Apr 6, 2016
Weltec Biopower upgrades municipal wastewater treatment plant in Germany
Biogas News
Apr 4, 2016
US energy firm Bowerman Power has opened a new green energy plant in California.
The plant, based in Orange County, will turn landfill gas into electricity. According to Bowerman, the facility will provide enough electricity to power 26,000 homes.
With Bowerman, a subsidiary of Montauk Energy, joining the Olinda Landfill in Brea and the Prima Deshecha Landfill in San Juan... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 4, 2016
UK-based food waste recycler ReFood has started construction work on its £32m (€39m) anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Dagenham, south east London.
Once complete, the facility, which will be located at the London Sustainable Industries Park (SIP) in Dagenham Dock, will be the company's third UK plant adding to its existing sites in Doncaster and Widnes.
Being... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 24, 2016
California’s energy policy and planning agency, California Energy Commission, has approved $4.3 million in grants for projects to increase the efficiency of natural gas technology used in industrial, agriculture and water processes. The Gas Technology Institute, a US-based research and development organisation that focuses on natural gas, received... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 22, 2016
North Carolina, US-based Duke Energy will buy swine and poultry waste output to use as feedstock for a planned biogas facility to generate renewable electricity at four power stations.
Carbon Cycle Energy will build and own the plant whose location has not been announced, but is expected to be in eastern North Carolina.
"It is encouraging to see the technological... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 21, 2016
Recycling and renewable energy firm Viridor has opened a state-of-the-art energy recovery facility (ERF) in Peterborough, UK.
The ERF enables the City of Peterborough to divert 85,000 tonnes of residual waste from landfill each year, recovering vital energy, and also offering the city another important step towards a decentralised energy network.
The plant has a... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 21, 2016
US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin and gasification technology firm Concord Blue are to begin phase two of a new 5 MW waste-to-energy project in Herten, Germany.
As part of phase two, Lockheed Martin Energy has secured a $43 million contract from Concord Blue to carry out the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the 5MW plant.
The plans to build the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 17, 2016
Finnish energy solutions provider Wärtsilä has been awarded an order to supply the largest biogas liquefaction plant in the Nordic Countries to produce fuel for public transport vehicles.
The supply contract was signed in December 2015, and is with Purac Puregas, based in Kalmar, Sweden.
The Wärtsilä plant will be installed at the paper mill in Skogn,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 16, 2016
CNG Fuels, in partnership with the national grid, has unveiled a new filling station in the UK allowing vehicles to fill up on renewable compressed natural gas (CNG) directly from the high-pressure local transmission system.
The new facility is the first of its kind in the UK, according to CNG Fuels, and boasts a high-pressure connection delivered by national grid.
The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 8, 2016
A new £23 million (€29.6) anaerobic digestion (AD) plant is being planned in Northern Ireland to process 25,000 tonnes of poultry litter a year.
The Northern Ireland Executive, the devolved government of Northern Ireland, has pledged to loan £9.3 million to Connective Energy Holdings, who have hired Williams Industrial Services to construct the plant at... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 7, 2016
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed a $11 million (€10m) loan to Minnesota-based waste-to-energy company Novus Energy to build a new biorefinery.
The planned plant, worth a total of $22 million and to be located at Boardman, Oregon, will convert non-food-based organic material into renewable natural gas and organic fertiliser.
The Novus Pacific facility,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 2, 2016
Greenlane Biogas has received a contract from Orgaworld Canada, part of Shanks Group, to supply a biogas upgrading system and a CO2 recovery unit.
The equipment will be delivered for Orgaworld’s organic biofuel facility in the city of Surrey in British Columbia, Canada.
The facility is currently under construction and will have the capacity to process up to... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 1, 2016
Almost 150 farmers joined around 90 Members of Parliament (MP) and Peers the UK’s House of Commons today to champion the anaerobic digestion (AD) industry.
Farming representatives from across the UK will join the farming themed event to raise awareness about the technology's value to their businesses and the rural economy.
They will also petition politicians for... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 29, 2016
In Finland, Taaleri and Gasum have completed an arrangement to transfer the ownership of the Biotehdas group to Gasum.
The nationwide Biotehdas group, owned by Taaleritehdas Biotehdas I Private Equity Fund, is the market leader in the biogas sector in Finland.
It comprises operational biogas plants in Huittinen, Kuopio, Oulu, and Honkajoki, and a plant to be completed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 25, 2016
Weltec Biopower's subsidiary Nordmethan has acquired a decommissioned biogas plant in Germany.
The German biogas plant manufacturer will invest €2 million in the renovation of the combined heat and power (CHP) facility, which is located in Falkenhagen, Brandenburg and will use mainly maize silage and pig manure.
The company hopes that the plant, which has power generation... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 24, 2016
The Renewable Energy Association (REA), a UK-based renewable energy trade body, has issued a new report calling on the UK government to support on-site anaerobic digestion (AD).
In its new report, entitled 'REA paper on support for small scale AD Feb 2016', the REA states that AD can provide supplementary income for hard pressed dairy farmers and help to decarbonise the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 23, 2016
DONG Energy, a Denmark-headquartered energy firm, has unveiled plans to build a bio plant which turns unsorted household waste into energy in the UK.
The plant, which the company will finance, build and operate, will use an enzyme technology it calls REnescience. DONG claims that "it will be the first bio plant in the world to handle unsorted household waste, without prior... [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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