Oct 20, 2016
New Jersey proposal would encourage transforming food waste to energy
Biogas News
Oct 18, 2016
Dutch wastewater and biogas purification specialist Paques opened on Monday a new factory in India in order to tap the subcontinent’s growing markets.
The new subsidiary Paques Environmental Technology India, located in Sri City on the east coast of South India, is the company’s fourth and most modern sales/production site.
The new approximately 2,500m2 plant... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 14, 2016
UK recycling company Tamar Energy‘s anaerobic digestion (AD) plant has achieved the PAS 110 industry quality standard, ensuring the quality and consistency of the biofertiliser produced through the AD process.
The Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, plant can process up to 40,000 tonnes of municipal and commercial food waste annually to generate 1.5MW of renewable energy,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 13, 2016
Finland-based biotechnology company Ductor Corp. has announced a new partnership with California-headquarted ES Engineering Services to boost the biogas industry in North America.
Together, Ductor and ES will work to integrate Ductor fermentation technology within existing and new biogas plants located in North America.
ES will provide all technical design and project... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 12, 2016
Power firm Hoosier Energy has started up its latest landfill methane generation facility in Illinois, US.
The station is located at Advance Disposal’s landfill in Rockford, Illinois.
The engines are presently being tested and synched to Hoosier’s grid. The company expects to be producing power onto the grid sometime by the middle to the end of this November.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 12, 2016
UK anaerobic digestion (AD) specialist Agrivert has announced the successful completion of G59 (first electricity supply to grid) at its two latest AD facilities; securing their tariffs for the next 20 years.
The two new plants in South Wales and North London will strengthen the network of food waste facilities that Agrivert operate to a total of five, increasing the company’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 12, 2016
US-based biotechnology company Microvi has been awarded a grant from the US Department of Energy for a new biocatalytic technology that converts methane and carbon dioxide in biogas into liquid chemicals.
The new technology, based on Microvi’s MicroNiche Engineering Platform Technology, can convert biogas that is created at facilities like landfills and wastewater... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 5, 2016
UK anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operator Biogen has officially opened its 2MW Merevale facility, the company’s seventh food waste recycling plant in the UK.
The plant’s, located near Atherstone in Warwickshire, processing capacity of 45,000 tonnes of waste food from household and commercial sources annually joins Biogen’s network of AD plants that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Oct 4, 2016
US technology juggernaut Apple has entered into an agreement with the University of Aarhus in Denmark to establish a biogas research and development programme.
The venture, along with a €1.7 billion investment, comes after Apple in February 2015 announced it was planning to build two data centres powered entirely by renewable energy in Europe.
The facilities will... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 29, 2016
Swedish renewable energy producer OX2 has received a 22 million krona (€2.3m) grant to build a new food waste-to-biogas processing facility in Sweden.
OX2 is also investing 18 million krona of its own capital in the plant, which will be located in the city of Helsingborg in southern Sweden.
The company already operates NSR’s biogas plant in Filborna, for which... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 27, 2016
FCC, a Spanish environmental services, construction, and water management group, is participating in a project to convert waste treatment plants into bioenergy factories.
Co-financed by the EU’s LIFE Programme, the Methamorphosis project is headed by FCC Aqualia in partnership with Area Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB), FCC Environment (FCC’s environmental... [Read More]
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Sep 22, 2016
Global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin has opened a new bioenergy facility in Owego, New York, using Concord Blue’s advanced technology that will convert waste into clean, renewable energy.
Prior to ribbon cutting, Lockheed Martin successfully demonstrated the end-to-end capability of the new system.
The demonstration validated its ability to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2016
A £72 million (€85m) new state-of the-art sludge treatment and anaerobic digestion (AD) facility in the centre of Leeds, UK, has been given the go-ahead.
Yorkshire Water’s planning proposal for a bioenergy facility at the company’s Knostrop works was approved by Leeds City Council’s planning committee and the contract has been awarded to Black... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 8, 2016
Ecomaine, a Maine, US-based recycling service provider, has officially opened its new food waste recovery service utilising anaerobic digestion (AD) for biogas production.
The company says the addition of food waste recovery to its portfolio of services will help its member communities reach the statewide recycling goal of 50% by 2021.
“Recent studies have shown... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 8, 2016
FuelCell Energy, a power plant developer, has completed the construction and begun commercial operation of a megawatt-class fuel cell power plant in California.
The Riverside Regional Water Quality Control Plant is structured so that the City of Riverside pays for power produced, achieving immediate operating cost savings without any capital outlay and in a manner that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 1, 2016
PlanET Biogas UK has been contracted as technology provider for a 500kWel anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Shropshire, UK.
The Bitterley Biogas AD plant, to be situated near the town of Ludlow, will be fed predominantly cattle manure from surrounding farms.
Excavation and concrete works for the digester have been completed and commissioning is planned at the end of September... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 30, 2016
German plant manufacturer Weltec Biopower has constructed and brought online a biogas plant at a Croatian pig farm, contributing to the country’s EU climate targets.
The 250kW plant, which went live in Varazdin on a farm owned Dalibor Vrček, suits the farm‘s cycle of food production, liquid manure utilisation, and energy production in the form of power, heat... [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
Veolia and Waga Energy have inaugurated a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility at the Granges landfill site in Burgundy, eastern France
Repsol is preparing to begin producing biomethane and hydrogen at its industrial complex in Sines, Portugal, with operations expected to start in 2026
