
Apr 13, 2015
Viridor closes landfills to utilise more non-recyclable waste
Biogas News
Apr 7, 2015
Nestlé Waters has begun constructing an agricultural biogas facility that will provide renewable energy for the Henniez bottling plant and the Swiss power grid, as well as natural fertilizer for local farms.
The company is building the Valbroye plant in the Canton of Vaud with renewable energy development firm Group E Greenwatt.
The biogas plant will process 28,000... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 7, 2015
Scania and the development financier of the Swedish state Swedfund are partnering to produce biogas as an automotive fuel in the Indian city of Nagpur, which is located in the state of Maharashtra and has 2.5 million inhabitants.
The biogas will be produced from digested sludge from one of the city's wastewater treatment plants in collaboration with local companies. Nagpur... [Read More]
Biogas News
Apr 7, 2015
Republic Services has announced its newest landfill gas-to-energy project located at the Upstate Regional Landfill in Union County, South Carolina. The renewable energy project consists of two reciprocating combustion engines that generate 3,200kW of energy for the local electric grid, or enough electricity to power more than 1,800 area homes.
'Landfills are essential... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 27, 2015
Clean energy company Blue Sphere has started building its first waste-to-energy project in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Blue Sphere facility will produce 5.2MW of clean energy from uneaten food that would normally end up in local landfills. That electricity will then be sold to Duke Energy to provide power to local homes and businesses.
According to the National Resource... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 24, 2015
Cleanergy, an energy solution provider headquartered in Sweden, has installed one of its combined heat and power (CHP) systems at a wastewater treatment plant in Slovenia.
The system, which comprises Cleanergy's GasBox – the centrepiece of its CHP technology – has been deployed at the Jesenice plant in the north west of the country and is now generating heat... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 24, 2015
Weltec Biopower has started building a 500kW anaerobic digestion plant in Loughgall, Northern Ireland for vegetable producer Gilfresh.
'This is our third plant in Northern Ireland and the eleventh in the UK,' says Kevin Monson, sales manager of Weltec Biopower UK.
Gilfresh grows a number of vegetables, including salad crops, root vegetables, cabbages and pak choi. The... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 20, 2015
Aria Energy, a provider of baseload renewable energy, has started commercial operations and renewable energy production at Sarasota County's Central County Solid Waste Disposal Complex located in Nokomis, Florida.
The Sarasota project is a 4.8MW landfill gas-to-energy facility that produces renewable energy by capturing and processing the methane gas generated at the landfill... [Read More]
Biogas News
Mar 5, 2015
PHG Energy (PHGE), an installer of industrial- grade downdraft gasification systems, and the city of Lebanon in Tennessee, US have signed a contract that will provide an environmentally sustainable method of waste disposal and produce green power in the process.
The waste-to-energy technology, which will go on line early next year, is a downdraft gasification plant that... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 26, 2015
Gasrec, a European supplier of liquefied gas fuel for transport, has welcomed the EU's latest compromise agreement with the European Parliament which will pave the way for an increase in weight for HGVs converting to run on gas, ensuring they maintain their full load carrying capacity.
Under the agreement, investment in clean fuels such as liquefied biomethane and LNG... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 23, 2015
UK-based anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operator Tamar Energy has secured a landmark £32 million (€43 million) non-recourse project finance facility, the first such financing facility in the AD industry.
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is providing the seven-year term facility which will refinance Tamar Energy's existing five AD plants. The new financing facility... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 23, 2015
In the US, Applied LNG has signed an agreement to purchase biomethane from BP Energy Company.
Applied LNG will use the biogas, sourced from waste landfill sites which produce methane as a by-product, to produce LNG in its liquefaction facility in Topock, Arizona that will be sold to the transportation fuel market.
'We are committed to providing affordable, cleaner and... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 16, 2015
In California, a consortium of US companies joined together with state energy officials to launch the Calgren Ethanol Biodigester, which utilises waste from dairy farms to power the production of tens of millions of gallons of ethanol.
The Two-Stage Mixed Plug Flow Digester, designed by DVO of Wisconsin and built by Regenis, is the first California digester to use agricultural... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 10, 2015
Blue Sphere, a developer of waste-to-energy projects, has closed a joint venture to build and operate a 5.2MW biogas plant in Charlotte, North Carolina, with affiliates of York Capital Management.
Under the terms of the JV, Blue Sphere owns 25% of the project. The company received an initial payment of $1,250,000 (€1,108,000) in cash at the closing with a second payment... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2015
Aria Energy, a provider of baseload renewable energy, will partner with Casella Waste Systems, a regional solid waste, recycling and resource management services company, to develop, build, own and operate a 4.8MW landfill gas-to-energy project located at the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town, Maine, US.
The facility, which will utilise methane gas generated through organic... [Read More]
Biogas News
Feb 9, 2015
In the UK, bioenergy and bulk materials handling firm Saxlund International, part of the Opcon energy and environmental group, has secured contracts from Barhale Trant Utilities to design and supply sludge cake truck loading silos for Southern Water waste water treatment works (WWTW) at Budds Farm in Havant and Millbrook near Southampton.
The projects include the construction... [Read More]
Biogas News
Jan 27, 2015
Waste-to-energy solutions provider PHG Energy (PHGE) of Nashville, Tennessee, has acquired a municipal gasification plant and multiple intellectual property assets following the bankruptcy of Florida-based MaxWest Environmental Systems.
In addition, Jeff Snyder has joined PHGE from MaxWest to lead the sales division. Snyder had served nearly three years as head of sales... [Read More]