Jan 29, 2018
UK AD plant costs could double with Environment Agency changes
Biogas News
Jan 22, 2018
A Northern Irish waste-to-energy anaerobic digestion plant has been certified under the Anaerobic Digestion Certification Scheme (ADCS) just six weeks after its launch.
Granville Ecopark, an enhanced AD facility in Northern Ireland, treats organic waste to produce renewable energy.
The ACDS was launched at the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association’s (ADBA)... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 22, 2018
Southern California Gas (SoCalGas), San Diego Gas & Electric, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Southwest Gas have jointly issued a draft solicitation for dairy biomethane pilot projects.
The solicitation is issued under California Senate Bill 1383, and projects proposed must demonstrate the ability to capture and process biogas from cows to produce renewable... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 15, 2018
A newly launched certification scheme could be a breath of fresh air for the UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas industries, according to Duncan McPherson, finance director at CooperOstlund.
As 2017 drew to a close, the UK’s Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) launched a new AD certification scheme, the first of its kind in the UK, designed... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 9, 2018
Independent private equity investment management firm Foresight has boosted its waste processing portfolio to over 2 million tonnes per annum with the acquisition of two large scale anaerobic digestion (AD facilities) and seven composting assets. The fee for the transaction has not been disclosed.
The two facilities are located across East Anglia and the Midlands in the... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 9, 2018
The designer of ‘the world’s largest’ downdraft gasification plant has announced the issuing of approximately $21.4 million (€17.9 million) of new equity.
In addition, Nashville, Tennessee based Aries Clean Energy has received additional commitments from Boston based private equity firm Spring Lane Capital of $25 million for equity in future gasification... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 8, 2018
In a paper by Texas A&M scientists, biochar shows potential for increasing efficiency of the anaerobic digestion of animal manure.
Biochar is a charcoal material composed of agricultural by-products, including manure, crop residues and grasses. The substance can be used as a fertiliser and as a filter to remove contaminants from water and wastewater, including antibiotics,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 4, 2018
A biogas plant close to the town of Ballymena in Northern Ireland has been recognised in the Sustainable Ireland Awards.
The Tully Quarry plant produces biogas from 100% chicken litter. Built by biogas technology specialists Xergi, the facility has won the award for best project in the energy production category.
Plant director Kevin Fitzduff, from the company Stream Bioenergy,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 3, 2018
The facility uses anaerobic digestion as an alternate source of energy, running independent of the National Grid multiple times in 2017.
Veolia, the global resource management company is now helping Scottish Water to achieve the target of energy self-sufficiency at its Seafield Wastewater Treatment Works (WwTW) the largest treatment works in the east of Scotland. ... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 21, 2017
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has awarded an investment grant to explore the possibility of producing biogas from industrial waste water.
A €12.4 million investment subsidy has been awarded to Finnish energy company Gasum, which is evaluating the potential of producing biogas at a large scale from industrial waste waters emitted from the Stora Enso Nymölla... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 19, 2017
A waste-to-biogas plant funded by a framework agreement between the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the government of Belarus has started operation in the city of Baranovichi.
According to an EBRD statement, the new biogas power plant is expected to achieve significant energy and cost savings, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the volume... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 18, 2017
Canada’s first closed-loop and fully integrated organics waste management system has started accepting its first waste, which will be converted into renewable biomethane gas.
Operated by waste-to-product company Renewi, the facility in Surrey, British Columbia is apparently the largest of its kind in North America. It has the capacity to process 100% of the city’s... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 15, 2017
Europe is ‘one step closer’ to a single biomethane market, following the submission to the European Commission of an application for an administrative system designed to facilitate cross-border transactions of renewable gases.
Members of the European Renewable Gas Registry announced on 15 December that they’d applied to the European Commission to recognise... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 15, 2017
Process developed for ‘dry’ digestion of solid waste into biogas
A scientist in Sweden has developed a process for the dry digestion of organic waste into biogas in two different types of reactors.
According to a statement from the University of Boras, doctoral research student Regina Jijoho Patinvoh’s research results reveal that a simple reactor of... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 12, 2017
The future of a UK anaerobic digestion (AD) facility has been secured thanks to new investment.
Station Works AD, a 1MW on-farm AD facility in Thaxted, Essex, UK, was purchased by AD funders Privilege Finance and its business partner BioWatt, who have taken over the operation of the AD plant with immediate effect.
“Privilege has a portfolio of on-farm AD plants,... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 11, 2017
With the dearth of subsidies and volatile political environment, Charlotte Morton shared her views on what lay ahead for the UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry.
Of the ten million tonnes of food waste a year in the UK, six million is ‘avoidable waste’. With the government goal of being zero avoidable waste by 2050, Charlotte Morton still sees a place... [Read More]
Biogas News
Dec 8, 2017
UK anaerobic digestion specialist Clearfleau has started construction on a new biogas facility at a distillery in Scotland. Part of a £3 million project commissioned by Inver House Distillers, the new facility will generate energy in the form of methane-rich biogas from whisky residues.
Inver House’s distillery at Balmenach in rural Speyside is almost 200 years... [Read More]
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