Biogas News

On 17 December, the California Public Utilities Commission approved SoCalGas and San Diego Gas & Electric’s request to offer a voluntary Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Tariff. The programme will allow households and businesses to purchase RNG from the utilities. “The approval of the RNG Tariff is an important step in achieving California’s climate goals,” the company said in a…
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Carbon Clean, a UK firm focused on low-cost carbon capture and separation technology, has joined forces with Veolia to develop multiple green projects in India. The newly established joint venture, Veolia Carbon Clean, will first develop two carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) and compressed biogas (CBG) projects in India, utilising Carbon Clean’s patented CDRMax and MethPure…
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Republic Services and Aria Energy have expanded the landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) project at County Line Landfill in Indiana. The facility, which began operating in 2014, has expanded to 7.6 MW from 6 MW, increasing its biogas use by 25%. Aria developed, owns, and operates the LFGTE project at Republic Services’ County Line Landfill. Electricity generated from the project is sold to…
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Clean Energy Fuels Corp has announced new and extended contracts for more than 58 million gallons of its Redeem renewable natural gas (RNG). The new contracts represent continued demand for sustainable fuels in the heavy-duty trucking, solid waste, and public transit sectors. “Our customers have continued to operate their essential businesses at a very high level, despite significant…
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Investment firm Fortistar has partnered with the New River Solid Waste Association (NRSWA) in Florida to build a landfill methane-to-renewable natural gas (RNG) facility. The new facility will capture and convert approximately 1,900 dekatherams (1.899 Btu) per day of landfill methane to RNG – enough to offset emissions from 7,500 passenger cars. The New River RNG project will collect…
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Gasum has received €30 million from Klimatklivet to establish two new biogas plants in Sweden. Klimatklivet, or Climate Leap, is a programme for investment grants from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The two biogas plants will be built in Dalarna and Kalmar Counties. The Borlänge, Dalarna plant will produce liquefied biogas (LBG) mainly from manure and food waste slurry,…
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Gasum has partnered with HKScan to switch to manure-based feedstock at its Huittinen biogas plant in Finland. The plant would use mainly pig and cattle manure to produce biogas. As one of HKScan’s contract partners, contract pig meat producer Emomylly Oy has committed to the project. The proposed plant would be Finland’s first industrial-scale biogas facility using manure as its main…
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Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy have completed the first RNG project through their joint venture, Align Renewable Natural Gas. Located in Milford, Utah, the project is now producing RNG from a network of 26 family farms that raise pigs under contract with Smithfield. The project is the first large-scale effort in Utah to capture methane from pig farming operations and convert it into…
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Unilever, Starbucks, and the Dairy Farmers of America have joined forces with Vanguard Renewables to repurpose food waste via anaerobic digestion. The major food industry leaders have teamed up to launch the Farm Powered Strategic Alliance (FPSA), pledging to avoid or eliminate food waste first and repurpose what cannot be eliminated into renewable energy using Vanguard Renewables’…
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The new Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy is a “major setback” for the decarbonisation of transport at an acceptable cost, according to the European Biogas Association (EBA). The transport sector today releases 20% of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions. Cost-effective and swift decarbonisation will only be feasible with the deployment of all renewable energies and technologies…
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Cambi and Slovenian engineering firm Riko have been awarded a €31.5 million contract to build a thermal hydrolysis sludge processing plant in the city of Lviv, Ukraine. The new sludge treatment facility will incorporate biogas production, based on Cambi’s thermal hydrolysis process, followed by advanced anaerobic digestion. “This project will make sewage sludge treatment in one of…
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UK supermarket giant ASDA is taking delivery of 202 Volvo FH LNG tractor units in the run-up to Christmas. The order is believed to be the single largest ever placed in the UK for heavy trucks running on renewable fuels. ASDA has ambitions to transition its core fleet of 1,000 tractor units from diesel to gas by 2024, after in-house trials showed running on biomethane reduced by CO2…
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Vanguard Renewables officially opened its new organics recycling facility in Massachusetts, US, on 4 December. The advanced organics recycling facility will de-package and process expired goods, off-spec batches, or unsafe to eat food and beverage products. The extracted food is transported to one of Vanguard Renewables’ Massachusetts Farm Powered anaerobic digesters, combined with farm…
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Gasrec has completed a £1 million (€1.1 million) upgrade to its flagship refuelling facility in Northampton, UK, to meet the growing demand of transport operators making the switch to bio-LNG and bio-CNG. New fuel dispensers, new supply lines, and a new fuel management system have been installed at the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT), along with greater remote…
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