Feb 24, 2017
Interserve shares drop after energy-from-waste exit costs expand
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]
Biogas News
Feb 6, 2017
The Hawaii County Planning Department has given the green light for an energy-from-waste (EfW) plant to be built in Waikoloa.
The Planning Department found no significant environmental impact from the proposed facility that will be built with private equity, according to the Hawaii Tribune Herald.
“The County of Hawaii Planning Department has reviewed the comments... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 2, 2017
Pentair announced that it has completed the acquisition of Union Engineering, headquartered in Fredericia, Denmark.Union Engineering specialises in sustainable technologies for capturing, recovering and purification of carbon dioxide.
As an established leader in carbon dioxide management and recovery with its Haffmans brand, the addition of Union Engineering’s technologies... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 2, 2017
UK-based food waste recycler ReFood (UK) has appointed Britcon to deliver an extension to its £24 million (€28m) plant in Widnes.
Lincolnshire-based construction and development business Britcon is building a new £1.2 million digester tank on the site which processes food waste into gas for the National Grid.
The appointment follows Britcons successful... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 1, 2017
The Austrian Energy Agency (AEA) and the European Biomass Association, AEBIOM, have teamed up together to launch a new ‘Bioheat Profitability Assessment tool’.
The tool is part of a European Union’s H2020 Bioenergy4Business project. It has been developed for the examination and comparison of investments in biomass-heating and equivalent fossil fuelled... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 31, 2017
The World Biogas Association (WBA) has agreed to partner with the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) to showcase the global biogas industry at ADBA’s leading AD & Biogas trade show, which last year was attended by participants from over 50 countries.
UK AD & Biogas and World Biogas Expo 2017 will take place on the 5-6 July at the NEC... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 30, 2017
GE’s Water & Process Technologies is collaborating with a Canadian university on a research initiative to maximise renewable energy generation and simultaneously produce a pathogen-free biosolids fertiliser.
The new pilot is located at the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) wastewater demonstration facility adjacent to the city of Guelph wastewater... [Read More]
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Germany's Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) has awarded a total of 187.3 megawatts (MW) to 244 biomass projects in the latest round of its competitive tendering process
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