Feb 5, 2018
EnviTec breaks ground on fifth biogas project in China
Biogas News
Jan 31, 2018
Construction is underway on a new waste to biogas facility in Yabu City, Japan.
The new facility will use anaerobic digestion to convert both farm and food waste into renewable energy. Toyo Energy Solution, which has invested in the facility, will also build it, and operate it once completed. It will utilise ‘advanced solid waste processing wastewater treatment equipment’... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 30, 2018
At the annual get-together, the biogas industry looked for ways to strengthen in the political and public consciousness how it can help in the transition to clean energy.
Held in Antwerp, the yearly conference for the European Biogas Association had added consequence on a backdrop of the EU’s impending Renewable Energy Directive for 2020-2030 (RED II) and Brexit.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 29, 2018
The UK’s Environment Agency has closed the consultation on its proposed Strategic Review of Charges, a series of revisions which could have significant consequences for the country’s anaerobic digestion industry according to the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA).
“We are significantly simplifying the way customers work out their... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 22, 2018
A Northern Irish waste-to-energy anaerobic digestion plant has been certified under the Anaerobic Digestion Certification Scheme (ADCS) just six weeks after its launch.
Granville Ecopark, an enhanced AD facility in Northern Ireland, treats organic waste to produce renewable energy.
The ACDS was launched at the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association’s (ADBA)... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 22, 2018
Southern California Gas (SoCalGas), San Diego Gas & Electric, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Southwest Gas have jointly issued a draft solicitation for dairy biomethane pilot projects.
The solicitation is issued under California Senate Bill 1383, and projects proposed must demonstrate the ability to capture and process biogas from cows to produce renewable... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 15, 2018
A newly launched certification scheme could be a breath of fresh air for the UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas industries, according to Duncan McPherson, finance director at CooperOstlund.
As 2017 drew to a close, the UK’s Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) launched a new AD certification scheme, the first of its kind in the UK, designed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 9, 2018
Independent private equity investment management firm Foresight has boosted its waste processing portfolio to over 2 million tonnes per annum with the acquisition of two large scale anaerobic digestion (AD facilities) and seven composting assets. The fee for the transaction has not been disclosed.
The two facilities are located across East Anglia and the Midlands in the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 9, 2018
The designer of ‘the world’s largest’ downdraft gasification plant has announced the issuing of approximately $21.4 million (€17.9 million) of new equity.
In addition, Nashville, Tennessee based Aries Clean Energy has received additional commitments from Boston based private equity firm Spring Lane Capital of $25 million for equity in future gasification... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 8, 2018
In a paper by Texas A&M scientists, biochar shows potential for increasing efficiency of the anaerobic digestion of animal manure.
Biochar is a charcoal material composed of agricultural by-products, including manure, crop residues and grasses. The substance can be used as a fertiliser and as a filter to remove contaminants from water and wastewater, including antibiotics,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 4, 2018
A biogas plant close to the town of Ballymena in Northern Ireland has been recognised in the Sustainable Ireland Awards.
The Tully Quarry plant produces biogas from 100% chicken litter. Built by biogas technology specialists Xergi, the facility has won the award for best project in the energy production category.
Plant director Kevin Fitzduff, from the company Stream Bioenergy,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 3, 2018
The facility uses anaerobic digestion as an alternate source of energy, running independent of the National Grid multiple times in 2017.
Veolia, the global resource management company is now helping Scottish Water to achieve the target of energy self-sufficiency at its Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) the largest treatment works in the east of Scotland. ... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 21, 2017
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has awarded an investment grant to explore the possibility of producing biogas from industrial waste water.
A €12.4 million investment subsidy has been awarded to Finnish energy company Gasum, which is evaluating the potential of producing biogas at a large scale from industrial waste waters emitted from the Stora Enso Nymölla... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 19, 2017
A waste-to-biogas plant funded by a framework agreement between the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the government of Belarus has started operation in the city of Baranovichi.
According to an EBRD statement, the new biogas power plant is expected to achieve significant energy and cost savings, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the volume... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 18, 2017
Canada’s first closed-loop and fully integrated organics waste management system has started accepting its first waste, which will be converted into renewable biomethane gas.
Operated by waste-to-product company Renewi, the facility in Surrey, British Columbia is apparently the largest of its kind in North America. It has the capacity to process 100% of the city’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 15, 2017
Europe is ‘one step closer’ to a single biomethane market, following the submission to the European Commission of an application for an administrative system designed to facilitate cross-border transactions of renewable gases.
Members of the European Renewable Gas Registry announced on 15 December that they’d applied to the European Commission to recognise... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 15, 2017
Process developed for ‘dry’ digestion of solid waste into biogas
A scientist in Sweden has developed a process for the dry digestion of organic waste into biogas in two different types of reactors.
According to a statement from the University of Boras, doctoral research student Regina Jijoho Patinvoh’s research results reveal that a simple reactor of... [Read More]
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Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, Gillian Martin MSP, has visited BrewDog’s anaerobic digestion (AD) and biomethane facility in Ellon
Tuas Power has announced plans to convert its Tembusu Multi-Utilities Complex (TMUC) on Jurong Island to run entirely on renewable biomass by 2028 — 22 years ahead of Singapore’s national decarbonisation timeline
Egypt’s Ministry of Environment, through the Bioenergy Foundation for Sustainable Development, has signed a cooperation agreement with Italian energy company Eni to advance biogas production and support the country’s clean energy transition
