
Sep 18, 2015
‘Stop the Stink’ protesters thwart AD plant plans in UK
Biogas News
Sep 17, 2015
Mixers and pumps made by Landia, a Danish processing equipment manufacturer, are contributing to the success of the Bygrave Lodge AD plant in Hertfordshire, UK, designed, built, and run by Biogen.
Processing 45,000 tonnes of food waste each year from supermarkets, food processors, households, and the hospitality industry, the 2MW Bygrave Lodge plant uses a total of four... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 16, 2015
Greenlane Biogas, a global supplier of integrated biogas upgrading solutions, has received a contract to provide engineering services to CR&R Waste & Recycling for its biogas-to-renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Perris, California.
Greenlance will detail a design solution to make the RNG produced at the CR&R facility conform to the Californian Rule 30... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 15, 2015
Mickram, a UK-based renewable energy company, is considering an investment of £3 million (€4 million) to construct a 9GW anaerobic digestion (AD) plant.
Plans for the plant, which would be located in King’s Lynn, are set to be submitted to local authorities for consideration next year if the project moves forward.
Mickram is currently operating a wind... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 14, 2015
Construction of North America’s first closed-loop fully-integrated organics waste management system is underway at the Orgaworld Surrey site in the city of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.
The construction began earlier this year on the biofuels processing facility, which will convert kitchen and yard waste into renewable natural gas to fuel Surrey’s rubbish... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 11, 2015
A Leicester, UK, farm that invested in an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in 2012 has installed two additional tanks and more than doubled its energy output, with multi million pound funding support from Yorkshire Bank.
The Shropshire family are third generation farmers based in Huncote, Leicester, with their business employing 55 people and specialising in livestock and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2015
Metrogas, a natural gas developer from Chile, is working on a project to process street market waste into biogas for vehicles in two years.
The company has completed research tests and will install a pilot anaerobic digestion plant in 2016 by investing up to $350,000 (€313,000).
This investment is expected to be followed by an industrial plant in the next years.
Chile’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 9, 2015
Air Products' Prism membranes division in St. Louis, US, has received Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) certification from DNV GL Business Assurance Italia for its newest line of biogas membrane separators.
‘This certification confirms that our biogas separation product meets the European standards for design, manufacture, and safe operation of pressurised... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 8, 2015
A consortium of UK companies, led by the advanced waste to energy and fuels company Advanced Plasma Power (APP), has been awarded £11 million (€15 million) in government funding to develop a unique biogas plant.
The funds will be used to develop and build the first plant of its kind to turn waste from local homes and businesses into a sustainable fuel to power... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 7, 2015
Bettaland Products, a composting company part of Organic Recycling, is set to complete an anaerobic digestion plant in Crowland, UK by the end of 2015.
Once completed, the plant l, located at Decoy Farm, will provide power to more than 1,400 homes through the conversion of crops and waste.
Plans for the plant were greenlit last August, with the original intention of building... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 2, 2015
Long Island Compost (LIC) and its American Organic Energy (AOE) affiliate are moving forward with a plan to build a $40 million (€35.6 million) facility to turn food waste into natural gas.
After delays, AOE is planning to begin construction of an anaerobic digester in Yaphank, New York state by early next year.
Accepting and separating 180,000 tonnes of food waste... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 1, 2015
Ecotricity has announced it is to develop a third Green Gas Mill, a new green energy site in Somerset, UK, that will generate enough gas from grass to power up to 2,500 homes.
The company launched its first Green Gas Mill project in Gloucestershire back in April, with a second announced in August in Hampshire, while a fourth is also due to be unveiled before the end of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 1, 2015
California-based CR&R Waste and Recycling Services is set to build a $100 million (€88.7 million) anaerobic digester complex in Perris, California.
The company expects to have the plant up and running by early 2016.
Using food scraps and garden waste as feedstock, the facility will produce fertiliser and biogas, which will be used to power 45% of the vehicles... [Read More]
Biogas News
Sep 1, 2015
Valoneo, a French waste-to-energy company, has started trading on the deregulated market Marche Libtre of Euronext Paris.
The company’s market capitalisation runs at €14 million, with shares trading at €11.60 after being on the market since July.
Valoneo was listed on the public market through a direct quotation, advised by French corporate finance adviser... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 27, 2015
Marathon Capital has announced the successful sale of OwnEnergy, a locally-owned renewable energy systems manufacturer, to EDF Renewable Energy (EDF).
The acquisition of OwnEnergy's team, development platform, and pipeline of wind projects will add to EDF’s North American portfolio containing 3.2GW of biomass, biogas, wind, and solar projects.
Marathon Capital led... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 25, 2015
The European Biogas Association (EBA) is organising two events taking place in Brussels in early September.
On 2 September, the FABbiogas Project will hold its Final Conference at the historical Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts (which co-organises the event).
Since its introduction in 2013, the EU co-funded project aims at changing the mindsets of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Aug 25, 2015
Greenlane Biogas has received an order for a 'Rimu' biogas upgrading plant from Sifang Leo Livestock Science and Technology (SF Leo), a dairy farm engineering company and manufacturer of high-tech livestock equipment and farm machinery in China.
Greenlane's water scrubbing based biogas upgrading plant will be used in an eco-dairy farm demonstration operation to convert... [Read More]