Biogas News

Volvo Trucks is seeing an increased interest in gas as an alternative to diesel for heavy-duty truck operations in Europe. Hauliers and transport buyers are increasingly interested in reducing their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and costs through the use of refrigerated liquefied gas as a fuel. As a result, the new Volvo FH and Volvo FM trucks will have engines that run on liquefied natural…
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Weltec Biopower is building a 7 MW biogas plant in South Korea. The plant is being constructed in the province of Gyeonggi-do, 60 kilometres north of the capital, Seoul, and will convert biogas into heat via an integrated gas boiler. It is hoped the plant will go live in spring 2021 and digest up to 93,000 tons of food waste annually, some of which will come from local households. Weltec…
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Environmental engineering, wastewater treatment and renewable energy solutions firm BiON has acquired two biogas power plants from its associate firm Megagreen Energy (MGE). The acquisition of the two biogas plants, Nasarudin and Seberang Perak (both in Malaysia), increase BiON’s installed capacity to 7 MW. The plants were acquired for MYR45.99m (€9.46 million). Commercial operations at…
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The UK Government is planning to scale-up green gas (biomethane) production to heat around 230,000 homes, with more biomethane plants built as a result. Supported by the new Green Gas Levy, the UK Government is helping people across the UK to ‘go green’ on their energy supplies. With the potential to prevent as much as 21.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) entering the atmosphere,…
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Privately-owned investment firm Fortistar and Rumpke Waste & Recycling have partnered on the Noble Road Landfill Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Project, a $33 million (€28 million) transportation decarbonisation project in Ohio, US. The project will extract and capture waste methane from the Noble Road landfill in Shiloh, Ohio, and transform it into RNG. The RNG will be distributed through…
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The Environmental Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) in Australia has granted a works approval for a second biogas facility at Melbourne Regional Landfill. The facility will double the site’s capacity to destroy captured landfill gas generated by the decomposition of waste in the landfill, by burning it to generate around 68,000 MWh of electricity every year. It is estimated the proposed…
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The AD and Biogas Industry Awards 2020 shortlist has been revealed. The awards, run by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) and the World Biogas Association (WBA), recognise achievements in biogas innovation, clever use of outputs, international knowledge exchange and collaboration, financing and more. Originally launched by ADBA in 2010 for the UK market, the awards…
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Over 200 participants and more than 30 speakers attended the European Biogas Association’s (EBA) virtual conference on 1-4 September, including high-level industry representatives, policymakers, researchers, and journalists. The discussion focused on the EU Green Deal and the potential to scale-up biomethane. According to the EBA, the biomethane industry has “huge available potential” to…
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Powerzeek, a platform company offering an online market place for cleaner energy, has added liquefied biogas (LBG) to its marine fuel platform. The addition follows requests from the shipping market, as well as Powerzeek’s mission to make it easier to source cleaner fuels. Powerzeek launched its digital marine fuel platform in April. Since then, the firm has onboarded liquefied natural…
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Green fuel generated from agricultural waste in Cornwall, UK, will be used to power the region’s road maintenance vehicle fleet. Working with Cormac, which looks after the fleet, Cornwall Council has joined forces with six of its Cornwall Council Farms estate-owned dairy farms and a Cornish technology company to trial the production of an alternative green fuel made from manure slurry in a…
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On 25 August, Air Liquide and Shell signed an agreement giving heavy-duty trucks with the Shell card access to Air Liquide’s network of multi-energy stations in France. They will now be able to refuel with bio-NGV (biomethane). Heavy-duty trucks with the Shell card crossing France will now be able to access Air Liquide’s network of stations on the French territory, especially those located…
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Estes Express Lines, a major freight transportation carrier based in Virginia, US, will add 50 new trucks fuelled by Clean Energy Fuels’ Redeem™ renewable natural gas (RNG) to its fleet. Estes is acquiring the Class 8 natural gas trucks equipped with the Cummins Westport ultra-clean ISX12N engine for its California fleet and is expected to use around 2.8 million gallons of RNG over the…
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General Motors Canada (GM Canada) has completed a $28 million (€18 million) cogeneration investment at the GM St Catharines Propulsion Plant that will lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and cut costs. The cogeneration programme is expected to reduce GHG emissions by around 70% while protecting the engine and transmission plant from rising electricity and carbon costs. The 6.4 MW…
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EQTEC has signed a co-development and option agreement with Rotunda Group and its subsidiary Shankley Biogas, for the Southport Hybrid Energy Park project in Merseyside, UK. EQTEC signed a memorandum of understanding with Rotunda, the owner of a plot of land in Southport, Merseyside, which has planning permission for a waste recycling facility, an anaerobic digestion facility, and 9 MW of…
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