme for Zero Waste Scotland prior to being elected to the Scottish Parliament... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2017
David Newman, president of the World Biogas Association (WBA), gives his views on the year ahead.
Whilst biogas is already a renewable industry player in developed nations, such as the UK, its potential in less developed countries has still to be realised. Indeed, the recognition of what the anaerobic digestion and biogas industry can contribute globally is really low.... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2017
California-based construction company Swinerton Builders has announced that it has broken ground on the largest utility-scale biogas facility in the US, a plant that transforms animal and food waste into clean energy.
Swinerton's newly formed waste-to-energy group has partnered with Carbon Cycle Energy (C2e) to build this plant, which is the first construction... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 8, 2017
The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) is calling on the government to put forward a new policy on support for anaerobic digestion (AD) on farms and using wastes, in the light of the UK government announcing its decision to continue limiting anaerobic digestion deployment in the Feed-in Tariff (FIT).
Commenting on the announcement, ADBA Chief Executive... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 7, 2017
Union Bank, a US-based banking company, has announced that 11 of its San Francisco Bay Area offices have enrolled in MCE’s Deep Green electricity service enabling these locations to switch to 100% renewable energy.
Union Bank is the first financial institution within MCE’s service area to commit to Deep Green, and now operates 100% carbon-free in Marin County... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 6, 2017
US power company NRG Energy (NRG) and its subsidiary Reliant, a well-known retail electricity provider in Texas, have teamed up with the NFL to provide 100% green-e certified renewable energy to NRG Stadium, site of Super Bowl LI, and the George R. Brown Convention Center, location of the NFL Experience and other NFL celebrations in Houston.
“Reducing the environmental... [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
ADTechOptima’s technologies aim to solve two key problems: the underperformance of anaerobic digesters and the quality of the digestate produced as part of the process
